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#78160
08/13/2002 12:55 PM
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:Undulate and fartlek (yuk!) are characterized by a cycle, a variation, an alternation,
an oscillation. Incidentally, my dictionary gives "swing" as root menaing of "oscillation".
I wonder if the ancients built swings for children's recreation?
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#78161
08/13/2002 1:29 PM
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In reply to:
I wonder if the ancients built swings for children's recreation?
that's a interesting thought, Bill. "toys of ancient times"...
formerly known as etaoin...
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#78162
08/13/2002 2:35 PM
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How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
I wonder when the see-saw was invented.
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#78163
08/14/2002 12:49 PM
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Beware of the man with a series of two cases.
"lek" is interesting in its own right:
n.
an area where certain male animals, as the male of the prairie chicken, gather to perform their courtship displays
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