Tuesdays tuthree - 03/04/03 03:39 PM
Nobbut a tuthree.
echt, adjective,
adverb.(German.) genuine.
Ex. To the echt Harvard man of yore, a gentleman
should schedule no course before 11:00 A.M. or in
a classroom above the second floor (Harper's).
I believe the quotation above is from reminiscence of Bob Benchley, father of "Jaws" sutthor. One of the courses he took to fit the above criteria was a course in International Law. The final exam in the course had a question about international fishing agreements.
He was totally unprepared, so his answer to this question began:
"The agreements with regards to fishing quotas has been discussed at great length from the viewpoints of the fishermen. I propose to discuss it from the viewpoint of the fish."
maquiladora, noun.
an industrial plant located in Mexico and owned
by a U.S. corporation. It assembles finished
products from component parts shipped in to Mexico,
duty-free, from other countries. Ex. Mexican
peasants drawn to the maquiladoras are paid as
little as fifty-five cents an hour (Rolling Stone).
baignoire, noun. a theater box on the ground floor.(not to be confused with "bagnio".
conte (2), noun, pl. contes.
a short story or tale, especially of extraordinary and
highly imaginative events. Ex. a complete, even a poetic,
understanding of the ironic conte (London Times).
E.g. par excellence, Balzac' s "Contes Drôles". I particularly liked the one about the king putting croton oil into the wine………
post hoc, ergo propter hoc,(Latin.)
after this, therefore as a result of this (a phrase
used to denote a common logical fallacy that what
comes before an event must also be its cause).
One of the cardinal fallacies, it seems to me, of many papers written about benefits of diets, for example, is making claims of benefits from eating, say broccoli, just because
Incidence of, say cancer, was low in a very large sample. No proof whatsoever that
It was not just coincidence.
echt, adjective,
adverb.(German.) genuine.
Ex. To the echt Harvard man of yore, a gentleman
should schedule no course before 11:00 A.M. or in
a classroom above the second floor (Harper's).
I believe the quotation above is from reminiscence of Bob Benchley, father of "Jaws" sutthor. One of the courses he took to fit the above criteria was a course in International Law. The final exam in the course had a question about international fishing agreements.
He was totally unprepared, so his answer to this question began:
"The agreements with regards to fishing quotas has been discussed at great length from the viewpoints of the fishermen. I propose to discuss it from the viewpoint of the fish."
maquiladora, noun.
an industrial plant located in Mexico and owned
by a U.S. corporation. It assembles finished
products from component parts shipped in to Mexico,
duty-free, from other countries. Ex. Mexican
peasants drawn to the maquiladoras are paid as
little as fifty-five cents an hour (Rolling Stone).
baignoire, noun. a theater box on the ground floor.(not to be confused with "bagnio".
conte (2), noun, pl. contes.
a short story or tale, especially of extraordinary and
highly imaginative events. Ex. a complete, even a poetic,
understanding of the ironic conte (London Times).
E.g. par excellence, Balzac' s "Contes Drôles". I particularly liked the one about the king putting croton oil into the wine………
post hoc, ergo propter hoc,(Latin.)
after this, therefore as a result of this (a phrase
used to denote a common logical fallacy that what
comes before an event must also be its cause).
One of the cardinal fallacies, it seems to me, of many papers written about benefits of diets, for example, is making claims of benefits from eating, say broccoli, just because
Incidence of, say cancer, was low in a very large sample. No proof whatsoever that
It was not just coincidence.