Thought I'd try a variation on Cap K's recent post about Googling post numbers...
I typed in a number of your nicks (one at a time) and hit the google search button to see what'd happen.
I was surprised to get a response for all that I tried - so plugged "stales" in.....
9 out of 10 of the results were misspellings of words such as "stakes" and "states". What does this say? Broken hearted I am!
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It's all in the way you hold your tongue as you click on "Search", I've found. Between the front teeth works for me ...
Dear Stales: I tried your name in Yahoo! search box, and found several sites. The only one that might interest you was about clam digging in New Jersey. I think the clams in question are what Cape Codders call quahogs, which have a very thick shell. Anyway, the "stales" are long handled tools I would call tongs.
Clam tongs are used from a boat. One of the preferred
boats of baymen is the garvey. The clam tong handles,
called stales, work like scissors. A pin holds the stales
together so it can open and close the basket. The stales
can be different sizes depending on the tide. The tooth
bar is metal to dig in the mud. The teeth are on an angle
to dig.
In the same vein as MaxQ's alarm at "finding himself" with google, I've got a charming story for you all...
Received an email recently from the UK asking did I attend the West Pennant Hills primary school in Sydney? I replied that this was indeed the case and was Luke Mullin (ie the sender) the guy I used to go to school with?
The next message started, "Sorry I haven't been in touch for 28 years....". Luke was my best friend, before leaving for the UK at the age of 12. He googled my name one day in a moment of boredom - which linked him to an old website of mine and my email address.
Ain't technology wonderful!
stales
THANK YOU!
How appropriate (and entirely coincidental!!) that there is a Cape Cod link - it's just down the road from where I was born!!
stales
Funny what you find when you google for JMH. I always knew it was a boring title but I didn’t know the depths it could reach until now:
The “M” is for:
Meccano:
http://members.dencity.com/jmh/Mormon:
http://www.signaturebooks.com/jmh.htmor Massage:
http://www.califon.org/jmhthermasca.htmlor you can find out about valves (maybe the most interesting site on the entire web:
http://www.webiosis.co.uk/valves/I’ll finish with a poem:
http://www.oursland.net/whattime/21.htmlFortunately none of my AWAD posts made it into the low numbers.
Did my real name and found out I share it with the woman who unvented the "Snugli" - that back-pouch-like carrier for a baby ... and also a lacemaker!
Hmmmm Dare I try "wow?"
I googled my name, which of course everyone knows here, and found one reference to myself on a board about acoustic neuromas; most of the rest were about a Ted Remington who is an artist, living a few hundred miles west of me. I almost fell over, though, when I pulled up a picture of him. He actually looks quite a bit like me!!!
To me, "stales" are the handles of almost any long-handled garden tool - especially rakes and hoes. Also for the handles of long brooms that you use to sweep the yard.
So when someone asks you, "what's your handle ....."
BTW, I have joined the current craze for googling my soubriquet - it came up with no less than 113 entries, which totally gob-smacked me. They had to do either with Norton Commandos called "Rhubarb" or with the code names used by the airforce for operations in WWII. Whaddye know?
speaking of tools with *really long handles, I give you the averruncator. (ysliu)
Googled "Capital Kiwi" and found that nearly half of the 50-odd hits were in Italian and were about economics and finance. Seems kinda appropriate.
Ciao!
Big surprise: I got 7 results and they're all me.
Jazzo - thought I'd check yours on google and can confirm your results.
And don't worry, the fact that you're a registered user of the Survivor III chat board is safe with us here at AWAD!! (At least you are brave enough to admit publicly that you watch it!!) Don't all the cutaway shots of critters remind you of the old Tarzan movies? (Not that I watch S III of course....)
stales
Oh MAN, you-all! I figured there'd be a jillion ref.'s to Jackie, so I tried the most unusual name that hadn't been posted yet as being entered. Here's an interesting link:
http://mech.math.msu.su/~apentus/znaete/www.htmAll the titles and links are in English, but all the explanations are in a language with an alphabet that I can't read.
AND, look what else I found:
6684 -- tsuwm
No. Strong: 06684
Kata : tsuwm
Pengucapan: {tsoom}
Asal Kata : a primitive root
Sumber : TWOT - 1890
Jenis Kata: v
Dalam AV : fast 20, at all 1
Jumlah : 21
Definisi :
1) (Qal) to abstain from food, fast The url for the above is
http://www.bit.net.id/SABDA-Web/L/L066d.htm
I searched for my name, and I found
1) some about me
2) a lot about a famous violin player
3) an address offering girls and porno links !!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
an address offering girls and porno links Yi--I hope you don't get any solicitations!
There were tons of hits for "Flatlander" -- including an ezine about skateboarding and bike riding, a "Flatlander's Bar and Grill" and Flatlander Films, currently working on a feature starring Kevin Bacon -- I'll win at the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game every time now!
1) (Qal) to abstain from food, fast
this obviously shows that I chose the name for one of two(3) only meanings:
1. I quickly change the subject when it comes to food threads
b) I used to be one of those lean, long distance runners
iii) I'm hungry and on the prowl
an address offering girls and porno links !!!!!!!!!!!!
AhhhhhhhhhhhAt last!! you have found a way to afford the fare to the wordapalooza!
No, I didn't look at them all. There were several Latino singers/dancers/actresses as well as one rock band from Mexico. There were also several political sites, religious sites, clinics and a plastic surgeon. Three intrigued me. One was "Consuelo is Dead". It is a vanity poet site. Most of the poetry isn't but he does have a few that come close. This, however, is not a site for the faint-heartedWARNING:Jackie, don't go there!. Another is a site offering the works of Consuelo Cloos, an artist who, in her 98 years on earth refused ever to sell her work. Not even to Dalí. Her estate is selling her art with the artist's stipulation that the proceeds be used to help needy children. The pastels were somewhat monotonous but the watercolors had some real gems. I recommend this site. Lastly, I liked the site that gives the story of Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her mother wanted her to marry royalty. She wanted to marry Winthrop Ruthefurd, an acceptable match for a Vanderbilt. Family pressure was too great. She married the Duke of Marlborough. On the day her father died, she divorced the Duke. She later married a French aviator,"whom she actually loved". Sob!
Fascinating.
In reply to:
6684 -- tsuwm
No. Strong: 06684
Kata : tsuwm
Pengucapan: {tsoom}
Asal Kata : a primitive root
Sumber : TWOT - 1890
Jenis Kata: v
Dalam AV : fast 20, at all 1
Jumlah : 21
Definisi :
1) (Qal) to abstain from food, fast
The url for the above is http://www.bit.net.id/SABDA-Web/L/L066d.htm
This comes from a site which compares different Indonesian translations of the bible. It also includes the Authorised Version and Strong's Lexicon of the words occuring in the Hebrew and Greek texts (although the Lexicon actually has the heading Hebrew Lexicon for both). They've translated the headings into Indonesian but left the English translations of the Hebrew and Greek words.
The headings say:
Kata word: tsuwm
Pengucapan pronunciation: {tsoom}
Asal Kata word root: a primitive root
Sumber source : TWOT - 1890
Jenis Kata Part of speech (literally type of word): v
Dalam AV in the AV: fast 20, at all 1
Jumlah total number : 21
Definisi definition
Bingley
I googled "faldage".
OK, the easy stuff first:
A) All the dictionary sites (It turns out to be from LL faldagium, but the fald- part is from AS fald, a sheep fold).
2) Some stuff I've posted in other fora (Café Dartre; the International House of Chat, the Whadd'ya Know board, and maybe even the Whirlitzer of Wisdoms, the ZBS board).
But the scary one is:
Þ) All the porn sites (and not a one of them had anything to do with sheep).
Þ) All the porn sites (and not a one of them had anything to do with sheep).Well, obviously not
all the porno sites then. Aren't there some that deal with animals? You know, "Katie plays in the Farm Yard" type stuff? Surely sheep figure in those! Particularly on Australian and Welsh porno sites?
Jest askin'.
Well, obviously not all the porno sites then.
Well, duh, Cap! Of *course I didn't mean *all the porn sites. Just all the porn sites. Context, Cap, context.
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It turns out the county bears my surname, while the county seat has my given name...The conceivable configurations of Max's true identity, based on this formula:
Starke Bradford
Naples Collier
Arcadia Desoto
Bunnell Flagler
Quincy Gadsden
Trenton Gilchrist
Jasper Hamilton
Bonifay Holmes
Marianna Jackson
Back to Maxine Quordlepleen, are we? Tavares Lake
Bronson Levy
Stuart Martin
Bartow Polk
Palatka Putnam
Milton Santa Rosa
Sanford Seminole
Bushnell Sumter
Perry Taylor
Chipley Washington
or a long shot...
Apalachicola Franklin
Any of these would make decent
noms de plume, IMHO...