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on the ran-tan
I got the meaning contextually but??????????
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Dunno, Nancy. Allus been in my vocab ...
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Allus been in my vocab
Well, there's a recommendation for you.
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scarlet
1. A red dye made of the dried and pulverized bodies of female cochineal insects. It is used as a biological stain and as an indicator in acid-base titrations. 2. A vivid red.
ETYMOLOGY: French cochenille, from Spanish cochinilla, cochineal insect, probably from Vulgar Latin *coccinella, from feminine diminutive of Latin coccinus, scarlet, from Greek kokkinos, from kokkos, kermes berry (from its use in making scarlet dye).
the word cochineal is also available, but i have never heard it used except in a scientific term, for a stain.
1. A red dye made of the dried and pulverized bodies of female cochineal insects. It is used as a biological stain and as an indicator in acid-base titrations. 2. A vivid red.
the etymology is the same as scarlet, its just a much short path.
carmine, crismon, scarlet and vermillion, all refer back to insect, (sometimes as kermes, some times as verm (worm))and cinniibar back to a berry that yeilds a similar color! many different paths, and permutaions!
will you ever look at the color red again the same?
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Sorry, should have written Ran TanŠ
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We had a "lady" like that in the neighborhood who specialized in mild sM stuff, usually just "spankings." She retired and wrote a book which became a TV series, years ago, "The Adventures of Ran Tan Tanner."
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Sorry, should have written Ran TanŠWell, why didn't you say so? That clears it right up.  Google gives up this gem: rantan - is a Direct Method module for the determination of heavy atom positions in a macro-molecule structure or to determine a small molecule structure.
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A woman in red underwear is automatically available.
I would venture to say that if anyone can see that her underwear is red, well, q.e.d.
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rantan - is a Direct Method module for the determination of heavy atom positions in a macro-molecule structure or to determine a small molecule structure.well, Nancy, that clears it up: of course it's a household word for Mr.Capfka. 
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You'll keep, Betsy, you'll keep. One dark night I'll sneak into Ithaca, past all the homeland security guff and the local cops and the campus cops, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Dow Jones, the FTSE 100 and the Nikkei, and I'll shortsheet your damned bed!
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