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#49896 12/14/01 08:07 PM
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And: The letters M.D. signify "mentally deficient."
-- Dr. Bill, wofa., Doc comfort, what do you say?


...and all along I thought they stood for "miserable driver"


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Rapunzel, nice to have a post from you again. We see too little of you these days.

[French brasier, from braise, hot coals...
bras·siere
n.
A woman's undergarment worn to support and give contour to the breasts.

Well now, there just could be a connection between these two words, now couldn't there?





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[French brasier, from braise, hot coals...
bras·siere
n.
A woman's undergarment worn to support and give contour to the breasts.
Well now, there just could be a connection between these two words, now couldn't there?


I wish y'all could see the illustration Dr. Seuss drew for this one! It shows a man with what looks like half a tire around his chest, held up by shoulder straps, with hot coals therein. So, yes, Rapunzel, you're spot-on with the conflation!

And one more from the book: Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks. Dr. Seuss did NOT illustrate this one!


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Reviving the thread by quoting from an article about a new book titled Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students:

- "Hitler's instrumentality of terror was the Gespacho."

- "The Civil Rights movement in the U.S.A. turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous 'If I had a hammer speech.' "

- During the Carter administration, the U.S. faced the "Iran Hostess Crisis."

- "Joan of Arc was famous as Noah's wife."

- "Christianity was just another mystery cult until Jesus was born."

- "The airplane was invented and first flown by the Marx brothers"

- "Judyism has one big God named Yahoo."

- "China has so many Chinese that forced birth patrol became required. This is where people are allowed to reproduce no more than one half of themelves."

- "During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark."

- "Another problem was that France was full of French people."

- "John Calvin Klein translated the Bible into American so the people of Geneva cour read it."

- "Revolers demanded liberty, equality and fraternities."

The author does not conclude that this illustrates a decline in education. "I don't really see a difference over time . . .," [Anders] Henriksson said. "I would be so bold as to say you could go back to the 1930s and find stuff like this."



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Adolescence is the stage between puberty and adultery.

And this from a test paper I received from a student:
Q. What was Lady Macbeth's concern during the banquet scene?
A. She was afraid her husband would expose himself in front of the guests.


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I loved that collection, Wow, even though some of them appear to be just toooo good to be, um, true.

Ever since I was at high school, I've called hors d'oeuvres "horse's eggs". One of my classmates translated it that way in a test ...



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re: I've called hors d'oeuvres "horse's eggs".

and at our house, we sometimes made cakes from a mix.--Baba au Rhums..obviously cause the mix was Drunken Hines

and sometimes, (long ago now) we ate a cafeteria and got food from behind little glass doors.. do you remember the place? Horny and Hardups.


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Subject: Music for Dummies

The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was called pre-Madonna.

It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.

Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the same lines.

Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.

All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know exactly what they sounded like. There are no known descendants. (This one is my favorite!)

Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon, Beethoven's Erotica, Tchaikovsky Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in Blue.

Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel; if they sing without music it is called Acapulco.

A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.

Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing.

Diatonic is a low calorie Schweppes.

Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

A harp is a nude piano.

The main trouble with a French Horn is that it is too tangled up.

An interval in music is the distance from one piano to the next.

The correct way to find the key to a piece of music is to use a pitchfork.

Agitato is a state of mind when one's finger slips in the middle of playing a piece.

Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you'd better not try to sing.

Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.

My favorite composer was Opus.

Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.

Henry Purcell was a well-known composer few people have ever heard of.

Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano concertos.









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Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you'd better not try to sing.

Many a true word is spoken in complete ignorance ...



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My favorite composer was Opus.

Most prolific, as well.


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