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I had a shirt once that was labelled "Sacks". Pretty much described the shirt, too.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Isn't it printemps, with an n?
Nevertheless, I do believe it's from Latin primum tempus. Got no support for that notion but.
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Yeahbut® the logo ain't pronounced 'tarzhay', sew.
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Isn't "prime time" 7-10pm CST?
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>Yeahbut® the logo ain't pronounced 'tarzhay'...
au contraire, mon ami; that's 'xactly how it pronounced!
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printemps, with an n?Indeed it is. Bit of hypercorrection there, as I knew it was pronounced with an "n". Google on primtemps gives a fair few hits, mind. On poshifying names (as WW's "Tar-zhay") I always liked the reinventions of some of London's not-so-posh spots: Battersea becomes "bah-TUR-zee-uh" Streatham [STRET-um]becomes "Saint Reeth-um" Clapham [CLAP-um] becomes "Claa'm" Well, maybe you had to be here... 
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Fish, thanks for that coin. Poshify is a terrific verb with potentially endless applications.
Now I wonder what it would mean to fishify something?
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On poshifying names
Reminds of Sloanes and Soanlys. Sloanes living in the immediate area of Sloane Square and where the others live "'sonly 10 minutes from Sloane Sq."
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I wonder what it would mean to fishify something?Well, I'd say it would be to push it further up the evolutionary scale.  It's only at this level that a creature is able to form a symbiotic relationship with a bicycle, and thus achieve true enlightenment.
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Would that be the front light or the rear light?
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definitely the poshterior light...
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