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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 #8761 - 10/26/00 01:32 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike   veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England jack squat to do with gorillas I rest my case. "Mogambo" = "Let's get the hell out of here!" (this translation for under 18s) #8762 - 10/26/00 01:46 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 shanks old hand shanks   old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK I hope you'll credit your co-translator? #8763 - 10/26/00 06:29 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 ... none of which has jack squat to do with gorillas or mogambo. Ain't no one never told ya nothin' about it being wrong for to be using double negatives? #8764 - 10/26/00 07:50 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Max says it is "wrong for to be using double negatives." One assumes this a critique of the construction "jack squat." One assumes that his objection is that "jack" has the same meaning as squat, permitting one to say "He don't know jack" and "He don't know squat" without altering the meaning of either. Not so, learned one. The clause "You don't know jack" is a shortening of "You don't know jack shit" where the last word is omitted for decency's sake. Squat is a colloquial verb meaning "to defecate" and a noun meaning "defecation." Thus, the construction "jack squat" restores the entirety of the clause, using a synonym in the last position. Eh? #8765 - 10/26/00 07:54 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh   Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Oh how good it is to be amongst true intellectuals! #8766 - 10/26/00 08:10 PM Intellectuals   Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Agreed. The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals is a cause for great concern. #8767 - 10/26/00 08:10 PM Re: discalced   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass tsuwm>more links than a dozen discalced nuns. jackie>what does being discalced have to do with posting links, she said with the distinct feeling of walking straight into a trap? exactly nothing. and don't go walking discalced near any traps. --- how many posts would Emily Post post if Emily Post could post posts?! #8768 - 10/26/00 08:14 PM Re: Mogambo   Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Actually it was the use of "none of which" that prompted my jocular correction. I understood the phrase "Jack squat", and greatly appreciated the bowdlerisation. Since it seems that "Jack squat" means basically "nothing" I read the line to say "none of which has nothing to do with ..." I am of course rushing in where angels fear to tread, as my grasp of grammar could most flatteringly be called rudimentary. If I am as mistaken as I expect to be, your occupation, and my Mickey heritage would seem to make mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa doubly apt. #8769 - 10/26/00 11:28 PM Re: Intellectuals   Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike   veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! #8770 - 10/27/00 03:37 AM Re: Intellectuals   Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus, et dimissis peccatis, perducat vos ad vitam aeternam. Amen. 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