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#9172 10/31/00 04:17 PM
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Question: How long does it take a new thread to get "off track"

As soon as it meets a bear called Fred,



#9173 10/31/00 04:23 PM
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> a bear called Fred<
I don't a bear called Fred..
I know Fuzzy Wuzzy bear..
and the famous Mondagreen bear, Gladly (the Crossed-eyed bear)...

who is a bear called Fred?


#9174 10/31/00 04:26 PM
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>...a bear called Fred.

did I miss the "calling a thread a Fred" thread, or is this just some private campaign that you Brits have unspooled?


#9175 10/31/00 07:24 PM
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Dunno about a Brit campaign, but Fred for thread is obviously Brit in origin - given the habits of pronunciation that some groups in London have...

cheer

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#9176 10/31/00 11:30 PM
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ask Shona
At first I thought somebody had a lisp and we were talking about containers for a soft drink with vegetable extracts.
Very confuthing.

Tho I athked Webthter, and Webthter, he thay:

coeˇlaˇcanth
Etymology: ultimately from Greek koilos hollow akantha spine
: any of an order (Coelacanthiformes) of lobe-finned fishes known chiefly from Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils

"Hollow spine"? Nah.
Hollow skull, possibly.
Hollow legs - or rather hollow (lobed) fins - almost definitely.

Oh, I just wanted to say "Hey!" to all you Ayleurs out there. Perhaps that should be
"Hail Ayleurs!" as "Hey! Ayleurs" sounds like it's leading up to a telling-off.
"Hello Ayleurs!" is right out for now, as an "s" has a tendency to creep in between the two words, and Rhub (fellow enthusiastic Ayleur) has had enough of Swan Lake, apparently.
So how should one Ayleur greet another?
I mean another Ayleur, of course.
Well, being Ayleurs, we're never going to agree on that one, are we?

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#9177 10/31/00 11:44 PM
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My hackles are going up. I am not an ayleur. I do not want to be an ayleur. I have already forgotten what the letters stand for, as I have the first F in FF.
Too gol-durned many new-fangled doohickies 'round this-here place fer me!


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I am not an ayleur

I'm gonna have to agree with Jackie on this one guys. About twice a day I have to stop and think what does ayleu stand for (can't just let an acronym go by without knowing what it means) and it doesn't even mean anything!


#9179 11/01/00 08:14 AM
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and it doesn't even mean anything!

This sounds exactly like the Von Trapp children telling Maria that do-re-mi means nothing.

Of course, as any etymologist knows, Ayleu = anything you like - except unanimous. The 'r' at the end is gratuitous - much like most of us.

BTW Jackie - I love the polite little 'Grr' with which you titled your post. Very ladylike!

cheer

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Thanks Rhubarb! It looks like Jackie could do with a drink. Hernando's?


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Thank you, shanks and paulb! It's nice to know that somebody cares, even if (shanks) we disagree!

Er--what's Hernando's, please? Whatever it is, I think I could do with one or six about now, never mind that it's eight o'clock in the morning.


pss-st--can't resist: I still don't like ayleur! Take that, you linguaphile/philosopher, you!



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