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| Jun-25-09 | | rogge: <Trigonometrist: So Dutch is more difficult than French?> Yeah, for the French. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | hms123: I thought Dutch was a bridge language between German and English. When I was in Belgium and the Netherlands I thought I was listening to (American) English on the street, but it was, of course, Dutch (or Flemish). |
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| Jun-25-09 | | achieve: <rogge> heh - short and incisive yet again! <hms> has a good point; I am fluent (ugh) at both German and English, so that would support his thesis. Would it?? |
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| Jun-25-09 | | rogge: <Would it??> I'd say, all Germanic languages, while French is Romance (!) |
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| Jun-25-09 | | achieve: Yeah, "German Romance" would win the Ultimate Oxymoron Award, hands down, yet it supposedly did exist, at some point. To me Germanic languages are indeed a tad easier than Roman languages, but it's a toss of a coin Imo. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | Red October: there seem to be a good many virgins in this forum. the moon goddess, would be pleased |
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Jun-25-09
 | | Domdaniel: <What's <echecs>?
Failures or setbacks. If you stick an acute accent on the first 'e' - which, frankly, I couldn't be bothered doing - you get a certain board game. With which all of us have some familiarity. |
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Jun-25-09
| | Domdaniel: <Reddi> As you've so perceptively seen, <The Phrontistery> is something of a <Virgin Magnet>. I wonder why. |
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| Jun-25-09 | | achieve: Correçion:
Where I wrote "eschec" it must of course be "echec"
That's what you get when doing three things at four locations at the same time... |
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Jun-25-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: This place is a <mien>field. The world <echecs>, Frog for "chess, ironically is also the olde Englishe worde for "checkers", although I think the Irish insist on "Draughts." But they don't pronounce it "drawts," they pronounce in "Drawgggggghiggittis." Bloody Irish |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> how many locations are you in right now? And how many dimensions?
<Dom> just said I was fat!! |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: On the plus side, <Dom> is harried on two phronts now by women who wish to sacrifice him to the Moon Goddess.... "Well he shouldn't have...."
(that's an actual quote from <Deffi> during the "original incident" a couple of hundred pages ago- but for the life of me I cant' actually remember <Dom's> original offence) He was pretty skeered though.
heh |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: User: 600POUNDGORILLA |
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Jun-25-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> The overweight primate to whom you refer has not been seen round these parts for about five years. He may be extinct. He certainly won't bite. The Irish claim to have invented chess, but they call it 'fichille' or 'fidcheall'. Both, naturally, pronounced 'Phi-Hill'. And I only said that it would be ungentlemanly of anyone here to mention Canadian weight differentials. Heaven forfend that I should offend *you* with such idle remarks. Anyway, I apologize. Maybe <£600 Gorilla> was advertising his price range? |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: You can get a reasonable used Gorilla for 50 pee at <Tesco> |
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Jun-25-09
| | Domdaniel: ... which reminds me of the story about Archie, the inept but homicidal thief who tried to rob the vegetable section. He panicked, strangled three security guards, and fled with some loose change. The headlines read <Archie chokes three for a pound at Tesco's> ... |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh....
Did you know that <Peter Gabriel> was writing "anti Tesco" lyrics as early as 1973? They figure prominently in the very short, but very, very beautiful track "Aisle of Plenty"
from the magnificent <Genesis> record "Selling England by the Pound" |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: God's Wounds!
Here is some <Tesco> history from 1973, in fact- <Founder Jack Cohen was an enthusiastic advocate of trading stamps as an inducement for shoppers to patronise his stores. He signed up with Green Shield Stamps in 1963, and became one of the company's largest clients.[9]In 1973 Jack Cohen resigned and was replaced as Chairman by his son-in-law Leslie Porter. Porter and managing director Ian MacLaurin abandoned the "pile it high sell it cheap" philosophy of Cohen which had left the company "stagnating" and with a "bad image".> So <Pete> wrote the lyrics complaining about the "pile it high sell it cheap" era, it seems. From the same record, <Selling England by the Pound>, the track "The Moonlit Knight" continutes the attack on <Tesco>: The lyric "Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout" is a sardonic pun aimed at the Tesco phenomenon of the "green shield stamps". Now, for the real question of interest--
The Early 1970s English Prog Rock fixation with 18th century English agricultural reform was one thing. But we can perhaps add an obsession with <Tesco> to this list. One wonders if they weren't yearning for a simpler, older England. In between getting blocked up and nailing every broad they could get their hands on whilst on tour, I mean. |
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Jun-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Zounds!!
AND DID THOSE FEET,
IN ANCIENT TIMES,
WALK UPON ENGLAND'S
MOUTAINS GREEN
Ok more evidence-- This Blake poem was whistled in every Genesis performance in 1973 just before the set-closing number "Supper's Ready." English Prog Rock.
Funny? You bet.
Outlandish? Without doubt.
Sublime? At times, yes.
AND YOU MAKE ALL YOUR ANIMAL \
DEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEE EEEEE A EEEELSSSSS
AND YOU RIDE something or other OVER THE FIEEEEEEELD
EE EEEE EEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEELS
(Jethro Tull and his eels- that's another one to think about) |
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| Jun-26-09 | | Trigonometrist: Hey you there...Yes the fat woman with an ironicaly beautiful avatar..Yes you..Are you with the TAL?... If you come near me I'll flatten you with a couple of cotangents and triple sided cuboids... No I'm not at the Gobi desert...
*wipes sand accross screen*
To <Travis Bickle> and <SugarDom> Just kidding fellas...No don't imprison me in your ship <Dommy Depp> and I don't like the taxi either... P.S <J> You better watch it, I have my eyes and my protractor on you... |
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Jun-26-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Trig O' the Tail> I agree you were the best record that <Genesis> produced after Peter Gabriel left. Also, I'm starting a new Phrontistery Pheature about little known historical facts called <DID YOU KNOW>. I'm hoping you will help me dig these tasty facts up. Here is the first entry:
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<DID YOU KNOW:
The <Manhattan Project> was originally to be labelled the <<<Long Island Ice Tea Project>>>, until <Niels Bohr> convinced everyone that "That sounds a little silly."
STRANGE BUT TRUE>
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| Jun-26-09 | | Trigonometrist: Sure,I'll help you with your <Pheature>.. But on one condition...
You'll quit the TAL..
Hmm? |
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Jun-26-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: I promise to quit it- especially since I don't know what it is. However, I respect you too much to haggle. |
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| Jun-26-09 | | Trigonometrist: TAL-Trigonometrist Assassination League...
The reason I'm now in the Gobi desert fighting temperatures upto 50 degrees and..er..forget it..;) And don't make me blush...
<However, I respect you too much to haggle.> *blush*
I won't be available to you for this Saturday and Sunday anyway... And make sure you miss me enough...:)
No,no don't cry I'll be back on your screen on Monday...sheesh.. And what is your motivation for this <Pheature> and why isn't it on your forum?... |
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Jun-26-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: In my Phorum, I only Pheature Pheatures that use the letter "f" properly.
Unlike this place. |
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