OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It

[Pig Bladder]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:02:50 -0500, John Stewart wrote:

Jon Yaeger wrote:
....
The guy exclaimed, "A blonde with big tits? Why

kill a blonde with big tits?"
....
Is this the blonde you refer too? JLS
[image of woman with udders not copied]

Obviously not - can't you see the flotation devices?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:54:59 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:

in article 41DC019A.7F611171@sympatico.ca, John Stewart at

Is this the blonde you refer too? JLS

She'll definitely do ;-)

In fact, I'd put her up against any one of the 72 black-eyed Houris (the
virgins that allegedly await Muslim martyrs in heaven).

Young testosteone-charged fanatics are enticed to blow themselves up along
with innocent bystanders in order to get a "date" with these mythical
sirens.

What bothers me is the "Young testosteone-charged fanatics" who join the
Marines to blow up innocent bystanders in hopes of getting a piece of ass
from cows like the one pictured.
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:48:28 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jon Yaeger <jono_1@bellsouth.net
wrote (in <BE017803.13ED8%jono_1@bellsouth.net&gt about 'OT: Hey
Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:
And these Houris are still virgins . . . Sorry,
guys.

They become virgins again every dawn.

Don't we all?
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:20:28 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:00:44 GMT, Bob Stephens
stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote:

[snip]

Two of my pet hatreds:

Some idiot with a harelip around 1978 mispronounced mnemonics as 'numonics'
and now I see it everywhere including college textbooks.

The other one is the spoken use of 'peripheral'. 8 people out of 10 say
'peripheal' these days.

Oh yeah, then there's 'nucular' and 'simular'. ARRRGH!!!


Bob

"Nucular" is the in-way to say it right now... infuriates BOTH the
EuroTrash AND the American Leftists at the same time ;-)

Didn't Jimmy Carter popularize that pronunciation? He was actually a
"nucular engineer" by training.

John

 

[keith]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:45:42 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Kryten <kryten_droid_obfusticator@
ntlworld.com> wrote (in <x2UCd.227$Wo1.208@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net&gt about
'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:62fwn1lzd3wk$.sdwsvc7cv9wb$.dlg@40tude.net...
On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Two of my pet hatreds:


aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium magnesium)

But 'tantalum'.

Hmm,what about; platinum, molybdenum, stannum(tin), plumbum(lead),
argentum(silver), aurum(gold), hydrargyrum(mercury), cuprum(copper)

Then there's; manganese, tungsten(wolfram), antimony, cobalt, nickel,
zinc, bismuth

Nope, don't see the bitch either. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:38:14 +0000, Pig Bladder wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:20:28 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:00:44 GMT, Bob Stephens
stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote:

[snip]

Two of my pet hatreds:

Some idiot with a harelip around 1978 mispronounced mnemonics as 'numonics'
and now I see it everywhere including college textbooks.

The other one is the spoken use of 'peripheral'. 8 people out of 10 say
'peripheal' these days.

Oh yeah, then there's 'nucular' and 'simular'. ARRRGH!!!


Bob

"Nucular" is the in-way to say it right now... infuriates BOTH the
EuroTrash AND the American Leftists at the same time ;-)

It doesn't infuriate anyone with a multi-digit IQ

True, but EuroPeons and Democrats don't make that cut.

it merely shows the
ignorance of the speaker. (or, in some cases, self-righteous, pig-headed
arrogance.)

Nope just pisses off the pigs. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:33:23 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:27:59 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:20:28 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

[snip]

"Nucular" is the in-way to say it right now... infuriates BOTH the
EuroTrash AND the American Leftists at the same time ;-)


Didn't Jimmy Carter popularize that pronunciation? He was actually a
"nucular engineer" by training.

John

Yes. Gave engineering a bad name :-(

His best nukoolar enjunearing was on SNL in "The Pepsi Syndrome". ...and
it sure as shit beat anything he ever did in office!

--
Keith

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote (in
<pan.2005.01.06.03.31.24.581996@att.bizzzz&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash,
the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:45:42 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Kryten <kryten_droid_obfusticator@
ntlworld.com> wrote (in <x2UCd.227$Wo1.208@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net&gt about
'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:62fwn1lzd3wk$.sdwsvc7cv9wb$.dlg@40tude.net...
On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Two of my pet hatreds:


aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium magnesium)

But 'tantalum'.

Hmm,what about; platinum, molybdenum, stannum(tin), plumbum(lead),
argentum(silver), aurum(gold), hydrargyrum(mercury), cuprum(copper)

Aluminum and tantalum form a condensed list. (;-)

It's not fair to cite the Latin names; we are using English here.

Then there's; manganese, tungsten(wolfram), antimony, cobalt, nickel,
zinc, bismuth

--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net>
wrote (in <pan.2005.01.05.23.47.09.939216@example.net&gt about 'OT: Hey
Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:04:45 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <nqhmt0l6672aevqseicqu1i38qaa60vshj@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Tue, 4
Jan 2005:
They're claiming, on al Jazeera, that the USA (and the Jews) caused the
Tsunami with an A-bomb.

Of course that's completely wrong.

They bored holes along the fault line (all 1200 km of it) and squirted
WD40 into them. That's why there's been a shortage of WD40 recently.

Yeah, ha, ha. But seriously, 1200 km? That would account for a lot of
water movement. I had ass-u-med that it was some sort of rockslide - I
guess I had had that on my mind. Think Hawaii's Big Crack, or whatever
it's called.

Does anyone know the actual mechanics of the event itself?

The Indian tectonic plate is still moving north; when it hit the

Eurasian plate it created the Himalaya. In this case, it's being
subducted under the Andaman plate to the east, and the subduction zone
runs along the western coast of Sumatra, a short distance out to sea.
The stress had been building up for around 150 years, and let go along
1200 km almost simultaneously.

See http://www.gsi.gov.in/sumatra.pdf for example.

Any resemblance to the situation in California should cause a pause for
thought.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:33:23 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:27:59 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:20:28 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

[snip]

"Nucular" is the in-way to say it right now... infuriates BOTH the
EuroTrash AND the American Leftists at the same time ;-)


Didn't Jimmy Carter popularize that pronunciation? He was actually a
"nucular engineer" by training.

John

Yes. Gave engineering a bad name :-(

And Presidents.

John

 

[keith]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:13:53 +0000, Kryten wrote:

"keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
newsan.2005.01.06.03.31.24.581996@att.bizzzz...

aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium magnesium)

But 'tantalum'.

Hmm,what about; platinum, molybdenum,

Then there's; manganese, tungsten(wolfram), antimony, cobalt, nickel,
zinc, bismuth

True, many metals have ancient names that vary a lot.

Many of the metals have Latin names that end in um not ium, (St,Pb,
Ag,Au,Hg,Cu) but Al wasn't named or known by the Romans.

I think I should confine the consistency to relatively recently
discovered/named metals.

I think aluminium comes under that heading.

I don't thik the romans discovered iron, for that matter.

What about Platinum? ...or do you blokes call it platininium?

--

Keith
Keith

 

[mc]

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
newsb4ot0tlvse2452ohr4nmhbvm49efj8a92@4ax.com...

BTW, morning newspapers say PRIVATE donations from USA have now
exceeded $200 Million.

I'm sure, by the time we are done, that our total contributions, cash
AND in-kind, will be in the $ Billions.

Yes. Foreign critics have talked as if the US were a socialist
dictatorship, with all wealth under the government's control, and spendable
instantly without waiting for elected legislators to vote on anything...

Amazon.com collected about $2M for the Red Cross in _one day_, all while
critics were trying to report that the US contribution was "only $15
million."

I would like to ask each critic: How much of YOUR personal funds have YOU
contributed, pledged, or made solid plans to contribute?

 

[mc]

"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:gx$NKAI2mB3BFwQT@jmwa.demon.co.uk...

gotten (instead of got)

That is the older form. The Brits dropped it, for unexplained reasons.

 

[Christian HOSTELET]

On 06/01/2005 05:11:36, John Woodgate wrote:

argentum(silver), aurum(gold), hydrargyrum(mercury), cuprum(copper)

Aluminum and tantalum form a condensed list. (;-)

It's not fair to cite the Latin names; we are using English here.

In SCI.electronics.design ? SCI. like Science.

Then you use the scientific words could it be Latin, French, German or
English

Here names are defined in the endeleďev periodic table of elements
(and some of them were not known to the Romans )

--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

--
--
Christian - Grenoble

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that mc <mc_no_spam@uga.edu> wrote (in
<41dc8217$1@mustang.speedfactory.net&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the
Arabs Beat You to It', on Wed, 5 Jan 2005:

"Prestige" went from "trickery" through "magic" or "glamour" to its
present meaning.

So did 'sophisticated'. What does this say about human nature?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

Kryten wrote:

"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message

news:62fwn1lzd3wk$.sdwsvc7cv9wb$.dlg@40tude.net...
On 5 Jan 2005 02:11:56 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Two of my pet hatreds:


aluminum (inconsistent with other metals like sodium calcium
magnesium)
gotten (instead of got)

"Aluminum" is only "aluminum" in the U.S.A. - everybody else spells it
"aluminium". And we can't blame Noah Webster for that one - aluminium
didn't become commerically important until the electrolytic extraction
process was invented in 1886 - and Webster died in 1843.

The other "pet hatred" has been covered by other posters - I find
myself using "gotten" from time to time, when it fits better with the
rythm of the sentence than "got". This is really rather odd, given that
my mother-tongue is Australian English - I've probably read too many
American novels.

---------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Paul Burke]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

I find
myself using "gotten" from time to time, when it fits better with the
rythm of the sentence than "got". This is really rather odd, given that
my mother-tongue is Australian English - I've probably read too many
American novels.

"Gotten" used to be perfectly good English, but dropped out of Standard
English (UK) in the 18th Century. Most English regional dialects use the
form, and many was the caning suffered by schoolchildren for using it.
"Now what's wrong with that sentence, Johnny?" "Oh sorry Miss, I've
putten 'putten' where I should have putten 'put'".

Paul Burke

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com> wrote
(in <344ju6F4657e5U1@individual.net&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the
Arabs Beat You to It', on Thu, 6 Jan 2005:

"Oh sorry Miss, I've
putten 'putten' where I should have putten 'put'".

Replace the first 'putten' by 'writ' and the second by 'writted', and
then marvel at the consistency of the English language. (;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com> wrote
(in <344ju6F4657e5U1@individual.net&gt about 'OT: Hey Eurotrash, the
Arabs Beat You to It', on Thu, 6 Jan 2005:

"Oh sorry Miss, I've
putten 'putten' where I should have putten 'put'".


Replace the first 'putten' by 'writ' and the second by 'writted', and
then marvel at the consistency of the English language. (;-)

Which is as nothing compared with Sanskrit

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Dirk Bruere at Neopax
<dirk@neopax.com> wrote (in <344rj2F467r47U1@individual.net&gt about 'OT:
Hey Eurotrash, the Arabs Beat You to It', on Thu, 6 Jan 2005:

Which is as nothing compared with Sanskrit

Do you find your knowledge of Sanskrit valuable when time-travelling?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk