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12-07-2004, 07:57 AM | #481 | |
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12-07-2004, 07:58 AM | #482 |
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as am i Bethberry...congrats on your 2000th post and your very intrigueing siggy
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12-07-2004, 08:12 AM | #483 |
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Thankies, Gentlemen and I am please you feel honoured Rim. Alas, Gil-Galad I cannot take credit for the invention of my sig; it was lifted. But I am rather pleased with it. Move over Shakes and tell Bill Gates the news.
Time was around here when 2000 posts would be looked at with some consternation as frightfully forward and suggesting just the hint of frivolity. There are still some of the first Dead who relish their low post count. I seem to recall burrahobbit grinning that poor Mr. Underhill accruded an unseemly number of posts in the moving of threads to this new software. This reminiscence brought to you by Rockers Anon.
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12-07-2004, 08:35 AM | #484 | |
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Aye, I remember my feelings of awe, when I met galpsi for the first time - he had 1K something posts at the time when most fertile of the rest of us had 500 odd at most (excluding Mr. BW, who was around same number with galpsi, but than he was a founder and had to post a lot to draw ppl in. Yes, actually, there were times where BD lacked membership )
Congrats Bb Not to stray off topic, I grasp this chance to niminate Guinevere's: Quote:
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12-07-2004, 12:01 PM | #485 | |
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I'm choughed ...
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Although it's actually a kind of anti-alliteration, as each 'ough' is pronounced differently, giving seven different forms of pronunciation for the same set of letters. I wish that I could lay claim to having come up with it myself, but I nicked it from a letter in my daily newspaper.
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12-07-2004, 12:07 PM | #486 |
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Which newspaper, pray tell? Perhaps I should read a paper which encourages such clever letters. Most of the letters in my paper are about how terrible the roads are at this time of year.
Ok, they're bad. We get the point!
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12-07-2004, 01:41 PM | #487 |
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How is "Loughborough" pronounced?
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12-07-2004, 02:41 PM | #488 | |
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12-07-2004, 02:48 PM | #489 |
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If so, that would rhyme with "cough", and I think the point is that all the ough's are different. I'll wager on the Scottish "Lochboro."
Saucy?
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12-07-2004, 02:49 PM | #490 |
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Just imagine: Boroughhobbit.
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12-07-2004, 04:30 PM | #491 | ||
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12-07-2004, 06:23 PM | #492 | ||||
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Although a subsequent letter did assert that 'hiccough' was a corruption and that it should in fact be spelled 'hiccup'. Hmm. After all that, I suppose that I should nominate a favourite signature myself. There is in fact no context. Bêthberry wins hands down for cleverness and brevity (and it had me stumped when I first saw it). Not to mention that her 'Boroughhobbit' comment is hilarious. I think we should adopt it as the official spelling.
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12-08-2004, 03:14 AM | #493 | |
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12-08-2004, 04:53 AM | #494 |
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Add some Ham to that pretty omlet in your siggy, HI, and that will let you answer the question of what my sig is to be.
*blushes furiously at Saucey's words of praise*
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12-08-2004, 02:23 PM | #495 | |
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12-09-2004, 04:16 PM | #496 | ||
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12-10-2004, 01:28 AM | #497 |
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Your cummings sig is one of my favourites at the moment, Mith. Here it is, for posterity:
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
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12-10-2004, 02:49 PM | #498 |
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I have noticed that Mithalwen often picks a new and delightful signature quite often. The imagination buzzes in this one. My favourite one was about the pink Christmas Tree.
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12-10-2004, 08:41 PM | #499 | ||
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Evisse's is lovely.
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Also Fea's Quote:
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12-10-2004, 09:19 PM | #500 | |
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2 beers in the berry
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2 beers you want 2 beers you ask I c u haunt 2 Bs by cask. I thank you humbly, sir, for your regard. I like omlets and sonnets, you know. Beerbeery
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12-11-2004, 09:03 AM | #501 | |
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12-11-2004, 04:37 PM | #502 |
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Firefoot strides again!
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12-11-2004, 10:11 PM | #503 | |
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12-12-2004, 12:27 PM | #504 | |
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12-13-2004, 08:04 PM | #505 | |
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Eswen's is quite amusing...
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12-14-2004, 07:04 AM | #506 |
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I'm not homophonic, some of my best friends our homophonuals.
Whosever's includes this gem: "Especially if there are rabbits in the aria".
That is one opera I'd love to see.
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12-15-2004, 02:30 AM | #507 |
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Scary...
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12-15-2004, 12:04 PM | #508 | |
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Oft Squatter sceaÞena Þreatum/ monegum mæÞum
Well, it is good to see that Squatter has not been frittering away his time away from BD. Here's his latest:
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12-15-2004, 12:47 PM | #509 | |
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My cousin has a Simon Drew poster which is less scary but funny: "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals, I am vegetarian because I hate plants" Eomer - the Pink Christmas tree exists and lights up my dreary afternoons at work! I love it dearly. Of course the sig is a rip off of "Oh Tannenbaum, O Tannembaum, wie treu sind deine Blatte? I am very fond of e.e. cummings and I often use him for sigs - partly perhaps because I was outraged that such a wonderful poet could exist and not be included on any syllabus I had studied in eleven years of Literature classes from Secondary school to university. I love the fact that his poems reflect teh range of the human experience from the frankly crude to the sublimely spiritual. I think I had "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope that has no opposite in fear" for a while but the current one expresses a little of my attidude to life - and possibly also explains the failure of my teaching career!
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12-15-2004, 03:55 PM | #510 | |
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12-15-2004, 05:03 PM | #511 |
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Thanks for the kudos, Elennar. It's part of a Gary Jules song; Ghosts. That song tends to leave me singing in the shower... in my bedroom... in my kitchen... I rather like it.
I like your siggie, Aina... I once used that toast at a family Christmas party. Fea wanders away singing "I'm runnin' along the rocks of the river... and the water's as cold as the snow...."
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12-16-2004, 02:11 AM | #512 | |
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The English language is so absurd.
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フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...
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12-16-2004, 02:53 AM | #513 | |
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If the plural of foot is feet and tooth is teeth, how come the plural of phone booth is not phone beeth?
Is the opposite of progress, congress? But I'm not complaining. It makes English an even more interesting subject. -------------------------------------------- Anyway, to get back on topic, I found this crazy one from Silmiel of Imladris: Quote:
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12-16-2004, 12:28 PM | #514 | |
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In terms of world languages, is English the only screwy language, or is this a common thing that we just like to complain about?
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12-16-2004, 08:31 PM | #515 |
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The English language is a source of constant amusement...
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12-19-2004, 11:32 AM | #516 |
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English is not screwy it is merely greedy and absorbs words from other languages it comes into contact with either from England being invaded or the English invading other lands. As a result we have a rich vocabulary. The words you meention are surely of Latin origin? and so a legacy of the first of the two truly rememberable dates in English History......
Progress is the opposite of regress and digress is closer though not perfect as an opposite to congress.... But what I really want to know is why do we say unkempt and disgruntled but never kempt and gruntled ( unless we are referring to Bertie Wooster's Aunts)
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12-21-2004, 09:19 AM | #517 | ||
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This from Lhunardawen:
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And I have to reiterate for the I-don't-know-how-many'th-time: Firefoot. Quote:
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12-21-2004, 09:31 AM | #518 |
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It's wonderful isn't it? I have that passage written on my wall.
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12-21-2004, 09:53 AM | #519 |
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As mark so nicely swiped the two I had planned on writing, I shall have to gracefully remark with just this: "I agree." Lhuna's got me thinking, and Firefoot's is one of my favorites. Very nice.
Fea
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12-22-2004, 06:59 PM | #520 |
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Suldaledhel's sig makes my mind itch wondering what it refers to. . .
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