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Re: LEGO themed tattoos?
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lugnet.fun
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Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:08:59 GMT
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> BUT that's when the mocking starts.
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> the only spell checker I have is "built in" and uses an American
> Dictionary. Ergo, it will force Cheque into Check. or colour into
> color.
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> this does not even take into account my liberal use of made up words.
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> like schmee, or fipple, or snarf.
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> schmee, and snarf are of the same family. if we were in the same room,
> and I was sawing away at a bit of lumber the schmee left on the floor is
> called snarf. if i pointed to it, and said, "I have to clean up this
> snarf" you would know what i was talking about.
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> forever more, we could chat about snarf.
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> like the schmee that gets thrown out of my rice picking lego robots....
> is snarf.
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> Fipple is a made up word to describe a part of the body that has no
> "real" name.
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> the little cup under your nose, above your lip has no real name.
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> it needed a name.... So fipple is now what it is called.
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> many generations of university students of this one particular professor
> would know what I was talking about.
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> hopefully many lego people now will as well.
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> English, the ever evolving language.
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> Unlike french, which refuses to "play." Why cant they just accept that
> it is a VCR and not a magnétoscope
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>
> Chris
<mock>
The area above your upper lip and below your nose already has a name -
Philtrum:
http://www.worldcf.org/upper.html and
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=philtrum
Snarf: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=snarf
Fipple: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fipple
and finally, Schmee (as style of music or musical artist):
http://www.brothercake.com/music/schmee.php
You'll have to come up with new nonsense words if you're gonna get a patent
on them!
</mock>
Prof. Rob
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| (...) smart ass. :) (...) no I wont. THATS the beauty of the messed up english language. it is not fixed. anyword (once in comman usage) can take on new meaning, OR new words can be added. so maybe TODAY people wander around touting off about how (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.fun)
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| (...) OK, lets set the record straight. we have the "queens" English American English and Canadian English. as a Canadian, and a native english speaker I can choose what version i care to butcher. take colour. color, or Colour. one is american, one (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.fun)
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