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Re: Michael Moore sued for lying?
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Date: 
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:47:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:


... the Pantograph ...

Er, PantAgraph. Where's St. Catharine when you need her, eh?

I always thought a Catharine wheel was 8 sided, like a stopsign--I was told that
those little 8 sided windows usually on the 2nd storey of small brick houses
built in the 30's-40's were called 'Catharine windows'.

Of course, all this is subject to my very faulty recollection.

I didn't give a good enough hint with the "eh", I guess. This obscure reference
was to rtlT's discussion about St. Catharines (town name) vs. St. Catherines
(incorrectly spelled town name)... not to any torture devices, fireworks,
windows, or stop signs.

Sorry for any confusion!

Oh I caught the rtlT topic relation, and I especially liked the 'eh' bit 'cause,
well, I am Canadian and I like the 'eh', eh.

But I just wanted to clarify for my faulty recollection that a Catharine
wheel/window was 8 sided instead of 5.

eh?

What's *5* got to do with it? The name of the paper is pAntagraph, not
pEntagraph (personally I'd love to publish a paper so titled in, say, Holland,
MI to get the mundanes all uptight, but I digress) or pantOgraph, which was my
original typo.

If I had said Pentagraph instead of Octograph I guess I could see it.



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  Re: Michael Moore sued for lying?
 
(...) I'd ask what a pentagraph has to do with either a pentacle or a pentagram...but I live in Holland, and I know how stupid some of the locals can be about such things. They did chase an Oscar-winning Dutch film out of town, after all. What (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Michael Moore sued for lying?
 
(...) Oh I caught the rtlT topic relation, and I especially liked the 'eh' bit 'cause, well, I am Canadian and I like the 'eh', eh. But I just wanted to clarify for my faulty recollection that a Catharine wheel/window was 8 sided instead of 5. Dave (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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