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Re: Michael Moore sued for lying?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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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!
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> 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.
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> 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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