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(...) Oh, YOU had it EEEEEASY! Well, when I said "Privy" I only meant it was a privy to US. We used to DREAM of having a splintery board, OR a trench. WE had to swim down to the bottom of the lake to do our business, get up at 1am, three hours (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Bah, you all got off easy. When we needed to go, we had to dig the trench first *and* we didn't have a shovel. And that's nothing compared to what my dad says he had to do. ;) James (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You had a trench? All we had was the board. Dave! (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A board? You had a *board*? I used to dream about a splintery board. All we had was a nasty trench, with our selves balanced over it. Steve (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Mike, one of these two possibilities: you are a. only pretending to be familiar with that stuff b. extremly stoned when you fail to see that plant is a Japanese maple tree. Greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I would believe this, since I rarely watch the Simpsons, and, come to think of it, the people I hear utter the word "d'oh" are largely people who do watch the show. I found one reference which discusses both words, but I'm not sure what (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, any port in a storm. Dave! (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Found this quote from the Iliad: Achilles spear flashed and caught Hector in the neck, Hector uttered a final "Doh!" from the gates of Hades, and fell, thunderously. So, yes, Doh! is a complete Homerism. Bruce Lost somewhere on the wine-dark (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm scrambling to find an online reference, but I read in the paper yesterday that "D'oh" in that form is indeed a Homerism (or, more correctly, a Castellaneta-ism), but it's a modification of "Do-o-o-o" used Laurel and Hardy films, where it (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm not sure "Duh" is a variant form of "Doh" (or verse-vica, vice-versey, victor-victoria). I've heard Homer say "Duuuuu-uh!" before, and the context is decidedly different. Doh attends misfortune (usually as an exaggeration, as when someone (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The semester after I got my M.A. in English our comp exams were made available for everyone to view (no names!). As I looked through them I noticed one professor wrote "Duh!"(1) in the margin to comment on what someone had written (no, it (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Now: women and tools!
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(...) Me too. So where do you obtain these adjustable wenches? :-) Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus (was: building big)
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(...) I've always been curious why folks pluralise platypus that way. The plural is accepted to be "platypuses" in most English dictionaries, but if you work from the Greek the plural is something else, because the "-us" is part of the word's base (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Couldn't take it huh, Jon? Believe me I understand since I let loose on him last week after the "What's your problem Larry?" post. I feel bad about that now because after reading some of the stuff that's been written today I've come to the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes: (snipped a fascinating dissertation on the mistakes others make in designing their spaceships) (...) (snipped some more) ...And if I was given more LEGO bricks I could build myself a whole house out of them (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Carrots have cobs?? ;] KDJ (banana-nut loaf) ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In terms of one common context, yes. In the context of this thread? ;) Or in other words, were there two people, or three in that billboard? James (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Haha! That's a great one - but I think they knew *exactly* what they were saying. Bruce (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yikes! There isn't anything subtle about that billboard is there? Hehe. =) ~Nathan (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ewwwwww........ (...) pork...but not in that way...aw, forget it!) BTW, this whole thread is now lent a *tiny* bit of realism, if you notice the following things: 1) Yes, the word pork takes on many different meanings when seen on the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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