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| 05/04/2016
| HarpyGoddess
Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by harpygoddess
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To: Dubh_Ghlase
Remember a few years ago some official used the word “niggardly” and the perpetually offended blacks of the day rose up in outrage .... clearly not knowing what the word meant.
To: Lizavetta
Toward the recent end of my career, I worked with a lot of young military types. All of them pretty smart, but not familiar with some things. I had to explain a lot of these terms and origins to them. My favorite one was “rabbit test” for pregnancy. For all of their lives it’s been peeing on a test stick.
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05/05/2016 8:33:57 AM PDT
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PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Roccus; Robert A. Cook, PE
Ah, but did you ever use the term Hit the carriage return in a computer training course? Only when followed by "Line Feed." Did you ever have to overpunch?
-PJ
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:38:54 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Lizavetta
Then you don't want to use the phrase "whip into shape," either.
-PJ
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05/05/2016 8:42:00 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Ditter
In the winter, the milk would freeze and push up the paper top with a cylinder of frozen milk.
To: Political Junkie Too
Backspace tape to desired position and hit “Letters”
18+ years as a TTY repairman.
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05/05/2016 8:50:47 AM PDT
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Roccus
(Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
To: harpygoddess
Shipment? Shipping a package? How many go by ship these days?
-PJ
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05/05/2016 8:52:25 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: T-Bone Texan
Wow, that was so long ago.... I couldn’t tell you if it smells the same or not.
To: Stalwart
Franklin started as a printer's apprentice under his older brother James in Boston, and that was where his genius first came through publicly in his letters, unknowingly published by James Franklin under the female pen name (nomme de plume ... there's another one!) Silence Dogood. He escaped that indenture and migrated to Philadelphia where through sheer hard work, entrepreneurship, careful networking, and trans-colonial publishing (Poor Richard's Almanac), he became well off enough to franchise his business to other colonies and take up his other interests, Natural Philosophy (aka "Science"), invention (Lightening Rod, Franklin Stove, Glass Armonica, etc.), and maybe most importantly to America ... politics.
But it all started with paper, a press, ink, heavy typeset, and a voracious reading public. That's what I meant to imply, not that Franklin was anything but the most remarkable man of his time. He happens to be one of my personal heroes and apparently one of yours too.
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05/05/2016 8:55:46 AM PDT
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katana
To: Roccus
I used Hollerith cards, where you backed up the card and punched it again. Good ole EBCDIC.
-PJ
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05/05/2016 8:56:19 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Roccus
We used to separate the foil from the paper in a chewing gum pack and collect the foil in a ball. The junkman would pay fifty cents for it.
Also we made fans out of Popsicle sticks (wove them together and then stuck one in as a handle).
Vegetable man also had a horse-drawn wagon. I remember these men as very grumpy.
The shoemaker would give us something called a landy—an old worn-out heel of a shoe—to play hopscotch with.
To: katana
Oh, and I’m of Inner Hebrides Scots and German ancestry with two American Indian tribes thrown in for leavening on both sides. But I studied the language, traveled to, and did a lot of business in Japan and admire the art of their sword making. So I took on the nomme de “plume” Katana because it was the first one I tried eighteen years ago that wasn’t already taken.
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05/05/2016 9:03:40 AM PDT
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katana
To: Political Junkie Too
To: PLMerite
Exactly, I believe it was a roach that had caused an electrical short causing a malfunction, and someone told me they actually removed the bug and taped it into a log book, but...don’t know if that is true or not!
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posted on
05/05/2016 9:06:39 AM PDT
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: harpygoddess
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" was probably written back when doctors made house calls.
I hear baseball announcers say "He hit it on the screws.". That's applying a golf term to baseball, but golf clubs no longer have wooden heads with the screws framing the sweet spot.
To: harpygoddess
“Hell bent for leather” riding a horse very, very fast.
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posted on
05/05/2016 9:53:26 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
To: Carthego delenda est
In the late ‘80’s I came across some old .303 that melted the case head to the bolt of my rifle when fired.
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posted on
05/05/2016 10:12:45 AM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: tacticalogic
I blame that on "stack overflow". But that's not as bad as "blowing your stack".
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posted on
05/05/2016 10:13:28 AM PDT
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Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
05/05/2016 10:16:14 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: rlmorel
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05/05/2016 10:54:07 AM PDT
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PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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