kandrathe,Dec 20 2004, 09:34 PM Wrote:But, now I'll have to remember to read Doc's posts really slow, with a strong Southern accent.  :)

Oh, and about the revocation (as if they gave it to us in the first place).  They tried that in 1812, and I think that if they tried again, Doc and I would be shoulder to shoulder to press them on back again.
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Yrrek,Dec 20 2004, 09:17 PM Wrote:That is quite different from the norm!  :)
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Zarathustra,Dec 19 2004, 01:35 PM Wrote:<ot>
Occhi, a link for you.&nbsp; I've yet to order some to try, but a friend in California who shares my taste in beer swears by it.
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Doc,Dec 19 2004, 02:51 PM Wrote:Stop that! If we take all the "U"s ot of or postings Bolty or Griselda is bond to ban me.
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Rhydderch Hael,Dec 20 2004, 10:27 PM Wrote:After all, you know it was you and me.
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Yrrek,Dec 20 2004, 11:30 PM Wrote:Let me please introduce myself!&nbsp; :)
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Griselda,Dec 21 2004, 12:24 AM Wrote:Yo do realize that none of the admins have "u"'s in their names, don't yo?

-Griselda
"Lrker Longe Forms Moderatour"
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Occhidiangela,Dec 21 2004, 08:00 AM Wrote:I'm a man of wealth and taste.

And I laid traps for the troubadors
Who got killed before they reached Bombay.
(I am sure they went there for the gin.)

Occhi
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Griselda,Dec 21 2004, 05:24 AM Wrote:Yo do realize that none of the admins have "u"'s in their names, don't yo?

-Griselda
"Lrker Longe Forms Moderatour"
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Doc,Dec 20 2004, 10:06 PM Wrote:Guns? Hell... We don't need to steenking guns... Just rally the dentists of this country together. We'll have America back in no time.

I don't fear the English. I wear a kilt. And as well know, the kilted kick the ass of the troosered all the time.
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AtomicKitKat,Dec 22 2004, 12:21 AM Wrote:I'd just like to point out that aluminIum sounds better than aluminum(which is spoken much like having your mouth full), and keeps with the tradition of naming most metals -ium(notable exceptions being platinum, cuprum aka copper, and aurum aka gold. I can see myself pronouncing aurium, and probably cuprium but platinium would be a bit odd.)&nbsp; :lol:
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Quote:But, in the case of "aluminum" , we can pin the whole mess on Sir Humphry Davy, the English chemist who discovered the stuff back in 1807. Indulging in the perversity of which historical figures seem fond, Davy named his discovery not "aluminum," nor even "aluminium," but "alumium," basing the term on the Latin "alumen," meaning "alum," a substance drawn from the same mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing hides and the like. This is all a bit confusing, but we can take comfort in the fact that Davy was apparently a bit befuddled too. Around 1812 he decided that the proper name of his discovery was not "alumium," but actually "aluminum." Almost immediately Davy was besieged by other scientists who pointed out that if Davy would just add an "i" to make the term "aluminium," it would fall into line with such other substance names as "sodium" and "calcium" and, in their words, "sound more classical." So Davy named it yet again, this time to "aluminium," and the "ium" form became standard in both the U.S. and Great Britain.

Unfortunately, many people in the U.S. had evidently stopped listening by that point and continued to call the stuff "aluminum," and this spelling became so widespread that it was eventually adopted as the standard in the U.S. "Aluminium," however, is the official spelling used by international chemical societies. One hopes that Sir Humphry Davy, wherever he may be, is at last happy.

AtomicKitKat,Dec 21 2004, 10:21 PM Wrote:I'd just like to point out that aluminIum sounds better than aluminum(which is spoken much like having your mouth full), and keeps with the tradition of naming most metals -ium(notable exceptions being platinum, cuprum aka copper, and aurum aka gold. I can see myself pronouncing aurium, and probably cuprium but platinium would be a bit odd.)  :lol:
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Minionman,Dec 24 2004, 10:18 AM Wrote:At least aluminum and aluminium sound similar, unlike words like "lorry" and "truck", or "Torch" which means different things in both places, and is confusing when I see it in movies used in the different ways.
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Occhidiangela,Dec 24 2004, 06:47 PM Wrote:And then there's that nagging frappe versus milkshake confusion, Boston to Virginia . . . or soda and pop, or the generic moniker of "coke" for any variety of canned, carbonated, flavored soft drink.

Stick to beer, of course, and all will be well.&nbsp; Or is that brew?&nbsp; Ale?&nbsp;

Hmmm, guess I'll see if we have any Bushmill's in the cabinet.

Occhi
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whyBish,Dec 20 2004, 12:27 AM Wrote:I wonder how many people you could irk by convincing Microsoft to add a 733t dictionary to their spellchecker?&nbsp; :whistling:
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