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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Most family trees spread out in the past, at least doubling in generation size for each generation you go back. Not so with European nobility.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once: "Line Dancing: what happens when cousins breed."
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
My approach is to have an images directory on my web site, upload the image to that directory, and then use its URL in the img tag here.
Just in case that idea might help.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Second is a list of "fortune cookie" sayings which was current for the UNIX fortune circa 1988, which is when I downloaded the text file from CompuServe.
UNIX Fortune Cookie List First is a similar list of Irish and Scottish sayings/proverbs. My posting of this list prompted me to also post the "fortune cookie" list above. This list gives the original Gaelic saying followed by a translation.
Seanfhocail: Irish and Scottish Proverbs BTW, here "sean" means "old", so I assume that "fhocail" must mean something like "saying". Similar is the term "sean tigh", "old house", which sounds like "shanty" which gives us the term, "shanty town", that part of town consisting of old houses. There are several surprising borrowings from Irish to English.
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Icons maybe?...i think i see subtle humor. Two or three decades ago I downloaded some computer humor files, a few of which purported to be actual technical help sessions over the phone. In one, the customer was using Windows, so the techie instructed the customer to click on an icon. "I'm a Christian! I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ICONS!" It's been a decade or two, so I forget tech support's response to that.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
So then "seanfhocail" would mean "old words". Makes sense. Thanks.
The action of that "h" sounds like lenation, a common sound change of consonants in Scottish Gaelic. The problem I had in trying to study that language was a lack of spoken examples coupled with a complex set of pronunciation rules that seemed to frequently change out from under me, not helped by a lack of phonetic renderings (at least the very few I saw, such as "tigh" for "house", were in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Guess I'm going to have to win the lottery so I can go to that language school in Inverness (assuming it's still there). For our USA members, when I was in Scotland and Ireland (though not Northern Ireland) all the street signs were bilingual English/Gaelic.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
That was in July 2015. I noticed it in and around Inverness which is where I especially noticed it, but I didn't notice it in the previous stop, Edinburgh, nor was I looking for it near Glasgow. It could well be that the practice of bilingual road signs is regional. BTW, I did notice it in Dublin (but didn't pay attention in the Cobh region) and I noticed its lack in Belfast and the surrounding countryside.
It was out of Inverness that I got clued in that the word "inbher" ("inver" in English) refers to the mouth of a river. "Inbher Ness" is at the mouth of the River Ness, as Invergordon is at the mouth of the River Gordon. And near Glasgow our guide took us to a village on the mouth of the Ary, Inverary (and to the castle there that was used in an episode of "Downton Abbey").
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I attended California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in the early 70's, again in the mid-80's (graduate program), and am currently there in OLLI (a retiree and seniors educational program).
Back during my original stint (mid-way through which they were upgraded from a state college to a state university), I once played around with the name to come up with "Fullerton University of California State" (FUCS). Elsewhere, there was the outrageous 1980 Robert Zemeckis movie, Used Cars, which centered around the feud between two brothers owning car dealerships across the street from each other and the completely unscrupulous used car salesmen working for one of them. The family name was Fuchs, which is German for "fox". It is pronounced as "fuks" with a normal "u" (which is to say, not in the weird English way which makes phonetic spelling so confusing, but rather like the "oo" in "look" or "goose", but short). In the dialogue, they would overemphasize the English pronunciation as "Fy-oox", making it clear exactly what pronunciation they were trying to avoid even getting close to.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
quote: First, damn those asterices! That word, "carazy", should be spelled Charlie-Romeo-Alpha-Zulu-Yankee. Because Admin's completely arbitrary rules, I have to modify the following quotes accordingly. Second, the two instances I have found of it involved a woman talking to a man:
This has all the markings of a classic quote. I have no doubt that the screenwriter(s) of Beetlejuice also got it from another source. Does anybody have any idea what the original source is?
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I just heard of Mr. Deity and his YouTube videos at a skeptics breakfast last Sunday. Very clever. From Wikipedia:
quote: Search for "Mr. Deity" on YouTube. Here's an example, "Mr. Deity and the Science Advisor":
In one episode where he's complaining about science and its equations with Lucy, he presents his own "equation", which is printed on some of the items they sell:
(The image that is missing is http://dwise1.net/img/MrDeity.jpg - dwise1.net is not responding to any requests) Basically his version of "Goddidit". Edited by dwise1, : corrected misspelling Edited by Admin, : Replace non-responding image with the missing image.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Not trying to carry on a discussion on skeptics gatherings; if anyone wants such a discussion then they should start a new topic or find an old one.
We have many social meetings such as breakfasts, dinners, movie nights, hikes, kayaking, etc. I attend three such Sunday breakfasts (for two skeptics groups and one atheist) and used to attend a Friday dinner night until I became obligated to help at a weekly swing dance (not related to skeptics). Basically it's like-minded people getting together discussing many different topics, only a few of which deal with religion. For many, it's a chance to get away from religious/right-wing authoritarian family and co-workers and discuss what's on their minds with others who value reason. It just happen that this Sunday we had a new member who is ex-Mormon and it included a couple recovering Catholics, so religion was the topic this time. The importance of having such groups is illustrated by the experience of Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (read the first chapters of his book, godless for the story). He was raised fundamentalist Christian and became a fundamentalist minister. But then, being a traveling minister, he noticed problems which got him thinking (Cardinal Sin # 8) and then reading and thinking some more. It was when he formed a discussion group to try to work through some of his questions that problems multiplied which led to him leaving the faith. So he found himself in the Los Angeles area all alone with nobody else the world thinking like he now was. He had to move across the country to Michigan to find any like-minded people. Ironically, there was a group in Los Angeles (Atheists United in Santa Monica) whom he could go to, but he didn't know that they existed. This was in the early 1980's, so almost the only way you could know about such a group would be by word-of-mouth or by stumbling upon them by accident -- myself I stumbled upon their weekly 15-minute radio show (no longer exists) purely by accident; that was when I first heard of Dan Barker when they broadcast his guest speaker presentation. Whatever your special interests, there is nothing odd about wanting to associate with others with the same interests. Like I said, if someone wants to discuss this, then just start a new topic.
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It's British, BTW. Some people just can't understand British humour (let alone be able to spell it).
It is spot-on and surprisingly accurate. It also offers a solution to a complaint that I've heard: that FOX News doesn't come in print form which can be used after we run out of toilet paper. The solution is to use any number of other Rupert Murdoch publications. In other news, someone on Facebook announced that he refuses to shake hands, but not because of the coronavirus. Rather it's because everybody's out of toilet paper.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I've been hearing of increased instances of housecleaning. An old friend reports that she and her husband are cleaning out the garage for the first time in 30 years.
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A friend just posted this on Facebook:
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
ew.com (Entertainment) reports that the number given for the organization to fight rampant dumbfery, United to Defeat Untruthful Misinformation And Support Science (UDUMASS) leads to Santa’s Naughty or Nice Hotline.
Myself, I started out trying to see if that number spelled something, but those zeros killed that possibility.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Yes, it's a hoot and a half. But is has you playing with your face mask which is a safety violation.
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