Another half-app in the menu. BTW Paul, Sherlock would have had it 'theorise' ...
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Well, actually, the correct quote is "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." (A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle) I've made the correction to my signature.Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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Pointless aside...
Originally posted by Fester Bestertester View Post... Sherlock would have had it 'theorise' ...Regards, John Little
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All through my chem, math and physics classes in grad school it was theorize."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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I'm still working from my Collins (London and Glasgow) 1957 dictionary - I've had it from Intermediate School, 1961. Nary a "ize" to be found.
I realise Americans are thus acclimatised, but I will always decry the butchery of the English tongue "as she is wrote".
I word-play a lot: take a look at "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut".Last edited by Fester Bestertester; Aug 22, 2016, 01:42 AM.
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Originally posted by Fester Bestertester View PostI'm still working from my Collins (London and Glasgow) 1957 dictionary - I've had it from Intermediate School, 1961. Nary a "ize" to be found.
I realise Americans are thus acclimatised, but I will always decry the butchery of the English tongue "as she is wrote".
I word-play a lot: take a look at "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut".
We had a guy from Canada attending college I was enrolled at. He lived in the apts close to where me and my wife lived and one day we met walking to class. He asked what I was going to do that day and I told him that I was taking a test. He asked "Where are you taking it?" and started chuckling. He said that in Canada students write tests, they do not "take" them. Interesting discussion about cultural differences we had after that.Last edited by GreyGeek; Aug 22, 2016, 04:03 PM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Neat one, GreyGeek! We Kiwis 'take tests' too. Probably 'taking what one is given'?
Here's one I doubt is published anywhere, given to me by my stepfather 11.01.1900 - 1985:
"Her have gone
Her have went
Her have left I all alone.
Must me always go to she?
Will her never come to I?
It can never was!"
Express that in 'pantomime' / music-hall melodramatic form.
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Originally posted by Fester Bestertester View PostThere's much much more where that came from! I'm not involved in any groups here - if you're with any others who might like a bit of entertainment, I can continue. Interested? or perhaps you might guide me to a forum of other like minds?
In the mid to late 1980s I was using a DOS based dev tool called Advanced Revelation (AREV for short) and on the developer's forum we started a serial murder mystery that revolved around AREV playing a key roll. The first poster was a fellow who made a living writing ads for corporations before he got tired of lying and began programming for a living. He ended the first episode with a cliff hanger so someone else could chime in, develop the story line and end with another cliff hanger. Many developers contributed and the story line wondered all over the map but was a laugh riot! I never saw anything like that again. With some of the creative writers we have on this forum I often thought about a Kubuntu murder mystery series!"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostI'm alway up for a laugh! We have a subforum for that: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forumd...al-Casual-Talk
In the mid to late 1980s I was using a DOS based dev tool called Advanced Revelation (AREV for short) and on the developer's forum we started a serial murder mystery that revolved around AREV playing a key roll. The first poster was a fellow who made a living writing ads for corporations before he got tired of lying and began programming for a living. He ended the first episode with a cliff hanger so someone else could chime in, develop the story line and end with another cliff hanger. Many developers contributed and the story line wondered all over the map but was a laugh riot! I never saw anything like that again. With some of the creative writers we have on this forum I often thought about a Kubuntu murder mystery series!
I don't really have the creativity for that sort of venture, but do have a rich recall from my parents' histories.
As aforesaid, my stepfather was born 11 days into the 20th century, He had a rich life and passed some of his stories on to me.
My Mum had a palindromic birthdate: 22-1-22, and growing up in a country home (not really enough of a community to call a village) in the Depression, she had a rich recollection/collection of stories from there/then with 'swaggies', itinerants, mobile craftspeople and merchants, and music-hall and WW(1&2) song from veterans and early radio.
My Dad was in the North African desert in WWII, on the railway Cairo-Tripoli, and had his stories too (like dodging 'I-tie' strafing and bombing). He co-authored with his 'mate' Ernie George a history of that.
There's a lot of history in my head (alongside the music/song/poetry) - it really needs to be dragged out in interview with a historian, not necessarily as a publication in itself, but perhaps as a 'tie-in' with others' existing works.Last edited by Fester Bestertester; Aug 23, 2016, 02:31 PM.
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Originally posted by Fester Bestertester View PostI'm a Radio 'Ham', ZL2DEX, and a prominent fellow-Ham - Ward Silver, N0AX - has done similar with Ham Radio: "Ray Tracy: Zone of Iniquity".
I don't really have the creativity for that sort of venture, ....
BTW, your use of the word "iniquity" reminded me of a joke, which sort of played on an old toothpaste commercial: "Do you know that people who attend Christian colleges have 25% fewer iniquities?"Last edited by GreyGeek; Aug 24, 2016, 01:05 PM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by Fester Bestertester View PostMrs. Malaprop really opened a can of worms, didn't she? Armature radio - must have been spark-gap! Iniquities - they weren't Macavities, then?
My brain thinks one thing and my fingers type another. sigh...."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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