Kumquat

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Lee_D

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #1

Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?

Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)

Lee D

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #2

On 2006-08-01, Lee_D <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?

Quite everyday words I know, but "sponge", "cake", and "nappy" are
some of the dafter ones that spring to my fevered mind.

Not three words to mix without care either.

"moist"

"pedophile", to us in the UK, someone who likes walking, to the
Americans, a kiddie fiddler. Perhaps we should tell them the
Rambler's Association is packed with them ;-)

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Steve

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #3

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
> Lee D

Quincunx

Clearly this is on-topic for this thread ;-)

Steve

 

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beamendsltd

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #4

In message <[email protected]>
"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> > started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> > next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
> >
> > Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
> >
> > Lee D
>
> Quincunx
>
> Clearly this is on-topic for this thread ;-)
>
> Steve
>
>

The word "clearly" itself - I've only ever heard it used correctly
by a Maths lecturer at University.

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rads

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #5

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:08:47 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
>started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
>next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
>Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
>Lee D
>
Sputnik

David

 

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EMB

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #6

rads wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:08:47 +0100, "Lee_D"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
>> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
>> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>>
>> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>>
>> Lee D
>>
> Sputnik

aardvark



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Karen Gallagher

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #7

Lee_D wrote:
> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
> Lee D
>
>
Thought you were going to give us all a recipe for Kumquat marmalade - just
ripped a Kumquat tree out of my orchard

Karen

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Neil Brownlee

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #8

Hmmm...

Shrdlu ?

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Viviane

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #9

What about nuclear. Why does Bush pronounce it nucular?

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
> Lee D
>

 

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rads

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #10

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:16:39 +0100, "Neil Brownlee"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hmmm...
>
>Shrdlu ?

I just had to look it up. Apparently an advanced programming language
that one day might allow a computer to put a series of blocks in a
box...

>Here is an extract from a famous demonstration of SHRDLU:
>
>Person: PICK UP A BIG RED BLOCK.
>Computer: OK.
>Person: GRASP THE PYRAMID.
>Computer: I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHICH PYRAMID YOU MEAN.
>Person (changing their mind): FIND A BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE YOU ARE HOLDING AND PUT IT INTO THE BOX.
>Computer: BY "IT", I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE I AM HOLDING.
>Computer: OK.
>Person: WHAT DOES THE BOX CONTAIN?
>Computer: THE BLUE PYRAMID AND THE BLUE BLOCK.
>Person: WHAT IS THE PYRAMID SUPPORTED BY?
>Computer: THE BOX.
>Person: HOW MANY BLOCKS ARE NOT IN THE BOX?
>Computer: FOUR OF THEM.
>Person: IS AT LEAST ONE OF THEM NARROWER THAN THE ONE WHICH I TOLD YOU TO PICK UP?
>Computer: YES, THE RED CUBE.

Presumably there are now programmers all over AFL swooning with
excitement.

The lord preserve us from computer geeks. I'm off to play proper
engineering with gears, sprockets and bearings.

;-)

David

 

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Neil Brownlee

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #11

Tsk....nope.

I was meaning the Michael Bentine creation ;-)

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P.S. Damn - but you are also right - and double damn - I am also a
programmer.....

 

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beamendsltd

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #12

In message <[email protected]>
rads <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:16:39 +0100, "Neil Brownlee"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hmmm...
> >
> >Shrdlu ?
>
> I just had to look it up. Apparently an advanced programming language
> that one day might allow a computer to put a series of blocks in a
> box...
>
> >Here is an extract from a famous demonstration of SHRDLU:
> >
> >Person: PICK UP A BIG RED BLOCK.
> >Computer: OK.
> >Person: GRASP THE PYRAMID.
> >Computer: I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHICH PYRAMID YOU MEAN.
> >Person (changing their mind): FIND A BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE YOU ARE HOLDING AND PUT IT INTO THE BOX.
> >Computer: BY "IT", I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE I AM HOLDING.
> >Computer: OK.
> >Person: WHAT DOES THE BOX CONTAIN?
> >Computer: THE BLUE PYRAMID AND THE BLUE BLOCK.
> >Person: WHAT IS THE PYRAMID SUPPORTED BY?
> >Computer: THE BOX.
> >Person: HOW MANY BLOCKS ARE NOT IN THE BOX?
> >Computer: FOUR OF THEM.
> >Person: IS AT LEAST ONE OF THEM NARROWER THAN THE ONE WHICH I TOLD YOU TO PICK UP?
> >Computer: YES, THE RED CUBE.
>
> Presumably there are now programmers all over AFL swooning with
> excitement.
>
> The lord preserve us from computer geeks. I'm off to play proper
> engineering with gears, sprockets and bearings.
>
> ;-)
>
> David
>

So someone's re-inveted LISP, Prolog, SmallTalk etc and are talking
blocks instead if fish, chips & and peas, or Likes(Mary, John).....

Wheel being re-inveted, *again*!

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Andy.Smalley

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #13

Lee_D wrote:
> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant...
> then started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think
> one of my next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
> Lee D

my favourite is " treacle "

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Yia Sou

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #14

Curmudgeonly



is a word that always makes me feel iritable



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Derek

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #15

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just thinking to myself I need to get a new tube of flange sealant... then
> started to ponder on bizzar words the likes of flange, I think one of my
> next favorite words is Kumquat. Any advance on Kumquat?
>
> Clearly recent posts have been far too on topic ;-)
>
> Lee D
I particularily enjoy to ethnically correct words
Eejit
craic
both defy accurate definition in english but everybody knows more or less
the meaning.
I'll should also add panache - a french form of Hot Pot
Derek
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Lee_D

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #16

Karen Gallagher <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
about:

> Thought you were going to give us all a recipe for Kumquat marmalade
> - just ripped a Kumquat tree out of my orchard
>
> Karen

So you would have probably had enough to make a nice moist Kumquat treacle
sponge unless you curmudgeonly decline.



Lee D

 

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Richard Brookman

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #17

Steve wrote:

|| Quincunx

One of mine too. Along with

Threnody
Rhodomontade
Sesquipedalian

Dunno wot any of 'em mean, but vey sahnd brilliant.

Oh, and Episiotomy. And I know what that means.

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Richard Brookman

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #18

Viviane wrote:

|| What about nuclear. Why does Bush pronounce it nucular?

Cos he's an ignorant ****.

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Simon Isaacs

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #19

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:38:58 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> scribbled the following
nonsense:

>Viviane wrote:
>
>|| What about nuclear. Why does Bush pronounce it nucular?
>
>Cos he's an ignorant ****.

Rich, that's about as subtle as one of Nige's replies!!!

Have to agree with the first word, not sure about the second, they're
useful........
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Richard Brookman

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• Aug 2, 2006

• #20

Simon Isaacs wrote:

|| On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:38:58 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
|| <[email protected]> scribbled the following
|| nonsense:
||
||| Viviane wrote:
|||
||||| What about nuclear. Why does Bush pronounce it nucular?
|||
||| Cos he's an ignorant ****.
||
|| Rich, that's about as subtle as one of Nige's replies!!!
||
|| Have to agree with the first word, not sure about the second, they're
|| useful........

Nige would have said he was a "f*cking ignorant ****". As you know, I am a
restrained and civilised young man. Fnarr.

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