Things you never knew had names….
May 30, 2009
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Things you never knew had names….
AGLET – The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
ARMSAYE – The armhole in clothing.
CHANKING – Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
COLUMELLA NASI – The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
DRAGÉES – Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
FEAT – A dangling curl of hair.
FERRULE – The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
HARP – The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER – A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX, and QUIMP – Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
KEEPER – The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
KICK or PUNT – The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
LIRIPIPE – The long tail on a graduates academic hood.
MINIMUS – The little finger or toe.
NEF – An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
OBDORMITION – The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is asleep.
OCTOTHORPE – The symbol # on a telephone handset. Bell Labs engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
OPHRYON – The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
PEEN – The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
PHOSPHENES – The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
PURLICUE – The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
RASCETA – Creases on the inside of the wrist.
ROWEL – The revolving star on the back of a cowboys spurs.
SADDLE – The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
SCROOP – The rustle of silk.
SNORKEL BOX – A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
SPRAINTS – Otter dung.
TANG – The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
WAMBLE – Stomach rumbling.
ZARF – A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
Thilo Ullmann; Spain’s Cela; World & I (Washington, DC); Jan 2002
May 21, 2009
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“In 1993 Camilo Jose Cela published his Memorias, a painstakingly detailed narrative of his life, at odds in many points with a previously written biography by his son, Camilo Cela Conde, as well as with the recollections of his many friends and coetaneous narrators.” – Thilo Ullmann; Spain’s Cela; World & I (Washington, DC); Jan 2002.
Elisabetta Povoledo; Casting Blame for Looting In Trial of Getty Ex-Curator; The New York Times; Jan 18, 2007
May 21, 2009
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“Francesco Isolabella, one of her lawyers, said, ‘Marion True is being used as an excuse to criminalize all American museums.’ Ms. True should not be used ‘as a passe-partout to get at the Getty.’” – Elisabetta Povoledo; Casting Blame for Looting In Trial of Getty Ex-Curator; The New York Times; Jan 18, 2007.
Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
May 18, 2009
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There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means – either will do – the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are very wise you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. – Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit to Mexico
May 18, 2009
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“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.” – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit to Mexico.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
May 18, 2009
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Helen Keller
May 18, 2009
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” — Helen Keller
FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)
May 17, 2009
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FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):
1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s
your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
7. If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
8. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
9. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
10. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
11. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
12. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
13. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
14. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
15. A calendar’s days are numbered.
16. A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.
17. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
18. He had a photographic memory, which was never developed.
19. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
20. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
21. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
22. When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
23. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
24. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
25. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
26. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.
27. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
28. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet. Note:
No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
May 14, 2009
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“Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.” – Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Eleanor Roosevelt
May 9, 2009
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me….
You brought another friend….
And then there were 3….
We started our group….
Our circle of friends….
And like that circle….
There is no beginning or end….
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
