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Offline Brinestone

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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2011, 06:59:25 PM »
I don't get it.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2011, 08:01:49 PM »
People with OCD keep checking things over and over.  Like did they leave the oven on, only they already checked it, but they don't feel like they checked it enough. 
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2011, 09:32:02 PM »
*groan*
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2011, 12:34:20 PM »
Taste, these are fantastic. I don't know when I've been so entertained by a thread.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2011, 12:59:35 PM »
Thanks.  I had fun making them.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2011, 01:59:29 PM »
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #31 on: December 16, 2011, 12:50:47 AM »
Bloodshed is where Mormon vampires keep their food storage.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #32 on: December 16, 2011, 08:15:48 AM »
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2012, 10:10:39 PM »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on April 06, 2011, 12:59:35 PM
Thanks.  I had fun making them.
I still think you should take Annie,up on her offer. It would be a great book.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2012, 05:45:45 PM »
I just read this thread.  It's AMAZING.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2014, 01:09:23 PM »
You have to be crazy to live in Michigan.  That's where all the Michiganers live.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2014, 01:14:33 PM »
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #37 on: June 28, 2016, 06:21:34 AM »
Tick, the parasitic bloodsucking creature, is derived from the Old English ticia from the West Germanic *tik.  And poly, of course, if from the Greek for many or much.

Thus politics and, of course, politicians, "many parasitic bloodsucking creatures"
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2016, 06:26:39 AM »
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2016, 07:58:44 AM »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on June 28, 2016, 06:21:34 AM
Tick, the parasitic bloodsucking creature, is derived from the Old English ticia from the West Germanic *tik.  And poly, of course, if from the Greek for many or much.

Thus politics and, of course, politicians, "many parasitic bloodsucking creatures"

It all makes so much sense!
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #40 on: June 28, 2016, 08:04:04 AM »
I know, right?
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #41 on: July 20, 2016, 09:53:42 AM »
When something is confined in a pen, it is "penned" or, alternatively, "pent".  Something "pent up" is confined or restricted.

Penthouses, those abodes of the fabulously well-to-do, are thus named because they are they trappings of wealth.
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #42 on: July 20, 2016, 04:52:38 PM »
 ;D

Tante,  sometimes your humorous explanations on various things remind me much of the character Cliff Clavin from Cheers
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Re: The spurious etymology of the day
« Reply #43 on: July 20, 2016, 04:56:10 PM »
LOL, totally!
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