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It was my sister's birthday do the other night. We had a day of adventurous activities (photos of me skiing on a dry slope and crawling through trees and under tunnels to come soon) and we went to a greek meal where we ate loads and danced greek dances.

Anyway, one of my uncles proposed toasts, choosing to start them with the phrase. "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Adam."

You'll never guess my given name....

Hehe, they laughed at the joke and I just nodded and said, 'too right'.

Wow, that's awesome :).

sweet! how did he know? :laugh:

he didn't, not conciously

:D thats so cool!

I walk up to my crew often and go "Good morning gentleman, and Leo."  He likes to be exempted from that.

So, I just gots to know, how exactly do you crawl under a tunnel, don't most people (and I know you're not most people) crawl through tunnels?

Queen's English, kiss my American butt.

Nice.

Quote from: tekla on February 02, 2009, 07:08:45 PM
I walk up to my crew often and go "Good morning gentleman, and Leo."  He likes to be exempted from that.

So, I just gots to know, how exactly do you crawl under a tunnel, don't most people (and I know you're not most people) crawl through tunnels?

Queen's English, kiss my American butt.

there's a special hell reserved for paedophiles and pedants, be careful....

That's good, I always wanted my own private hell, I hate to share.

Ooh, that's so nice!
I always feel all happy when my friends do that, "guys, gals and Zaddy". It just feels right.

Maybe it's that we're pedantphiles ?

 That is classic, congratulations on being recognised for who you are!

That's really excellent Pica.

P.S I want my own special hell too  :(

Quote from: Nicky on February 03, 2009, 01:28:47 PM
P.S I want my own special hell too  :(

Sounds like a job for ESMAG!

how do you know it wasn't your auntle?

Quote from: Jaimey on February 03, 2009, 02:28:09 PM

Quote from: Nicky on February 03, 2009, 01:28:47 PM
P.S I want my own special hell too  :(

Sounds like a job for ESMAG!

Official sponsor of special hells since 2009.

Quote from: Rebis on February 03, 2009, 05:32:08 PM

how do you know it wasn't your auntle?

i was sitting next to her.

That's an L in "auntle" not an i. 

Quote from: Rebis on February 05, 2009, 11:03:00 AM

That's an L in "auntle" not an i.

auntle?

Yep.  Pica's uncle is really an AUNTLE.  Maybe.  That's why they know about pica.

ah, so auntle is an uncle or aunt androgyne. cute!

nah. he's a man, and sets great importance to it.

In our household, we came up with the terms unt and ancle  ;D

Z

Quote from: Zythyra on February 05, 2009, 12:28:33 PM
In our household, we came up with the terms unt and ancle  ;D

Z

unt is dangerously close to another word...



BUNT.  Get out of the gutter, you filthy-minded people!

uhm... what's a bunt ?

How about Runt ?

A bunt is a term used in baseball when the batter doesn't swing in order to hit the ball as far as possible.  Instead, the batter will position the bat in front of the ball and allow the ball to hit the bat.  The ball might bounce back toward the pitcher.  This is a tactic which counts as a hit and allows the batter to run for first while the pitcher and the catcher both run to the ball.

The word bunt is also used to describe a kind of cake as in bunt cake, whatever that is.

Those are the american meanings.  Apparently there's a community in India that speaks Tulu and is known as 'Bunt'.

The english band Disco Bitch used an instrument called a 'bunt'

bunt is a kind of fungus.

None of these definitions have any validity except for the american one.

Blunt is also a marijuana joint that is rolled in like Swisher Sweats (Cigar) wrappers.  Just in case you don't get out much.

Quote from: Rebis on February 06, 2009, 09:47:49 PM

The word bunt is also used to describe a kind of cake as in bunt cake, whatever that is.

Typo alert!

According to the Washington Post:

Bundt Pan Creator H. David Dalquist, 86

Associated Press
Thursday, January 6, 2005; Page B08


H. David Dalquist, 86, creator of the famous Bundt cake pan, died Jan. 2 at his home in Edina, Minn. He had a heart ailment.

Mr. Dalquist founded St. Louis Park, Minn.-based NordicWare, which has sold more than 50 million Bundt pans, the top-selling cake pan in the world.

"I think he was overwhelmed by the success and popularity of the pan," Mr. Dalquist's son, David, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "He never dreamed it would be as accepted by American consumers as it was."

Mr. Dalquist designed the pan in 1950 at the request of members of the Minneapolis chapter of the Hadassah Society. They had old ceramic cake pans of somewhat similar designs but wanted an aluminum pan.

Mr. Dalquist created a new shape and added regular folds for easy cake-cutting.

The women from the society called the pans "bund pans" because "bund" is German for a gathering of people. Mr. Dalquist added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the name.

For years, the company sold few such pans. Then in 1966, a Texas woman won second place in the Pillsbury Bake-Off for her Tunnel of Fudge Cake made in a Bundt pan. Suddenly, bakers across the United States wanted their own Tunnel of Fudge cakes, and Bundt pans were perfect for tunnel cakes.

The Bundt pan is now the single-biggest product line for NordicWare, which sells a large variety of pots and pans and kitchen equipment. More than 1 million Bundt pans are sold each year.

Mr. Dalquist founded NordicWare after returning from duty with the Navy during World War II. He was a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Minnesota.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Margerite Staugaard Dalquist; four children; and 12 grandchildren.

© 2005 The Washington Post Company

So Bundt is American, too. And Hadassah is the Womens' Zionist Organisation of America, a high-minded group, hardly in the gutter. So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

S

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

oh yeah, must be.

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
The women from the society called the pans "bund pans" because "bund" is German for a gathering of people. Mr. Dalquist added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the name.

Thanks for the history!

Z

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 07, 2009, 02:50:02 PM

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 07, 2009, 01:30:12 PM
So Jaimey must have been thinking of mud baseball.

oh yeah, must be.

Actually, I'd forgotten there was a 'd' in bundt...but I did think of bunt in baseball too!  :D  But I mean really, between baseball and cake, which did you think I thought of first?  ;D  Actually, a lovely piece of bundt cake sounds delicious...don't have any, though...

http://lunchpail.com/fourandtwenty/wp-content/lemon_bundt_cake.jpg

For Jaimey:

It might interest you to know that there's a second part to the curious cat saying.
The whole thing is, "Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back!" I think that's pretty sweet. :laugh:

Quote from: benji42 on February 19, 2009, 12:04:07 PM
The whole thing is, "Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back!"

Wow...satisfaction can raise the dead!

So does this mean that if I eat some or all of a Bundt cake, and it is really really good, that I can bring back 8-track tapes?

Cute :) They should have named you Evam or Adeve though :P

Quote from: Laurry on February 19, 2009, 12:59:03 PM
Wow...satisfaction can raise the dead!

So does this mean that if I eat some or all of a Bundt cake, and it is really really good, that I can bring back 8-track tapes?

...what's an 8-track?  >:-)

j/k.  mostly. :P

Speaking of old recording media, I had a bit of an argument with my band mates the other day. They are into vinyl records and I could not get it through their thick heads that they should get over them already! Vinyl is dead (except in leisure wear ;)), time to move on.

Actually I kind of hate what digital stuff does to the sound of crash cymbals (being a drummer in all, professional interest) - always sounds to my ear like there is some broken tinkly glass on the end of the crash as if the electronic compression has pulled holes out of the sound. I find it particulalry bad in MP3s

Quote from: Jaimey on February 19, 2009, 02:07:13 PM
...what's an 8-track?  >:-)

j/k.  mostly. :P

I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

Tom Cruise? C'mon Grandamme Where are you? "Marty we're going to take you, back to the eighties."

Quote from: Rebis on February 19, 2009, 03:35:01 PM
I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

I hear you! Let's bring back the 1840s. I want to head west, cut down a tract of the endless forest, burn the brush in an enormous bonfire lighting up the night sky, and settle in a cabin built with my own hands. If you do likewise, please keep your cabin a goodly piece from mine. Who wants to see the smoke of their neighbor's fire?

curmudgeonly,
S

Can you make a wooden internet? :icon_eek: :icon_builder:

pigeons...

i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
pigeons...

i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.

i think you did.

Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 04:26:27 PM
Can you make a wooden internet? :icon_eek: :icon_builder:

People actually poured out thoughts and feelings in snail mail (really slow snail mail to your locale) and books printed with movable type on paper made from wood or recycled rags. They could write even during ice storms.

S

i think letter writin is a sad thing to wither.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:52:45 PM
i think letter writin is a sad thing to wither.

I agree. Email just isn't the same.

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 19, 2009, 04:47:27 PM
People actually poured out thoughts and feelings in snail mail (really slow snail mail to your locale) and books printed with movable type on paper made from wood or recycled rags. They could write even during ice storms.
S

So thats like you type stuff and it prints out at the other end?  ???

Quote from: Rebis on February 19, 2009, 03:35:01 PM
I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

And while you're at it, get off Rebis' lawn!  :laugh: :laugh:

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Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 05:08:38 PM
So thats like you type stuff and it prints out at the other end?  ???

or you can even write with a pen on paper... no typewriter required  ;)

Z

peeen...p..paaappeerr?  ???

I rather enjoy writing letters, but I'm always afraid that my friends won't know what to make of them.  I did write one not long ago, though.  My friend was quite happy to receive an actual letter.  :D

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.

Oh let me be a Romantic in the 19th Century!  ...Actually, if I were a romantic, I'd probably be close to death (or already dead) since I'm in my late 20s, so nevermind (we've been studying Keats... :'().  Maybe I'll just don some of the fantastic clothing and pretend... :D

Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 05:45:15 PM
peeen...p..paaappeerr?  ???

Yes, all of us dinosaur androgynes used these back in the day  :laugh: We'd be happy to send you pen and paper and teach you how to use them ;D

Not only that, but we didn't use emoticons or LOL and other shorthand either  :D :D :D

Z

Quote from: Zythyra on February 19, 2009, 08:51:40 PM
Yes, all of us dinosaur androgynes used these back in the day  :laugh: We'd be happy to teach you how ;D Not only that, but we didn't use emoticons or LOL and other shorthand either  :D :D :D

Z

...but...without emoticons...how do you show how you're feeling?  ???

Quote from: Jeatyn on February 19, 2009, 08:53:43 PM
...but...without emoticons...how do you show how you're feeling?  ???

tee hee, it ain't easy   ;)

Z

My penpersonship was never that good anyways  :(

I have a friend in australia that I occasionaly write. Her letters are so much cooler than mine, she always does some art work on the letter.

But i've got this cool wax seal with a N on it. Now that's class!

Good letters don't depend on the medium, they depend on the writer and how much time they care to spend on it.

Correspondence is such a 19th century notion (really, the people from about 1840s - 1920s wrote the most amazing letters back and forth), post WWII the widespread electronic media really put a dent in people writing letter, so the 60s and 70s were very low periods.  I think in a lot of ways the net and email has brought a lot of that back, and people have long conversations in a correspondence sense once again.

Yeah.  Those civil war era people wrote incredibly effective letters.  A lot of the WWII guys still had it too.

Greg Giraldo does a bit on letter writing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzOl_a0jHc#hq (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzOl_a0jHc#hq)

It starts around 5:50.  :)