I'd always write up a quick little program to get it to continually display changing numbers. It was kind of a test to see whether the salesman knew anything about what they were selling.
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I'd always write up a quick little program to get it to continually display changing numbers. It was kind of a test to see whether the salesman knew anything about what they were selling.
I spent today getting thrashed by a river. I'm pretty well thrashed, by now. Fun day.
Love me some rockafeller skank...
Now THERE's a statement you don't hear very often.
Fall has arrived. The air is cleaner and cooler than it has been for the last few months.
I never understood why Autumn was such a problem word that someone said to themselves what we really need here is a word more literal, something that tells us what is happening around us so we know exactly what time of year it is !Quote:
Fall has arrived.
Also clearly your weather isn't as busted as ours is, in the UK we had 3 months of almost uninterrupted sun, then in August it has rained almost constantly, and now it looks like September will be sunny again.Quote:
The air is cleaner and cooler than it has been for the last few months.
This is NOT how British summers are supposed to be and we are confused!
We had a few months of almost uninterrupted smoke. How busted is that? Heck, it wasn't even our smoke. We were importing from California, Oregon or Washington. We had plenty of home-grown smoke, but apparently that wasn't good enough for us.
immigrant smoke coming over here invading our nostrils
If they want to make an ash of themselves, that's their business, but they should keep their smoke to themselves.
You should build a wall. that'll solve the problem.
We call it fall ‘cause the leaves fall.
Those in glass houses should not cast stones - seems your side of the pond made this word up!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers
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The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th-century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".[15]
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.
And doesn't fall seems a much better "opposite" to spring?
Autumn? Struggling here...
Wouldn't vernal be the opposite of autumnal. So, shouldn't spring be vern?
Google spell check doesn't recognize Vern!! I guess that movie just sucked too much.
This is EXACTLY how British summers are supposed to be. I.e. utterly inconsistent and conforming to no identifiable ruleset whatsoever.Quote:
This is NOT how British summers are supposed to be
August was actually pretty decent down here. We had about a week of rain including a massive storm over the bank holiday when I got baffled into going camping:mad: but other than that it's not been bad. Eee, it's grim oop North.
We didn't see a drop of rain, but the temperatures rarely topped 100, and the smoke was only a haze, so it was a pretty good August for out here.
We thought that Gordon was going to hit us, but it looks like it moved towards Mississippi. It really sucked because I was vacationing in Orange Beach, so when I left we had Labor Day traffic combined with evacuation traffic. A 6 hour drive took us 12!
Gordon's ALIVE!!!!
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"Flash, oo ah, he will save every one of us!"
"No! Not the bore worms!!!"
I.... don't know who that is.