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Pillow Fight Club.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1321272,00.html

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

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Mind you, it's nice to have standards, but those standards are only of
use for one generation at a time, in order for change and evolution to
take place. Poisonally, I see no point in speaking Chaucerian English,
but hey, if everybody was doing it, that's what I'd be doing too.

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Dave

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave Swindell

Curiously, there's a synonymous usage of 'Jeep' for any 4WD vehicle here
in Ireland. I found it odd at first, since I always referred to
individual vehicles by their makers' names and also 'Jeep' itself as a
manufacturer's name was originally a bastardisation of 'GP' for General
Purpose' vehicle.

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Dave

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Nah, you could thumb wrestle about it.

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Dave

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Nearly, but not quite. Jeep was derived from the proununciation of GP,
but GP didn't mean General Purpose - it was an internal model
designation used by Ford. The G means Government, the P relates to the
wheelbase (80").

 

Why are all your insults predicated on the level of someone's
intelligence? People are "thick" or "cretins" or some other poor
relation in your responses. Your worst venom is reserved for people who
you consider to be spectacularly inferior in the brains department to, I
assume, you.

Why is this form of comparator so important to you? What happened to
you to make your value system so centred around this measure?

 

says...

......or the first choice of the sensible.

 

No, I'll apologise instead.
On a second reading, Mr. Swindell's post makes sense.

No more logic before the first coffee and fag of the day in future.

 

Really? I love it.

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid says...

I've been like that since I dropped the roller shutter door on my head
earlier this year. I really can't drink much at all any more.

 

des wrote

So remind me again why it is you hang round ukrm, other than to quote
out of context, of course?

 

Ah Des replied to one of my posts.


Finally passing comment when he won't get a direct response. The last refuge
of the wanker.

Bye for now Des.

 

Simian wrote

Neither of which should be new concepts to anybody.

 

why?

 

I was thinking of possibly 'you-simich'

 

And I bet you've forgotten to follow up the hospital appointment.

 

What's all this, games in Gematria?

 

I'm glad that you accept that pronounceability is a necessary part of
the definition, but who said it was sufficient? Not I, nor anybody else
in this discussion.

Or are you saying that HSBC, BBC, KLM etc are *words*, and that
something "formed from the initial letters or syllables of other words"
is not an abbreviation.

BBC, AIDS, PC, LASER, MRBA, RoSPA, NSPCC all share a common
characteristic in that they are abbreviations (shortenings) of phrases
formed by taking the initial letters/syllables of (the) constituent
words of the phrases (if you don't like calling them abbreviations let's
use the other recently coined, and rather yucky, term "initialism").
They are all collections of symbols or syllables, but not all of them
are "words", they are expressed in the language concerned in obviously
different ways, and somebody in the past few decades decided that this
difference was enough to encapsulate it in a word, and "acronym" was
born.

To use "acronym" to describe a set of symbols that is *not*
used/expressed/pronounced as a word flies in the face of the intentions
of the coiner(s) of the word. Pronounceability is, as you yourself
accept, most certainly a necessary aspect of the definition, the only
bit I add myself is that it should be commonly accepted in the language
population, so although USA and HIV follow the definition of acronym on
the face of it, they are customarily expressed simply by spelling out
the individual letters, something that nobody does with a "word" in the
normal state of affairs. I am happy to be called wrong in this respect,
but somebody must then invent a word that expresses a group of vocable
units (a word) that the language community concerned habitually doesn't
voc

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My preference is for "squirrel".

 

Oi! That was my idea, you dirty plagiarist!