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Michael Bigwig
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08-17-2007 05:34
I just wanted to say, you guys have brightened my Friday with high spirit and laughter. Some of these posts are hilarious. I feel even more ginked than I was yesterday. Thank you.
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Colette Meiji
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Join date: 25 Mar 2005
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08-17-2007 07:40
OMG Brenda!! I'm sure you just offended many good people (american indians and asian indians) with that insensitive remark. I grew up in Wyoming and even way back in the 1960's most people would have seen your comment as incredibly insensitive. I wish that most angelos that I have met were as good, honest and decent as the Indians I have known, from both continents. Yeah Arch you misunderstood. Heck Brenda has a Girlfriend of Indian(cherokee) Heritage.  My ancestors even took the US government to court, and WON! and were still forced off their land. |
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Sy Beck
Owner of Group ???
Join date: 9 Feb 2007
Posts: 202
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08-17-2007 08:15
This thread has cheered me up no end today.
For Alyx, I submit this link for a recently published book, which you may find amusing. The author was on BBC Radio 5's Simon Mayo show (podcast available I believe) talking about it. http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2786243.ece For my part, I submit; "Up Ginko Creek without a Linden!" This invokes not only a known bad place (the scam), but also the suspected outcome. It also has the lovely double meaning of LL not being prepared to help or be there. This I think meets the OP's criteria. Enjoy the weekend! |
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Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
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08-17-2007 08:27
OMG Brenda!! I'm sure you just offended many good people (american indians and asian indians) with that insensitive remark. I grew up in Wyoming and even way back in the 1960's most people would have seen your comment as incredibly insensitive. I wish that most angelos that I have met were as good, honest and decent as the Indians I have known, from both continents. Brenda's remark was taken in the context of referring to peopel who have been scammed out of their property. I think her remark showed a great deal of sympathy for the indigenous people of North America. _____________________
hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
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08-17-2007 08:28
I just wanted to say, you guys have brightened my Friday with high spirit and laughter. Some of these posts are hilarious. I feel even more ginked than I was yesterday. Thank you. Oh My God!! I forgot it was Friday!! Let's get this party started!! _____________________
hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Rusty Satyr
Meadow Mythfit
Join date: 19 Feb 2004
Posts: 610
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08-17-2007 10:32
Turning nouns into verbs is what we British do best. Would that activity be called "Gerunding" ? |
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Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
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08-17-2007 10:41
Would that activity be called "Gerunding" ? I think we've already established that it's called "verbing"  _____________________
hateful much? dude, that was low. die. . |
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Annabelle Babii
Unholier than thou
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
Posts: 1,797
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08-17-2007 16:25
I bought what looked on the outside of the box to be rather attractive lingerie.
When I copied to inventory and wore it.... It turned out to be ruth-in-a-box and a section of wall attached to my right hand. I would say I got Ginkoed on that one. |
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Annabelle Babii
Unholier than thou
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
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08-17-2007 16:27
Yeah Arch you misunderstood. Heck Brenda has a Girlfriend of Indian(cherokee) Heritage. My ancestors even took the US government to court, and WON! and were still forced off their land. People came to this continent, and we gave them turkey dinner. They gave us smallpox. |
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Maggie McArdle
FIOS hates puppies
Join date: 8 May 2006
Posts: 2,855
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08-17-2007 16:29
/me grabs hold of the handrail to spare being taken as the fun has just been sucked out of this thread.......... gives Brenda teh laughing gas, and a copy of Mad Mag circa 1975..... _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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FD Spark
Prim & Texture Doodler
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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08-17-2007 16:44
Thank You. I'm glad someone got it. Yes in my opinion, the American Indian has suffered the ultimate Ginko'ing. Took me bit to get it truthfully myself. But kept thinking Native Indians, Aborginal peoples, slaves and their descendants of slaves really got ginko'ed in rl. |
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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08-17-2007 16:54
Took me bit to get it truthfully myself. But kept thinking Native Indians, Aborginal peoples, slaves and their descendants of slaves really got ginko'ed in rl. As long as you got it. Class dismissed. _____________________
Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen.
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Alyx Sands
Mental Mentor Linguist
Join date: 17 Feb 2007
Posts: 2,432
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08-17-2007 18:10
This thread has cheered me up no end today. For Alyx, I submit this link for a recently published book, which you may find amusing. The author was on BBC Radio 5's Simon Mayo show (podcast available I believe) talking about it. http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2786243.ece For my part, I submit; "Up Ginko Creek without a Linden!" This invokes not only a known bad place (the scam), but also the suspected outcome. It also has the lovely double meaning of LL not being prepared to help or be there. This I think meets the OP's criteria. Enjoy the weekend! Thank you, didn't know that one! In case anyone is seriously interested in what "verbing" really is: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/verbing.html Don't try wikipedia, they pretend zero-derivation is the same as conversion (which it isn't, says my school of linguistics...  ) Although the entry on the null morpheme is interesting, if you're into dead languages....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_morpheme @Desmond: Oh, I've gone slumming as an urchin in several steampunk sims in my first weeks in SL....I've seen all those tortured...er...prims'n stuff....poor pixel-shoving blind mice...no, that was somewhere else.... @Brenda: I got the sarcasm, do I get a biplane now? No, that was somewhere else, too...I have a student whose father is Hopi and whose mother is german, does that count? _____________________
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