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Ceremony to Cure Illiteracy: The "can't write right rite"

Ceremony to Cure Aviation Pioneers' Illiteracy: the "why can't the Wrights write right rite?"

Percolate: "not making the coffee on time"

Party-giver Reminders: "Host-It Notes"

Sediment: "Speaking as a breath freshener...

detriment: "Anything that makes your breath worse...

Enjoy!

THanks,
Tim
 
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[blue]deja-new[/blue]: the strange feeling that you've never seen something before?

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roe vs wade

How should I ford that stream?
 
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[blue]petrified[/blue]: deeply afraid of domestic animals

[blue]oscillation[/blue]: swaying back and forth, with no else around

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okay, just to beat a dead horse to death until it dies and quits livin'...:

[blue]deja-moo[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've heard this cow before

[blue]deja-blue[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've seen this color before (even in de skies)

[blue]deja-boo[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've encountered this ghost before

[blue]deja-loo[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've pee'd here before

[blue]deja-crew[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've rowed with these folks before

[blue]deja-pew[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've prayed here before

[blue]deja-rue[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've regretted the same thing before

[blue]deja-too[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've had this feeling before...

[blue]deja-zoo[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've seen these critters before

[blue]deja-woo[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've been with this one before...

[blue]deja-who[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've not recognized this person before

[blue]deja-ooh[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've been awed by this before

[blue]deja-flu[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you've been this sick before

[blue]deja-you[/blue]: the strange feeling that somewhere, somehow, you, yourself, have personally felt this way before

Okay, okay, I'll quit if everyone sends me a dollar (hmmm, deja-moolah...)

Tim
 
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Hmm. Seems I can't start a thread in this forum, but can reply. Well Erik has asked me to make an announcement here. So will someone please create a thread along this line.

SUBJECT: Erik to be wed!

Wedded bliss begins today. He shall return the 14th.
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[aside]
Apparently, his wife has confiscated his laptop ... maybe just his lap![lickface]
Wish him a well or equally deep advice!
-Karl

[red] Cursors, triggers, user-defined functions and dynamic SQL are an axis of evil![/red]
[green]Life's uncertain...eat dessert first...www.deerfieldbakery.com[/green]
 
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Big E!

Congrats, big guy!

I hope I'm the first Tar Heel to wish you the following: I wish for you and Mrs. E. the best of everything, always.

Tim
 
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>Hmm. Seems I can't start a thread in this forum, but can reply. Well Erik has asked me to make an announcement here. So will someone please create a thread along this line.

I have.

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Mazel Tov!


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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Not that I know of (and neither am I), but that shouldn't make the sentiment any less heartfelt.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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Tracy,

The heartfelt was unmistakeable. Cool post.

On a somewhat different note, I still very distinctly recall getting to college (a relatively exclusive private Baptist school) as an 18 year-old idiot and finding out for the first time that, supposedly, you could identify a Jewish person "visually." I'm from North Carolina, and I make no claim to being sophisticated or worldly. My home state has a vibraint and welcome Jewish community, but our local Jewish community is still very small compared to places like NYC. When I got to college, all I knew about Jewish people was that their name might include "berg" or "stein." That's all I knew - that's all I had been exposed to. I was shocked to hear that they (supposedly)had a visual identity.

Part of my confusion is this - I still have a really hard time reconciling "religion" and "race." Growing up, I thought being Jewish meant that was the religious tradition in which a Jewish person was raised. For me, faith is very, very simple (see John 3:16) (please, no offense to anyone). It remains for me problematic that man has added so much "fluff" to religion.

I am a Christian, raised and still Presbyterian (Anglo name, but deep Scotish roots), because of the family into which I was born. I'm okay with that. I'm also okay with whatever religious tradition y'all were born into. Think about it - how many among us made a conscious choice about our faith? Didn't our parents have the biggest say in that?

This odd topic reminds me of another occurance. In third grade, around 1973-74, I saw in a school textbook a picture of "black" and "white" water fountains at a segregated movie theater. The picture was from 1968. Even as a third-grader I was absolutely shocked - after all, the year before, my best friend had been a black kid named Clemen. We made each other laugh - what else was there?

Tim
 
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>Not that I know of (and neither am I), but that shouldn't make the sentiment any less heartfelt.

Well said. I frequently greet and make wellwishes on my friends using religious (any religion) or secular expressions that come to mind. They know I mean well.

My closest religious friends know that I'll use a religious greeting that will remarkably not match their religion -- just to get their attention.[witch]

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Technically "Mazel Tov" has little to do with Judaism per se, it's Yiddish, which is as much a cultural identity as a religious one.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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tracy,
interesting that you mentioned so,
I knew my whole life that Yiddish and Hebrew were different languages, then someone posted those were the same and I went searching and everywhere I've looked it was Hebrew(Yiddish) - so I got lost.
But that't ok, let's continue with E2s wedding:-D

P.S. Thinkinf of wishing my family "Good Night" in Spanish tonight;-D
 
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They're only remotely the same, if at all. Hebrew is a Middle Eastern language. Yiddish is a polyglot language with a lot of German and Polish in it. If you know German you can figure out some Yiddish. For example the "schl" used in a lot of Yiddish expressions (schlmiel, schlemazel) comes from the German "schlecht" (bad).


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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Mazel Tov is Hebrew, but could be used by someone speaking Yiddish. If you know Yiddish, you can figure out most German, and quite a bit of Dutch too.

I know how to say congratulations in Greek, but I have no idea how to spell it. sincharreteria is about as close a romanization as I can think of. I could look it up...

Ti kanis is good luck in Greek, again poorly Romanized. I played in a middle eastern band when I was a teenager, and played a few Greek weddings :-)

I have a list of "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year in almost every current language (Romanized). Probably too big to post here.



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[blue]dooplication:[/blue] S.S., D.D.

Code: 
[white]Same Sh*t, Different Day[/white]

Tim

 
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I have a list of "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year in almost every current language
Click to expand...

When I was in high school I collected "I love you" in as many languages as I could. I still remember most of them, and pick up a new one now and then.


Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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I can only say "I love you" in the languages of the countries I visited, when I was single :-), but now have learned it in Mandarin, since I got married.



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