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Questions and Answers - Part 3

  
  

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14:27 / 31.08.07
LTIY - have you tried marrying heaven and hell? The combo, I tell you, the combo of Nutella and peanut-butter is Yum de la Yum.
 
 
grant
14:38 / 31.08.07
Live Things, you will be visited tonight by the GHOST OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER and he will HAVE A WORD WITH YOU!!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:49 / 31.08.07
Pah! I do not fear the ghost of George Washington Carver. Unless he has peanut butter breath, then I might hide under the duvet.
 
 
grant
14:51 / 31.08.07
HE IS MADE OF PEANUT BUTTER!

And thin sheets of rubber made from peanuts.
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:57 / 31.08.07
Aha! I was afraid of this. Thank you, Matt and MC.

There was a recent thread about the comparison of Nutella vs. PB on another forum, and it was interesting to see how Europeans coaxed cautious US posters into giving Nutella a try ("But how could it be better than PB&Jelly?"), with good results to follow.
 
 
Spaniel
23:18 / 01.09.07
Okay, bored as fuck with searching.

I want a very nice thank-you-very-nice thank-you-very-much tie to go with my very expensive suit, but fuck knows where such things can be found on the web.

Helpasnob.

xxboboxx

(drunk)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:27 / 01.09.07
Nice how? Lemon-yellow silk in a Windsor knot nice, black bow-tie nice...?
 
 
Spaniel
23:37 / 01.09.07
Slim, expensive, and silk should do for now.
 
 
Spaniel
23:38 / 01.09.07
Dark purple
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
00:13 / 02.09.07
Why do you have to get it on the web? What's up with a shop? Do you despair of the "tailor's pause"?
 
 
grant
00:33 / 02.09.07
I've found some of the world's greatest ties in Palm Beach thrift stores.

Vintage, you know.
 
 
Spaniel
10:24 / 05.09.07
Wasstha' thread that had that enormous vehicle/machine in it?

Bloomin' 'uge thing
 
 
Saveloy
10:42 / 05.09.07
Boboss, was it one of these things?

If so, I remember the thread you're on about but I'm buggered if I can remember what it was called. Gah!
 
 
Spaniel
11:02 / 05.09.07
Yeah, I actually found one on the web a few minutes ago, but thankee anyway
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:58 / 05.09.07
Help me, hive mind!

I need to come up with popular Christmas songs with lyrics that reference clothing or getting all done-up beautifully somehow.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:04 / 05.09.07
Deck the Halls?
 
 
grant
16:20 / 05.09.07
Blue Christmas? (OK, it's a stretch.)
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
16:23 / 05.09.07
Thanks, grant! But Allecto is my hero of the day.
 
 
This Sunday
19:29 / 05.09.07
Can anyone translate 'waeven' from Dutch into English for me? As used by Jacob Cats, once upon a time? Babelfish and various Dutch:English guides are unhelpful so far.
 
 
jamesPD
10:38 / 06.09.07
What's the weather like in New York and San Francisco in late October/early November time? I need a holiday, but is it worth waiting until the spring for the weather to perk up?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:13 / 06.09.07
At a guess, Decadent, it'll be something to do with making, weaving, putting things together, etc. I looked up wave and weave in my etymological dictionary and they look as though they might share a root with your word.
 
 
grant
12:24 / 06.09.07
San Francisco: temperate days, damp, cold nights. I don't think it'd be frosty, would it? Maybe by November it would, yeah. But definitely sweaters.

On the other hand, them hills raise a sweat pretty easily.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:23 / 06.09.07
Decadent Nightfalling: you're looking at the sinne & minnebeelden, the weathercock one, right? 'Naer haer waeven, moet ick draeven'. It's actually 'draeyen' and 'waeyen', i.e. draaien & waaien, and the sense is something like 'I must turn according to her blowing [i.e. the wind's blowing]'.

There's an online version here
 
 
This Sunday
14:10 / 06.09.07
Thanks.

I was looking it up off memory, but 'waeven' turns up very little in many search engines. Those alternate spellings/forms net much better. And good to see the wave/weave transliterary effect works on other people, since I wanted to use it mostly for sound-associations, and partly for the original author.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:30 / 06.09.07
Fair enough, but waves and weaving don't have anything to do with the actual sense...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:39 / 06.09.07
Presumably it shares a root with "wehen" - and, yes, it doesn't presumably sound like "wave", but more like "wear" or "wire", right, K-CC?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:54 / 06.09.07
Yes, something like 'wah-yen' (in some areas more like 'vah-yen'). At least in modern Dutch; I'm not too hot on C17 pronunciation, but I think it was less different than the spelling suggests.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
20:43 / 06.09.07
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas?

Santa Claus is Coming to Town?

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:45 / 06.09.07
I Saw My Baby Wearing Santa's Beard?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:24 / 07.09.07
Does anybody have a link to that study showing the demographic breakdown on suicide bombers in the Middle East? I need it fairly quickly for an argument on another board.
 
 
Blake Head
16:56 / 07.09.07
Walking past a cigar shop today prompted the thought: why is there an association between Native Americans and cigars, that is, in the form of stereotypically posed Big Red Indian Chiefs holding a clutch of them as an advertisement? I seem to recall some cartoon or other from years back which also had such a character where the cigars would usually end up blowing up once he got his hands on them. Anyone know where is the link from originally? Is it a trade thing?
 
 
This Sunday
17:34 / 07.09.07
Cause tobacco comes from the Americas, perhaps? Which, reasonably, would mean there should be grocery shop wooden-indian bearing a sack of potatoes, too, but well...

What was the smoking plant of choice for Europe before tobacco?
 
 
Mistoffelees
17:56 / 07.09.07
What was the smoking plant of choice for Europe before tobacco?

Oh, come on! You can´t be serious?!
 
 
Ticker
18:02 / 07.09.07
Question for ya, can anyone recommend a charity to help out with the devastation in Greece from the wildfires? I'm always kinda nervous about giving to the big global peeps if there is a better local charity that can put the money into action faster.

thanks!
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
18:09 / 07.09.07
What was the smoking plant of choice for Europe before tobacco?

catnip.
 
  

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