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Posted: 07 October 2009 08:34 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Discuss cork here.

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1) A small stopper for a bottle or cask

2) The float used by anglers.

3) A cant term for an overseer, a steward.

4) A name given by operative weavers to the agents of manufacturers.

5) The outer layer of bark of the Cork Oak (Quercus Suber). It is a very elastic tissue consisting of thin walled nearly cubical cells. It does not peel off, but often contains long clefts. It forms a protection to the subjacent cells from injurious influences.

6) The suberous layer of the bark of other trees when greatly developed.

[Spanish corcho; Dutch kurk; Danish and Swedish kork = cork, from Latin cortex = bark]

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Discuss corkt here.

Corkt so early. Vilkki?

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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eesh!

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Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. “John Alexander Thom”

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.  “George Eliot”

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:35 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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ay ay ay…bad day for me and spelling…eubical should have been cubical. So sorry.

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Afterism (n) - A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. “John Alexander Thom”

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.  “George Eliot”

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Move you fingers over about a half inch and you’ll be on the home keys.

(It’s nice to know that someone else has typing issues.)

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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To answer your question about linoleum and (hopefully I’ve spelled everything correctly this time):

Linoleum

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1) A preparation of linseed oil, rendered solid by admixture with chloride of sulphur. It is rolled into sheets, and used as a substitute for india-rubber or gutta-percha. Vulcanized, it is carved into moldings and polished; and, mixed with brown cork and pressed upon canvas, it forms a kind of floor cloth. Dissolved, it is used as a varnish for water proof fabrics, or as a paint for iron or wood, ships’ bottoms and etc.

2) The floor cloth so prepared.

[Latin linum = flax, and oleum = oil.]

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Posted: 08 October 2009 08:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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eubical - a euphemism for a cellular structure of any size and shape other than fulsome. 

For fulsome cells, see “gogularity”.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 09:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Not to be confused with eubiquitous, which refers to all cellular structures throughout the world, including those in Deubai.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 09:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Would the shape of the parts be the shape of the whole, or is that asking teu much ?

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Posted: 08 October 2009 09:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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You’ll have to ask Annabeul, but I doeubt that she will reply.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 09:38 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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p.s. Look under your avatar. The GOGs are apparently re-ranking us today.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 10:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Re-ranking ranks.
And that is not the only problem the site is having today.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 10:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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However, we were discussing some new terms, beyond SR. MEMBER, remember???

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Posted: 08 October 2009 11:15 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Hadn’t noticed - what was our rank previously, and where’s my bus-pass?

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Posted: 08 October 2009 11:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Actually it was saparris and I who were discussing it.  bus pass?  You turned it in at the Principal’s office instead of your hall pass.

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Posted: 08 October 2009 11:22 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Doug is always talking about passing things. He’s a gas!

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