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twoday posted:fun fact: a white whale swam up the Hudson River in 1647, all the way to Albany. Whales often managed to penetrate deep into the interior of New York because of the brackish water of the Hudson River. Usually they would get stuck in the shallow water, die, and get eaten by Mohawks. Love this kind of thing. Thanks for the link mate ---------------- |
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Apr 18, 2017 02:48
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I know what you're thinking--even the slow reading club could make it through this pithy gem in two, three weeks, tops--but I assure you, this will provide several months of lively discussion. thank you for your contribution.
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Twenty Four posted:Escalators don't break down, they just become stairs. Sorry for the convenience. I hate this joke! Sometimes escalators break in a way that means they can't arrest the movement of their belts. If sufficient mass of people view the escalator as safe despite the out of service sign they might cause the entire flight to roll uncontrollably and dump everyone dangerously on top of each other with speed. Mitch Hedberg's lack of understanding of escalators has literally killed people. |
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Apr 18, 2017 07:29
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Squeeze of the Hand 4lyfe. Manhuggin in whale jizz YEAH BABY
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Apr 18, 2017 07:45
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oh there's also that chapter where a guy wears a whale foreskin as a hat, that one might be better
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Apr 18, 2017 07:47
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or an apron? gently caress I can't remember what a cassock is
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Apr 18, 2017 11:56
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Apr 18, 2017 14:02
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Apr 18, 2017 14:19
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:Seriously, though, can somebody catch me up? I hate coming to these things late. Honestly, you might be too far behind at this point to reasonably catch up. If you can carve out a good 8 hr block of time every evening this week, should be able to catch up independently though. |
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Apr 18, 2017 15:49
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cda posted:Usher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSyx85Kp8 mods please autoplay Usher. It's a guy that sounds good. It's a word that sounds good. And it has a real interesting history. Online Etymology Dictionary posted:usher (n.) The metaphorical association between the mouth and a doorway goes way back, so much so that it's part of a dead metaphor ("cave mouth"). If you take it all the way back to proto-Indo-European, an usher is someone who is in charge of a mouth, a doorway, an entrance. I have a hard time believing that Melville was unaware of this association since it's so apt for a person supplying the meaning and history of words: the mouth is the doorway in the dark through which words enter the world from the underworld of the primal human consciousness where Moby Dick ch. 41 posted:far beneath the fantastic towers of man’s upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that proud, sad king! A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come. ---------------- |
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Apr 19, 2017 02:04
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Seriously if you guys don't read faster you're never gonna get to the men rolling around in whale sperm/foreskins
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Apr 19, 2017 02:08
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Petr posted:Seriously if you guys don't read faster you're never gonna get to the men rolling around in whale sperm/foreskins my favorite part is when they are up to the elbows in a giant barrel of sperm and absentmindedly caress each other's hands.
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Apr 19, 2017 02:30
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:my favorite part is when they are up to the elbows in a giant barrel of sperm and absentmindedly caress each other's hands. Petr posted:Squeeze of the Hand 4lyfe. Manhuggin in whale jizz YEAH BABY ---------------- |
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Apr 19, 2017 02:41
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cda posted:It's good for men to love each other. So I can love you right
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Apr 19, 2017 14:09
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Apr 19, 2017 14:17
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Petr posted:how high do you have to be to forget to masturbate the question is how high do you have to be to forget that you masturbated
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Apr 20, 2017 05:25
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cda posted:to To is a cool preposition because it has both a literal directional meaning (in the direction of) and a conceptual meaning (for the purpose of, in the service of). The conceptual meaning is the one that Melville is employing here. Online Etymology Dictionary posted:Old English to "in the direction of, for the purpose of, furthermore," from West Germanic *to (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian to, Dutch toe, Old High German zuo, German zu "to"), from PIE pronominal base *do- "to, toward, upward" (source also of Latin donec "as long as," Old Church Slavonic do "as far as, to," Greek suffix -de "to, toward," Old Irish do, Lithuanian da-), from demonstrative *de-. Using it as a prefix is a fun thing to do and it's a shame we don't do it anymore, but it does explain what today and tonight and tomorrow actually mean, which is "in the direction of day/night/morrow." I'm assuming the Chaucer one is toyear, as in, next year. Toward is another example, literally "in the direction of the direction." ---------------- |
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cda posted:In case you are interested, we will reach Ishmael's famous declaration in a little less than 10 years, so if you're just in it for the popular stuff, see you then! it took me about 4 years to read that drat book it was good though ---------------- |
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They should have called him Fishmael, because of what the book is about [1]. This would have been extremely Dickensian [2]. [1] a fish [2] Dickens was a loving hack, remember in school when they made you read all this stupid poo poo about how all his characters names are so meaningful, because they all describe the character, and then J.K. Rowling did the same thing and everyone thought it was so clever, well it's not, it's loving not. |
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cda posted:To is a cool preposition because it has both a literal directional meaning (in the direction of) and a conceptual meaning (for the purpose of, in the service of). The conceptual meaning is the one that Melville is employing here. This analysis of "to" is completely deficient. You don't even mention its use as a verb particle, or how sometimes infinitives use it and sometimes they don't. I'm going to need you to start the book over at the beginning and try again. ---------------- |
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Apr 21, 2017 02:10
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FactsAreUseless posted:They should have called him Fishmael, because of what the book is about [1]. This would have been extremely Dickensian [2]. Oh so dumbledlre was supposed to be dumb, it wasn't just me? |
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cda posted:Using it as a prefix is a fun thing to do and it's a shame we don't do it anymore, but it does explain what today and tonight and tomorrow actually mean, which is "in the direction of day/night/morrow." I'm assuming the Chaucer one is toyear, as in, next year. Toward is another example, literally "in the direction of the direction." I always thought this was neat and i love thinking about prefixes whose original meaning isn't quite obvious even if we have quite a few common words containing them, you can look for a pattern in the meaning and try to deduce it |
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