I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

764dak

Spelling thick with two c's comes from gang culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips#Practices

https://books.google.com.jm/books/about/Literacy_and_Advocacy_in_Adolescent_Fami.html?id=iad1IhNcDfoC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=crip&f=false

Since CK means Crip killer, Crips never wrote CK. Thus, "kick back" is spelled, "Kicc Cacc" and "because" is spelled, "c-cause."

GBX

There's a Starbucks in the CIA headquarters but the baristas are not allowed to ask for names.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Candie wrote: »

Someone once told me that some of the very tall basketball players you sometimes see would have had pituitary adenomas but it would have been caught in their teens and treated appropriately.

Apparently in M. Tillets time most people with the condition weren't diagnosed until they were middle aged and the damage was done.

Reminds me of that great line from ‘Annie Hall’: “What is so fascinating about a group of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball through a hoop?”.

bonzodog2

Furbies were banned from National Security Agency premises in Maryland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/254094.stm

Realt Dearg Sec

764dak wrote: »

Spelling thick with two c's comes from gang culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips#Practices

https://books.google.com.jm/books/about/Literacy_and_Advocacy_in_Adolescent_Fami.html?id=iad1IhNcDfoC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=crip&f=false

But "because" doesn't have CK in it...

BaZmO*

764dak wrote: »

Spelling thick with two c's comes from gang culture.

Chick?

Fourier

Sossianus Hierocles (late 3rd - early 4th century AD) was a Roman Governor in Syria. He was also an early "skeptic" about Christianity.

In his Lover of Truth, an essay criticising Christianity, he comes to the skeptical conclusion that Peter and Paul were not holy men but were simply liars, uneducated louts and wizards.

Realt Dearg Sec

Fourier wrote: »

wizards.

His skepticism obviously had its limits.

764dak

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

But "because" doesn't have CK in it...

Oh, I only typed out some of it. Anyway, the Bloods rival the Crips. Crips sometimes called themselves Blood Killers so they would have graffiti that say BK but a Blood member might spray a C over the B to create CK. Crips would try to change B's to C's.

The Bloods also change C's to B's so Compton would be Bompton.

Ipso

764dak wrote: »

Oh, I only typed out some of it. Anyway, the Bloods rival the Crips. Crips sometimes called themselves Blood Killers so they would have graffiti that say BK but a Blood member might spray a C over the B to create CK. Crips would try to change B's to C's.

The Bloods also change C's to B's so Compton would be Bompton.

These were teenagers?

Realt Dearg Sec

764dak wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

But "because" doesn't have CK in it...

Oh, I only typed out some of it. Anyway, the Bloods rival the Crips. Crips sometimes called themselves Blood Killers so they would have graffiti that say BK but a Blood member might spray a C over the B to create CK. Crips would try to change B's to C's.

The Bloods also change C's to B's so Compton would be Bompton.

They haven't much to be doing with their time

Fourier

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

His skepticism obviously had its limits.

It's a common enough thing among skeptical authors in the Roman period, plenty of stuff like "He's no prophet, he's just a fire mage!".

Capt'n Midnight

Fourier wrote: »

It's a common enough thing among skeptical authors in the Roman period, plenty of stuff like "He's no prophet, he's just a fire mage!".

or even
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

KevRossi

Whiskey or a phonetic derivative of it is used by most people on this planet to describe that famous drink. As most of us know it derives from the Gaelic/Irish 'Uisce Beatha' or 'Water of Life'. Many other words like 'Cocoa' and 'Tomato' have become international words stemming from one small region. This map gives a good guide to where some of them came from and how they evolved.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-words-along-trade-routes/

Fourier

Just out of interest, does anybody know why it is Fuisce or Fuiscí in Irish then. Did we borrow it back from English? Or was it only Uisce Beatha in Scots Gaelic?

Wibbs

Why do they say it comes from Scots Gaelic? It's an (old)Irish word(s) and the first record of its use here is in Old Irish not the Scots dialect of same. Sniffs of haughtiness towards the Paddies to me.

Wibbs

Fourier wrote: »

Just out of interest, does anybody know why it is Fuisce or Fuiscn Irish then. Did we borrow it back from English?

Sounds like that's what happened alright. Maybe the Old/Middle Irish translation from Latin was lost in the shift to early Modern Irish?

368100

Conchir wrote: »

The greenhouses or polytunnels of Almeria, Spain, produce huge amounts of fruit and vegetables each year, the majority exported around the EU. The white plastic structures have spread rapidly in the province, to the point that they now form a kind of 'plastic sea'. I was in the area last week and photos don't really do it justice. They stretch for miles into the distance, and driving amongst them you start to feel quite boxed in, it's a maze of plastic, really tight roads.

There is so much white plastic that it has altered the area's albedo, the amount of sunlight reflected back off the Earth's surface. The albedo has been raised enough to cool this part of Almeria slightly compared to the surrounding areas.


1974-2004

Have always wondered about that...thanks!

mzungu

The largest moth in the world, the Hercules Moth, has a wingspan up to 36cm (14in) and spends up to two years in its cocoon, but only lives two to eight days as it has no mouth and ultimately dies of starvation. This species is endemic to New Guinea and northern Australia.

368100

mzungu wrote: »

The largest moth in the world, the Hercules Moth, has a wingspan up to 36cm (14in) and spends up to two years in its cocoon, but only lives two to eight days as it has no mouth and ultimately dies of starvation. This species is endemic to New Guinea and northern Australia.

Does it need to reproduce in those 8 days?

mzungu

368100 wrote: »

Does it need to reproduce in those 8 days?

They sure do. Mating and egg-laying takes place during that time.

Another mad fact is that they can also spend up to two years in the cocoon.

Capt'n Midnight

mzungu wrote: »

Another mad facts is that they can also spend up to two years in the cocoon.

That's nothing cicadas can spend 7 or 13 or 17 years before emerging.

All prime numbers, so unlikely to meet a predator species dependent on them.




Brood VIII should be emerging in Eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia this year.

The Onondaga brood of Ontario, Yates, and Seneca Counties New York won't appear until 2035.

ohnonotgmail

In 1875 a fire in a bonded warehouse on chamber st in the liberties area of Dublin resulted in 1800 barrels of piping hot whiskey flowing through the streets. 13 people died. All of them from alcohol intoxication.

sbsquarepants

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

That's nothing cicadas can spend 7 or 13 or 17 years before emerging.

All prime numbers, so unlikely to meet a predator species dependent on them.

I don't understand - what has prime numbers got to do with predators?

Surely if that was 6, 12 & 18 years you'd be just as unlikely to find a predator dependent on them?

even 6 years is a long time to go between meals!

Fourier

From what I read, if you emerge every six years you're at risk from predators that emerge every 1, 2, 3 and 6 years, i.e. any cycle of years that divides 6.

Where as if you emerge using a cycle based on a prime number of years and the prime is big, you're really only susceptible to predators present every year.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

368100 wrote: »

Does it need to reproduce in those 8 days?

Mayflies need to reproduce within 24 hours. The nymphs can live underwater for 2 years but the adults have a single day to emerge, mate and die.

Ipso

Nevaeh Shaggy Destroyer wrote: »

Mayflies need to reproduce within 24 hours. The nymphs can live underwater for 2 years but the adults have a single day to emerge, mate and die.

But they die helping trout fishermen, doesn’t get more noble than that.


This hatch of may flies showed up on radar.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/24/mayfly_hatching_in_wisconsin_shows_up_on_weather_radar.html

Capt'n Midnight

With the local and EU elections coming up spare a thought for the 270 people who died trying to count the votes in Indonesia.

4068ac1elhodqr

Article in the paper today said that if the brave folks hadn't went into post-Chernobyl,
(to prevent reactors falling into pools of water within an estimated 10day window).

- then Europe, Ukraine and parts of Russ would all be uninhabitable wasteland for 500,000yrs (or so).

Aul Nostradamus mightn't have been far off in some of his more flamboyant predictions.

cdeb

We knew that from the last thread.