BaZmO* wrote: » This post is the 10,000th post
mzungu wrote: » More high-ranking Nazi officers died in the Czechoslovakian car Tatra 77a and 87 than in active combat, prompting Hitler to ban his officers from driving them. It was nicknamed the "Czech secret weapon" by the Allied forces. These high-ranking Nazi officers drove this car fast but the handling was woeful, so at a sharp turn they would lose control, spin out and wrap themselves round a tree killing the driver more often than not. Tatra87
LostinBlanch wrote: » The Russian Crown Jewels were hidden in a chimney in a house in Marino for 16 years. In 1917 Harry Boland was part of a delegation sent by Dev to raise money in the US. While they were there they met a Russian delegation who were also trying to raise money. The Irish delegation lent the Russians $20,000 and got the crown jewels as collateral. Oh, that house in Marino was previously Bram Stokers house.
humberklog wrote: » The word Moot used as an adjective to describe a point as too uncertain to have a practical relevance for debating. The word Moot used as a verb is to propose or suggest an idea for debate.
facehugger99 wrote: » For similar reasons, 'Dyslexia' was made difficult to spell.
dyslexia (n.) "a difficulty in reading due to a condition of the brain," 1885, from German dyslexie (1883), from Greek dys- "bad, abnormal, difficult" (see dys-) + lexis "word" (taken as "reading"), from legein "speak" (from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')") + abstract noun ending -ia. Dyslexic (n.) is recorded by 1946; dyslectic (adj.) by 1962. Professor Berlin has written a very interesting monograph upon the disease called dyslexia, which he believes allied to the alexia, or word-blindness of Kussmaul. He gives a clinical history of six cases, collected during a period of twenty-three years, all having this peculiarity, that they could read aloud the average type, Jaeger three to five, only a few words in succession. These words were correctly spoken and without confusion or stammering, but as soon as a few words had been read the patients seemed anxious to get rid of the book, and, on being questioned, stated that they had an unpleasant feeling which they could not well define. ["The Satellite of the Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences," Philadelphia, November 1887]
New Home wrote: » Hmmm. Not quite. From Etymonline.com: [/INDENT]
Chancer3001 wrote: » Why not pagers???
Wibbs wrote: » Bandwidth I'd imagine. A text is a tiny lump of information, a phonecall ramps that up by quite a margin, so is less likely to connect. A text also doesn't have to connect instantly. So all in all a text/pager message is more likely to get through. Like in the early days of radio, morse code was used for the same reason.
Chancer3001 wrote: » Usually if you can't receive a ohonecall it's cos you have no service and won't receive a text either
Kat1170 wrote: » They still use pagers in Tallaght Hospital.
BaZmO* wrote: I wouldn’t be surprised if they still used carrier pigeons!
Kat1170 wrote: » Catering is outsourced.
Conchir wrote: » A group of giraffes is called a tower.
BaZmO* wrote: » What's the collective noun for a group of collective nouns?
New Home wrote: » Now, on that note, is "shoal" of fish the same as "school" of fish? I've heard/read both being used but I'm not sure if each term refers to specific species or what.
Nevaeh Shaggy Destroyer wrote: » Geese!! "Flock of Geese" "Gaggle of Geese" "Nide of Geese" "Plump of Geese" "Skein of Geese" "Team of Geese" "Wedge of Geese" "Trip of Geese" Varies with on the ground, flying, flying in formation, on water,...
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