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posted by [personal profile] damerell at 05:24pm on 11/10/2007
[livejournal.com profile] ceb and I were in Trafalgar Square last night. She has never been before. Was it wrong to turn to her as we passed Nelson's Column and say "Again, but with tongues, Hardy"?

PS: book must be printed on acid-free paper, otherwise will disintegrate before reader finished.
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posted by [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com at 05:57pm on 11/10/2007
This is why I love you.

Book must be exported to the US by sea not air, lest it cause the plane to plummet from the sky.
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posted by [identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com at 10:04pm on 11/10/2007
Book must be printed on microfilm, as a paper volume would form a black hole.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 11/10/2007
Pope must exit Vatican to reach ending.
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posted by [personal profile] cjwatson at 11:32am on 12/10/2007
You have extreme difficulty lifting the brick. Continue? [ynq] (q)
a - a brick. You can barely move a handspan with this load!
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posted by [identity profile] geekette8.livejournal.com at 07:12pm on 11/10/2007
ROFL!

Don't get the book comment, though. Context?

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posted by [identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com at 09:23am on 12/10/2007
He said "kismet" (fate) not "kiss me"!
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posted by [identity profile] stephdairy.livejournal.com at 11:09am on 12/10/2007
Not a theory supported by any contemporary evidence, and the OED doesn't know of any uses in English of kismet to mean fate/destiny until 1849. Nelson died in 1805.

See also http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/visit_see_nelsonfaq.htm#Twelve

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posted by [identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com at 11:48am on 12/10/2007
Words come into English from the Navy, not the other way 'round!
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posted by [identity profile] spaglet.livejournal.com at 05:17am on 13/10/2007
s/into/in

And no, [livejournal.com profile] damerell, you weren't wrong at all.

(Of course.)

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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 12:47pm on 12/10/2007
And in a totally manly way, to boot!
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posted by [identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com at 12:52pm on 12/10/2007
Definitely! I mean, they were both in the Navy!
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posted by [identity profile] naath.livejournal.com at 10:35am on 12/10/2007
Very. But we all know that you are a very wrong person anyway.
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posted by [identity profile] sabers4.livejournal.com at 05:23am on 14/10/2007
I second this motion :D
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posted by [identity profile] stephdairy.livejournal.com at 11:10am on 12/10/2007
A generation of children is growing up never having fed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

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posted by [identity profile] senji.livejournal.com at 02:16pm on 12/10/2007
I have never fed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
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