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Pancake

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  1. Brilliant. Did you forget you spent hours denying your surname on b-anter? Huge "d'oh" there...
  2. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York.
  3. Genius....
  4. Thats not a song!
  5. Pancake

    1970's

    You could go as Cheech Marin or Ron Jeremy if you get the 'tashe right...
  6. Pancake

    1970's

  7. Pancake

    1970's

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  9. I would have expected better from a librarian to be honest. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_another_think_coming
  10. "...just desserts..." makes me laugh too.
  11. See the three images above.
  12. Nope nope a nonny nonny nope.
  13. Pancake

    Telescope

    Maybe its so he can report on the "secret payload" or some "trouble with the Hubble" no?
  14. Ouch....
  15. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related
  16. Heuristic ALgorithmic
  17. I, go back 1 letter B, go back 1 letter M, go back 1 letter HAL. Its DSM's way to raging against the machine.
  18. ibm - 111
  19. Dear Word Detective: I'm in the midst of an argument with a friend over the expression "spittin' image," meaning look-alike. He insists that the expression is "splitting image." Which of us is correct? What is the origin of this expression? -- Linda, via the internet. You are correct, although your friend's attempt to make "spittin' image" make more sense as "splitting image" (as if one person had split into two) merits an honorable mention. Your friend's version, incidentally, is a good example of a process known as "folk etymology," whereby an unfamiliar or seemingly nonsensical phrase, often very old, is altered slightly to make it more understandable in modern terms. But the phrase is definitely "spitting image" or "spittin' image," meaning "exact likeness" and it's based on an earlier form, "spit and image," which first appeared around 1859 Just where the phrase came from and exactly what it means, however, is hotly debated in etymological circles. Most authorities accept the "spit" element of the phrase at face value, and maintain that it is a remarkably inelegant metaphor for similarity: "just as if one person were spit out of another's mouth." A similar saying in French, "C'est son pere tout crache" ("He is his father's spit and image"), lends support to this theory, as do earlier English sayings with the same meaning, such as "the very spit of," which appeared around 1825. The late poet and etymologist John Ciardi, however, maintained that "black magic" lay at the root of the phrase. Armed with a sample of someone's saliva ("spit") and a doll made to resemble the person ("image"), goes the theory, a sorcerer could cast all sorts of evil spells on the hapless victim. Yet another theory regards "spit" as a shortened form of "spirit," but there is no real evidence for this, and it sounds to me like another "folk etymology" effort to make a very weird phrase slightly less weird.
  20. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
  21. Pancake

    1,000 mph car

    A taxi. BOOM BOOM!
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