L. Marcus Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word Metaphors are sneaky that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yeah, kinda like a troll making new threads linking rants about out-of-context news items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word You noticed that too, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word It's a pretty standard troll technique. It started out long ago, actually; I've seen an essay that says that Reader's Digest is the equivalent from an earlier era when public contributions to wide dissemination was impossibe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . Was Reader's Digest that bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Re: The Last Word In its own way, yes. More subtle than bloggers, but carefully edited and stories selected to further a particular social and political agenda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word In its own way' date=' yes. More subtle than bloggers, but carefully edited and stories selected to further a particular social and political agenda.[/quote'] I actually read many Reader's Digest from their earliest published dates (20s?). My grandmother had a stash of them and I read a lot while growing up. Interesting subsection of history and I agree with your assessment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Old magazines can be fascinating. Perhaps the best class paper I ever did was in a history course on WW1, where I browsed though Punch during the war period. The differences between 1914 and 1917 did more for my grasp of what was going on outside the front than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Old magazines can be fascinating. Perhaps the best class paper I ever did was in a history course on WW1' date=' where I browsed though [i']Punch[/i] during the war period. The differences between 1914 and 1917 did more for my grasp of what was going on outside the front than anything else. My grandmother was a big packrat, so I had lots of old stuff to go through. Too bad she was cheap and paranoid, so we didn't get the roof fixed. A lot of stuff that may have been sold was ruined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I know what you mean. The act of keeping does not usually include a great deal of thought about preserving the things kept. In fact, getting someone to think about that latter usually does a lot to combat the pack-rat urge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Hey -- I've got one of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Yes, but can you find it? That's the key! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Never leaves home without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Hence the 80-kg backpack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 Re: The Last Word Well, nearly. My Sobotta atlas and Gray's Anatomy is at leas thalf that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Re: The Last Word I came up with this a long long time ago. I'm reposting it here. To add it it, I'd add "peace" and "hope". Kindness, Tolerance and Respect -- remember this when you decide to flame someone. KTR should enable a more friendly board astmosphere. Try KTR today, and enjoy life on NGD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Re: The Last Word It's been a while since I intentionally flamed someone. Though I think I've had some people get offended by stuff I posted, when I wasn't intending to be that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either' or is that the ether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Depends on which sort of ether you mean. There's the general class of organic compounds (the most common of which has a low vapor pressure and can be explosively flammable); there's also the medium through which electromagnetic waves were supposed to be transmitted ("luminiferous aether"), but which was demonstrated did not exist by the experiments done most famously by Michaelson and Morley in 1887. Considering your suggested use of the term, the latter seems the better choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . Is it edible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word Of course. Nothing is edible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word On toast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word With lots of gravy. It's kinda dry otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 Re: The Last Word . . . How many kcals per 100 grams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: The Last Word Lessee, I don't keep the conversion factor for kcals in my head the way I do for solar masses or astronomical units. Ummm ... Here it is, 1 kcal = 3.97 buttocks. (Btu stands for buttock, right?) So 100 grams is uh ... Nerts. OK, look it up here, gravies are on page 70, a quarter cup is 62 g and 92 kcal ... call it 148 kcal, so that's ... ummm ... 589 Btu. Assuming that there's 1000 Btu to the metric buttload, that's almost six tenths of a metric buttload. Not as bad as I'd thought, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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