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Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
I see no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Built by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
3. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus - Erected by Queen Artemisia in memory of her husband, King Mausolus of Caria in Asia Minor, who died in 353 BC
4. Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria - Built by Sostratus of Cnidus during the 3rd century BC, then destroyed by an earthquake in the 13th century
5. Pyramids of Egypt (at Giza) - Completed around 2680 BC, the largest - built by Khufu - was originally 482 ft high with 2,300,000 blocks
6. Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia - 40 ft. high made of gold and ivory, it disappeared without a trace except for reproductions on coins
7. Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus - Had Ionic columns 60 ft high from 350 BC - 262 AD
Source: InfoPlease
In looking through an extremely long entry on the roots mentioned above in Walther von Wartburg’s French etymological dictionary, I stumbled upon the form sikanadenn, a Breton word for “a kind of whip or rod” (Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, France). It was borrowed from French. “Whip” comes from “a crack (of a whip).” Even if French chicaner does not refer to smallness, we are confronted by several homonymous sound imitative roots.Source: Anatoly Liberman
The Breton word resembles shenanigan, which surfaced in American English in the middle of the 19th century. The resemblance is not striking but sufficient to whet a stranded etymologist’s curiosity. (When in trouble, even the Devil eats flies, as they say in German.)
A hundred years ago, dictionaries cited only the singular (shenanigan, not shenanigans). I wonder whether it is possible that some word like Breton sikanadenn, Celtic or not, an alteration of chicane, turned into shenanigan. Chicanery was first defined as “nonsense; humbug,” rather than “the use of trickery.” Today shenanigans means “dishonest maneuvering; mischief.” The two words are near synonyms.
Meanwhile, in Australia, Aheda Zanetti, a Lebanese Muslim woman who was frustrated by the immodesty of secular bathing garb, camp up with the "burqini" and the "hijood" - an ensemble of leggings, a draped overdress, and an attached elastic head covering.Answer: Here are a few!
The address was in Palos Verdes, for a house that looked like the bastard child of a mansion and a small hotel.Answer: U.S. realtors define a mansion as a dwelling of over 7,000 square feet (650 m2). In general, however, there is no formal definition beyond being a large and well-appointed house.
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There’s other kittens there that are in need of homes - Laurel Pet Hospital 7970 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CASource: AnimalFriends.co.uk
Answer: $10,000! That's not very much! She put her forehead real estate up for auction on eBay in 2005 to raise money for her son's education. I hope he is not planning to go to school for more than a few months!
(That's a foot.)
St. Francis of Assisi, Louis XIV, Sam Adams, Julia Child, Perry Como, Gary Cooper, Erich Fromm, Marvin Gaye, Estelle Getty, Andy Gibb, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frida Kahlo, C.S. Lewis, Ezra Pound, John Ritter, Auguste Rodin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dinah Shore, Gene Siskel, James Whistler, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Going to a buffet. Going to a buffet alone makes about 14 different simultaneous sad statements. It's right up there, simultaneous sad statement-wise, with pre-purchasing your tombstone, wearing Affliction and sunglasses to a club, or buying Rite Aid-brand vodka.Answer: Hahah omg, worse than Ed Hardy:
I'm in love with two men. I'm not married to the better of the two.Someone responded:
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Feel lucky that you are simply in loveSource: TRANSLATOR, BINARY
Source: Wikipedia
Breathtaking!
Source: Rice.eduI have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.
Sylvester Stallone, deli counter attendant. After getting no career traction as an actor in his 20s, Stallone attacked his 30s like any 5'3 man should: He wrote a movie where he was an all-American hero with unbelievable success in sports.
Now I will imagine the situation where bejabbers entered American speech. It was, no doubt, in an Evangelical household. A teen-ager was talking about being frightened of something and confessed something that scared the bejesus out of him. His mother said, "I have warned you for years not to take the Lord's name in vain. I will not have you say that! Come up with something else!" So the kid shared the problem with a sympathetic adult, possibly a pastor, who suggested he say bejabbers instead of bejesus when he faced things that scared the former bejesus out of him. So, the boy complied. And, every time he said bejabbers, he REALLY meant bejesus, but since he said the magic word bejabbers his mother didn't get on his case anymore, and he was assured of temporal (if not eternal) peace.
But, the wonderful thing about Evangelicalism and other forms of religion that don't like you to swear even with mild oaths, is that everyone knows that when you say bejabbers you mean bejesus. And, not only does everyone know it, but when they hear you say bejabbers, they immediately think, in the interior depths of their pure minds, bejesus. They are sinning in their minds while being righteous in their words. Didn't bejesus, or was it Jesus, have something to say about that?
PH_NO_Answer: PHENOL! 1. any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups 2. a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally
ALBAnswer: Ctm...
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1. any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bractsSource: One Across
Answer: It is probably 1973, even though the Charger in the tie-in novels is a 1974. I'd go with the car freaks on this one.
It's two chimps on a Davenport in a basement. I'm not sponsoring this.Answer: A large sofa (usually that can be made into a bed) or a small desk. The name probably came from an old manufacturer.
Source: TheFreeDictionary
