on 2013-10-06 22:50 David Mann wrote
On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
Been a word for something like two decades, at least in geek communities.
I've known it in that context for a while too, but I haven't found it in any of
our dictionaries. Our Shorter Oxford English Diction
On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013, eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Egad, administrivia is really a word???
>
> Been a word for something like two decades, at least in geek communities.
I've known it in that context for a while too, but I haven't found it in
Okay, that's a good one. LOL.
BTW, I wasn't even trying to out piss-artist you. No way, on either side
of the pond, could I succeed.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
In a message dated 10/6/2013 7:47:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
p...@web-options.com writes:
> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net]
> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
> eactiv...@aol.com
>
> Uh huh. Sorry, Bob, you don't get a mark. I mean you've
> ALWAYS made things up. Definitions/tall tales. Which by the
> way, in old English that was defined as being long-nosed
> lier. Optional adjective, woo
Uh huh. Sorry, Bob, you don't get a mark. I mean you've ALWAYS made things
up. Definitions/tall tales. Which by the way, in old English that was
defined as being long-nosed lier. Optional adjective, wooden. Which, BTW,
derives from the word, lyre. Due to the fact it was struck with a plectru
On 10/6/2013 03:56, eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
LOL. Okay, another one.
MARK!
Marnie aka Doe :-) These are much better than puns, guys.
As good as, anyway
Remember this is the Puns Daily Make (us) Laugh list!
ann
But not sure
what to call them, made-up definitions?
In a message dated
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013, eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Egad, administrivia is really a word???
Been a word for something like two decades, at least in geek communities.
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> On 6 Oct 2013, at 08:56, eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
>
> LOL. Okay, another one.
>
> MARK!
>
> Marnie aka Doe :-) These are much better than puns, guys. But not sure
> what to call them, made-up definitions?
Funny you should ask that, because the correct name for such a word is an
'akado'
LOL. Okay, another one.
MARK!
Marnie aka Doe :-) These are much better than puns, guys. But not sure
what to call them, made-up definitions?
In a message dated 10/2/2013 4:26:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bruce.wal...@gmail.com writes:
Portmanteaux is a syndrome suffered by fellows who
Egad, administrivia is really a word???
Marnie aka Doe ;-) Although, when you think about it, it's a very apt word.
In a message dated 10/2/2013 4:14:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
godd...@me.com writes:
administrivia: becoming common shorthand for "administrative trivia",
trans.:
"here's
LOL. This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.
Too bad it is too long for a MARK!
Marnie aka Doe :-)
In a message dated 10/2/2013 4:07:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
s...@stans-photography.info writes:
Tarnation is an oxidization process that affects fine silver. The ef
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 07:48:29AM -0700, Aahz Maruch wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013, Larry Colen wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:03:01AM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> >>
> >> Hmmm how did this get from my riff on the Steinberg New Yorker Cover
> >> regarding Cotty once living in California (a
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013, Larry Colen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:03:01AM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm how did this get from my riff on the Steinberg New Yorker Cover
>> regarding Cotty once living in California (after someone joked about
>> his Britness)to a serious discussion of the
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:03:01AM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> Hmmm how did this get from my riff on the Steinberg New Yorker Cover
> regarding Cotty once living in California (after someone joked about
> his Britness)to a serious discussion of the Hudson River? I had
> hoped I had released a jo
Hmmm how did this get from my riff on the Steinberg New Yorker Cover
regarding Cotty once living in California (after someone joked about his
Britness)to a serious discussion of the Hudson River? I had hoped I had
released a jolly play-on-words thread.
Oh well
ann
On 10/3/2013 22:43, P.J. A
The Hudson River is geologically considered to be a fiord so it's pretty
close to sea level. The Connecticut River which geographically isn't a
fiord is tidal to about 30 miles inland.
On 10/3/2013 5:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:23:12PM -0600, steve harley wrote:
on 2
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:56:14PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
> On 3/10/13, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >I wonder what the elevation of the river is 140 miles upstream.
> >High tides much over, what?, a meter?, are probably a bit unusual,
> >and tidal effects are probably most
On 3/10/13, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
>I wonder what the elevation of the river is 140 miles upstream.
>High tides much over, what?, a meter?, are probably a bit unusual,
>and tidal effects are probably mostly limited by the elevation
>of the river surface, and the high tide level
on 2013-10-03 15:40 Larry Colen wrote
I wonder what the elevation of the river is 140 miles upstream.
"mean elevation of Hudson River at Albany is 2 feet above sea level" (per a
USGS site via google cache due to government shutdown)
High tides much over, what?, a meter?, are probably a bi
On 3 Oct 2013, at 20:35, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
>>
>> on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
>>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I don't think the Hudson River flows south either.
>>>
>>> Although,
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:23:12PM -0600, steve harley wrote:
> on 2013-10-03 14:43 Larry Colen wrote
> >On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> >>
> >>On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
> >>
> >>>on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
> On Thu, Oct 03,
on 2013-10-03 14:43 Larry Colen wrote
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I don't think the Hudson River fl
On 10/3/2013 4:43 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I don't think the Hudson River
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
>
> > on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
> >> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> >>> I don't think the Hudson River flows south either.
> >>
On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley wrote:
> on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>> I don't think the Hudson River flows south either.
>>
>> Although, depending on the tides, it probably flows both directions
>> right
on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I don't think the Hudson River flows south either.
Although, depending on the tides, it probably flows both directions
right at the opening.
not just the opening — in flood tide, it flows
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> > On 10/3/2013 3:35 AM, Bob W wrote:
> >> On 3 Oct 2013, at 05:50, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
> >>> On 2/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed:
> >>>
> Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat we
> On 10/3/2013 3:35 AM, Bob W wrote:
>> On 3 Oct 2013, at 05:50, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
>>> On 2/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>>
Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat west of
the Hudson river I believe :-)
>>> There's a river named after Ro
I think Rock pretty much flowed one way, he was just a very good actor.
On 10/3/2013 3:35 AM, Bob W wrote:
On 3 Oct 2013, at 05:50, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
On 2/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed:
Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat west of
the Hudson
What it probably means is that you inadvertently included something
other than plain text.
On 10/2/2013 4:42 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
Can someone please tell me what
on 2013-10-02 16:54 Bruce Walker wrote
Cotty, email list handling software traditionally accepts meta
commands within submitted messages to do things like subscribe,
unsubscribe, list the subscribers, etc. They are usually only
interpreted immediately following a newline. This list has had these
On 3/10/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
>So is mine, but every now and then when I paste a link it decides that
>it knows better.
Aha
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On 3 Oct 2013, at 05:50, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
>
> On 2/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>> Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat west of
>> the Hudson river I believe :-)
>
> There's a river named after Rock Hudson? Cool. ;-)
It flows both ways.
> On 3 Oct 2013, at 05:49, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
>
> On 2/10/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>> I get that when my crappy ipad decides to send something as html.
>
> Hmm. My email app on my Macbook is set to text only.
>
So is mine, but every now and then when I paste a link it
On 2/10/13, Doug Brewer, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Unfortunately for Cotty (and for John in another thread), I had not yet
>switched the forward to my new email address, so the message in question
>has gone to the bit bucket in the sky where I can neither approve or
>decline. Sorry about tha
On 2/10/13, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Your best bet is to completely reword your message and try it again. :-)
Got it. thanks!
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On 2/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat west of
>the Hudson river I believe :-)
There's a river named after Rock Hudson? Cool. ;-)
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Cheers,
Cotty
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|| (O) |Web Video Produ
On 2/10/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
>I get that when my crappy ipad decides to send something as html.
Hmm. My email app on my Macbook is set to text only.
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Cheers,
Cotty
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|| (O) |Web Video Production
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On 10/2/2013 20:11, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
nonono - thats not right, stan!
It's a bird sanctuary for sea birds - TARN NATION
ann
p.s.
um - tarn being a varient spelling of tern, of course :-)
On 10/2/2013 19:06, Stan Halpin wrote:
Tarnation is an oxidization process that affects fine silv
Tarnish is "something like a tarn"
ann
On 10/2/2013 19:13, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Steve Cottrell wrote:
Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
Can som
nonono - thats not right, stan!
It's a bird sanctuary for sea birds - TARN NATION
ann
On 10/2/2013 19:06, Stan Halpin wrote:
Tarnation is an oxidization process that affects fine silver. The effete elite
would probably rather speak of patination, not realizing that patination is not
the acqu
On 10/2/13 6:54 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Cotty, email list handling software traditionally accepts meta
commands within submitted messages to do things like subscribe,
unsubscribe, list the subscribers, etc. They are usually only
interpreted immediately following a newline. This list has had these
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:13:16PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>>
>> > Steve Cottrell wrote:
>> >
>> >> Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
>> >> by D
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:13:16PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
>
> > Steve Cottrell wrote:
> >
> >> Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
> >> by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
> >>
>
On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Steve Cottrell wrote:
>
>> Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
>> by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
>
> I need an adequate de
Tarnation is an oxidization process that affects fine silver. The effete elite
would probably rather speak of patination, not realizing that patination is not
the acquisition of a patina, but rather the process of acquiring a patent.
stan
On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> Steve
Cotty, email list handling software traditionally accepts meta
commands within submitted messages to do things like subscribe,
unsubscribe, list the subscribers, etc. They are usually only
interpreted immediately following a newline. This list has had these
meta commands disabled AFAICT, but if one
Cotty lived for a bit on this side of the big pond - somewhat west of
the Hudson river I believe :-)
ann
On 10/2/2013 17:04, Attila Boros wrote:
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mark Roberts
wrote:
I need an adequate definition of "tarnation" first.
There you go: http://www.merriam-webste
On 2 Oct 2013, at 21:42, "Steve Cottrell" wrote:
>
> Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
> by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
>
> Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
>
I get that when my crappy ipad decides to send some
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> Well, according to your like, James Joyce used it. I hear he was
> passably literate, and certainly not American.
I stand corrected. I knew I can't trust this thing too much.
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On 2 Oct 2013, at 21:49, Mark Roberts wrote:
>
> Steve Cottrell wrote:
>
>> Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
>> by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
>
> I need an adequate defi
Well, according to your like, James Joyce used it. I hear he was
passably literate, and certainly not American.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Attila Boros wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mark Roberts
> wrote:
>
>> I nee
On 10/2/2013 16:49, Mark Roberts wrote:
Steve Cottrell wrote:
Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
I need an adequate definition of "tarnation" f
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mark Roberts
wrote:
> I need an adequate definition of "tarnation" first.
There you go: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarnation
Also, according to my English-Hungarian dictionary it's an
americanism. Why would a fine English gentleman resort to such
On 10/2/2013 3:42 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
My guess is that it's a portmanteau of "administrative" and "trivia"
Steve Cottrell wrote:
>Had an email back from the list saying my post is delayed pending review
>by Doug - and that my post may contain 'administriva'.
>
>Can someone please tell me what in tarnation is this?
I need an adequate definition of "tarnation" first.
(Seriously, I've always wondered wha
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