Quoting "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Which begs the question, if he'd never caught any how did the ranger
> know...
>
> Bob W wrote:
>
> >When we told the ranger back at the camp he just laughed, and said
> >this particular elephant amused himself by chasing tourists, but had
> >never ca
Bob,
Your knowledge of English usage and the language's history never fails to
astound me. Keep it coming :-)
regards,
Anthony Farr
> -Original Message-
> From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Which begs the question . . .
> >>
> >>
> >> This seems to be my nitpick
"John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>P. J. Alling mused:
>>
>> Which begs the question . . .
>
>This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
>
>To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
>not to call for an answer to the question.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's one of my
Hi,
>>>
>>> Which begs the question . . .
>>
>>
>> This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
>>
>> To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
>> not to call for an answer to the question.
>>
> I'm with you, John - I actually won a bet on this the other day.
> Unfortunately it's
- Original Message -
From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)
P. J. Alling mused:
Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question
P. J. Alling mused:
>
> Which begs the question . . .
This seems to be my nitpick of the day.
To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise,
not to call for an answer to the question.
Which begs the question, if he'd never caught any how did the ranger know...
Bob W wrote:
Hi,
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out from
Hi,
>> > LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big
>> > hairy
>> > huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
>>
>> You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out from behind a tree
>> and start charging at you...
> I hate it when they hide beh
On 20/4/05, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed:
>That's certainly change-of-trousers-time... but how does an elephant
>hide behind a tree? :)
yeah, they have em up there in Big Sur.
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com
On 20/4/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:
>LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big
hairy
>huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
Even more disconcerting to find it is a big hairy huntsman.
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O)
You've clearly never heard of a Baobab tree either. God designed them as
elephant camouflage.
http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/madagascar/baobab.html
The elephants sit in the shade behind them, waiting for unwary
passers-by.
John
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:18:02 +1200, David Mann <[E
>
> From: Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2005/04/20 Wed AM 06:39:50 GMT
> To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
> Subject: Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)
>
> Hi,
>
> >> More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
> >
On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Bob W wrote:
You've clearly never had a bull elephant jump out from behind a tree
and start charging at you...
That's certainly change-of-trousers-time... but how does an elephant
hide behind a tree? :)
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Hi,
>> More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
>> (Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling "Spider!".
> LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
> huntsman spider run across the inside of your windscreen :-)
Yo
I've had a " big hairy huntsman" scuttle across the roof lining above my
head, while at the same time I was fumbling for a Harbour Bridge toll.
Eventually I herded it out of the passenger window and took it for a al
fresco ride down the Eastern Distributor :-)
The solution for a spider inhabited c
Quoting Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hmm. I have found more arachnids in my Land Rover than I've ever found
> in the Alfa Spider.
>
Maybe you left a couple of "Spiderbait" CD's in the Freeloader?
http://www.spiderbait.com.au/
--
On 20 Apr 2005 at 9:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
> (Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling "Spider!".
LOL, there's little more disconcerting whilst driving than having a big hairy
huntsman spider run acro
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by spiders
> (Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling "Spider!".
OK, I like *this* answer!!
On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More likely that with no proper roof the car is often occupied by
spiders
(Arachnids) and the driver frequently leaps out yelling "Spider!".
Hmm. I have found more arachnids in my Land Rover than I've ever found
in the Alfa Spider.
Godfrey
Quoting Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I don't know the strange reason for thinking "spider" to be the English word
> for a light convertible car.
>
> Maybe:
>
> 1) Someone said it's called "speeder".
> 2) Someone else wrote it as "spider" (which is the Italian spelling for
> pronouncing i
On 4/19/05, Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Italian pronunciation for "spider" is something resembling the English one
> and not like "speeder".
> Yes, we'd pronounce "spider" more or less like "speeder", but since it was
> supposed to be an English word, it's pronounced like Englishmen
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