Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 05:36 AM 3/3/2007 ]
There's a little bird that everyone calls the Orange-Flanked Bush Robin.
In a recent book (The Ripley Guide), it's named Red-Flanked Bush Robin
instead, but the description starts with "Note orange flanks".
Sounds like the set of standard trick
At 2007-03-02 16:01:37 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I generally tend to run foul of the "name-for-it" Nazi when I post the
> name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get
> strident corrections (NO! it is the ORANGE-billed blue magpie).
There's a little bird that every
There's a word for it, there's an organization for that...and probably
you can google and get a support group for addicts too...
I generally tend to run foul of the "name-for-it" Nazi when I post the
name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get
strident corrections (NO! it
On 3/2/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0530, Alok G. Singh wrote:
> I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: "being
> Warnocked" [1].
Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't
yet have names, too.
Interestingly, the them
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0530, Alok G. Singh wrote:
> I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: "being
> Warnocked" [1].
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma
Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't
yet have names, too.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:32:23AM -0800, Thaths wrote:
>> So, am I left alone in an echo-y silklist chanber listening to the
>> sound of one hand clapping?
On 27 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Happens to me all the time.
I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: "being
Warnoc