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  1. Didja just hear Greta ask (some zoologist) regarding the animals escaping in
    Indonesia "Is it the sound or the vibrations?" Well duh, Greta, sound IS
    vibrations.

    Fowarded to: [email hidden]

    And I'd like to have a dollar for each time I've heard a news personality say
    "cachet" when they mean "cache".

    Imagine those functional illiterates without their TelePrompTer...
    ---= BOYCOTT FRANCE (belgium) GERMANY--SPAIN =---
    ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =---
    *********
    "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."
    Sheldon
    ````````````

  2. PENMART01 said:

    And I'd like to have a dollar for each time I've heard a news personality say
    "cachet" when they mean "cache".

    I can't stand the pronunciation of "tourist" and "TOR-ist".

    I recall some very active rats in the ceiling of a nice hotel in Tokyo
    just before a quake. We'd spent many nights there, and not a peep. My
    mother, ever the Nature Girl, with my father in silent agreement, got us
    all up and dressed and we were fleeing down the stairs (she wouldn't let
    us take the elevator the 20+ flights down) when the quake hit. My mother
    was only had passing knowledge of rat language, and had thought she'd
    heard them say there was a fire on the lower floors.
    Having lived in Japan, she let us walk not run after that, not fearing
    the quake like she had the possibility of a fire.
    blacksalt
    Wishing tonight I could magically just pick up a little orphan and adopt
    him/her, but knowing the red tape kings would frown at our ages. Someone
    at work said "but they'd be so traumatized". I replied, give me a two
    year old whose decent parents were killed, put them in a warm house with
    a loving parent ever-present, a brudda, a dog, all the food the little
    mite could want and Thomas the tank engine, and I bet I'd have a pretty
    happy kid in a few weeks.

  3. Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

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    On 31 Dec 2004 04:15:46 GMT, [email hidden] (PENMART01)

    Quoted message said:

    Didja just hear Greta ask (some zoologist) regarding the animals escaping in
    Indonesia "Is it the sound or the vibrations?" Well duh, Greta, sound IS
    vibrations.

    Fowarded to: [email hidden]

    And I'd like to have a dollar for each time I've heard a news personality say
    "cachet" when they mean "cache".

    Imagine those functional illiterates without their TelePrompTer...
    ---= BOYCOTT FRANCE (belgium) GERMANY--SPAIN =---
    ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =---
    *********
    "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."
    Sheldon
    ````````````

    sf

  4. kalanamak said:

    I can't stand the pronunciation of "tourist" and "TOR-ist".

    Hmmmm. I've never clued into that one. There are certainly
    pronunciations that set my teeth on edge but not "TOOrist".

    sf

  5. kalanamak said:

    Wishing tonight I could magically just pick up a little orphan and adopt
    him/her, but knowing the red tape kings would frown at our ages. Someone
    at work said "but they'd be so traumatized". I replied, give me a two
    year old whose decent parents were killed, put them in a warm house with
    a loving parent ever-present, a brudda, a dog, all the food the little
    mite could want and Thomas the tank engine, and I bet I'd have a pretty
    happy kid in a few weeks.

    I think you're absolutely right.

    sf

  6. Quoted message said:

    sf [email hidden]

    Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

    Why do they need to fall... trees make sounds when the weather changes, trees
    make sounds from growing.

    ---= BOYCOTT FRANCE (belgium) GERMANY--SPAIN =---
    ---= Move UNITED NATIONS To Paris =---
    *********
    "Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."
    Sheldon
    ````````````

  7. Quoted message said:

    Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

    If you leave your radio on when you go to work in the morning and
    there is no one home to listen to it, is there still sound coming from the speaker?

  8. PENMART01 said:

    Didja just hear Greta ask (some zoologist) regarding the animals
    escaping in Indonesia "Is it the sound or the vibrations?" Well
    duh,
    Greta, sound IS vibrations.

    Fowarded to: [email hidden]

    And I'd like to have a dollar for each time I've heard a news
    personality say "cachet" when they mean "cache".

    Imagine those functional illiterates without their TelePrompTer...

    But vibrations may not be sound. At least not a sound that humans can
    hear. Then again, Greta gets on my nerves, so I don't really know why
    I'm sticking up for her.

    --
    "Life is hard. Life is harder when
    you're stupid". - John Wayne

    "Politics is war without bloodshed while
    war is politics with bloodshed" - Mao Zedong

    '99 FLHRCI

  9. sf said:
    kalanamak said:

    I can't stand the pronunciation of "tourist" and "TOR-ist".


    Hmmmm. I've never clued into that one. There are certainly
    pronunciations that set my teeth on edge but not "TOOrist".

    My pet peeve is watching a government official say something to the
    effect of "I fully agree with ..." or "Yes of course, we support ..."
    and watch them shake their heads "no." Rarely do you see the head
    shaking and the mouth agree. Some politicians don't shake or nod, but
    keep very still. I bet they practice that. If it means anything.
    Edrena

  10. The Joneses said:

    My pet peeve is watching a government official say something to the
    effect of "I fully agree with ..." or "Yes of course, we support ..."
    and watch them shake their heads "no." Rarely do you see the head
    shaking and the mouth agree. Some politicians don't shake or nod, but
    keep very still. I bet they practice that. If it means anything.

    You should attend one of those press conferences, listen to what the
    spokesperson has to say, and then watch it on the news to see the 3
    second clip.

  11. Bubbabob said:
    Quoted message said:

    My pet peeve is watching a government official say something to the
    effect of "I fully agree with ..." or "Yes of course, we support ..."
    and watch them shake their heads "no." Rarely do you see the head
    shaking and the mouth agree.

    That's beacause they can't even make themselves believe the [censored] that
    they're spouting. Half of their mind and body just can't deal with it.

    It's more likely that the reporters keep badgering them with stupid
    questions until they can elicit a stupid answer, and that's the one they
    use.

  12. Dave Smith said:
    Bubbabob said:
    Quoted message said:

    My pet peeve is watching a government official say something to the
    effect of "I fully agree with ..." or "Yes of course, we support ..."
    and watch them shake their heads "no." Rarely do you see the head
    shaking and the mouth agree.

    That's beacause they can't even make themselves believe the [censored] that
    they're spouting. Half of their mind and body just can't deal with it.

    It's more likely that the reporters keep badgering them with stupid
    questions until they can elicit a stupid answer, and that's the one they
    use.

    My pet peeve is watching Kofi Annan in a press conference with the US
    Sec of State.

    Annan is a inept clown. Where does he think he is on even footing with
    the US?

    Seriously can someone tell me the last time the UN did anything
    worthwhile?

  13. Dave Smith said:
    The Joneses said:

    My pet peeve is watching a government official say something to the
    effect of "I fully agree with ..." or "Yes of course, we support ..."
    and watch them shake their heads "no." Rarely do you see the head
    shaking and the mouth agree. Some politicians don't shake or nod, but
    keep very still. I bet they practice that. If it means anything.

    You should attend one of those press conferences, listen to what the
    spokesperson has to say, and then watch it on the news to see the 3
    second clip.

    Yep, its as though the media has to select the dumbest part of the
    entire process to show the equally dumb audience who will be hard tasked
    to understand what they saw or heard. They appeal to the lowest common
    denominator.

    jim

  14. in article [email hidden], Ron at
    [email hidden] wrote on 12/31/04 9:32:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

    If you leave your radio on when you go to work in the morning and
    there is no one home to listen to it, is there still sound coming from the
    speaker?


    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?

    Dieter Zakas

  15. Of course, he's a man, silly (VBEG- very big evil grin)!!!
    "Dieter Zakas" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    in article [email hidden], Ron at
    [email hidden] wrote on 12/31/04 9:32:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

    If you leave your radio on when you go to work in the morning and
    there is no one home to listen to it, is there still sound coming from


    the

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    speaker?


    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?

    Dieter Zakas

  16. Dieter Zakas said:

    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?


    Of course! That's the rule.

    sf

  17. sf said:


    Dieter Zakas said:

    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?


    Of course! That's the rule.

    sf

    However, anything a man says while he's doing the dishes is sure to be
    100% correct.
    blacksalt

  18. kalanamak said:
    sf said:


    Dieter Zakas said:

    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?


    Of course! That's the rule.

    sf

    However, anything a man says while he's doing the dishes is sure to be
    100% correct.
    blacksalt

    Right-O, kiddo! We ain't fools.

    sf

  19. "kalanamak" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    sf said:


    Dieter Zakas said:

    If a man says something but his wife isn't there, is he still wrong?


    Of course! That's the rule.

    sf

    However, anything a man says while he's doing the dishes is sure to be
    100% correct.

    Until it is reconsidered at a later time.

  20. In article said:
    Quoted message said:

    Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest?

    If you leave your radio on when you go to work in the morning and
    there is no one home to listen to it, is there still sound coming from the
    speaker?

    Sound is a perceived quantity. No devise (ear) to measure it, then it does not
    exist. My dicitionary says it is a thing perceived by the sense of hearing.

    This is the engineering answer department signing off

    --

    Charles
    The significant problems we face cannot be solved
    at the same level of thinking we were at when we
    created them. Albert Einstein

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