OT - plod and words



Mark McNeill wrote:

> Any noun can be verbed. I had an online discussion in Another Place
> years ago with a Merkin who held that "burglarise" was Obviously the
> shortest and simplest word for breaking and entering.

How unpleasant to arrive home and find that you have been the victim of
a burglarisation.

--
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In article <[email protected]>,
wafflycat <?@?.com.invalid> writes
>
>"Clive George" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Just heard this on the radio and had to share it:
>>
>> "We are forensicating the scene"

>CSI the other night indeed. Mde me chuckle. Words to the efect" Has the
>scene been forensicated yet?"

I heard that, too. At the time I imagined it was said with tongue firmly
in cheek as an ironic Bushism - but more likely it's in common usage in
the US.

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:58:25 +0100 someone who may be "Holly, in
France" <[email protected]> wrote this:-

>> "We are forensicating the scene"
>
>and Robin Cousins had the skaters 'medalling' last night.

We have to face it, things are not what they used to be. Of course
people have been saying that for thousands of years:)


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
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Further to the plod theme, just read about "The Third Policeman" in today's
Grauniad.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1716690,00.html
"a surreal Irish novel featuring the interchanging of atoms between a man
and his beloved bicycle"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman explains that

The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their
natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish
get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as
a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be
surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people
and half bicycles.
If aluminium pans can cause Alzheimer's, maybe we should be concerned about
Al framed bikes?
I suppose Carbon or Titanium are OK?
 
In article <[email protected]>, POHB
([email protected]) wrote:

> If aluminium pans can cause Alzheimer's, maybe we should be concerned about
> Al framed bikes?

Behind the penguin?

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Barley, barley, barley, world cruise. You never see a farmer on a bike.
 
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:08:13 -0000, "Clive George"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Just heard this on the radio and had to share it:
>
>"We are forensicating the scene"

Any noun can be verbed. ;-)
--
Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who
are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club
to ride a stationary bicycle. -
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)
 
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:31:11 +0000, Tom Crispin
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:08:13 -0000, "Clive George"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Just heard this on the radio and had to share it:
>>
>>"We are forensicating the scene"
>
>Any noun can be verbed. ;-)

Erm... Any adjective can be verbed is what I meant, of course. ;-)
--
Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who
are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club
to ride a stationary bicycle. -
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)
 
sothach wrote:
>Peter wrote:
>> Which brings me to the point - are night vision goggles any use for cycling
>> (at night, before some wag...oops, back to dogs)
>
>Not if other people are using lights, cuz they white-out (well,
>greeny-white-out) something terrible when you see a bright light
>source. Never used one on your SA-80?

The copy of Autocar at the dentists had an article about Mercedes'
night vision system. It seemed quite impressive - won't be as
good at picking out someone at a great distance as one designed for
use with a rifle, but doesn't white out like that (and only turns on
while the headlights are on, it's an auxiliary display, not a substitute
for lights).
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70182-0.html?tw=wn_technology_5

(Cadillac have done something similar, and BMW have one coming soon, I think.)
 
in message <[email protected]>, Ian Hughson
('[email protected]') wrote:

>
>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>, Mark
>>>>>> McNeill <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Any noun can be verbed.
>
> Not to mention adjectivised and adverbed.

Adverbificated, perleeze.

> I encountered the following
> judicial quote as a law student many years ago: "... intending
> burglariously to enter ..." Google for that adverb and you'll find
> numerous instances from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
>
> Thanks for producing the G&S quote I was desperately trying to excavate
> from my memory, by the way.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one...

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>> If aluminium pans can cause Alzheimer's, maybe we should be concerned
>> about Al framed bikes?
>> I suppose Carbon or Titanium are OK?
>
> Carbon's OK. I, like my bike, am a carbon-based life form.

Most (prolly all) Alzheimer's sufferers are carbon based life forms too so
it's a no brainer that carbon must be involved somehow. Adding more carbon
can only make it worse.

Think of the children etc - get rid of the bike.
 
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:29:59 +0000, Richard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>POHB wrote:
>> "forensing" would be more elegant
>
>No, it's only dirty dishes that are forensing before they go in the
>dishwasher.

Waste of water that. Good pun thobut.


Tim
 
Mark McNeill wrote:
> Response to Geraint Jones:
>
> Any noun can be verbed.
>
But 'forensic' is an adjective. Commonly used in the phrase 'forensic
science'.
 
Response to Al C-F:
> > Response to Geraint Jones:
> >
> > Any noun can be verbed.
> >
> But 'forensic' is an adjective. Commonly used in the phrase 'forensic
> science'.


<sigh> Yes, I was aware of that, and I suppose it serves me right for
being discursive; maybe I should have said
"That reminds me of the saying, "Any noun..."", etc.

Still, it gives the opportunity for people to seek to improve my
knowledge, which is always a useful function of Usenet. ;-)


--
Mark, UK
"A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be
as high as we had hoped."
 
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