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Post by Verbivore on Mar 1, 2021 23:11:22 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 4, 2021 1:56:29 GMT
George Francis Train – an American entrepreneur who organised the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England. Read about him here.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 24, 2021 20:41:34 GMT
Unfortunate nameThe NSW state political reporter Ashleigh Raper has co-authored an article on rape allegations. NSW government MP Michael Johnsen identifies himself as politician at centre of Blue Mountains rape allegation.Oz is currently having its sort-of ”Profumo” moment – with a twist: parliamentarians and parliamentary staffers, state and federal, are facing a barrage of allegations for sexual assault. It’s no doubt a common abuse of power that’s usually hiding under a convenient rug, but now the muck is being raked in a big way. (Allegations of sexual assault are also a convenient weapon for destroying one’s enemies: regardless of guilt or innocence, the stain left behind is indelible. While not intending to dismiss or minimise accusations, one needs be careful not to take all such reports as unquestioned gospel, particularly in the dirty game of politricks. After all, the media like a scandal or three to fill their pages.)
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 12, 2021 23:11:09 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 30, 2021 22:47:07 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on May 3, 2021 8:27:53 GMT
Carol P Christ is a feminist historian, thealogian (that's not a typo), author, foremother of the Goddess movement, and is the author of the widely reprinted essay Why Women Need the Goddess.
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 8, 2021 23:04:40 GMT
Here be a floral aptronym: Sarah Bloom who, with her mother, runs a rose farm. (Ms Bloom changed her surname to reflect the business; she has a baby daughter named Lily. I'm sure David Mitchell would have a pithy remark to offer on that.)
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 9, 2021 21:46:46 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 26, 2021 7:45:13 GMT
Today, while waiting for the lift doors to close at a clinic, I found a shop shingle staring at me. (No, I wasn't being vasculared; I was being cardioed.) By the time my phone cam had snapped into life, the doors were already closing on my forearm, hence the poor picture quality.
I'm sure most folk know (of) a Dr Payne the dentist; Dr Bone the osteopath; Xavier Rey the radiologist … but you might prefer to avoid this fellow.
PS: Whenever I try to centre an attached graphic, I get two of them: one centred and one left-aligned. Weird. But not life-shattering. PPS: The really surprising news of my day at the cardio clinic was that They Found A Heart! lol I must email my ex-wife to let her know she was wrong.
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Post by Dave Miller on Jul 26, 2021 7:54:22 GMT
Ooh … what’s a shop shingle, Vv?
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 26, 2021 8:11:21 GMT
Ooh … what’s a shop shingle, Vv? A sign – originally, I think, hanging from a shop's awning or eave and declaring the nature or name of the business. More loosely, any publicly displayed signage for the same purpose, be it sandwich board, nameplate, plaque, hanging head-hazard … . The one pictured is of today's boring rear-printed Perspex Contemporary style.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Jul 26, 2021 10:17:00 GMT
I have never encountered “vascular” as a noun as in Border Vascular, nor as a verb as in “I wasn’t being vasculared” (and my spell-checker doesn’t like vasculared either). And, please, what does Border mean in this context? Come to that, is cardio a verb?
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 26, 2021 10:32:49 GMT
I have never encountered “vascular” as a noun as in Border Vascular, nor as a verb as in “I wasn’t being vasculared” (and my spell-checker doesn’t like vasculared either). And, please, what does Border mean in this context? Come to that, is cardio a verb? Aha, LJH! The noun form vascular, as half of that business name, is a typical commercial adaptation of the language. I doubt one would find it in many pairings or contexts. The Border refers to the service's catchment: the zone encompassing the state border between Queensland and New South Wales. I adapted the vascular(ed) for the heck of it; ditto the verbed cardio(ed).
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 12, 2021 23:23:17 GMT
My state (New South Wales) is (mis-)served by its current minister for Health, Brad Hazzard. He has completely screwed up the COVID response and is a health haz(z)ard to the state. Years prior to his current appointment he was, at the time I worked there, the minister in charge of National Parks and Wildlife; he allowed unprecedented destruction of flora and fauna in those parks, all in the name of timber-industry profits. His surname is most definitely apt.
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 19, 2021 22:24:29 GMT
Swedish erotic filmmaker Erika Lust (photo caption)
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