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Post by rickcarpenter on Jun 11, 2008 19:38:58 GMT
'Twas all in jest... or in hallucination. Battista "Pinin" (Little Brother) Farina was the famed Ferrari designer/builder who changed his surname to Pininfarina in 1961.
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Post by Tone on Jun 11, 2008 20:44:17 GMT
>Even the dictionary suggests that it is almost always used in the plural form - "in arrears".<"The" dictionary might (but maybe that "the" dictionary is "almost always" in debt!). But any decent legal dictionary will make the distinction that I did. And, after all, I was dealing with a contract. Try: legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/and widen the scope of meaning. Tone
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 12, 2008 0:08:14 GMT
[...] When and where they became involved with javelins and pininfarinized again, I do not know... Okay, Rick, you've got me! I understand the javelin reference, but pininfarinized? You have me imagining something with the lines of an Italian motor car - and I cannot relate that to orthographical representations of Willy Wavadagger's name. (Let's not go into the hopeless electrics and terminal rust! ;D )
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 12, 2008 0:53:51 GMT
Bugger! Responded again without checking later posts!
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Post by Dave M on Jun 12, 2008 8:49:52 GMT
> Responded again without checking later posts! <
Well, I DID read the later posts, confirming that the reference was to the car designer (who modernised the Austin Cambridge, among others, as I said) ... but I still don't get what that's got to do with Shakespeare! (Unless, of course, he had a Ferrari?)
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Post by Barry on Jun 12, 2008 10:01:32 GMT
So, let me get this clear, rick. You have a theory about the origin of a bit of a name ('spear/shaft') that's based on a piece of evidence that ... well ... doesn't actually exist. Are you, by any chance, a member of the Flat Earth Society?
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Post by Barry on Jun 12, 2008 10:09:27 GMT
I don't know much about Stratford's history. It's certainly on the river, and was a centre for wool and tanning in the past, so there might have been some sort of 'dock' there, although the river isn't tidal at Stratford (you need to head further down, onto the Severn, for the tidal bit). The main docks in the area are in Gloucester, but date from the 19th century (they link a ship canal with the Severn).
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 12, 2008 10:20:45 GMT
[...] the car designer (who modernised the Austin Cambridge, among others [...] Ah yes - by adding some sharp bits, some fins, and cathedral-door taillights. I once had a Series IV Morris Oxford station wagon: same body as the Cambridge except in minor details (mainly the badging). Damned thing had a difficult time pulling the skin off a cold custard, but it was boringly reliable.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 12, 2008 13:06:41 GMT
but I still don't get what that's got to do with Shakespeare! (Unless, of course, he had a Ferrari?) Well, I don't know about Shakespeare and sports cars, but Moses had a motorbike, didn't he? The bible tells us that the roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout the land.
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Post by rickcarpenter on Jun 12, 2008 13:48:35 GMT
So, let me get this clear, rick. You have a theory about the origin of a bit of a name ('spear/shaft') that's based on a piece of evidence that ... well ... doesn't actually exist. Are you, by any chance, a member of the Flat Earth Society? Barry (and Dave), originally I fallaciously speculated that the part of the name added was pier, from the docks upon whence I imagined he was born. And no, the evidence does not exist, but why let that stop me? As far as the Flat Earth Society goes, we who actually believe in that are quite content to let them take the public scrutiny away from us so we can carry on with our... oh, wait, I'm not supposed to acknowledge we exist so please delete this message. And Paul, I think you mirror my thinking. I was unaware about Moses' motorbike, but the revelation I received in a dream about eleven months ago was that Billy-boy had a Saab Sonnett and a Lear jet, which he used to circumnavigate the globe. Alas, I must retire from this conversation, I need to domesticate some wild soricidae in my small village.
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Post by Dave M on Jun 12, 2008 13:52:22 GMT
Ooh ... you're just making us work too hard, rick! I can connect "domesticating some wild soricidae" with wobbly jetties, but I still haven't got the Pininfarina thing.
Do let us (or me, anyway) out of mysery!
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Post by Dave on Jun 12, 2008 14:23:59 GMT
...but I still haven't got the Pininfarina thing. What I got out of it was "official name change."
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Post by rickcarpenter on Jun 12, 2008 14:55:55 GMT
Battista Farina changed his surname, as I speciously proposed Willy Shakes did.
Update on my soricomorphic delusions: it was a large amount of trouble and fuss about nothing more than a sly dream I had.
Rick
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Post by Dave M on Jun 12, 2008 15:19:04 GMT
A storm, if you prefer, but one that all comes out right in the end, despite my best attempts being misunderstood.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 12, 2008 15:23:44 GMT
[...] the roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout the land. An oldie but a goodie! ;D ;D
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