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. . . Mmmm . . . Biology . . . Had a rather peculiar high school biology teacher -- he wanted to be reborn as a tapeworm.

My uncle, a table. He gets laid 3 times a day.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

Me neither.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread

Got the provisional result of the exam I thought I failed, and I was wrong - I passed.

 

That leaves one "probably" and one "for sure" result to come.

congrats.

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But do your students know that?

Hey, with some of them, their grades will improve.

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In point of fact, not really. But they decided to spend part of a year trying to teach it to us anyway.

 

(I think all of NM history can be summed up in five bullet points: Pre-Columbian, Coronado, Indian wars, Pancho Villa, Manhattan Project. Our books were so old we didn't anything after Coronado. )

BR: Before Roswell, AW: After Roswell.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

So on Friday I met and got autographs from Vince Voyeur, Jessica Drake, Kirstin Price and Savanna Samson. Nice people.

And if you want to know where you know the names from, ask keyes_bill he will enlighten you.

J. Drake rings a bell (in more ways than one)

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Northern Florida. A friend is going up in STS-122 scheduled to launch on Dec 6 from Cape Kennedy. We are doing other stuff while down there' date=' of course, so we'll be gone for two weeks.[/quote']

 

happy (celestial) trails.

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where you going?

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*grin*

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I just remembered "Tubal", or something else, I'll have to have a look tomorrow.

from wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubal:

The Tabali (Tibarenoi in Greek) were Luwian tribes of Asia Minor of the 3rd-1st millennias BC. They and other related tribes, the Chalybes (Khalib/Khaldi) and the Mossynoeci (Mossynoikoi in Greek), are sometimes considered the founders of metallurgy. (emphasis mine)

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You might be thinking of Wayland -- Völund in Swedish. He was the Anglo-Saxon god of smiths' date=' IIRC.[/quote']

 

No not Wayland, it was something like "Tiwaz", starting with "T". Like Vulcan, but Semite I think.

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No' date=' Jupiter and Tyr both came from *Diyaus Pithar. Tyr came via *Tiwaz, which is what the Goths called their chief god.[/quote']

 

"Tiwaz" rings a bell in some other context. IIRC it was some sort of Smithy/Metallurgy diety.

 

No time for research now, maybe tomorrow.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Gotta go and get some sleep, same time tomorrow? Perhaps?

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from what I've watched of 7Sam it is good, but slow in places.

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How do you get Jupiter or Zeus Pater* out of Tyr? Linguistically it doesn't seem to fit.

*Also the D&D Devil-Lord Dispater is linguistically evolved from the same root/concept.

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Idiot would befriend the genie, useful contact.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

I've started watching it, but never finished it. As it is long, I've decided to watch it in parts, like LotR. An hour here, and hour there etc.

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And what of Tyr?

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and Odin or was it Wotan

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you seen 7 samurai?

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such as?

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basically would that be from Viking to Catholic?

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what part of history do you enjoy most?

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what were you planning on watching?

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[nelson from the simpsons] Ha ha! [/nelson from the simpsons]