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Comment posted on Spelling Bee by pennsyltucky9

Nope, ['bated] is actually correct usage in this instance, BB. It’s a corruption of ABATED so it means the breath is withheld. The idea is that the attention is so focused that the person forgets to breathe normally, but you knew that.

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Chocolate up to experience.
Well, here’s the geologic time scale for anyone who needs to know (or doesn’t!). This’ll get you through the first quiz in your Geology 101 class, at least.
Campbell’s Onion Soup Destroys My Palate Permanently (order of layers of Paleozoic rock deposition from oldest to youngest)
Cambrian, Orodovician, Silurian, Devonian, Misissippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian

-Trial by Jury in a Courtroom (order of layers of Mesozoic rock deposition from oldest to youngest)
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

-Put Eggs On My Plate Please, Honey (order of layers of Cenozoic rock deposition from oldest to youngest)
Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene

-Lots of Good Apples Never Leave the Cidermill (major mountain-building episodes in North America in chronological order)
Laurentian, Grand Canyon, Appalachian, Nevadan, Laramide, Cascadian
Nice request, hissatsu5
This would be a good lesson for Marina to undertake sometime in early September when International Talk Like a Pirate Day is upcoming. I believe the expression originated on sailing vessels.
Welcome to HFW, aserden
Don’t let Evan frighten you, he’s completely harmless, and also just a little bit enthusiastic. Keep those comments and requests coming.

-pennsyltucky9
Take it from Deadman, living is overrated!
Waiting with ‘bated breath equates to the kind of conditions under which we might tell someone who is impatiently waiting, “Well, don’t hold your breath…”

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Cool. So you are also noticing that migration patterns are changing and that some species (armadillos and chachalackas, in your area) are shifting their habitats farther north (in our hemisphere, that is) due to climatic fluctuations of their comfort range. Maybe I wasn’t hallucinating after all.

Yes, I knew that the US military has carte blanche to break almost any environmental regulation right over their knee if they feel like it. It’s good to be reminded of these little inconsistencies, since we’re all responsible for what happens in the long run. But one of the most important things I mentioned hasn’t been addressed.

If you haven’t read it yet, there’s very well rounded ethnography on some people living on the island of Nanumea (a part of the Republic of Tuvalu which is located in Polynesia) who are losing their battle with the Pacific as the waters rise around them. According to the recent video I saw, every upcoming storm renews their fears of drowning. Their entire island is less than 12 feet above sea level at its highest point. It’s a coral atoll.

The book is called “Unity of Heart” by Keith and Anne Chambers. The Nanumean culture has survived the onslaught of the white explorers and the greed of the imperialist kings and queens who sent them, but is now dissolving into the waters of the ocean. Too bad; the girls there are quite beautiful, and their music is amazing.

I’m guessing you never had to attend public school. Man, are you ever lucky. I’ll look for Gatto’s book. The title reminds me of Howard Zinn’s excellent “People’s History of the United States” in which various episodes of our national development are seen through the eyes of its less famous participants instead of just the big-name indoctrinators. But you probably read it long ago.

Thanks for responding, Rocky.
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Hi Rocky! Okay, I’ll put it this way: my observations are only my observations. I’m not seeking any confirmation on what I have observed, nor am I looking to further anyone else’s goal, mission, message, etc. I’m just talking about stuff I have personally noticed. There’s no political agenda to it.
I definitely don’t buy into everything anyone has ever said about the subject. I just look for myself, hence they’re my observations. But since I’m the one making them, I’ll be pretty strongly inclined to believe them until someone wakes me and proves I’m dreaming instead.

Birds don’t know about science. They just do what they do based on their instincts. I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate all the changes I’m seeing in their wintering patterns over 20 years. But I could be wrong. After all, as Einstein once said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

The writer of the link you posted seems to have a lot of personal baggage invested in mistrusting “University-types.” But he seems to be able to read and write, at least to some extent. Who taught him that? Some university-type, no doubt. Oh well. I’m mildly curious why this person prefers to view the education process as a “dumbing” process instead. Maybe some jealousy there, who knows… but I’m not a psychologist.

I guess some school is good, but too much school is bad. Interesting.

Well, if attending a university is the mark of someone who’s been brainwashed (as opposed to having been taught to think critically and decide something for themselves based on their personal observations, as I’ve tried to demonstrate here) then I guess I’ve gone over to the dark side.

But I’m interested in hearing your views, not reading about why some unknown person of unstated qualifications (he says he read a lot about it, lol) doesn’t trust educated people. While I appreciate the fact that you took the time to read my post and respond, I must admit that in my opinion, the link you posted isn’t contributing much to the discussion, just using someone else’s views to take the easy way out. There’s no mention of bird migration patterns, for example. So my question to you is: HOW do the facts I’ve presented fail to speak for themselves?

You seem like a wise person and you’ve been around long enough to really have a good idea if any change in our climate is actually taking place. What are your personal observations about the weather where you live over the last 20 or 40 years?

Thanks again for responding. It’s good to hear from you.

-Kent
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Bird migrations are occurring earlier in the spring and later in the fall. In my area, they aren’t going as far south for the winter as they used to.
How do I know? Many types of birds which used to pass through my area on their way south are now spending the whole winter here in my area. I’m making this observation over the course of twenty years.

Here’s another interesting fact: it’s early November and we are seeing jonquil shoots popping up through the soil already, as if it were late February. This is weird.

But don’t take my word for it.

Ask anyone living in the island nation of Tuvalu whether sea levels are rising. Their homeland is practically dissolving into the Pacific while we sit and argue about partisan political stances and how best to “spin” this documented and proven scientific data.

Then prove that our rising global mean annual temperature has nothing to do with either manmade industrial pollution (especially coal) and internal combustion engine emissions or with the heightened CO2 output resulting from these combined factors.

if you can do both of those things and still say global warming is a myth, I’ll reconsider the conclusions I’ve drawn from my personal observations. Either way, the facts speak for themselves. I can’t change the observations on which I have based my views. They remain as true as ever.
Nerd Words of the Day: Nom de Strip
I once knew a guy named Flint Thorne but amazingly enough, that wasn’t his p0rn name. Just lucky I guess.
Beevee, if I used your system, I’d have to be called Ladybug Maryland… not an impressive stage name. Then again, I do have some very perky man-boobs. Okay, okay TMI.
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Gotta start some new lists, animal. We can certainly put all those classic male member double-entendre first-names like Rod, Lance, Peter, and Dick in there for starters, but the coolest names will be more nickname-like in nature.
You know. Stuff like Woody, Jasper, Hunter, and my personal favorite, Spike. There must be a thousand of ‘em out there.

On a side note, I once read about a small-time politician named Stone Coxhead. Honestly, I couldn’t believe someone’s parents named their kid that. But he got to be mayor, at least.