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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #48 on: 17:32:21, 10-10-2008 » |
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Thanks for that Turfan, I was informed and very re-assured by the article until I got to the antepenultimate paragraph. Either the writer had a funny five minutes or he favours a very heavy-handed form of sarcasam.
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« Reply #49 on: 17:43:36, 10-10-2008 » |
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Well, she is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likeable (to some). This does not make her a good choice. She is uninformed, governmentally unskilled, and naive.
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« Reply #50 on: 18:19:29, 10-10-2008 » |
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Has anyone else wrestled for a long time with the meaning of "G.O.P."? It took me literally years of trying to work it out before I realised the answer was probably on wikipedia. It was.  |
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Has anyone else wrestled for a long time with the meaning of "G.O.P."? It took me literally years of trying to work it out before I realised the answer was probably on wikipedia. It was. I'd never have guessed that! How interesting. You live and learn.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #52 on: 11:27:10, 11-10-2008 » |
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antepenultimate Is that a real word? |
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« Reply #53 on: 11:35:13, 11-10-2008 » |
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antepenultimate Is that a real word? Oh yes! (As Churchill says). Mind you God knows about the spelling |
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« Reply #54 on: 12:15:43, 11-10-2008 » |
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Thanks for that, Turfan.
It was the phrase Joe Sixpack that suprised me. I had the impression that the abdominal regions of the red neck American male are notably rotund, except in the heady world of gay fantasy, I am told.
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« Reply #55 on: 13:00:26, 11-10-2008 » |
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antepenultimate Is that a real word? Oh yes! (As Churchill says). Mind you God knows about the spelling It's my new favourite word *. I will use it at every possible opportunity * My previous favourite word was 'bodice', which sadly I don't get much chance to use in casual conversation. |
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« Reply #56 on: 14:31:39, 11-10-2008 » |
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Thanks for that, Turfan.
It was the phrase Joe Sixpack that suprised me. I had the impression that the abdominal regions of the red neck American male are notably rotund, except in the heady world of gay fantasy, I am told.
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« Reply #57 on: 15:17:11, 11-10-2008 » |
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Which is still a legitimately surprising turn of phrase.
Is 'Joe Sixpack' so-called because the consumption of beer (whatever the quantity) is his defining characteristic? I mean, I've drunk more than my share of beer, but I just think I have so much more to offer. But then, I wouldn't vote Republican even if I were American, so obviously I'm not Joe Sixpack anyway.
So - who exactly is Joe Sixpack? Which portion of the demographic is it that hears those two (three?) words and thinks 'yes - that's me she's talking about'? And what proportion of the total US population does Joe Sixpack account for?
These are genuine questions.
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« Reply #58 on: 15:47:07, 11-10-2008 » |
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I thought it was a Joe who bought 6 cans of beer, sold in a plastic "hold-all", took them home and sat drinking in front of the TV. An ordinary guy. No??
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« Reply #59 on: 15:53:32, 11-10-2008 » |
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Surely the way to win the support of Joe Sixpack, then, is to make beer exempt from sales taxes?
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