one million

[MilkToast]

2000:bday:

[MilkToast]

well... that's it for me for a while... g'night all!

--2001--

[Kimberly73]

#2002

Did everyone leave you all alone?

[MilkToast]

yeah, but then I was hogging the thread :D

2003

[Steph]

2004

here's to next year!

[dadaist]

2005.

Big important number if you ever watched Transformers regularly. ;)

[dadaist]

Okay, since someone asked.
The Wizard of Oz (MGM Production #1060) started filming in October of 1938.
The west coast premiere was on August 15th, 1939. The New York Premiere was on August 17th, 1939.

The movie did NOT make a profit until its first post-war rerelease, in 1948-49.

#2006

[dadaist]

Originally posted by MilkToast
1992 - The "World Wide Web" started up for home use.

I'm not sure how many people were getting it in their homes in 1992, as gopher was still the tool of choice (until the University of Minnesota decided it reserved the right to potentially charge a fee for its use). Officially, the program known as worldwideweb got started at CERN in 1990 (on a black NeXT Cube!).

#2007

[dadaist]

And regarding Enterprise vs. Columbia, remember that Columbia in 1981 was the first orbital flight of a shuttle. All tests done in the late 70s with Enterprise (unveiled surrounded by the cast of Star Trek in September of 1976 - it would have been named the Constitution if not for the fans of Star Trek) were atmospheric tests only.

OV-101 is currently parked in Virginia, and will be at the Udvar-Hazy center, south of the main terminal at Dulles Airport. The center opens to the public in December of 2003, one of many events marking the first 100 years of manned, engine-powered flight.

#2008

[dadaist]

Other items to appear at the Udvar-Hazy center include:

Over 200 aircraft and 135 spacecraft will be on display, including an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft; the Dash 80 prototype of the Boeing 707; the B-17 Flying Fortress named "Swoose;" an F-4 Phantom fighter; the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay;" and the de Havilland Chipmunk aerobatic plane, to name a few.

#2009

[dadaist]

Facts about Shuttle Columbia:

She was known as OV-102 (Orbital Vehicle #102).

Columbia was named after the Boston, Massachusetts based sloop captained by American Robert Gray. On May 11, 1792, Gray and his crew maneuvered the Columbia past the dangerous sandbar at the mouth of a river extending more than 1,000 miles through what is today south-eastern British Columbia, Canada, and the Washington-Oregon border. The river was later named after the ship. Gray also led Columbia and its crew on the first American circumnavigation of the globe, carrying a cargo of otter skins to Canton, China, and then returning to Boston.

[dadaist]

#2011 - Challenger is actually even more interesting.... (OV-99)

Challenger, the second orbiter to become operational at Kennedy Space Center, was named after the British Naval research vessel HMS Challenger that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the 1870's. The Apollo 17 lunar module also carried the name of Challenger. Like her historic predecessors, Space Shuttle Challenger and her crews made significant contributions to America's scientific growth.

Challenger joined NASA fleet of reusable winged spaceships in July 1982. It flew nine successful Space Shuttle missions. On January 28, 1986, the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in the breakup of the vehicle.

Challenger started out as a high-fidelity structural test article (STA-099). The airframe was completed by Rockwell and delivered to Lockheed Plant 42 for structural testing on 02/04/78. The orbiter structure had evolved under such weight-saving pressure that virtually all components of the air frame were required to handle significant structural stress. With such an optimized design, it was difficult to acurately predict mechanical and thermal loading with the computer software available at the time. The only safe approach was to submit the structural test article to intensive testing and analysis. STA-099 underwent 11 months of intensive vibration testing in a 43 ton steel rig built especially for the Space Shuttle Test Program. The rig consisted of 256 hydraulic jacks, distributed over 836 load application points. Under computer control, it was possible to simulate the expected stress levels of launch, ascent, on-orbit, reentry and landing. Three 1 million pound-force hydraulic cylinders were used to simulate the thrust from the Space Shuttle Main Engines. Heating and thermal simulations were also done.

Rockwell's original $2.6 billion contract had authorized the building of a pair of static-test articles (MPTA-098 and STA-099 and two initial flight-test vehicles (OV-101 and OV-102. A decision in 1978 not to modify Enterprise from her Approach and Landing Test (ALT) configuration would have left Columbia as the only operational orbiter vehicle so on 1/29/79 NASA awarded Rockwell a supplemental contract to convert Challenger (STA-099) from a test vehicle into a space-rated Orbiter (OV-099).

STA-099 was returned to Rockwell on 11/7/79 and its conversion into a fully rated Orbiter Vehicle was started. This conversion, while easier than it would have been to convert Enterprise, still involved a major disassembly of the vehicle. Challenger had been built with a simulated crew module and the forward fuselage halves had to be separated to gain access to the crew module. Additionally, the wings were modified and reinforced to incorporate the results of structural testing and two heads-up displays (HUD's) were installed in the cockpit. Empty Weight was 155,400 lbs at rollout and 175,111 lbs with main engines installed. This was about 2,889 pounds lighter than Columbia.

[dadaist]

"MPTA-098" was a designator for a set of External tank and Solid Rocket Boosters, for testing. Pathfinder, an "orbiter simulator" that never had a designation, and was never designed to enter orbit, is on permanent display at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama. It is on a specal platform and mounted to the Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA) External Tank used for early tanking tests.

#2012

[dadaist]

If you ever watched Dr. Who in its last two years of production (1988-1989) and looked closely on Ace's jacket, one of her patches is the Enterprise Approach and Landing Test Patch
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.gif
and another was the mission patch for STS-51L (Challenger's last flight).
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/51-l-patch.jpg
Star Trek also honored Challenger at least once, one of the Enterprise-D's shuttlecraft during the run of the Next Generation series (1987-1994) was named the Onizuka, for one of the lost crew members (and of course Star Trek IV was dedicated to the entire crew).

Also, the fortieth anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up this November, the day AFTER the 40th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

#2013

[dadaist]

Back to the Shuttles:
The third one launched was Shuttle Discovery, OV-103

Discovery, the third orbiter to become operational at Kennedy Space Center, was named after one of two ships that were used by the British explorer James Cook in the 1770s during voyages in the South Pacific that led to the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. Another of his ships was the Endeavour, the namesake of NASA's newest orbiter.

#2014

[dadaist]

Atlantis is OV-104

Atlantis, the fourth orbiter to become operational at Kennedy Space Center, was named after the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966. The two-masted, 460-ton ketch was the first U.S. vessel to be used for oceanographic research. Such research was considered to be one of the last bastions of the sailing vessel as steam-and-diesel-powered vessels dominated the waterways.


#2015

[dadaist]

OV-105, Endeavour

Endeavour, the newest addition to the four-orbiter fleet, is named after the first ship commanded by James Cook, the 18th century British explorer, navigator and astronomer. On Endeavour's maiden voyage in August 1768, Cook sailed to the South Pacific (to observe and record the infrequent event of the planet Venus passing between the Earth and the sun). Determining the transit of Venus enabled early astronomers to find the distance of the sun from the Earth, which then could be used as a unit of measurement in calculating the parameters of the universe. In 1769, Cook was the first person to fully chart New Zealand (which was previously visited in 1642 by the Dutchman Abel Tasman from the Dutch province of Zeeland). Cook also surveyed the eastern coast of Australia , navigated the Great Barrier Reef and traveled to Hawaii.

Cook's voyage on the Endeavour also established the usefulness of sending scientists on voyages of exploration. While sailing with Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks and Carl Solander collected many new families and species of plants, and encountered numerous new species of animals.

Endeavour and her crew reportedly made the first long-distance voyage on which no crewman died from scurvy, the dietary disease caused by lack of ascorbic acids. Cook is credited with being the first captain to use diet as a cure for scurvy, when he made his crew eat cress, sauerkraut and an orange extract.

The Endeavour was small at about 368 tons, 100 feet in length and 20 feet in width. In contrast, its modern day namesake is 78 tons, 122 feet in length and 78 feet wide. The Endeavour of Captain Cook's day had a round bluff bow and a flat bottom. The ship's career ended on a reef along Rhode Island.

#2016

[dadaist]

#2017

FYI, all information/facts about the US Shuttle Orbiters came from NASA's website for the Kennedy Space Center.

[dadaist]

#2018

Onward then, I think I threatened some phonetic alphabets.

Rather than do 6 batches of 26, I'm going to do one batch of 26, with six 'definitions' in each. Remember, the source for this is a German calendar/diary for the year 1993, so take this with a grain of salt.

[dadaist]

#2019 - A

German: Anton
(and Ärger for the Ä vowel)
English: Andrew
American: Able (they spelled it abel, but I think the former is correct)
International: Amsterdam
Aeronautical: Alpha (spelled Alfa here)
NATO: Alpha (alfa)

[dadaist]

#2020 - B

German: Berta
English: Benjamin
American: Baker
International: Baltimore
Aeronautical: Bravo
NATO: Bravo

[dadaist]

#2021 - C

German: Cäsar
(and Ch believe it or not has its own - Charlotte)
English: Charlie
American: Charlie
International: Casablanca
Aeronautical: Coca (? maybe they meant Cocoa?)
NATO: Charlie

[dadaist]

#2022 - D

German: Dora
English: David
American: Dog
International: Denmark (given with the German spelling of Dänemark)
Aeronautical: Delta
NATO: Delta

[dadaist]

#2023 - E

German: Emil
English: Edward
American: Easy
International: Edison
Aeronautical: Echo
NATO: Echo

[dadaist]

#2024 - F

German: Friedrich
English: Frederick
American: Fox
International: Florida
Aeronautical: Foxtrot
NATO: Foxtrot

[dadaist]

#2025 - G

German: Gustav
English: George
American: George
International: Gallipoli
Aeronautical: Golf
NATO: Golf

[dadaist]

#2026 - H

German: Heinrich
English: Harry
American: How
International: Havana
Aeronautical: Hotel
NATO: Hotel

[dadaist]

#2027 - I

German: Ida
English: Isaac
American: Item
International: Italia
Aeronautical: India
NATO: India

[dadaist]

#2028 - J

German: Julius
English: Jack
American: Jig
International: Jerusalem
Aeronautical: Juliet
NATO: Juliet

[dadaist]

#2029 - K

German: Kaufmann
English: King
American: King
International: Kilogram
Aeronautical: Kilo
NATO: Kilo

[dadaist]

#2030 - L

German: Ludwig
English: Lucy
American: Love
International: Liverpool
Aeronautical: Lima
NATO: Lima

[dadaist]

#2031 - M

German: Martha
English: Mary
American: Mike
International: Madagascar
Aeronautical: Metro
NATO: Mike

[dadaist]

#2032 - N

German: Nordpol
English: Nellie
American: Nan
International: New York
Aeronautical: Nectar
NATO: November

[dadaist]

#2033 - O

German: Otto
(and for Ö there's Ökonom)
English: Oliver
American: Oboe
International: Oslo
Aeronautical: Oscar
NATO: Oscar

[dadaist]

#2034 - P

German: Paula
English: Peter
American: Peter
International: Paris
Aeronautical: Papa
NATO: Papa

[dadaist]

#2035 - Q

German: Quelle
English: Queenie
American: Queen
International: Quebec
Aeronautical: Quebec
NATO: Quebec

[dadaist]

#2036 - R

German: Richard
English: Robert
American: Roger
International: Rome
Aeronautical: Romeo
NATO: Romeo

[dadaist]

#2037 - S

German: Samuel
(with Sch - Schule)
English: Sugar
American: Sugar
International: Santiago
Aeronautical: Sierra
NATO: Sierra

[dadaist]

#2038 - T

German: Theodor
English: Tommy
American: Tare (? Tara perhaps?)
International: Tripoli
Aeronautical: Tango
NATO: Tango

[dadaist]

#2039 - U

German: Ulrich
(with Ü - Übermut)
English: Uncle
American: Uncle
International: Uppsala
Aeronautical: Union
NATO: Uniform

[dadaist]

#2040 - V

German: Viktor
English: Victor
American: Victor
International: Valencia
Aeronautical: Victor
NATO: Victor

[dadaist]

#2041 - W

German: Wilhelm
English: William
American: William
International: Washington
Aeronautical: Whiskey
NATO: Whiskey

[dadaist]

#2042 - X

German: Xanthippe
English: Xmas
American: X
International: Xanthippe
Aeronautical: Extra
NATO: X-Ray

[dadaist]

#2043 - Y

German: Ypsilon
English: Yellow
American: Yoke
International: Yokohama
Aeronautical: Yankee
NATO: Yankee

[dadaist]

#2044 - Z

German: Zeppelin
English: Zebra
American: Zebra
International: Zurich
Aeronautical: Zulu
NATO: Zulu

[dadaist]

#2045 - the end

imagine them trying to sing all THAT on sesame street

[FussyPucker]

#2046 - Goodmoaning everyone lovely day today clouds, spots of rain adn the ground is soaked :D important news of the day the Queen is coming to Sheffield to officially open the school my friend works at.........it's been open and running for about 2 years now lol

[FussyPucker]

#2047 - I'm alone in the office all morning........if anyone is interested I've cleared plenty of space under my desk ;)

[FussyPucker]

#2048 - be warned I'm in an 'odd' mood today hehehe

"There may be trouble ahead.......
But while there's music and moonlight and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance"

[FussyPucker]

#2049 - I was the last person (at the time of writting this) to post in the following areas:-

Site Announcements
Sex News
General Sex Talk
General Chat
Advice
Personals
Smut Games
Pictures of Women
Pictures of Men
Pictures of Couples

amazing huh ?

[FussyPucker]

#2050 - this post is just for the hell of it !........lol like all my other posts have ever had a point to them !

[FussyPucker]

#2051 - blimey not a single post on the boards in the last 10 minutes ! Good job I'm here to keep things moving :)

[FussyPucker]

#2052 - shock horror NO BACON ! I was forced into having a sausage sandwich this morning oh well it was still very very yummy and will keep me going for a bit.

[FussyPucker]

#2053 - so funny I just had to share !

After a few years of married life, a man finds that he is unable to
perform. He goes to his doctor, and his doctor tries a few things but
nothing works. Finally the doctor says to him: "This is all in your
mind." and refers him to a psychiatrist.

After a few visits, the shrink confesses: "I am at a loss as to how you
could possibly be cured." Finally the psychiatrist refers him to a
witch
doctor.

The witch doctor says: "I can cure this." He throws some
powder on a flame, and there is a flash with billowing blue smoke. The
witch doctor says: "This is powerful healing, but you can only use it
once a year! All you have to do is say '1-2-3' and it shall rise for as
long as you wish!" The guy then asks the witch doctor: "What happens when it's over?"

The witch doctor says: "All you or your partner has to say
is '1234' and it will go down. But be warned; it will not work again
for a year!"

The guy goes home and that night he is ready to surprise his
wife with the good news. So, he is lying in bed with her and says:
"1-2-3" and suddenly he gets an erection.

His wife turns over and says: "What did you say '1-2-3' for?"

[FussyPucker]

#2054 - should my jokes come with a health warning ?

Why is the space between a women's breasts and her hips called a waist?
Because you could easily fit another pair of tits in there.

[FussyPucker]

#2055 - last for now ;)

A little guy goes into an elevator, looks up and sees this HUGE guy standing next to him. The big guy sees the little guy staring at him, looks down and says, "7 feet tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch penis, 3 pound left testicle, 3 pound right testicle, Turner Brown."

The small guy faints away and falls to the floor. The big guy kneels
down and brings him to, slapping his face and shaking him, "What's wrong with you?"

In a very weak voice the little guy says, "Excuse me, but what EXACTLY did you say to me?"

The big dude says, "I saw the curious look on your face and figured I'd just give you the answers to the questions everyone always asks me. I'm 7 feet tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch penis, 3 pound left testicle, 3 pound right testicle, and my name is Turner Brown."

The small guy says, "Thank God! I thought you said 'Turn Around'.

[MilkToast]

Originally posted by dadaist
I'm not sure how many people were getting it in their homes in 1992, as gopher was still the tool of choice (until the University of Minnesota decided it reserved the right to potentially charge a fee for its use). Officially, the program known as worldwideweb got started at CERN in 1990 (on a black NeXT Cube!).

#2007

granted, probably not the best choice of words to say that it started up for for home use. Looking at the information on W3C.org and the history it would be safe to say that it was the first year that it was trully available to the non developers (i.e. the public).



Now, this is from personal recollection.... At the time it was browsable by text only and HTTP still had not replaced my favorite pass time for getting stuff: FTP (wuarchive, still around, being one of my all time favorites). Once the first versions of the browsers became available (beta versions of NCSA mosaic) my focus shifted to putting up a very early web page and seeing what was out there.

Guess I was in the right place at the right time: a college kid with too much time and a dorm room that actually had ethernet wired to it in 1992. At the time we all actually had PCs "on the net" without the worry, or need, for a firewall :)

2056

[MilkToast]

and now I gotta go to work :(

2057

[GusAspar]

2058 - It's cloudy over Battersea this morning, but there is just enough sunlight to operate the solar-powered fountain on my garden pond.

[GusAspar]

2059 - Of course, I should have said "this afternoon" in that last message. Have a nice one, everybody.

[Cheyanne]

2060

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

2061~Good morning, Cheyanne. I don't know about you, but it's gorgeous in my part of Iowa. :)

[Kimberly73]

Good Morning....hope everyone had a great day..
#2062

[White Noise]

See, it's more fun without the numbers - so far away. But the fun in often in the journey

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2064~Honolulu has the only royal palace in the United States.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2065~The order of insects containing the most species is beetles.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2066~General Douglas MacArthur smoked a corn-cob pipe.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2067~The human body typically weighs 40 times more than the brain.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2068~Smirnoff supplied the imperial Russian court with vodka from 1886 to 1917.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2069~Michaelangelo carved the famed Medici tombs in Florence.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2070~Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's nose was made of gold.

[Steph]

2071

I studied Brahe in university. I loved the way my prof would pronounce his name - rolling the 'r' and stopping violently at the 'he'. Good times.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

2072~Bette Midler got her start in a gays' bath house in New York City.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

2073~The first man to appear on the cover of Playboy was Peter Sellers.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

2074~Theodore Roosevelt lost both his mother and his wife on Valentine's Day, 1884.

[dicksbro]

#2075

[FussyPucker]

#2076 - wubble

[IAKaraokeGirl]

<------thinks dicksbro must be listening to disco :D

#2077

[FussyPucker]

#2078 - something

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2079~Washington is the only U.S. state named for a president.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2080~The Model T Ford was nicknamed the Tin Lizzie.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2081~The second-largest planet in the solar system is Saturn.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2082~Dodgers and Cubs first baseman Chuck Connors dropped baseball to take up acting.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2083~The skin is by far the largest organ in the body.

[Steph]

2084

lunchtime for me

[dadaist]

#2085

[dadaist]

Curiously enough, Tim Berners-Lee, who started www at CERN, is in the news today:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58942,00.html

Note that they fluffed the date he started it. They give 1980, and it was 1990. NeXT didn't exist until 1985 :)

#2086

[Sharni]

#2087

[dadaist]

#2088

[dadaist]

#2089

[dadaist]

#2090

Come on lets keep it moving!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2091~The hardest substance in the human body is enamel.

[Sharni]

#2092

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2093~The African capital city Monrovia is named for U.S. President James Monroe.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2094~The best time of day to buy a pair of shoes is late afternoon.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2095~The left leg of a chicken is more tender.

[dadaist]

#2096

[huntersgirl]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
#2094~The best time of day to buy a pair of shoes is late afternoon.


#2097~~~~~bought 4 pairs yesterday afternoon! And that is so true, because you have been on your feet all day and they are more spread out...so if they are comfortable then, then they should be great all the time!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2098~Let's hear it for huntersgirl's new shoes! :cool:

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2099~Courtesy of MSN Learning and Research, the following are ten words you simply *must* know:

1. Defenestrate: "throw somebody or something out of window: to throw something or somebody out of a window (formal or humorous)"

It is quite entertaining to defenestrate paper airplanes

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2100~

2. Garbology: "study of waste materials: the study of a cultural group by an examination of what it discards"

Garbology might be a good career choice for dumpster divers. Recycling may make the job of future garbologists extremely difficult--they'll have less to study.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2101~

3. Digerati: "computer experts: people who have or claim to have a sophisticated expertise in the area of computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web"

Not too long ago, computer expertise was considered nerdy. These days, many people strive to be among the digerati.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2102~

4. Antipodes:
a. "places at opposite sides of world: places at opposite sides of the world from each other, or the areas at the side of the world opposite from a given place"
b. "opposites: two points, places, or things that are diametrically opposite each other"

One could say that Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli and Warren "Potsie" Weber are antipodes.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2103~

5. Hallux: "first digit on the foot: the big toe on the human foot, or the first digit on the hind foot of some mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians (technical)"

The ballerina had her hallux insured for $10 million!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2104~

6. Otiose:
1. "not effective: with no useful result or practical purpose"
2. "worthless: with little or no value"
3. "lazy: unwilling or uninterested in working or being active (archaic)"

Will e-mail render traditional letter writing otiose? Let's hope not.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2105~

7. Cullet: "glass to be recycled: broken or waste glass returned for recycling"

Don't forget to take the cullet out to the curbside, and be sure to put it next to the trash, not in it.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2106~

8. Pellucid:
a. "clear in meaning: easy to understand or clear in meaning (formal)"
b. "transparent: allowing all or most light to pass through (literary)"

The police officer's warning was pellucid: drivers must go the speed limit in the school zone.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2107~

9. Borborygmus: "stomach rumble: the rumbling sounds made by the movement of gases in the stomach and intestine (technical)"

If you lay your head on someone's stomach, you are likely to hear borborygmus

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2108~

10. Embrangle: "perplex somebody: to confuse, perplex, or entangle somebody or something (archaic)"

As Lord Needlebottom attempted to explain the rules of cricket, his American friends became more and more embrangled.

[dadaist]

Microsoft R&D: Apple Computer, Inc.

#2109

[dadaist]

According to the book Forgotten English, by Jeffrey Kacirk, a Treadmill was originally a punishment device. Prisoners would have to walk on constantly moving mill wheels. Sometimes the movement thus generated would be used in the actual milling or grinding of grains, like corn.

#2110

[dadaist]

Here's another one from Forgotten English and one I think Lilith will like:

A ferule is a flat-edged wooden switch or stick, used by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century schoolteachers to physically discipline students.

#2111

[dadaist]

From the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language comes THIS origin of the world Golf (which I hope will put that 'gentlemen only' crap to rest):


The Scottish origins of golf are there in the vocabulary. Golf itself is recorded in Scots English from the late 15th century, and various spelling suggest a pronunciation without an /l/, including gouff, goiff, goff, and gowff. The origins of the word are obscure. It is commonly thought to be a Dutch loanword, from colf, the name of a stick or club used in various striking games of the time, but there is no definitive evidence.
Other golf-related terms which first appear in Scots English are caddie (from French cadet, 'cadet') and links (a development of an Old English word meaning 'rising ground').


#2112

[dadaist]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
#2079~Washington is the only U.S. state named for a president.

Ah true, but what about the other 49?
Here we go (I'll start with Iowa, and then go alphabetically, just for IAKG).

Iowa is derived from a Dakota word for "the sleepy one."

(oh all explanations are sourced from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language)

#2113

[dadaist]

Alabama comes from a Choctaw word for "I open the thicket" (i.e. clear the land).

#2114

[dadaist]

#2115

Alaska comes from an Inuit word for 'great land'

[dadaist]

#2116

Arizona comes from a Papago word for 'place of the small spring'

[dadaist]

#2117

Arkansas (the only state, to my knowledge, with a law on the books for the pronunciation of the states name ('are-CAN-saw')) and Kansas are both derived from a Sioux term for "land of the south wind people"

[dadaist]

#2118

California comes from a Spanish term for "Earthly paradise"

(that was before all the smog in LA I would imagine ;) )

[dadaist]

#2119

Colorado is derived from the Spanish word for red (color of the earth).

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Originally posted by dadaist
Ah true, but what about the other 49?
Here we go (I'll start with Iowa, and then go alphabetically, just for IAKG).

Iowa is derived from a Dakota word for "the sleepy one."

(oh all explanations are sourced from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language)

#2113


#2120~I feel so special. :bfly:

[dadaist]

#2121

Connecticut comes from a Mohican word for 'at the long tidal river'.

[dadaist]

#2122

Delaware was named after the English governor Lord de la Warr

[dadaist]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
#2120~I feel so special. :bfly:

Yeah but do you feel sleepy? :P

#2123

[dadaist]

#2124

Florida comes from a Spanish term for "land of flowers"

[dadaist]

#2125

Georgia was named after King George II

[dadaist]

#2126

Hawaii is a Hawaiian term for "homeland"

These days I'm also seeing it spelled Hawai'i

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Originally posted by dadaist
Yeah but do you feel sleepy? :P

#2123


Actually, I'm a transplanted Kentucky girl, so we'll wait to see what that one says. :)

As an aside, there are many, many Indian names here in Iowa. The city I live in is the Indian word for "Land of Rippling Waters."

#2127

[dadaist]

#2128

Idaho is Shoshone for "light on the mountain"

[dadaist]

#2129

Illinois comes from Algonquian (via French) for "warriors"

[dadaist]

#2130

Indiana comes from English "land of the Indians"

[dadaist]

#2131 (Iowa would be next, alphabetically, see above)

Kansas follows Iowa, see Arkansas.

[dadaist]

#2132 Kentucky

It comes from an Iroquois word for 'meadow land'

[dadaist]

#2133

Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France.

[dadaist]

#2134

Maine is named after a French Province

[dadaist]

#2135

Maryland is named after Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I

[dadaist]

#2136

Massachusetts comes from an Algonquian word for 'place of the big hill'

[dadaist]

#2137

Michigan comes from a Chippewa word for 'big water'.

[dadaist]

#2138

Minnesota comes from a Dakota Sioux term for 'sky-colored water'.

[dadaist]

#2139

(damn telephone)

Mississippi (as an aside, studying the novel Sansibar, oder der letzte Grund in Germany and all the allusions to Huck Finn drove the Germans crazy, with all the Native American terms/spellings that I was quite used to. Oh well)

this one comes from the Chippewa for 'big river'

[dadaist]

#2140

Missouri (that's miz-oo-ree if you live north of the mason-dixon line, and miz-oo-ruh if you're south of it ;) ).

comes from an Algonquian word via French for 'muddy waters'

[dadaist]

#2141

Montana

comes from the Spanish for 'mountains'

[dadaist]

#2142

Nebraska comes from an Omaha term for 'river in the flatness'

[dadaist]

Nevada comes from the Spanish for snowy.

#2143

(numbers got off again, darn it)

[dadaist]

#2144

New Hampshire is named after an English county.

[dadaist]

#2145

New Jersey is named after Jersey, in the Channel islands.

[dadaist]

#2146

New Mexico is named after Mexico, which itself comes from the name of the Aztec war god, Mextli

[dadaist]

#2147

New York was named after the Duke of York (after the colony was taken from the Dutch).

[dadaist]

#2148

North and South Carolina are named after King Charles II

[dadaist]

#2149

North and South Dakota are named after a Sioux word for 'friend' (and the Dakota tribe).

[dadaist]

#2150

Ohio comes from an Iriquois word for 'beautiful water'

[dadaist]

#2151

Ooooooooooooooooooklahoma (sorry had a song come on there)....

Oklahoma (my native state) comes from a Choctaw word for 'red people'

[dadaist]

#2152

Oregon means you're out of Ore. Ore-gone.

No just kidding.

It comes from an Algonquian word for 'beautiful water' or 'beaver place' (researchers aren't sure which).

[dadaist]

#2153

Pennsylvania was named after William Penn and the Latin word for 'woodland'.

[dadaist]

#2154

Rhode Island comes from the Dutch for 'red clay'

[dadaist]

#2155

South Carolina and South Dakota would come next, in that order. See above.

[dadaist]

#2156

Tennessee comes from a Cherokee settlement name, origin unknown.

(as an aside, was it Tennessee or Kentucky that people wanted to name after Benjamin Franklin?)

[dadaist]

#2157

Texas (which as a republic had its own individual states once upon a time) comes from the Spanish for 'allies'

[dadaist]

#2158

Utah (which the Mormons wanted to name something else originally, but I forget what it was at the moment) comes from the Navaho for 'upper land' or 'land of the Ute'

[dadaist]

#2159

Vermont comes from the French for 'green mountain'

[dadaist]

#2160

Virginia (and West Virginia, which split off in 1863) were named after Queen Elizabeth I, the "virgin queen"

[dadaist]

#2161

Washingon and West Virginia would come next, respectively

[dadaist]

#2162

Wisconsin comes from the Algonquian for "grassy place" or "beaver place"

(someone sure had something for beavers....beaver pelts probably).

[dadaist]

#2163

And lastly, Wyoming.

Wyoming comes from the Algonquian for "place of the big flats"

But in an episode of Garfield & Friends it was said to mean "no state here" ;)

[dicksbro]

#2164

[dicksbro]

... and #2165 :D

[Christine]

# 2166

*eats popcorn*

[FussyPucker]

#2167 - *eats Christine*

[FussyPucker]

#2168 - :D

[Christine]

# 2169 :p

[FussyPucker]

#2170 *may be some time*

[Christine]

# 2171
Eat and be eaten

[FussyPucker]

#2172 - ooooooooooooo 69 !!!

[dicksbro]

#2173 ... hmmm ... why do I feel hungry?

[dicksbro]

#2174 ... dang, I love that avatar, Christine. Very, very sexy. :D

[Christine]

# 2175 Thanks! :D Can't take my eyes off yours!

[MilkToast]

Originally posted by dadaist
#2118

California comes from a Spanish term for "Earthly paradise"

(that was before all the smog in LA I would imagine ;) )

Possibly as a reference to a book.

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: cal·i·for·nia

Pronunciation: |kal|frny, -()n-, -n
Function: adjective
Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: from California, state in the western U.S., from Spanish, probably from the name of an island in the romance Las Sergas de Esplandian (1510), by García Ordóñez de Montalvo, 15th century Spanish writer

: of or from the state of California : of the kind or style prevalent in California : CALIFORNIAN <California weather>

--2176--

[dicksbro]

#2177

[MilkToast]

Originally posted by dadaist
#2119

Colorado is derived from the Spanish word for red (color of the earth).

Actually, the spanish word "colorado" is used to mean "to have color" and is usually associated with things having a red hue to them (i.e. people who are red in the face from being agry or that are blushing).

Just to make sure I recalled that right, I grew up speaking spanish, I cross checked it at:
http://www.diccionarios.com/index.phtml?query=colorado&diccionario=dgle

(one of the better free sites for castillian spanish to english, french, or catalan).

EDIT:
However, the more I look the more it appears that the word, when looked up in the Spanish to English dictionaries, comes up as "red". So, there is something to the original statement. I am pretty certain that in normal conversation one would not refer to things that are red as "colorado/a".

[dicksbro]

#2179. Boy, you learn something new every day at Pixies. I wonder if at some point Lilith will award us degrees?

Come to think of it, didn't we have a thread one time dealing with degrees we'd like to have? Hmmmm. Gotta think about that.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2180~The point value of the letter "k" in Scrabble is five.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2181~There are three land miles in a league.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2182~John Hancock passed the quill with the remark, "There, I guess King George can read that."

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2183~Pluto travels around the sun every 248 years.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2184~Noah's Ark is thought to have landed on Mount Ararat.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2185~Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years.

[dicksbro]

#2186 ... IAKG, if I ever play Trvial Pursuit ... will you be my partner? Please. :D

[dicksbro]

#2187 ... How about pretty please with sugar on top of it?

[Aqua]

#2188 Some of the best Avatars are in this thread

[Neige]

Originally posted by Aqua
#2188 Some of the best Avatars are in this thread

#2189
Guess I should add mine then :p

[dicksbro]

#2190. And a lovely one itis, PixieSprite. A lovely one, indeed. :)

[Neige]

#2191
Thanks :D The ever wonderful Lilith made it for me!

[Aqua]

# 2192 She is rather wonderful, isn't she? :D

[MilkToast]

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2,200

[MilkToast]

as of post 2201, reply 2000

IAKaraokeGirl leads the reply list at 422 replies

[MilkToast]

2202 - ?

[Eliza]

2203- Just stopping by...doing my part...

Eliza

[Eliza]

2204- for the cause....

[Eliza]

2205- Why are we doing this again??

[MilkToast]

2206 - they say it is fun, I say it is an addiction... I need to come up with the "trend" I want to post to this tonight...

though this time I will wait a little more between posts... yesterday I was out of control :)

[Eliza]

Originally posted by dadaist
#2153

Pennsylvania was named after William Penn and the Latin word for 'woodland'.


I knew this! Woo Hoo! I finially knew one of these little bits of trivia!

Eliza

[Eliza]

Originally posted by MilkToast
2206 - they say it is fun, I say it is an addiction... I need to come up with the "trend" I want to post to this tonight...

though this time I will wait a little more between posts... yesterday I was out of control :)

You know you're out of control when they give you that "you can't post but every 30 thirty seconds" warning message.:spin:

[Eliza]

2209 I think..

[MilkToast]

2210 - yup, you're count is still right :D

[MilkToast]

that last post was my 747th... aircraft may have to be the theme tonight....

[denny]

2211 - What is it about Eliza's avatar?

[dadaist]

Originally posted by MilkToast
Actually, the spanish word "colorado" is used to mean "to have color" and is usually associated with things having a red hue to them (i.e. people who are red in the face from being agry or that are blushing).

Just to make sure I recalled that right, I grew up speaking spanish, I cross checked it at:
http://www.diccionarios.com/index.phtml?query=colorado&diccionario=dgle

(one of the better free sites for castillian spanish to english, french, or catalan).

EDIT:
However, the more I look the more it appears that the word, when looked up in the Spanish to English dictionaries, comes up as "red". So, there is something to the original statement. I am pretty certain that in normal conversation one would not refer to things that are red as "colorado/a".

Hey, everything was prefaced with an attribution to source for a reason. :p

#2212

[dadaist]

#2213

I'm close to hitting 600 total posts, and most of them have been in this thread.
What a surprise.

[jennaflower]

2214...

WOW...

and even the 1000000 post won't feel that good. :)

[Steph]

2215

Why won't the 100000 feel that good?

[Steph]

2216

Since I'm one of the few people up this late, maybe I should pick up the slack a bit and post here for a while?

[Steph]

2217

Maybe it would screw up PF's data for a day?

[Steph]

2218

I still think it's crazy

[Steph]

2219

You go to work and when you come back, there are hundreds of posts to this thread.

[dicksbro]

#2221 ... I think the count missed one between 2210 and 2211.

[dicksbro]

#2222 ... just had to do this one while I was here. :)

[Eliza]

Originally posted by denny
2211 - What is it about Eliza's avatar?



I don't know hun...what is it? And more importantly..do you like it?


Eliza

[Steph]

2224

The 2222 matched your bum movements, db!

[FussyPucker]

2225- morning all I'm sooooooooooooo tired dunno why I slelpt great last night.......got up a little late though :(

[Sharni]

#2226

[Christine]

#2227

[Sharni]

#2228

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2229~Good morning, all!

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2230~Today in History:


1934 Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police

Famed fugitives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are killed in a police ambush near Sailes, Louisiana. A contingent of officers from Texas and Louisiana set up along the highway, waiting for Bonnie and Clyde to appear, and then unloaded a two-minute fusillade of 187 bullets at their car, killing the criminal couple.

Bonnie Parker was 19 years old when she met Clyde Barrow while visiting her husband in a Texas jail. Barrow, serving time for burglary, obviously made quite an impression on Parker, because she smuggled a gun, taped to her thigh, into prison to help him escape. He was eventually caught in Ohio and brought back to prison. When a personal appeal from his mother to the Texas governor earned his release in 1932, he vowed never to return.
Bonnie and Clyde teamed up shortly thereafter. After Bonnie was caught stealing a car, she had to spend three months in prison, while Clyde went on a robbery spree. He then killed a sheriff and deputy at a barn dance in Oklahoma. In the fall of 1932, the pair spent their time carrying out small-time robberies throughout Texas and Oklahoma. At one such robbery, they picked up W. D. Jones, a gas station attendant, who joined their team for the next 18 months. Buck Barrow, Clyde's brother who was recently pardoned by the new Texas governor, Ma Ferguson, also joined the gang.

For some reason, the media latched onto Bonnie and Clyde, who were nicknamed "Suicide Sal" and "Texas Rattlesnake," respectively. The pair loved the attention, posing for snapshots with their arsenal of weapons. In early 1934, they barely escaped a trap in Missouri, killing two lawmen in the ensuing shootout. Buck and his wife, Blanche, were shot and captured, but Buck died from his wounds. Texas Ranger Frank Hamer finally caught up with Bonnie and Clyde in May, after tracking them for more than three months.

Today, Bonnie and Clyde have an unwarranted reputation as charming Robin Hoods, mostly due to the sympathetic personalities portrayed in the 1967 classic movie Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2231~The center of a tennis net is three feet high.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2232~Howdy Doody's sister's name was Heidi Doody.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2233~Adolf Hitler studied art in Liverpool.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2234~Dopey is the only one of the seven dwarfs without a beard.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2235~Long John Silver had a parrot named Captain Flint.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2236~You can't catch a cold at the North Pole.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2237~Vitamin C is also called ascorbic acid.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2238~The closely-cut grass that surrounds a golf green is called the apron.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2239~The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the world's deepest at 36,198 feet.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

#2240~The only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes is Marie Curie.

[Lilith]

2241

I:D

[Christine]

# 2242
I just bit my tongue...:bite:

[FussyPucker]

#2243 - When's it my turn to bite your tongue Christine ?

[Christine]

#2244 I really think Lou should answer that question. :p

[FussyPucker]

#2245 - well she's at work...I wont tell her if you don't ;)




(Lou when you read this I'm joking please can I have my testicles back.......lou.....LOU...... please put the sharp knife away!!)

[dicksbro]

#2246

[dicksbro]

#2247 ... just skipping through bringing our count up ... jump in whenever you want to. :D

[dicksbro]

#2248

[dicksbro]

#2249 ... one more