Posted on 03/29/2020 12:29:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
In. Starting to get exciting...
I love Pompeo’s tweet. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for bringing it over.
In before my waist size...
Multiple meanings
Six feet apart
excerpts
Six (relating)
“sex” - Latin (trafficking????)
“little difference”
“hazarding all one’s chances,”
“exposed to great risk”
“left unsettled.”
foot
“pay the entirety of”
“add up and set the sum at the foot of”
Apart
“to grant, allot”
https://www.etymonline.com/word/six etymonline_v_23585
six (adj., n.)
“1 more than five, twice three; the number which is one more than five; a symbol representing this number;” Old English siex, six, sex, from Proto-Germanic *seks (source also of Old Saxon and Danish seks, Old Norse, Swedish, and Old Frisian sex, Middle Dutch sesse, Dutch zes, Old High German sehs, German sechs, Gothic saihs), from PIE *s(w)eks (source also of Sanskrit sas, Avestan kshvash, Persian shash, Greek hex, Latin sex, Old Church Slavonic sesti, Polish;, Russian shesti, Lithuanian šeši, Old Irish se, Welsh chwech).
Six-shooter, usually a revolver with six chambers, is first attested 1844; six-pack of beverage containers is from 1952, of abdominal muscles by 1995. Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other “little difference” is recorded from 1833. Six-figure in reference to hundreds of thousands (of dollars, etc.) is from 1840. Six feet under “dead” is from 1942.
Phrase at sixes and sevens originally was “hazarding all one’s chances,” first in Chaucer, perhaps from dicing (the original form was on six and seven); it could be a corruption of at cinque and sice “exposed to great risk” (1530s), literally “at five and six,” using the French names (which were common in Middle English) for the highest numbers on the dice. Meaning “at odds, in disagreement or confusion” is from 1785, perhaps via a notion of “left unsettled.”
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foot (n.)
“terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal,” Old English fot “foot,” from Proto-Germanic (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Danish fod, Swedish fot, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus “foot”), from PIE root *ped- “foot.” Plural form feet is an instance of i-mutation.
The linear measure was in Old English (the exact length has varied over time), this being considered the length of a man’s foot; a unit of measure used widely and anciently. In this sense the plural is often foot. The current inch and foot are implied from measurements in 12c. English churches (Flinders Petrie, “Inductive Metrology”), but the most usual length of a “foot” in medieval England was the foot of 13.2 inches common throughout the ancient Mediterranean. The Anglo-Saxon foot apparently was between the two. All three correspond to units used by the Romans, and possibly all three lengths were picked up by the Anglo-Saxons from the Romano-Britons. “That the Saxon units should descend to mediæval times is most probable, as the Normans were a ruling, and not a working, class.” [Flinders Petrie, 1877]. The medieval Paul’s Foot (late 14c.) was a measuring standard cut into the base of a column at the old St. Paul’s cathedral in London. The metrical foot (late Old English, translating Latin pes, Greek pous in the same sense) is commonly taken to represent one rise and one fall of a foot: keeping time according to some, dancing according to others.
In Middle English also “a person” (c. 1200), hence non-foot “nobody.” Meaning “bottom or lowest part of anything eminent or upright” is from c. 1200. Of a bed, grave, etc., from c. 1300. On foot “by walking” is from c. 1300. To get off on the wrong foot is from 1905 (the right foot is by 1907); to put one’s best foot foremost first recorded 1849 (Shakespeare has the better foot before, 1596); Middle English had evil-foot (adv.) “through mischance, unluckily.” To put one’s foot in (one’s) mouth “say something stupid” is attested by 1942; the expression put (one’s) foot in something “make a mess of it” is from 1823. To have one foot in the grave “be near death” is from 1844. Colloquial exclamation my foot! expressing “contemptuous contradiction” [OED] is attested by 1923, probably euphemistic for my ass in the same sense, which dates to 1796 (also see eyewash).
foot (v.)
c. 1400, “to dance,” also “to move or travel on foot,” from foot (n.). From mid-15c. as “make a footing or foundation.” To foot a bill “pay the entirety of” is attested from 1848, from the process of tallying the expenses and writing the figure at the bottom (”foot”) of the sheet; foot (v.) as “add up and set the sum at the foot of” is from late 15c. (compare footnote (n.)). The Old English verb gefotian meant “to hasten up.” Related: Footed; footing.
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apart (adv.)
“to or at the side; by itself, away from others,” late 14c., from Old French a part (Modern French à part) “to the side,” from Latin ad “to” (see ad-) + partem, accusative of pars “a part, piece, a faction, a part of the body” (from PIE root *pere- (2) “to grant, allot”). The first element is probably felt in English as a- as in abroad, ahead (see a- (1)). As an adjective from 1786.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee...holy cow and glory be! I almost went by the new open thread and I would have been lost in FESTIVAL...THANK YOU for rescuing me Damsel of the dragons!
LEX
Mark
I am a great friend and admirer of the Queen & the United Kingdom. It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2020
In!
In before the number of insipid, insane Tweets posted by celebrities this week.
It looks like a new thread.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Kekistan is everywhere.
QOVFEFE™
IN!
IN!...for maybe an hour. You caught me inshore trying to catch up with the news.
This is still the “Sovereign citizen” delusion, even here on the new thread.
saved....Festival is mild here compared to out beyond the trees...in some cases it starts off as Festival and works it’s way down from there...
Thanks for making this continue happen...
Best cat gif yet!
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