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Did feathered dinosaurs exist?
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| 10 October 2005
| David Greenberg
Posted on 10/10/2005 3:58:29 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: VadeRetro
Changing the subject entirely, I took high school German in a small class with two native speakers. I only learned three words of German, and gefübart wasn't one of them. In fact it only gets one hit in google.
Where did you learn German?
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posted on
10/10/2005 9:22:09 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: js1138
In fact it only gets one hit in google. Can't imagine how it gets even one, given that I made it up the other night. I noticed you used it correctly, however.
I "learned" German serving two years in Berlin, 1972-1974 for the USAF. Never got very good at it, especially since I was under pressure to get much better at another language for much of that time. What I learned is GI pidgin German.
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posted on
10/10/2005 9:26:12 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: js1138
OK, I checked your one hit. No wonder you used it correctly!
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posted on
10/10/2005 9:30:11 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: js1138
gefübart = FUBARed. A word in your post of the other night suggested it.
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posted on
10/10/2005 9:32:42 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: VadeRetro
As in, "My computer is so FUBARed I see no option but to reformat again."
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posted on
10/10/2005 9:34:57 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: Stone Mountain
He pissed off someone who complained to a mod.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:28:17 AM PDT
by
Junior
(From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
To: VadeRetro
That's what I thought, but it was interesting to find your neologism used by a native speaker on a German forum.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:30:39 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: VadeRetro
The only "original" thing I've ever come up with is the Emperor of Utopia, Heili Unlikli.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:36:21 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: VadeRetro
GI pidgin German. Vee Gates?
(maybe one of Bill's kids?)
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posted on
10/10/2005 11:52:21 AM PDT
by
narby
(Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
To: Stone Mountain
Modernman is gone? Damn. What happened?He questioned orthodoxy about the nature of homosexuality in a homosexual agenda thread. He believes that not all homosexuals can be "cured" even if they wanted to be. Apparently openly professing such a belief (which I do not comment on either way) is enough to get you banned. He was accused of promoting the homosexual agenda.
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posted on
10/10/2005 11:55:19 AM PDT
by
Thatcherite
(Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
To: narby
At least I didn't pronounce "U-Bahn" (the subway) the same as Yuban coffee. My squadron's First Sergeant did.
("Ooo-bon")
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posted on
10/10/2005 11:57:03 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: PatrickHenry
To: PatrickHenry
Can't we just drive down to the new creationist theme parks and look?
They have living dinosaurs.
To: Thatcherite
That's sad. Sad and unnecessary. Thanks for the info.
To: js1138
If your gun jams you don't need birth control. And I was teasing YOU for not getting jokes. Just got this one. (Shakes head.)
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posted on
10/10/2005 3:07:41 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: VadeRetro
I spent a year at Hahn Flugplatz tending F-4Es between 1976 and 1978. Didn't learn very much german then, but I took several business trips back there in the last few years. Got a CD on german, and got out "on the economy" more in those trips than I did in the 70's.
The thing I regret not doing was traveling to Berlin back then and crossing over into the east. There was an effort going on to persuade us to make trips over there so we could keep established our right to do so. But I wouldn't have been able to take my family, and I'd have had to sew stripes on my Class A's, so I didn't do it.
I finally made the trip to Berlin a couple of years ago. Saw the "Checkpoint Charlie" museum. You'd be hard pressed to find where the wall was in the city, but I think I caught a glimpse of it from the train on the trip through. Apparently that's the only place it still exists is through farm fields outside of town.
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posted on
10/10/2005 4:56:24 PM PDT
by
narby
(Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
To: narby
I was extremely
discouraged from visiting across the wall, as in "threatened with prison."
One of the most emotional moments in my life was watching the Berliners dancing atop that wall in early 1989, around New Years if I recall. One guy wailing away on a trombone still sticks in my mind. It was a two shirtsleve moment at the time and I can still get a little choked and misty just remembering.
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:07:44 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
To: VadeRetro
In re of nothing, there's a moose call so effective the manufacturer encloses a birth-control pill in the event your gun jams. LOL!!
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:18:18 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
(Certified pedantic coxcomb)
To: narby
I saw a RoadRunner bird yesterday at close range. Those things look for all the world like you'd think a theropod dino would. Even has a nice little crown on its head like some dinos. They even *move* like you'd think a dino would. Parrots sometimes get neurotic syndromes (or perhaps skin disorders) which cause them to eventually pluck out all of their own feathers. I've seen quite a few naked parrots as a result of this, and they look very distinctly reptilian. You could do a few close-up videos, and use them as stand-ins for nightmarish dinosaurs in some low-budget remake of "Land of the Lost".
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:22:24 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
(Certified pedantic coxcomb)
To: VadeRetro
Did feathered dinosaurs exist? Yes. It must be true! Didn't George Flintstone have a fine feathered pet? Dino!
http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/index.php
(Sorry frustrating day at work with some dinosaur brains!) LOL
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:25:37 PM PDT
by
phantomworker
(Boldness has genius, power and magic in it... Begin it now!)
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