Posted on 07/01/2004 1:35:00 PM PDT by Junior
ROTFLMAO
ROTFLMAO AGAIN
It means they were 50% bigger than today's hippos. Probably should be "half again as big"...
Nothing has helped this woman. Botox treatments, face lift, she's still homely as a horse's rear end.
"half as big again" Another way of phrasing "half again as big," or "one and half times the size of."
I saw a documentary on fossils they found in the US. Volcanoes. Animals nearby died from suffocation by the ash,
or the ash depth made it impossible to move to food and water so they starved.
Animals further away died from "black lung" (actual medical term is the longest word in English - volcanopneumothora...).
So, no, it wasn't humans or SUVs. But you already knew that.
No, they are correct.
"Half *again* as big" means as 1.5x as big.
"Again" refers to starting with 1x. Then you add "half" to make it 1.5.
volcanopneumothora
disestablismentalism
Well, the 2nd word is longer when you write in fonts where each letter is the same width. :)
The whole issue, of course is
pseudointellectualism
They always used to say the longest word was "antiestablishmentarianism".
My bad: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Is that longer than supercalifragilisticexpialidosious?
I thought you meant just your garden variety pneumonomicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
Ohhh, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The way your lungs sound with it is really quite atrocious,
It's not really glacier flow, jus' pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!!!
Actually, I don't know what happened to all of my posting but I did say,
Anyway, it's all simply pseudointellectualism,
a very common flaw among antidisestablismentarianists.
I guess I wasn't supposed to add the "dis."
(Famous last words of Baghdad Bob.)
O, and the distinction of course, is that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is terminology (or jargon), where as antiestablishmentarianism is, supposedly, regular English.
Some people don't like including jargon because, for instance, organic chemistry names can become endless. For instance, you can specify each quirk of a nucleic acid, adding a complex prefix to each step. (Although, by common American conventions, hyphens and even commas are typically added in the middle of words to make them more readable!)
Picture relacing each of the 4 Sodiums in tetrasodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (a common shampoo ingredient) with a different base. It gets real ugly, real quick.
But that's me.
I thought it was more impressive to determine how things died millions of years ago.
My best fossil find was a fern in slate(shale?) as a 10year-old or there abouts.
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