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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    So tired but got to work 

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:

    I am from Massachusetts, but I don't pronounce things like Bostonians pronounce them.  For example the town Billerica...for some reason they omit the e and pronounce it Bill Ricka!  I still don't understand that one.  Oh, well.  indecision

    Dana

    Do they say Am Ricka?

    No, thankfully.  laugh 

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    Humpty Dumpty was some egghead who cracked up and was never right again.  Sort of like me. devil

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Tjohn said:

    Ankle paining me, keeping me awake. Sad, missing my parents. Sigh...

    sad  I hope you feel better soon.  Broken image link there.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    ps1borg said:

    Well we got Gnowangerup (W.A) , Patchewollock (Vic) and Tuggeranong (ACT)  but my favourite is Yooragoodadoo, a kinda flower sometimes called a Desert Pea or Swainsona after some guy who'd never seen them before back in the day

    What a cool looking plant!

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    Tammy is a proper name.  I always wonder about the others, though.  Also, what about Ted from Edward?  I had a boss named Ted, but he took that name himself.  His first name was Thomas.  He took the initials of his name and called himself Ted.  But the famous Senator Ted Kennedy was actually Edward Kennedy.  Never understood that, either.

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Ankle paining me, keeping me awake. Sad, missing my parents. Sigh...

    sad  I hope you feel better soon.  Broken image link there.

    Dana

    Thanks. Just that moonlight depression thing I suspect we all get. smiley

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:

    Well we got Gnowangerup (W.A) , Patchewollock (Vic) and Tuggeranong (ACT)  but my favourite is Yooragoodadoo, a kinda flower sometimes called a Desert Pea or Swainsona after some guy who'd never seen them before back in the day

    What a cool looking plant!

    Dana

    yes Looks very alien.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

    That answers some questions.  Well, it actually puts more questions.  They do say that these are theories.  Medieval Brits were odd, eh?

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

    That answers some questions.  Well, it actually puts more questions.  They do say that these are theories.  Medieval Brits were odd, eh?

    Dana

     

    no kings involved?

    Cromwell was a king, i think.  a king without a sense of humor.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653

    Just got done watching the series "Hinterland" ("y gwyl" or something like that in Welsh) that is set and filmed in Wales.  Seems everytime it was night it was raining and the characters were standing in the rain unpreturbed.  Is that normal over there?  Isn't there some saying about mad dogs, and rain?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,475
    MistyMist said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

    That answers some questions.  Well, it actually puts more questions.  They do say that these are theories.  Medieval Brits were odd, eh?

    Dana

     

    no kings involved?

    Cromwell was a king, i think.  a king without a sense of humor.

    Cromwell was not a king, and would probably have been insulted by the suggestion. He led the Parliamentary side in the Civil War, which defeated the Royalists and beheaded Charles I. After that Britain was a republic until after his death and the restoration (Charles II) at which point Cromwell's mortal remains were treated with great disrespect.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    how do they derive Chuck from Charles?

     

    6 minutes clock out time.  butter pee canns waiting at home smiley

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Chuck from Charles?

     

    6 minutes clock out time.  butter pee canns waiting at home smiley

    Did you read the link I posted? Charles/Chuck is in there. smiley

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    I really hope what I want to watch tonight is on NBC instead of just a channel I do not get.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Thunderheads circling like a mob of sharks around a shipwreck overhead to the north and west, looks like there will be storms later on :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

    That answers some questions.  Well, it actually puts more questions.  They do say that these are theories.  Medieval Brits were odd, eh?

    Dana

    proves the second law of thermodynamics anyhow :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Ankle paining me, keeping me awake. Sad, missing my parents. Sigh...

    sad  I hope you feel better soon.  Broken image link there.

    Dana

    +1 and seeing da sad kitteh here :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Thunderheads circling like a mob of sharks around a shipwreck overhead to the north and west, looks like there will be storms later on :)

    ...we had a bit of thunder here the other day. Rare, especially this late in the year.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    It's Friday already? What happened to the week?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    PowerBall - NEXT JACKPOT: $320MILLION  surprise would be so nice to win  lol

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Chuck from Charles?

     

    6 minutes clock out time.  butter pee canns waiting at home smiley

    Did you read the link I posted? Charles/Chuck is in there. smiley

     

    this one?  http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames   smiley

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    MistyMist said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Chuck from Charles?

     

    6 minutes clock out time.  butter pee canns waiting at home smiley

    Did you read the link I posted? Charles/Chuck is in there. smiley

     

    this one?  http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames   smiley

    Yeppers.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complaiiinnnttt  debugging my lovely accessdatabase.  encountered a record locking bug when richtext memofield is over 2k characters.  dohhhhhhh

    seems they've known about it since access 2007.  they don't tell ya these things in the help pages

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames

    Humpty came from the old riddle. The answer was: an egg.

    Tammy comes from feminine of Thomas, meaning "twin".

    That answers some questions.  Well, it actually puts more questions.  They do say that these are theories.  Medieval Brits were odd, eh?

    Dana

    proves the second law of thermodynamics anyhow :)

    Hehe!  laugh 

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Ankle paining me, keeping me awake. Sad, missing my parents. Sigh...

    sad  I hope you feel better soon.  Broken image link there.

    Dana

    +1 and seeing da sad kitteh here :)

    I see it now.  It wasn't showing when I posted that, though.

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    MistyMist said:

    PowerBall - NEXT JACKPOT: $320MILLION  surprise would be so nice to win  lol

     

    ...Oregon Megabucks Saturday Jackpot:  6.5$ million.  On the 30 year annuity plan that would be a nice retirement package.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    Tjohn said:

    ...Smushface!!!!!  (actually know a pug that goes by that name)

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