Plurals, faux-Latin and other terribly important rubbish

[Posh Tourer :P]

Hey......
1) named after grandfather - not that parents had any choice, he named me himself
2)weird variation on a standard name
3)have to spell it all the time

[MikeL]

[QUOTE=Posh Tourer :P]weird variation on a standard name
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It's not weird, it's Dutch. Great people, the Dutch. Good linguists (they all speak English, French and German...), hard workers, solid middle-class values..
And they invented... er, um... they invented... um...
Let me get back to you on that one.
Oh, yes, the compact cassette.
Philips make great electronic products. Even if they are manufactured in China now...

[pete376403]

Philips had a helluva lot to do with the invention and development of the compact disc, to, did they not? I'm sure that cancels out any involvement they may have had with the cassette.

BTW, do you recall the double sided video cassette Philips tried - video 2000 IIRC. Nearly bought one of their machines, then at the last minute was seduced by a Sharp VHS. It had front loading (gasp) when everything else was top loading

[jrandom]

And they invented... er, um... they invented... um...

Economics, or the practice thereof at least. If you take the content of Neal Stephenson's most recent historical novels as gospel, anyway, with Amsterdam being the first real Western European center of trade and 'finance' in the modern sense.

He *does* have a good reputation for research, so I suspect he got the broad strokes right in the Baroque Cycle.

Anyone with more seventeenth-century European history between their ears than I would be welcome to comment...

[Jackrat]

Hello Jackrat, I have a toyota corolla it's a ceres and has a 1600cc motor, 20 valves and considering it's cc rating is anything but gutless, if you compare cars of similar cc ratings you will have to admit your opinion is unfair in this matter, as for reliabilty, and good value, you really can't go past a toyota, we have also had hiace vans for the past 10 years and they really can't be beaten for reliability and comfort. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion, mine happens to be based on experience, my husband is an a grade mechanic and does not like to have to work on his own vehicles, having toyotas means he rarely has to, they just don't have design flaws. Or 'issues'

Well yeah I've owned a number of Toyotas,they've been exellent cars,They also have as much soul as a bean can.The Tercel being the male of the most powerfull bird of prey on the planet is just not a suitable name for any car let alone a small middle of the road four.The Perigrine Falcon is no toyota of the bird world.
Sorry but no car deseves a name like that,it's a very sick joke

[Holy Roller]

Anybody here named after their parents??
I am and I think it's like calling your dog "Dog"
Even my grand father had the same name.
If I'd had a son I sure as hell wouldn't have done that to him.

My middle name was my dad's but when mum remarried and our stepfather adopted us it was changed along with my surname just when I was starting highschool

[Posh Tourer :P]

It's not weird, it's Dutch. Great people, the Dutch. Good linguists (they all speak English, French and German...), hard workers, solid middle-class values..
And they invented... er, um... they invented... um...

Clogs?

[Ghost Lemur]

Clogs?

Or frugility(sp?)(?).

My gf's father is dutch, and pasonifies(sp?) tight-fistedness.

No telephone, walks in the snow barefoot. Looks like a wildman even though he's a scientist. The guy even took down my licence plate when I went to pick up the gf from his place... Wouldn't have been so bad if we hadn't already been dating for almost a year. LOL

Very strange people.

*To all now highly offended Dutch members: My tongue is firmly embedded in my cheek.*

[Milky]

I am still offended... no matter where your tongue was placed. But then i can take some sort of pleasure from the fact that i am not, nor ever will be, british

[Posh Tourer :P]

Or frugility(sp?)(?).

Frugality.

and pasonifies(sp?) Looks like a wildman even though he's a scientist.

Personifies.

All scientists look like wildmen. It was probably more that than the dutchness

Very strange people.

*To all now highly offended Dutch members: My tongue is firmly embedded in my cheek.*[/QUOTE]

Must be an interesting phenomenon. Have you tried to pull it out or will it need surgery? :P

[Posh Tourer :P]

Ever read 1066 and all that? Remember that the dutch admiral von Trompet blew his trompet all the way up some river that was supposed to be highly guarded by the most excellent british navy?

If you havent read the book, I definitely recommend it. "1066 and all that" Cant remember the author, perhaps milky can look it up

[Hitcher]

Austin Powers' dad said it all about the Dutch!

[MikeL]

If you havent read the book, I definitely recommend it. "1066 and all that" Cant remember the author, perhaps milky can look it up

Must be out of print by now, surely.
Read it at school, thought it hilarious.
I wonder whether it has stood the test of time...

[Lou Girardin]

The Dutch were the Masters of sea trade, that's why no-one wanted to seriously annoy them. The French and Spanish were mainly interested in looting their colonies.
The Poms were keen on looting the French and Spanish merchantmen.
It's the food chain all over again.