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"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! For ten years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied, and diddled these colonies with their illegal taxes! Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts! …" John Adams from the show 1776. Dialogue taken from historical documents, with some license. I love the phrase, "gulled, cullied, and diddled".
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 !!!!!!
One of the albums I have on my phone includes a song by Joan Jett ("Wonderin'") which I'm sure also borrows from John Adams. It's very similar to "Is anybody there?"
I haven't yet gotten around to ripping the soundtrack album to mp3.
modified 30-Aug-19 11:28am.
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Which song/album is that?
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Wonderin' .. it's on YouTube
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I'm wonderin' is anyone out there? I'm wonderin' does anyone care? I'm wonderin' does anyone see what I see? Or is it just me?
Cool. Thanks.
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Well, the word politician comes from the greek polites, meaning citizen. Of a Polis which is a city in greek.
So a City of politicians?
Nah, I like Daniels version better.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: the word politician comes from the greek polites, meaning citizen
And here I thought it came from poly, the Greek prefix for "many", and tics, small bloodsucking animals.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A cell of politicians, since that's where so many of them belong.
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With apologies to H.P. a turgid mass of ichorous blasphemy?
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Lie" is most appropriate, not compound terms.
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Are they off on a golfing junket again?
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Forogar wrote: Flock of Geese
Wouldn't that be a gaggle or skein of geese.
But I never wave bye bye
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You are the Winner! The first person to spot my deliberate error. No-one else noticed.
As a prize you may take the title of "Collective Noun Person of the Week" with all rights and privileges therein encompassed.
Note: This title renews every Saturday so make the most of it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A moneysuck of politicians
ex "Today, on capital hill, a moneysuck of politicians passed a new spending bill ..."
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I would have thought a conspiracy of politicians would be an obvious choice.
These things are called terms of venery.
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I think the dictionaries have got there first: A lie, an odium or an equivocation of politicians. I'm happy with any of those.
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Hi All,
Had an interesting issue a piece of simulation software of our design, used to simulate products we have to interface to which are too big, expensive, heavy to use a real one of in dev. I had sent a message the sim, it hadn't picked it up while the Web mimic said it was displaying the sign wasn't.
This is not the first time I have seen this issue the first time when a member of the dev team came to see it. I obediently followed the steps that led to the fail and it didn't, so now I look even more like the Lemon they think I am...
Bad Words
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Quote: I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
I'm turnin' my head up and down
I'm turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin' around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
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Are you quoting song lyrics?
modified 29-Aug-19 10:35am.
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Nope. Never heard it before in my life.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, then it must be a Dutch thing I think, we Dutch have many thingies that you don't have
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I did some research and it turns out this song was a major hit in the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. But strangely enough not in the Netherlands.
Lemon Tree (Fool's Garden song) - Wikipedia[^]
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