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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    Mistara said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Tjohn said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    No talk about number two on the forums.

    Well crap.

    True that.

    I brought my computer with me to find out it is at half battery level and I left my charger at home.

     

    what if we spelled it like 'crappe'  is classier laugh

    It's quite interesting to note that there are 2 different words, meaning 2 different things.   In the US the word came into common usage after a gentleman with the name of Thomas Crapper heavily promoted sanitary plumbing and pioneered the concept of the bathroom fittings showroom.  He became famous when he got his first royal warrant from the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, who asked him to provide the plumbing for Sandringham, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures.  This was in the 1880s and the aforementioned word came into common parlance in the US in the early 20th century.  It must be noted that Thomas Crapper did not invent the flushing toilet but did promote their use and manufactured and sold many, all embossed with the legend "Thomas CRAPPER and Company". This is the reason that the toilet became known as the crapper,  in much the same way as the name Hoover became synonymous with Vacuum cleaners.

    However in the UK there is, or rather was, an older English word, The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish.

     

    crap shoot has something to do with dice game i think

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204
    ...and tasty when fillteted, the fillettes rolled in a bit of flour, and tossed in the skillet.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,281
    edited August 2018
    kyoto kid said:
    ...I had trouble with opera openings as well. Usually tickets were sold out or what few were left were in the far back under the balcony. Also ticket prices were usually higher than the matinee performances and you had to "dress to the nines" rather than show up in just a nice jacket, shirt, slacks, and shoes.

    I'm not a fan of opera.  Tried it a few times.  Meh.  indecision  But never had trouble opening it.

    That being said, I've also never been to an opera opening either.  But I have been to a few operas.  For some reason I seemed to end up at "Marriage of Figaro" at the Kennedy Center or other venues a surprising number of times (3). surprise  It's not bad for an opera.  I went so many times because I was either being taken to the opera, or I was taking someone to the opera.  And it'a pretty safe one to see, at least the music was Mozart.yes  I also made it to Puccini's  comic opera "Gianni Schicchi" at a theater on the campus of Georgetown University.   Friend of mine from work was in it.  Meh. indecision  We also saw "Phantom of the Opera" in London but that doesn't really count as an "opera". indecision  I've seen Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" a couple times. smiley  Oh, and one more.  We saw Rimsky-Korsakov's "Млада" ("Mlada") performed by the Bolshoi Opera Company at Woftrap west of Washington DC.  yes

    I just don't get jazzed up about opera.  I like the great music from some of them but I find it terribly tedious to have to watch the stupid plots and listen to all the ungreat music they also contain.  And I positively detest the screeching women in some of them (especially Wagner).  I just don't know why people think screeching like a drowning banshee is good music.    "It ain't over until the fat lady screeches." -- apologies to Anonymous.  I get my doses of Wagner as music only.  I've got a great CD called "Wagner Without Words". laugh

    There's a fabulous speech made by a famous female opera singer and she condenses the plot of one of her operas to a short hilarious expose of the innanity of it.  If you know of it or if I find it, I'll bring it up again sometime.

    DIDN'T FIND IT: At least not the one I was looking for but here's something similar and funny. Summarizing the whole obscenely long (20 hour) series of Wagner operas known as The Ring Cycle. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7G92F2sqs

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204
    edited August 2018
    ...Carl Maria von Weber was interesting in that his operas were more like musicals as there was also spoken dialogue. I do like the music from Wagner's Ring cycle (also know enough German to understand rhe lyrics). Not into Italian opera as yes, that tends to be the overly showy stuff for the soloists.
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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,281
    edited August 2018

    Oops, I completely forgot my most incredible opera experience.  Same time period that we were in London, we were also in Amsterdam and I saw that Verdi's "Aida" (pronounced Eye-eeda) was playing there.  I stopped at a ticket booth somewhere in the middle of old town Amsterdam either Dam Square or near Central Station.  That year (1991) the opera company was a fragment of the original HUGE performance that had been staged in front of the Pyramids in Egypt previously.  The opera company had split into several sub-companies and started touring various countries around the world.  I happened to catch the one in Amsterdam.

    The show was performed in an indoor soccer arena called Sporthallen Zuid,  south of the city.  They used the entire field to stage parts of the show, like for the massing army scene.  And there were huge wire frame props representing some of the pyramids and palace architecture.  At some points there were fireworks.  The number of people in the cast must have been in the hundreds (lots of soldiers).  And when the lead female singer made her entrance she came down the aisle of the stadium seats right next to me.  She stopped about 1/3 the way down the aisle, right next to me, on the end of the row, and sang her entire aria right there, right next to me.  I could have reached out and touched her dress.  It was an unforgetable experience, that I forgot to mention in my last post. frown  I still have the program from that performance and I bought a couple 8x10" glossy photographs of the play too.  They're around here somewhere...

    Here's the best known song from "Aida":  The Triumphal March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxgOIwOd_5I

    Photo below only shows one of the wireframe "buildings" of the Amsterdam performance, but you get the idea.

     

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,485
    LeatherGryphon said:

    .  It was an unforgetable experience, that I forgot to mention in my last post. frown 

    You know you are getting old when you forget the unforgettable.

  • KaribouKaribou Posts: 1,325
    Chohole said:
    Mistara said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Tjohn said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    No talk about number two on the forums.

    Well crap.

    True that.

    I brought my computer with me to find out it is at half battery level and I left my charger at home.

     

    what if we spelled it like 'crappe'  is classier laugh

    It's quite interesting to note that there are 2 different words, meaning 2 different things.   In the US the word came into common usage after a gentleman with the name of Thomas Crapper heavily promoted sanitary plumbing and pioneered the concept of the bathroom fittings showroom.  He became famous when he got his first royal warrant from the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, who asked him to provide the plumbing for Sandringham, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures.  This was in the 1880s and the aforementioned word came into common parlance in the US in the early 20th century.  It must be noted that Thomas Crapper did not invent the flushing toilet but did promote their use and manufactured and sold many, all embossed with the legend "Thomas CRAPPER and Company". This is the reason that the toilet became known as the crapper,  in much the same way as the name Hoover became synonymous with Vacuum cleaners.

    However in the UK there is, or rather was, an older English word, The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish.

    Heh-heh... We got a moderator to talk about number two... wink

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009

    For you flutterby lovers:  https://www.facebook.com/Beautifullightscandle/videos/1526297880805086/

    This was shared on Facebook.  I can't figure out how to snag it to share here.  KK, Dana thought you especially should see it.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204

    ...thank you.  very nice.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    1 good thing bout being at dayjob is the a/c smiley

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    have ethics required training today.
    scat bus got me to work at 20 to 7am today.  i don't officially start til 8:30.  mebbe if i tell them i need to be at work by 9am  they won't make me be awake and ready to leave at 6am.
    made an apt for a manicure and a bikini wax tomorrow, wanna be neat for the tattoo artist.
    made an apt with a gastro dr.  friend told me to keep a food diary and #2 details. is dr really gonna read it?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Charlie Judge said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    .  It was an unforgetable experience, that I forgot to mention in my last post. frown 

    You know you are getting old when you forget the unforgettable.

     

    dreamy voices

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited August 2018

    more dreamy voices

     

    nostalgia

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited August 2018

    complaiiiint  x2 Dead Eggs cryingcrying

    complaaaaaiiiint  my lotto win is 509 bucks.  dr bill came in, is 489 bucks. cryingcrying​crying​crying​crying​
    my insurance paid a whole dollar towards carotid test.
    sooooo ​not fair 

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,281
    edited August 2018

    Speaking of opera and Wagner... Well, I was anyway. devil The one piece of Wagner's (pronounced Vahg-ner) music that always gives me shivers up my spine is "Sigfried's Funeral March" from the last of the operas in the ring cycle "Götterdämmerung".  It's slow (it's a funeral march... duh!) and it's repetative (um... funeral march!) but when it finally gets to where it's going, it grabs you by the throat and rakes your spine with electrified claws (it's all the horns). yes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fdNBjCBpaA  Force yourself... listen from the beginning, let it build (it gets the electrical currents starting to oscillate up and down your spine).  The music starts to peak at 3:50 and is dying out by 6:00.  Use lots of volume.  Imagine you've sat through this hours long performance and have been convinced that you should like the main character (Sigfried), despite all his stupid macho behavior, but he finally screws up and gets killed and this is his exit music. smiley

    If you're not a classical music buff but it still sounds familiar you've probably seen Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny do it. yes

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    wuh oh  dust storm on Mars

    https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status_opportunityAll.html

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,485

    Crap, I got to go into work an hour early.  Just when I got word to start working so I can start writing that stupid story.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,485

    Ooops I talked about number 2, did I?  I meant to say well darn it.

    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Crap, I got to go into work an hour early.  Just when I got word to start working so I can start writing that stupid story.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Ooops I talked about number 2, did I?  I meant to say well darn it.

    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Crap, I got to go into work an hour early.  Just when I got word to start working so I can start writing that stupid story.

     

    tee hee you said 'crap'  winkwink

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,144
    edited August 2018
    Mistara said:

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

    I think (but not sure) it has something to do with originally Unicorns weren't horses they were a mixture of goat, deer, & lion.they had a goats beard ,deer feet and a lions tail .....

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204
    Mistara said:
     

    nostalgia

     

    ...not quite Blues Brothers calibre but still entertaining.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,045
    carrie58 said:
    Mistara said:

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

    I think (but not sure) it has something to do with originally Unicorns weren't horses they were a mixture of goat, deer, & lion.they had a goats beard ,deer feet and a lions tail .....

     

    Unicorn = one horn

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    edited August 2018
    Mistara said:

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

    Corn here means horn. As in cornet (little horn) or cornucopia (horn of plenty). So uni (one) + corn (horn). smiley

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204

    ...unicorn:

    ...bicorn

    ...tricorn

    ...cornball

    ...can o' corn

    ...corn-nets

    .

     

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204

    ...ahh, it's that second most favourite day of the week just before Catruday....FishFryDay.

    Time to head to the market.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i'se got yummi lettuce for dindin

    and a hashbrown heating up on a cookie sheet

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,204

    ...got fishy for frying in the skillet later. Going to try Caribbean styled rice with it this time just for a break.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    Mistara said:

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

    Well, I think a unihorse would be one horse.  That seems redundant.  I think unihorn would be more logical.  The only other things with the word "corn" in it that refers to something on the head would be bi-corn and tri-corn hats.  The horn on a unicorn does not have corners.  laugh

    But then, the English language often makes no sense, anyway.  cheeky

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    Tjohn said:
    Mistara said:

    why the 'corn' unicorns?

    would unihorse or unipony make more sense?

    Corn here means horn. As in cornet (little horn) or cornucopia (horn of plenty). So uni (one) + corn (horn). smiley

    Oh, well that makes some sense!

    Dana

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