Grammar Discussions

[get me outta here]

AFF names are intriguing, who or what is a 'Spongbob' if you don't mind me/my asking?

Cloudy days are a bit like that: I could do X, or could do Y, or could even do Z.

 

[AVC]

AFF names are intriguing, who or what is a 'Spongbob' if you don't mind me/my asking?

Maybe a cross between an acronym, an abbreviation, and a nickname.

S Pong Bob

 

[burmans]

Maybe a cross between an acronym, an abbreviation, and a nickname.

S Pong Bob

Methinks typing failure more likely.

 

[get me outta here]

I may need to buy one of these for drizzly SFP or PDX, it has a nice mouth feel to say, 'pocketable' quickly.

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[Warks]

Writ large!



Pub in Bermagui.

 

[andye]

I drive past the Prestidge Chiropractors in Fairlight most days-cringe every time

 

[Julesmac]

Hmm. Article in 'The Age' this week on the Tasmanian Devil says that the Thaylicine 'went extinct'. I assume there's no such thing as a sub-editor any more....

 

[get me outta here]

I don't remember where i read this week that when finding out something sad the subjects face, "crumbled".

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I drive past the Prestidge Chiropractors in Fairlight most days-cringe every time

maybe Peter Restidge thought it was a good idea to name to practice after himself?

 

[Hvr]

AFF names are intriguing, who or what is a 'Spongbob' if you don't mind me/my asking?

A very effective sponge where e got soaked up.

 

[andye]

Hmm. Article in 'The Age' this week on the Tasmanian Devil says that the Thaylicine 'went extinct'. I assume there's no such thing as a sub-editor any more....

interested to read that the male thylacine had a pouch, apparently to protect his genitals when running through the bush

 

[Captain Halliday]

Hmm. Article in 'The Age' this week on the Tasmanian Devil says that the Thaylicine 'went extinct'. I assume there's no such thing as a sub-editor any more....

Sub editors "went extinct" when online classifieds simultaneously killed two revenue streams - paper sales and the so called "rivers of gold" classified ads themselves.

 

[cove]

Just invested in a company that is licensed to grow, extract, export and sell "licit" narcotics.
Are there other uses of the word licit?

 

[JohnM]

Just invested in a company that is licensed to grow, extract, export and sell "licit" narcotics.
Are there other uses of the word licit?

Simply means 'lawful'.

A Tasmanian company by any chance? Home of the largest lawful opium poppy-growing industry in the world (40% of world production).

 

[cove]

Thanks JohnM for the input. I had thought poppies were grown in many countries where the country name finishes in "an".
Yes they are in Tassie, Northern Territory and southern Europe.

 

[AviatorPJ]

interested to read that the male thylacine had a pouch, apparently to protect his genitals when running through the bush

presumably from tassie devils or other male thylacines/// looks like the devils won..

 

[whatmeworry]

New course at RMIT.

 

[get me outta here]

Nah, I can see the 'white out'.

New course at RMIT.

 

[anat0l]

Nah, I can see the 'white out'.

Yep... that or some white tape of sorts.

 

[Warks]

I tried to get my head around the underlined text to come up with a meaning but failed.

During its final weeks in orbit, Messenger relayed more details about the innermost planet of the solar system, which turns out to have patches of ice inside some of its craters, despite its sizzling location more than twice as close to the sun as Earth.

For the sake of my sanity I had to look it up - Mercury is 58 million km from the sun and Earth is 150 million.