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Topic: Echoes of the Ice Age | |
DPCrisp Replies: 134 Views: 111689 |
Forum: Pre-History Posted: 12:53 am Subject: Echoes of the Ice Age |
I'm not really here: just get to dip in from time to time -- catching up seems impossible -- but I thought I'd say what a lot of pony has been spoken about Horse Latitudes. And a trick reared its head ... | |
Topic: Did The Dark Ages Exist? | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1318 Views: 479857 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:25 pm Subject: Did The Dark Ages Exist? |
The Golden Hind is the Golden Horde.
I was intrigued... but you lost me here. I don' believe this either: "She was originally known as the Pelican, but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578 ... |
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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
DPCrisp Replies: 2679 Views: 647403 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:33 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES |
Have we done this one? I don't think so.
Where am I? The main river, running west-east through the land, goes by a DN name and an IS name, and empties into a sea whose name means "north&q ... |
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Topic: Instinct, ancestral memory | |
DPCrisp Replies: 44 Views: 69361 |
Forum: Psychology Posted: 12:37 pm Subject: Instinct, ancestral memory |
Could you indicate, Mr Crisp, how old your own children are.
Er... yes, but being something of an aside here, praps I should post in a "greyed-out" color... One is 26, too bright for his ow ... |
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Topic: Great Minds Think Differently | |
DPCrisp Replies: 55 Views: 51725 |
Forum: Psychology Posted: 12:16 pm Subject: Great Minds Think Differently |
So, does everybody here start dreaming the moment they nod off?
I used to wig-out on the bus, thinking I was just watching things pass by... then realising I had been (day)dreaming. And still, in the ... |
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Topic: Instinct, ancestral memory | |
DPCrisp Replies: 44 Views: 69361 |
Forum: Psychology Posted: 11:47 am Subject: Instinct, ancestral memory |
Brian: My daughter is studying psychologyMick: PS Obviously, Brian, you cannot tell your daughter about any of this if you want her to get a two-one or better.
No, tell her!. Then she'll cleave more ... |
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Topic: Cloak-not-Dagger | |
DPCrisp Replies: 108 Views: 103817 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:34 pm Subject: Cloak-not-Dagger |
In mythology the sacrifice (human or divine) is eaten as part of the end of the year ritual, but not the leg- or shank-bone.
It's not an anatomical leg of course. The food of the gods or sacrific ... |
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Topic: Cloak-not-Dagger | |
DPCrisp Replies: 108 Views: 103817 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:42 am Subject: Re: Cloak-not-Dagger |
the cloak of St Martin of Tours (the one he cut in two and gave half, not the whole mind you, to a beggar, i.e. Christ in disguise)
Did he recognise Christ once the cloak was rent, by any chance? ... |
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Topic: Crying Wolf | |
DPCrisp Replies: 837 Views: 371934 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 11:10 am Subject: Crying Wolf |
By an amazing coincidence, last night our TV showed the BBC documentary "The Secret Life of the Dog" which contained a section on the Russian Silver Fox breeding experiment.
See pages 21 an ... |
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Topic: Origins of....Species | |
DPCrisp Replies: 250 Views: 198290 |
Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 10:58 am Subject: Origins of....Species |
I can't remember the details now, but I heard about someone on telly with extremely long fingernails -- one of those Hindu guys, maybe -- who said they had feeling in their nails.
I wonder whether ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1119 Views: 399021 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:59 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
My problem is not with "starting at the bottom", but refusing to move on from there to explore the implications.
We have been applying some fundamental, logical principles, but you don't se ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1119 Views: 399021 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:44 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
So far, all I've got by way of explanation for the spelling and pronunciation of KNIFE or NIGHT are:
They must have been pronounced that way in the 11th century because that's how they're pronounc ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1119 Views: 399021 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:41 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Did you learn your alphabet at school? Were you taught that I is
No this is all news to me. So why isn't Night, nite, nait, naight, nyt, nyht, nyght, nit, noit, nuit, nuet, nueet, naet, naeet, ... |
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Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1119 Views: 399021 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:37 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
Spellings were standardised from the 15th century or so, but when were the conventions invented? Since Chaucer, for instance, combines familiar with unfamiliar spellings, let us say our spellings were ... | |
Topic: Flying Chaucers | |
DPCrisp Replies: 1119 Views: 399021 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:34 am Subject: Flying Chaucers |
What's AE's alternative hypothesis for that huge eccentricity known as English spelling?... The alternate hypothesis upheld by "orthodoxy" is that English spelling reflects significant chang ... | |
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