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Badmojo



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round

PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:48 pm    Post subject: Re: dedication Reply with quote

pollyplummer wrote:
TO LUCY BARFIELD

My Dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.


Hmm, I was off a little bit, but the spirit's the same.

I love that line, "But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

Thanks, I was looking for that exact dedication on the Internet last night but couldn't find it.
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pollyplummer



Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon

PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:53 pm    Post subject: fairy tales Reply with quote

You're welcome. It's amazing what one can find on the internet when one is at home and unemployed. Wink And I love fairy tales. The Magician's Nephew is chronologically the first one in the series. I've read it literally dozens of times.
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gdimension



Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Jeju

PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Combination of an initial and a random word that I saw when I was creating my first email address.
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OCOKA Dude



Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As can be guessed, I'm prior service, U.S. Army having served in the infantry and later in the USAR with a Civil Affairs unit (see my unit patch) from 1988-96.

My primary MOS was grounderpounder/grunt, or what the Army calls "11Bravo" i.e., infantryman.

"OCOKA" is what every grunt learns in infantry school (Marines call it "KOCOA", but same dif.)

Basically OCOKA is an infantry mnemonic that helps us lowlifes remember how to do terrain analysis especially with regards to the deployment of troops or weapons systems in various types of tactical situations.

OCOKA stands for:
O=observation
C=cover and concealment
O=obstacles
K=key terrain
A=Avenues of Approach

And of course, "dude" cos I'm a Namja.
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scarneck



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because I have a big red scar on my neck? Shocked Embarassed

Look for it, you just may see it...I almost got a zipper tattooed there when I was drunk...
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a wink to the right-wing freaks that coined the term in the first place Very Happy
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NightSky



Joined: 19 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Night skies are beautiful. Cool
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Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bulsajo wrote:
joe_doufu wrote:
Quote:
FUBAR in my country stands for F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition, its a cool nick.


It comes from American soldiers in World War II

SNAFU
TARFU
FUBAR

Sort of like the colour-coded govt terrorist threatcon...


http://snltranscripts.jt.org/01/01oridge.phtml

Reminded me of this skit...much better, of course, watching it instead of reading it.

!shoosh,

Ryst
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I named myself 범석 (Bumsuk) which means stone tiger - my stoic but potentially aggressive side - and then I just chose a Korean surname at random.
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I met a Chinese girl here and asked her what she thought about Korea.

Her reply = my username.
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tzechuk



Joined: 20 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote:
I met a Chinese girl here and asked her what she thought about Korea.

Her reply = my username.


Oh.. and I thought you really knew Chinese...
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Jasobang



Joined: 11 Dec 2005
Location: Bucheon

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone calls me Jamie.....my Korean mother-in-law doesn't...she calls me jasobang.
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Ginormousaurus



Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was teaching one of my students about dinosaurs one day and in the process I taught him the words 'gigantic' and 'enormous'. I also taught him the made up word ' ginormous'. Anyway, as the lesson progressed, we were having fun making up imaginary dinosaurs such as the 'horse-asaurus' and 'rhinososaurus' when he blurted out 'ginormousaurus'. We both had a good laugh and later that day I signed up here.

(I used to post under a different name)
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tzechuk



Joined: 20 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ginormousaurus wrote:
I was teaching one of my students about dinosaurs one day and in the process I taught him the words 'gigantic' and 'enormous'. I also taught him the made up word ' ginormous'. Anyway, as the lesson progressed, we were having fun making up imaginary dinosaurs such as the 'horse-asaurus' and 'rhinososaurus' when he blurted out 'ginormousaurus'. We both had a good laugh and later that day I signed up here.

(I used to post under a different name)


Ginormous is not a made up word.

And if it used to be, it isn't anymore.

According to Merriam Webster, here's the definition:

Quote:

ginormous
One entry found.

ginormous

Main Entry:
gi�nor�mous Listen to the pronunciation of ginormous
Pronunciation:
\jī-ˈnȯr-məs\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
gigantic + enormous
Date:
circa 1948

: extremely large : humongous
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mrsquirrel



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Squirrel was what everybody called me in Newcastle.

mrsquirrel has caused much confusion though.

some people see it as mr. squirrel.

some as mrs quirrel.

I am normally referred to as Mrs. Q. now on the other forums I use or sometimes just Q for short.
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