VisionFromFeeling - General discussion thread

tsig said:
Is that like being bit by a vampire? Does she now shun sunlight and prefer O positive blood to A negative?
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No realli! She was karving her initials on the wøø with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink" . . .


PS Sorry, tsig. I should have just said "Exactly", but I couldn't resist using the line about the interspace tøøthbrush.
 
UncaYimmy said:
Since I am a gentleman, I won't point out that petard has its roots in the Latin peditum. :p
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Peditum? Really? That is so cool! (And makes Shakespeare even funnier.) For some reason, I had always assumed that it referred to the male organ of reproduction.

*star sweep* The more you know!
 
bookitty said:
Peditum? Really? That is so cool! (And makes Shakespeare even funnier.) For some reason, I had always assumed that it referred to the male organ of reproduction.

*star sweep* The more you know!
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I highly recommend the collection of The Straight Dope books by Cecil Adams. That's where I got that obscure gem. I've read them all several times - he's a great writer. You can visit www.TheStraightDope.com to check out his articles on-line, but if you read in the tub or on the crapper, buy the books.

Also, if you're into word origins, I have an old copy of Isaac Azimov's Words of Science. There you will learn that incisor comes from in caedere (cut into) because they cut into food. The next four are canines, derivation obvious - they are prominent in dogs. The twelve rear teeth are grinders. We call them molars from the Latin mola (millstone). The ones in-between and biscuspids from bi (two) cuspis (point) because they have three points.

He goes on to explain that the Latin for tooth is dens, from which we get dentist. The Greek word for tooth is odous (genitive, odontis), from which we get several words for specialized dentists. The Greek for straight is orthos, which is how we get orthodontist. No combining of Greek and Latin there.

And speaking of combining roots, we have bile (formed in the liver) from the Latin billis (juice), but gall, meaning the same thing, is Anglo Saxon. So, we have a gall bladder, not bile bladder, because bladder is of Anglo Saxon origin. We have a bile duct because duct is from the Latin ducere, to lead. We get gallstones, not bilestones because stone is Anglo Saxon. The Latin word for a small stone is calculus, so we get biliary calculi.

To keep this on topic, the Latin word for kidneys is renes, hence we have renal failure. When it's time to remove one, we get a nephrectomy, which comes from the Greek for kidney (nephros) and the Greek for cut out (ectomy).

I find this kind of stuff fascinating. I will surely drive my children crazy as they get older, but who else is going to listen to this stuff?
 
UncaYimmy, "on the crapper" such a way with words you have! ;)

Has Anita e-mailed you recently? Seeing as it's all your fault she has gone back to living on light, i'd imagine she must have plenty to say to you!
 
UncaYimmy said:
I highly recommend the collection of The Straight Dope books by Cecil Adams. That's where I got that obscure gem. I've read them all several times - he's a great writer. You can visit http://www.straightdope.com/ to check out his articles on-line, but if you read in the tub or on the crapper, buy the books.
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Fixed your link there, Unca. The link you posted is parked :blush:
 
Ambermae said:
UncaYimmy, "on the crapper" such a way with words you have! ;)

Has Anita e-mailed you recently? Seeing as it's all your fault she has gone back to living on light, i'd imagine she must have plenty to say to you!
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As per her Facebook page, Anita had problems with her visa and will be staying Sweden this semester. She's applying to a different college in spring and seems pretty excited about it. In the meantime, she has some spare time.

It would be nice to think that this time could be spent in more worthwhile pursuits but it's difficult to imagine how that might happen. My own talents as psychopomp are too limited to be effective.

UncaYimmy said:
I find this kind of stuff fascinating. I will surely drive my children crazy as they get older, but who else is going to listen to this stuff?
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Get them the Annotated Alice and they'll be hooked.
 
Hey Everybody,

Does this smell familiar?
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8387485

There's the media presence. I wonder if that nurse counts as an academic affidavit. This probably deserves its own thread, but there are so many similarities, it's almost as though this girl has been reading here (or she has the same condition as VFF---one way or another).

Ward
 
wardenclyffe said:
Hey Everybody,

Does this smell familiar?
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8387485

There's the media presence. I wonder if that nurse counts as an academic affidavit. This probably deserves its own thread, but there are so many similarities, it's almost as though this girl has been reading here (or she has the same condition as VFF---one way or another).

Ward
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I find it less scary that there are people like that about the place than I do that a supposedly reputable news service (I'd thought) could produce such a totally uncritical report about it.

What a disgrace.
 
wardenclyffe said:
Hey Everybody,

Does this smell familiar?
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8387485

There's the media presence. I wonder if that nurse counts as an academic affidavit. This probably deserves its own thread, but there are so many similarities, it's almost as though this girl has been reading here (or she has the same condition as VFF---one way or another).

Ward
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It's her attention racket all over.

I hate that kind of "news" story - way too much attention for patent absurdity.

ETA: Hey, Pharaoh - I see it had a similar effect on you.
 
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Sideroxylon said:
It's her attention racket all over.

I hate that kind of "news" story - way too much attention for patent absurdity.

ETA: Hey, Pharaoh - I see it had a similar effect on you.
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Indeed. It's small wonder so many people believe in this garbage when they see it reported that way. It's bloody criminal, I tells ya.
 
They display no sense of responsibility at all, do they?

I wonder why Vee-ff-ff wasted her time mucking around here when ABC would have had her on the six o'clock news as the Next Big Thing™. She sure isn't going to get coverage like that in Møøsehølm, or wherever she is these days.
 
I'm going to go boil my eyeballs now...which is probably far less painful.

ETA: Does anyone want to guess what color my aura is after watching that bunch of nonsense on a reputable news website? :D
 
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Oh, I need to scream. Why?!!! Why?!!! Why do they feel compleled to air this stuff? Has news so deteriorated to a level that sunk down somewhere around the National Enq?

OK, I admit I didn't watch the whole thing. Most of us could have guessed the guy didn't look that healthy. I think the young girl who "see's the aura's" is young, silly, and likes the attention.

But she's in a different ballpark then VVF, who I think is evil. Evil is not a word I use lightly either. Oh, I'll bet she did not like seeing this "news segment" at all, if she did indeed see it. "Mirror, Mirror on the wall . . .", and all of that.

Also, I don't like making fun of people who are mentally ill, but once again, VVF exempts herself for me. She is mentally ill, but she is also evil, and she has great potential to harm other's and no hesitation to do so. She is a serious, coo-coo-bird, who needs to be stopped.

Julia
 
Oh geez...

Well, at least there's so many young gun psychics out there that the cost of a consultation will go down.

Sorry, that's all I got. Awkward girl sees auras, gets to be special, goes overboard. It's just sad.
 
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