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:inquisitive::laugh3: Fart here would be "barking spider" or "stepping on a duck" But there it's a Pun! (no doubt a bad pun!) And don't ask what Pedo stands for here! huevo = egg as a root - hmm! interesting! Can only imagine the connotation implied..

answers within "".. And the Latin root to hueo'n is? hmmmm?! A catchall - that's interesting! (wonders what it might mean..) Funny slang here - "coochie coochie girls" means.. umm... I better not say! :laugh3:

LORE!! :) How are you my fellow American?:sunny: Has the slippage of the continental plate settled down a bit, things gotten back to normal somewhat at your place on the Andes? (and Chilean Slang? what's that like???)

OK can we expand this thread to include Chilean & Irish slang as well?;) (and Chileans are Americans, even if some of them think Chile is an island nation in the Andean Ocean. :)

Plastered, buzzed, blitzed, totally bombed out of your gourd with beer goggles on..:laugh3: Slang terms seem to come and go with the times though... The Family Truckster, driving the familiar Oldsmobuick and shorts... like Dine for Diner (which was short for Diner Car on the rail lines) ATM I would have to say I dunno.:P

ZAP!:vuvuzela:

I was thinking "what are you thinking right now":P Given the instantaneous nature of thoughts and the transience of the moment, only a neuroscientist and a physicist given the best of equipment and research time could even come close to knowing that for any of us. But in the general sense, I was thinking many things, some too complex to describe here. If one multiplies the probabilities of us being here, using such sophisticated technologies that our advanced civilizations could produce, all the events that had to happen for us to reach this level, all the odds of intelligent life with such excellent tool, language, and cultural development to occur, life occurring in the first place, planet earth's position being just right, exact star intensity, just right magnetic shield, etc. - we might be the one in a zillion at this moment in time, perhaps the only one of a kind in the universe.. or maybe not. It's an intriguing thing to ponder! Is clay the template, or just concentrated organic compounds clumping together? Or something else from which life arose? Then I realized that it is through cooperation and specialization that we are reach our peaks of achievement; to neglect one are is to diminish our full capacity. Given the chance, prosperity and progress can lift people out of poverty, and change the world. All it takes is opportunity, and we have the resources to do it - poverty can be virtually eliminated from this Earth if we choose, and we all stand to gain when that happens.

Happy Birthday Bart of the Spanish Empire! :crown:

Maybe they use Val Crowe to tie their Shews?:P Obviously they tie their shoes with cords, or chords?

Just a plain Jane genius I guess, eh?:laugh3: Oh well, he was stuck on particles and hated probability, so maybe you're right. On not. He was uniquely obsessive in his drive to discover underlying truths and uniquely insightful in his thought experiments - he did think unlike most other human beings at that time. Still, he never liked probability, yet perhaps he was right - what we see as randomness may in reality be something else. But to be truly unique may mean being lost to obscurity, unless expressed in some form of art. And none of us are completely removed from the cultures, circles, or societies in which we interact, so being truly unique may be limited as you suggest. Perhaps today the hardest thing is to remain unique!:laugh3:

Yes! TNP likes Pluto, but it a dwarf planet, planet, kuiper belt object, or just a fuzzy snowball..

prolly so for the most part. Few original artists, mostly good prints arranged in unique ways. But in thought there can be uniqueness which does not show superficially or visibly. Albert was a worker in the patent office once ya know..

uniquer or unique or a scale of uniqueness? Visibly unique or unique in non-visible ways? Everyone is a blend of uniqueness and commonality, to varying degrees.

I drove the doughnut van once..:rolleyes: It's not all that different what we baked there - just fresher! Yes, I have to agree on the local foods choice - it's usually better, especially taste-wise! I bake whole-wheat bread - it's tops when you make your own, and easy. Meat - regional chicken, hoping to buy some home-grown chickens from the neighbors when the fall arrives and freeze them. Local is best, raised where the chickens have space to roam, plenty of bugs and grass to eat, and a natural blend of ground grains and minerals. It's a jungle foul, should be fed the things jungle foul like! I raise a big garden, lots of really great veggies (tomatoes, sweet corn, zucchini, cucumbers, greens galore).. & buy organic foods when I get the chance. Might get a turkey permit - plenty this year, they look plump!

Is being unique more a product of the individual than the group? Individual inspiration may occur simultaneously anywhere on earth, but often ideas and individual attributes are a product of a combination of cultural forces, some strictly from the individual, some arising from group interaction, but manifested in each individual uniquely. What makes me unique? Many things too numerous to mention. A better question might be to ponder the value of uniqueness, the value of commonality and cooperation, and the balance of each in our lives.

Hello Nancy:), YAY! Your body found the cure for you!! Thank goodness for immune systems! I've had summertime colds, definitely not fun for sure. Sweltering heat here, wish it would cool down a bit. Time for a swim in the lake!;) Are there good swimming lakes in Denmark? (just curious) Posting time is limited for me - too busy with work! (wish I could sneak away for a day though..) Learning the fine art of tile shower construction and tiling... Hope all is well with you and your fellow Danes! :chef::hair2::cyclist::hat:

That I can act like a 4-year-old easily!:P

Listening to Rainy Day, looking at NOAA 7-Day Forecast for Latitude 44.51°N and Longitude 87.99°W (Elev. 581 ft)

Listening to great music!

Hello Nancy! No fun catching a cold in summer, that's for sure - hubs of commerce have a lot of pluses, but the viruses that make their way around can be a real bummer for sure! 28C - That's a bit warm - but about the same here for daytime highs, but less ocean! Keep cool in Denmark with Coldplay:cool:

Will we turn it around in time?

The absence of color is better then?:cool:

I really want to bike rather than drive, but traffic and no shoulders makes it a bit risky here in the summers (tourists driving increases risks)... But yes, on occasion, a jaunt around the lakes here on a winding country road I do enjoy, rare as those drives are! Today I took the long road home, soaked in the country air, looked at the corn tassels starting to emerge from a sea of green corn plants, checked out the water levels in a few lakes along the way - lily pads dotting the surfaces of each.

\ Didn't know these things had names! Learned something new. Thanks Briggins.;) Political shenanigans - yes, that's the problem for sure. Thanks for the thoughts - wish I could have been there as well rooting for fair play and justice, given the weighty problems we have to solve, and the need for support for the commons and the life support systems on earth. Did anything substantial come out of it all, besides all the usual dog and pony show?

That's what you get for living in the Baja!:P ! Hey, there's that ocean not far away - why not go for a swim?? Rain in summer in SoCal? Amazing!! Here we might get 84F tomorrow, then (hopefully) some thunderboomers.. Wild lighting from the last storm (a day or so ago) - one of those freaky evening storms, where the sky goes pitch black from the cloud - no twisters though (thankfully!)