Isn't a laxative and antiemetic the worst but the most amusing combo?
Treatment of British people Page 4
Quote: sootyj @ June 17 2009, 3:01 PM BSTCurt you've been majorly angry today and you've been working in a cave full of bats.
You haven't, how can I put this got bat rabies? Or worse guano madness?I mean the next stage is dressing in rubber and beating up criminals.
Perhaps it's the guano face paint and bat juice talking but do you like long walks on the beach and Ahmadinejad speeches? If so give me a ring we should talk.
Quote: Robert D @ June 17 2009, 3:03 PM BSTI already there. Curt can join me. Hey, I've found Robin.
Excellent, now I just need some bbq sauce.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ June 17 2009, 3:03 PM BSTNever eat yellow snow
Actually Laplanders make a point of seeking it out, due to the halucinogenic properties of reindeer piss. Reindeer are partial to fly agaric mushrooms, which are a powerful halucinogen, but poisonous to humans. Reindeer digestive systems filter out the toxins, but allow the halucinogen to pass through in their urine. (Yes, reindeer can't really fly, they just think they can.)
Quote: Curt @ June 17 2009, 2:57 PM BSTI'm going to be a syrup minor!"
Is that a child wearing a wig?
Quote: Timbo @ June 17 2009, 4:21 PM BSTReindeer are partial to fly agaric mushrooms, which are a powerful halucinogen, but poisonous to humans. Reindeer digestive systems filter out the toxins, but allow the halucinogen to pass through in their urine. (Yes, reindeer can't really fly, they just think they can.)
Reindeer is a tautology, like the Rhine River.
Quote: Kenneth @ June 18 2009, 3:04 AM BSTReindeer is a tautology, like the Rhine River.
I don't get it.
Deer:
Quote: Curt @ June 18 2009, 4:04 AM BST
Hreinn is Norse for reindeer, so 'reindeer' = 'reindeer deer'.
Quote: Kenneth @ June 18 2009, 3:04 AM BSTReindeer is a tautology, like the Rhine River.
This is quite common where words are adopted from another language without being fully understood. "Avon" and "tyne" both derive from Brythonic words for river, so the River Avon and the River Tyne are both also "River River". Or famously Breedon Hil is composed from "bree" meaning hill in Brythonic, "don" meaning hill in Old English, and the Middle English "hill", so the place name translates as "Hillhill Hill".
Quote: Timbo @ June 20 2009, 9:52 AM BST"Avon" and "tyne" both derive from Brythonic words for river, so the River Avon and the River Tyne are both also "River River". Or famously Breedon Hil is composed from "bree" meaning hill in Brythonic, "don" meaning hill in Old English, and the Middle English "hill", so the place name translates as "Hillhill Hill".
Quote: Griff @ June 21 2009, 2:31 PM BSTKenneth, I posted almost exactly that comment a few days ago underneath your first unbelievably boring post about the word reindeer, then deleted it because I thought it was too harsh. However for you to subsequently point the finger at someone else for being boring on the same subject you introduced is quite something.
I wish you hadn't deleted it! I love that line from Wayne's World, coming after Alice Cooper explains the etymology of Milwaukee.
Timbo's posts are very insightful. Long may they continue.
And there's nothing boring about etymology.
I have never said that Timbo is the only sturdy rock of reason on this site.
Quote: Tim Walker @ June 21 2009, 3:13 PM BSTI have never said that Timbo is the only sturdy rock of reason on this site.
There's a 'rock of reason'? Is it by the Tree of Knowledge and the Sea of Tranquility?