Serendipity via The Three Stooges . . .
Professor: “May I introduce my three protégés . . . Mrs. Gotrocks”
Larry: “Delighted”
Moe: “Devastated”
Curly: “Dilapidated”
Hmm, ‘dilapidated’, ‘lapidary’ . . . . Indeed, etymological kin!
Similarly, hearing ‘old-fashioned’ recently on the radio, I sez to myself, I sez, “Fashion, facere (fact, faction) . . . .” Again, kinfolk!
Ecclesiastes 3:5
Ecclesiastes 3:5
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
Did you hear about the firefly that walked backwards into a fan? He was delighted, no end.
Shouldn't dilapidated mean stoned twice?
I admit I don't get the subject line, though.
Shouldn't dilapidated mean stoned twice?
I admit I don't get the subject line, though.
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
“ . . . a time to cast away stones . . . .”
< di-, dis- asunder + lapidāre to throw stones, < lapid-em stone
< di-, dis- asunder + lapidāre to throw stones, < lapid-em stone
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
Oh, also (I think this was on TV), your joke reminds me of this from a letter from Louis Armstrong:
Mary had a little bear.
The bear was very fine.
And everywhere that Mary went,
They saw her bear behind.
Just remembered - the letter was part of a collection about something or other seen on Antiques Roadshow.
Mary had a little bear.
The bear was very fine.
And everywhere that Mary went,
They saw her bear behind.
Just remembered - the letter was part of a collection about something or other seen on Antiques Roadshow.
Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
Vital correction! I thought it might thus be, and I’ve just verified it. From 1935, the referenced opus was one of the earlier ones. At the time, the spelling was ‘Curley’.
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
Then there was the old one--days of propeller-driven planes--of a woman who backed into the whirling propeller of a plane. Disaster!
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
This just in! Apparently, face, too, derives ultimately from facere. In fact, the OED lists well over one hundred descendants.
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Re: Ecclesiastes 3:5
My version has it thusly, How did the firefly feel after backing into a fan? It was delighted, no end!Then there was the old one--days of propeller-driven planes--of a woman who backed into the whirling propeller of a plane. Disaster!
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