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Hardly Conquered, in my opinion
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Tony Cooper
2024-09-28 17:13:27 UTC
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LionelEdwards
2024-09-28 17:37:34 UTC
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Post by Tony Cooper
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"I heard of a gentleman having moved into a clever house, of
another succeeding to a clever amount of money, of a third
embarking in a clever ship and making a clever voyage with
a clever cargo..."

That is Shakespeare with Nym's "humour" replaced with "clever"?

NYM
And this is true; I like not the humour
of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I
should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I
have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.
He loves your wife; there’s the short and the long.
My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; ‘tis
true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.
Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,
and there’s the humour of it. Adieu.
Steve Hayes
2024-09-28 17:49:20 UTC
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:13:27 -0400, Tony Cooper
Post by Tony Cooper
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us
A new US usage? -- hurricanes progress by "barrelling".
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Snidely
2024-09-28 21:34:39 UTC
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Post by Steve Hayes
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:13:27 -0400, Tony Cooper
Post by Tony Cooper
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us
A new US usage? -- hurricanes progress by "barrelling".
Hasty drivers have long barrelled along US roads, so perhaps the
newness is just using it weather reports.

Hurricane Helene appears to be a case of the bull in the china shop
also being on top of and all around the china shop. Maybe the china
shop s one of Crate&Barrell's stores.

/dps
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Sam Plusnet
2024-09-29 17:49:32 UTC
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Post by Steve Hayes
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:13:27 -0400, Tony Cooper
Post by Tony Cooper
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-
invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us
A new US usage? -- hurricanes progress by "barrelling".
Hasty drivers have long barrelled along US roads, so perhaps the newness
is just using it weather reports.
Hurricane Helene appears to be a case of the bull in the china shop also
being on top of and all around the china shop.   Maybe the china shop s
one of Crate&Barrell's stores.
I'm reminded of watching a pub being resupplied with beer, WIWAL.

Beer barrels are large, heavy, capable of doing great harm to anything
that happens to be in their path (when being rolled) - and their curved
sides mean their path is not as predictable as one might wish.

Hurricanes barrelling? It makes sense to me.
lar3ryca
2024-09-30 05:31:15 UTC
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Post by Steve Hayes
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:13:27 -0400, Tony Cooper
Post by Tony Cooper
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us
A new US usage? -- hurricanes progress by "barrelling".
Hasty drivers have long barrelled along US roads, so perhaps the
newness is just using it weather reports.
Hurricane Helene appears to be a case of the bull in the china shop
also being on top of and all around the china shop. Maybe the china
shop s one of Crate&Barrell's stores.
10-20 mph is usual for hurricanes over open water; Helene went 23.
16-32 in kph, and 37.
Moving slow, sitting in one place, is when the rain totals grow.
Helene is/was big enough that it did not go away quickly.
In a news story today, they said that one area (don't remember which
area) got 76cm of rain.
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