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Old 06-04-2008, 07:29 AM   #46
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actually, pédibus is an oooooold slang word, it just means "on foot" (how can you not love latin slang ?). i think i first saw it in the Nestor Burma books by Léo Malet (classics, absolute classics. i should add them to the "paper books i'd like to see as e-books" list because you can't even find most of them in paper, anymore).

(nota bene (since we're getting all latinate here) the word you're thinking of is "conflation" i beleive. it's the one i was thinking of yesterday, except that i couldn't think of it so i used "concatenation" instead, which does work but is not quite as apt. however now that i've used conflation twice in two days i hope to be able to remember it the next time i want it.)
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actually, pédibus is an oooooold slang word, it just means "on foot" (how can you not love latin slang ?). i think i first saw it in the Nestor Burma books by Léo Malet (classics, absolute classics. i should add them to the "paper books i'd like to see as e-books" list because you can't even find most of them in paper, anymore).

(nota bene (since we're getting all latinate here) the word you're thinking of is "conflation" i beleive. it's the one i was thinking of yesterday, except that i couldn't think of it so i used "concatenation" instead, which does work but is not quite as apt. however now that i've used conflation twice in two days i hope to be able to remember it the next time i want it.)
Because I had a deprived childhood. i.e. too thick to do latin...
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:43 AM   #48
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I walked past a bus the other day, which proudly bore the Latin motto, 'Non sibi, sed omnibus'. ['Not for one, but for all.']
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:52 AM   #49
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oh, nice ! we may have latin slang, but our buses are quite pedestrian (ar ar ar !!!)
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:53 AM   #50
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I walked past a bus the other day, which proudly bore the Latin motto, 'Non sibi, sed omnibus'. ['Not for one, but for all.']
I walked past a bus the other day which proudly bore the advice on the driver-side, "Do not access bus through window". I suspect this is for those people who have signs on all their major power tools saying "Do not apply moving parts to googly bits".

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Old 06-04-2008, 09:55 AM   #51
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feeling better about parisian buses (and their passengers) now. everything really *is* relative.
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Old 06-04-2008, 10:14 AM   #52
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It's frikkin' 89 degrees in Birmingham again today, just like yesterday, and the day before, and so on. The warm pool water is sort of flat and stale. Forecasted to be hot and humid again tomorrow, and the next day, and so on. Serious, down here in this sort of weather, the squirrels lay flat out on branches and just try to stay cool. Honest! We used to have a pecan tree outside the living room window, and the squirrels would spend weeks stripping it. But on hot airless days like these, they just laid out there panting. No lie!


I was wrong. They changed the forecast to 94 for today. It was a muggy 74 at 6:00 when I woke up. I'm going to Scotland. No, Paris - the Metro is so great! We have nothing resembling mass transit around here, just a few city bus lines that don't go anywhere that anyone needs to be. Stay cool, and y'all just enjoy some coolness for me!

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Old 06-04-2008, 10:18 AM   #53
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feeling better about parisian buses (and their passengers) now. everything really *is* relative.
You have a bus for a relative?
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Old 06-04-2008, 10:22 AM   #54
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hmph. "stay cool." today i'm wearing socks, long pants and a sweater (preferred wardrobe of choice at this time of year : a summer dress. sandals if i'm going outside. full stop. none of this "sock" nonsense.). i can't leave home without my umbrella. even when it's not raining, the sky is only about 10cm above eye-level, and the color of someone's old sock that fell out of their sack on the way to the laundromat into the gutter, where it was rained on, and then was rolled over by several cars, some of whom parked on it. yesterday there was so much wind that i was nearly carried off like a dandelion seed as i tried desperately not to let go of my umbrella. yeah, i'm cool. i'm cool like "17° and cloudy with frequent showers in the month of june". pfff.
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Old 06-04-2008, 10:22 AM   #55
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i have an odd family. don't worry too much about it.
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Ummmmm .... noticed what? I notice that your nose is red -- but maybe it has always been red. That's the thing about not being able to look at previous posts to see the previous avatar!

But what else are we supposed to notice ..... ??
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