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Found in a tabloid this weekend (don't normally read these but my eye was caught by a headline referring to "Jeopardy!" and Ken Jennings...
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by Peter Moylan
5 yr 103 days ago
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Not Nick & Stavros. I'm wondering why OED uses the Greek alphabet to show Greek words for etymological purposes. Back in the day, it might be imagined...
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by Cole Porter
5 yr 97 days ago
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Does the word 'wherelse' exist? dictionary.com says 'NO'.
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by Martin Ambuhl
5 yr 92 days ago
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ONE NATION+UNDER ONE GOD!!!XIII...Thats WHERE THE LINE IS NOW DRAWN::. Now, ONLY ME on THIS SIDE What R U taktaz??? Reedam be ghabr baabaaye khaaenet Woe...
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Iran says may preempt any attack on nuke program http://tinyurl.com/6fm49 Or, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view all&address...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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by A. Dulcimer
5 yr 92 days ago
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ISLAM IS INDEED INSEPARABLE FROM TERRORISM Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded message from "G...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Islam is not an exotic addition to the English country garden Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Have a look at http://www.icnirp.de/documents/broadband.pdf as a good example of why capitalising titles of papers is a really bad idea. Imagine, what...
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by Michael Nitabach
5 yr 92 days ago
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ISLAMIC TEACHERS BRAINWASH STUDENTS: THAKSIN Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded message from "G...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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ISLAMIC TEACHER ARRESTED OVER THAILAND ATTACKS Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded message from...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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THE CENTRALITY OF JIHAD IN ISLAM Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded message from "G.Subramaniam"...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Why have the Irishmen left? Simple question to answer. Every day of the week any resident, tourist, or citizen of Ireland can walk down the roads of any...
By Charles Riggs
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by Mickwick
5 yr 92 days ago
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Anyone know what this means? A search failed to turn up anything. Quoting from a George Will column: "The Bush campaign is pelting John Kerry with...
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A few days ago on Radio Four someone who had known Edwina Mountbatten, the very wealthy wife of Lord Louis of Dieppe (and other disasters), described her...
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Alcohol inhaling machine on display in New York The Hindu Saturday, August 21, 2004 New York, Aug 21 (AP) - A machine that lets drinkers inhale shots of...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Efficacy of Krshn's name The Hindu Lord Krshn said he will be born in every age to protect the virtuous and root out the evil, and to establish virtue...
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Humility, an enviable trait The HinduIn vain do we seek happiness in life through the agents of power and pelf, deluding ourselves into believing that...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Is there anyone here who would question 'reposted' as a legitimate English word? Yet I only found one obscure dictionary that even listed 'repost'...
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by Graeme Thomas
5 yr 92 days ago
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A Hindu Convert's Story by Dr. Mahendra P. Singhal The Choice: To Follow The Lord Jesus Christ The Price: To Go Alone With the Lord Growing up in an...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 92 days ago
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I just came across this intersting piece of software tell me what you think http://www.whitesmoke.com what do you think , worth or not ? send me an email...
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I met a man from Wales today who was, most definitely, not a ***. (Hi, Matti!) Charles Riggs
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by Matti Lamprhey
5 yr 92 days ago
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"Times the number by a thousand." Is this construction: (1) Rural/regional? (2) Childish/illiterate? (3) Jargonistic? (4) Pondially differentiated...
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by Colin Samuel Rosenthal
5 yr 92 days ago
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Anaconda set for big Indian release By Ehtasham Khan in Indraprasth Rediff August 20, 2004 Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid, the sequel to the...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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It's a recurrent topic here in aue; one side says the other doesn't understand irony, and the other says the one is using a different definition...
By R H Draney
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Tailback=Traffic Jam? Carriageway=Parkway/Freeway? Agatha Christie never has traffic pile-ups (jams) in her novels, nor IIRC Dorothy Sayers so the terms...
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by Andrew Gwilliam
5 yr 92 days ago
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