Hello
Does anyone know any source where I can find some Burns' quotes when he uses old/obsolete words to refer to relatively modern things, like calling a movie projector a "stereopticon" etc.? I tried looking for it on snpp.com to no avail.
Burns and obsolete words
Feb 4, 2004, 7:55 PM ET48 posts by 25 posters
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"Andrey Tarasevich" wrote in message news:[email]...
Yeah, someone really should start compiling a list of crazy ol' Burns's crazy ol' quotes.
"Mr. Costington" wrote in news:bvsks3$nih$[email]:
Like "autogyro."
donutbandit wrote in message news:...
Ahoy hoy. The episode where Burns appeared on the radio show, and had to be revived by the lesbians who knew CPR, features some of his obsolete words.
Space Mvsevm
scour the national leagues, the professional leagues - the negro leagues!
"Aaron Hirshberg" wrote in message news:[email]...
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"andmoreagain" wrote in message news:...
Yeah, nobody uses that word "scour" anymore!
Space Mvsevm
donutbandit wrote:
"Perculations are imminent!"
"I'm sure the manual will indicate which lever is the velocitator and which the deceleratrix, hmm?"
"donutbandit" wrote in message news:bvt00t$jng$[email]...
no, there are actually flying machines that are called autogyros.
But, according to my dictionary, it's "autogiro", and "i" not a "y".
Sort of a cross between a helicopter and a regular airplane, in that it has a rotor that turns horizontally for lift, like a helicopter, and a rotor that turns vertically for forward propulsion, like an airplane.
Michael
Then what's an autogyro? Greek drive-in food?
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:03:47 -0500 (EST), [email] (Chris �) wrote:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/56/A0535600.html
autogyro NOUN: Variant of autogiro.
This must be out of date. I don't see Prussia, autogyro, or Siam.
donutbandit wrote:
Well, keep looking!
"Yama" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Yama wrote:
Prussia was a nation of grandeur, royalty, nobility, and central German governmental rule. A country of mixed nations both richest of the rich and poorest of the poor.
A vast territory of deep political struggle, that allowed surrounding countries to usurp their share of the land as the Prussian Empire became no more. Physically yes it no longer exists but in the people of Prussia, the nation lives on in deep rooted culture, memories, written script, pictures, and many more traditions that we as genealogists and proud decendants try to unearth and retain.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~deupru/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~deupru/maps/prussia1415.htm
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Prussia is now part of Germany. It was militaristic and the source of many military & political leaders, e.g., Bismarck, who unified various states into the modern Germany in 1871.
Most of what was once Prussia is now part of Poland and Russia. Only parts of the nation which later unified Germany in 1871 are within current German borders.
WWII effectively wiped this nation, and later the state within the German Confederation, off the map.
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Yama wrote:
Where did you last see them?
My favorite:
"Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"
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[email] (Chris �) wrote in message news:...
Those are all perfectly cromulent words! And, it embiggens you to use them!
Space Mvsevm
Good work. Burns' sentence makes a lot more sense, proving you use far more archaic (or at the very least obscure) words than he does.
Michael
[email] (Michael Black) wrote in message news:...
Michael:
My favorite obsolete word is "rhino". I remember reading "The Devil and Tom Walker", by Washington Irving, in 11th grade English. The word "rhino" was a slang term for "money" at the time the story takes place (and the time the story was written). After I read that story, I used the word "rhino" for "money" for several months, getting puzzled expressions from everyone I talked to. I can't wait until Burns uses the word "rhino" for $$.
Space Mvsevm
Have you tried the internet?
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The internet,eh? I haer they have that on computers now!
Jon Peace
"JonPeace" wrote in message news:[email]...
Speaking of which, remember the episode where Homer starts a dot.com using a manual typewriter, a picture frame and a pound of butter with pencils in it? He puts the telephone next to it and somehow manages to get a pop-up ad on the internet with that setup.
"Donald Richter" wrote in message news:Cs2Vb.192717$[email]...
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Um...that's where most of the jokes come from...
That thing still around?
Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
He's also simply old-fashioned.
(Bart gets hit by Mr. Burns's car, leading to Mr. Burns and Smithers leaving the car.)
Smithers: "I think the boy is hurt." Burns: "Oh for crying out loud, just give him a nickel and let's get going."
Didn't he want someone to vulcanize his tires at one point?
"Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote in message news:HdzUb.6620125$[email]...
going."
Scott Semet wrote:
"You, there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate and revulcanize my tires, post haste!"
He said this to Marge after Marge met her old high school associate and was invited to the country club.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:57:37 -0500, "Scott Semet" wrote:
"You there! Revulcanise my tires and fill my automobile with petrolleum distillate - poste haste!" (To Marge)
I think that's the quote - or near enough to it! ;o)
Velocitator, decellatrix. (or close to that)
Revulcanize my tires,
"Hoy Hoy"...that was how Alexander Graham Bell wanted everyone to answer the phone...
I didn't know that, but I did read some years ago that, "hello", or was it "hi"?, was something that came with the telephone. I had assumed the word had been around forever.
Michael
[email] (Michael Black) wrote in message news:...
In French "hello" is used only for the telephone
Jsonitsac wrote:
I am by no means an expert in the French language, but I do know at least in Montr�al many shopkeepers will say "alloo" when you enter a store.
"Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote in message news:...
Well maybe just in French French, not Canadian French.
"Jsonitsac" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Russian, too
True, but wasn't it "ahoy hoy"?
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"Chris �" wrote in message news:[email]...
Ahoy ahoy. Somthing to do with the navy or ships or somthing.
I read somewhere that it comes from the first days of the electric telephone when people would answer the phone with "Ahoy", rather than the more common "Hello, you've reach Bill. I can't come to the phone....." or even "I'm busy. Fuck off!"
Note that the article ended at Ahoy, and had no mention of possible common greetings. ;)
- David Angelovich
"Chris F" wrote in message news:c05s29$c1k$[email]...
"David Angelovich" wrote in message news:...
A good idea for Burns and his obsolete words/concepts/etc. would be for Burns to stand in front of a computer card reader with a stack of IBM punch cards and say something like: "How in the blazes am I supposed to use this to access the Internet?"
Space Mvsevm
With a pointed remark about Herman Hollerith, of course.
And a flashback to his brief romance with Ada, Countess of Lovelace.
David Angelovich wrote:
As opposed to the steam powered telephone? :)
IIRC at the time people weren't certain how to answer Bell's new invention and AG Bell suggested "ahoy".
Gus wrote in message news:...
I don't think even Fred Flintstone had one of those.
As a sidebar to your comment, imagine a computer with the same number of logic gates as a PC, but using something other than semiconductors? Scientists have developed fluid mechanical analogies to the behavior of semiconductors. They have created logic gates and whatnot that use fluid flow through channels. A computer made of such fluid based logic gates would have to be as big as the Superdome in order to have the same number of logic gates as a PC.
Space Mvsevm
"Aaron Hirshberg" wrote in message news:[email]...
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I predict, that within one-hundred years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will be able to afford one.
Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
Burns: "There appears to be some sort of communiqu�."
Smithers: "That's your fortune, sir."
Burns: "Capital!"
My fave is "Get that bedlamite to an alienist."
Al Wesolowsky wrote:
Friday: "Are you sure this is the woman you saw in the post office?" Burns: "Absolutely! Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal." Smithers: "Uh, Sir? Phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." Burns: (measuring Smither's head) "Of course you'd say that... you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!"