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| I'm not familiar with any type of tinsel which is attached to thread. Is this a relatively recent development, or something that is more common outside the US? [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 20:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC) | | I'm not familiar with any type of tinsel which is attached to thread. Is this a relatively recent development, or something that is more common outside the US? [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 20:04, 20 January 2016 (UTC) |
− | :it's the only kind that's called tinsel in the UK. maybe in New England, too. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.161|141.101.106.161]] 13:02, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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| I think it should be "a god's 'Nam tables" because "God" means "the only god" and "a god" is one of many. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.13|108.162.221.13]] 12:40, 20 January 2016 (UTC) | | I think it should be "a god's 'Nam tables" because "God" means "the only god" and "a god" is one of many. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.13|108.162.221.13]] 12:40, 20 January 2016 (UTC) |
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| :::::: [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waterloo "Can never"] can never work. I hear kitchen duty on St. Helena is not pleasant. Don't forget to pack some stamps and stationery when they ship you out, I want to lick the taste of your tears off your letters. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.138|162.158.114.138]] 02:47, 21 January 2016 (UTC) | | :::::: [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waterloo "Can never"] can never work. I hear kitchen duty on St. Helena is not pleasant. Don't forget to pack some stamps and stationery when they ship you out, I want to lick the taste of your tears off your letters. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.138|162.158.114.138]] 02:47, 21 January 2016 (UTC) |
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− | ::::::: In my defence, the [http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/waterloo Oxford English dictionary] doesn't seem to list this acceptation. But I do agree, I shouldn't have used "can never", things change, and even if they didn't I certainly don't know all of the English dictionary. I am sure there are plenty of words, and plenty of meanings to words that I don't know of. [[Special:Contributions/188.114.103.19|188.114.103.19]] 10:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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| :In the [[1632:_Palindrome#Trivia|trivia]] it mentions that there is a comma between the nam and tables in the original(?) post, and by the way 'Nam is capitalized there. So is it then God's Vietnam? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:36, 20 January 2016 (UTC) | | :In the [[1632:_Palindrome#Trivia|trivia]] it mentions that there is a comma between the nam and tables in the original(?) post, and by the way 'Nam is capitalized there. So is it then God's Vietnam? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:36, 20 January 2016 (UTC) |
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− | Just a guess about the next comic. It might very well relate to this news about a possible [http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system Planet X]! Looking forward to seing if I'm right ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:24, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | :Yes I was right. And he had to delay the release as he of course did not have the comic ready when the news was published and it is quite complicated comic he made with [[1633: Possible Undiscovered Planets]]. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:23, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | Apropos "(It is not long since another xkcd comic referred directly to porn - see 1629: Tools)." Or, as Tom Lehrer put it, "when correctly viewed, everything is lewd". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 11:55, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | :Well spotted, though it was already mentioned in the trivia when you posted this comment ;-) Maybe his next, delayed?, comic, will be about Planet XXX :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:50, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | ;Etymology of palindrome
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− | The meaning of "Palindrom" :
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− | Dromos is a way, street, highway or something similar.
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− | So Palin drom means Palin's way [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.189|162.158.90.189]] 23:23, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | : "Palin's way" is the same as when going backwards? :D Meanwhile, a [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palindrome slightly more authoritative source] has this to say:
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− | : "Greek ''palindromos'' running back again, from ''palin'' back, again + ''dramein'' to run; akin to Greek ''polos'' axis, pole — more at [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pole pole], [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dromedary dromedary]" ... "First Known Use: circa 1629"
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− | : [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.138|162.158.114.138]] 07:30, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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− | ::Maybe the first anon was making a Sarah Palin joke: she wants to move America backward to the days when… actually, I'm really not sure; she seems to be fueled by a nonspecific nostalgia for 1980s conservative nostalgia for an imagined past era, rather than nostalgia directly for any actual or imagined past era… but then it isn't my joke, I'm just guessing it was someone else's, so I don't have to explain it. :)
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− | ::At any rate, the "dromos" (δρόμος) part is right; the word is a medieval or renaissance European construction from Greek, and almost certainly used "dromos" directly rather than re-deriving the same word from a distant source. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.82|162.158.255.82]] 04:16, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
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− | == Trivia section is a bit over-the-top ==
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− | Is it *really* necessary to explain what tables and tar are? I'm pretty sure like 99% of English speakers know those words (especially tables). And even if someone somehow didn't know, there's always Google!
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− | [[User:Nicoder6884|Nicoder6884]] ([[User talk:Nicoder6884|talk]]) 04:36, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
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