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| Phineas T Puddleduck |
 Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:17 pm |
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In article <1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:b0e8d2d633]Something interesting can be found
in the name "Chernobyl",
the name of a Soviet town having
a major nuclear meltdown 20 years ago :
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Yawn
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| T Wake |
| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:24 pm |
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"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
[quote:bac50a55c7]Also, very interestingly,
Chernobyl
can mean
"Black and White"
in Russian!
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I missed the bit where this was interesting, sorry. |
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| Edwards |
| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:37 pm |
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On 2006-12-20, T Wake <usenet.es7at@gishpuppy.com> wrote:
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"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
Also, very interestingly,
Chernobyl
can mean
"Black and White"
in Russian!
I missed the bit where this was interesting, sorry.
[/quote:95116c7c7b]
Or even true, for that matter: _bel_ is the root meaning white in
Russian, "byl" isn't related to it at all.
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| Phineas T Puddleduck |
| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:39 pm |
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In article <slrneolaii.b16.edwards@trurl.bsd.uchicago.edu>,
Edwards <edwards@nouce.trurl.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
[quote:eb93a48ac2]On 2006-12-20, T Wake <usenet.es7at@gishpuppy.com> wrote:
"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
Also, very interestingly,
Chernobyl
can mean
"Black and White"
in Russian!
I missed the bit where this was interesting, sorry.
Or even true, for that matter: _bel_ is the root meaning white in
Russian, "byl" isn't related to it at all.
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AH I guess what he meant by "can mean" was - take some letters away and
add some new ones and we get....
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| NO Nukes SA |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:37 pm |
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T Wake wrote:
[quote:c1ad1f170a]"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
Also, very interestingly,
Chernobyl
can mean
"Black and White"
in Russian!
I missed the bit where this was interesting, sorry.
[/quote:c1ad1f170a]
Perhaps when your cancer gets larger
or your genetic deformities become more pronounced.
Verstein... |
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| NO Nukes SA |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:39 pm |
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
[quote:c57ee50445]In article <1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote:
Something interesting can be found
in the name "Chernobyl",
the name of a Soviet town having
a major nuclear meltdown 20 years ago :
Yawn
[/quote:c57ee50445]
Perhaps when some gaping hole of cancerous lesion
begins to Yawn louder You will finally start to get the message...
Verstein... |
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| Phineas T Puddleduck |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:40 pm |
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On 2006-12-28 00:39:25 +0000, "NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> said:
[quote:09408c61d5]Perhaps when some gaping hole of cancerous lesion
begins to Yawn louder You will finally start to get the message...
[/quote:09408c61d5]
Yawn.
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| T Wake |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:09 pm |
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"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[quote:fe1bae833c]
T Wake wrote:
"NO Nukes SA" <nonukesa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166652562.471974.169090@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
Also, very interestingly,
Chernobyl
can mean
"Black and White"
in Russian!
I missed the bit where this was interesting, sorry.
Perhaps when your cancer gets larger
or your genetic deformities become more pronounced.
[/quote:fe1bae833c]
So you mean to imply that when I am dying of cancer I will be interested to
know that _you_ (incorrectly) think Chernobyl means "Black and White" in
Russian.
Blimey.
Personally, I think it will probably be one of the things I am *least*
interested in. |
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| Phineas T Puddleduck |
| Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:10 pm |
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On 2006-12-28 16:09:38 +0000, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at@gishpuppy.com> said:
[quote:e3d30dab2f]Perhaps when your cancer gets larger
or your genetic deformities become more pronounced.
So you mean to imply that when I am dying of cancer I will be
interested to know that _you_ (incorrectly) think Chernobyl means
"Black and White" in Russian.
Blimey.
Personally, I think it will probably be one of the things I am *least*
interested in.
[/quote:e3d30dab2f]
Was it the Michael Jackson hit in Moscow then?
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persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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