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kathy
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1st Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 02:44 am | |
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| pm boopsies
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albertmorris
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2nd Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 03:34 am | |
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| Sorry....just saw this....
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kathy
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3rd Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 03:43 am | |
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that's ok - you got the pm!
and now you have your own thread to boot
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tennis gal
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4th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:13 am | |
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kathy wrote: to boot
What does that mean? That expression has always dumbfounded me. For that matter, what does dumbfounded mean? To find one dumb? That's not very nice.
Why am I feeling so existential tonight? Is it because I keep hearing "Boomer Sooner" in the background of my mind?
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kathy
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5th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:15 am | |
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| i don't know! maybe bbs will come on tonight and enlighten us!
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kathy
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6th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:17 am | |
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here's what one website says -- i'm still confused LOL
[Q] From Skip Huffman: “Can you give a bit of history on the little orphan phrase to boot? It looks like it should be related to the historic pirate’s booty, or even bootlegger.”
[A] Don’t be confused by apparent associations with boot for the heavyweight footwear, from which we also get boot in the sense of restarting a computer. The only one of your three terms linked in this way is bootlegger. Booty comes from Middle Low German buite, exchange or distribution.
To boot usually means “in addition, besides, moreover”, as here in Falk, by Joseph Conrad: “At all events he was a Scandinavian of some sort, and a bloated monopolist to boot”. The phrase can sometimes contain the idea of some positive outcome or advantage, not just something additional. In this, it’s reflecting its ancient origin in Old English bot, advantage, remedy. It’s of Germanic origin and is related to Dutch boete and German Busse (a penance or fine) as well as to the English words better and best.
Boot could at one time exist alone with the idea of profit or advantage (along with its opposite, bootless). Shakespeare uses it this way in Antony and Cleopatra: “Give him no breath, but now / Make boot of his distraction” — in other words, take advantage of his being distracted. It also turns up in several terms from feudal times that referred to the right of tenants to take materials from the manor for their own use, such as firebote, hedgebote, and housebote, in which it can be translated as “benefit”.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tob1.htm
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kathy
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7th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:18 am | |
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and here's another
To boot
Meaning
Moreover; in addition to.
Origin
This term has nothing to do with footwear. The 'boot' is thought to be a derivative of the earlier 'bat' meaning 'good or useful'. This is also the root of the word 'better'.
Forms of 'to boot' in Old English date from around 1000AD. Robert Manning of Brunne included a version of it in Langtoft's Chronicle, 1330:
"A hundreth knyghtes mo... and four hundreth to bote, squieres of gode aray."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/385450.html
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albertmorris
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8th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:27 am | |
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NOW we have a thread! "Dumfounded" and "to boot...." Tennisgal, this reminds of few conversations on my youth.....
What if God's secretary made a typo....instead of creating the sun, moon and planets, she'd typed "plants." Then the question becomes whether we lived on a really large ficus, or what if we traveled from one area to another by bamboo? 
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kathy
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9th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:44 am | |
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| dumbfounded I understand, but "to boot" not so much
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tennis gal
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10th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:52 am | |
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| But do you understand God having a secretary???? Do you think she has to get coffee for him?
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albertmorris
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11th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 05:31 am | |
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tennis gal wrote: But do you understand God having a secretary???? Do you think she has to get coffee for him?
And would it be organic? Or would he prefer Postum? Would God want honey or sugar?
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tennis gal
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12th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 05:50 am | |
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albertmorris wrote: tennis gal wrote: But do you understand God having a secretary???? Do you think she has to get coffee for him?
And would it be organic? Or would he prefer Postum? Would God want honey or sugar?
I should have edited that to say Him/Her.
And I think He/She prefers Splenda.....but surely He/She doesn't have to count carbs like us mortals.
What is Postum????? Is that like Sanka?
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Benbrook Susie
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13th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:01 am | |
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I love this thread !!
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Benbrook Susie
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14th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:03 am | |
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Someone wanna explain how my post, made after I read Gump's, ended up before his ?! 
And how come the handy-dandy green arrows indicating New Posts Since Last I Was Here no longer disappear after I read the thread and click on the Topic Page ??
Last edited on Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:04 am by Benbrook Susie
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kathy
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15th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:05 am | |
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Benbrook Susie wrote: Someone wanna explain how my post, made after I read Gump's, ended up before his ?!
And how come the handy-dandy green arrows indicating New Posts Since Last I Was Here no longer disappear after I read the thread and click on the Topic Page ??
weird things are happening! y2k?
let's see if it lets me quote your post which in dd time was made *after* this one, but in "real time" was made before
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kathy
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16th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:06 am | |
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gumpbowl wrote: I think God would like real sugar. "He" would not need to worry.
but *She* might ;-)
woo hoo i did it ... time travel!
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Benbrook Susie
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17th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:18 am | |
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| KathyWendy, I sent you a Gmail 'cause PM wouldn't let me respond.
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Benbrook Susie
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18th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:19 am | |
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kathy wrote:
woo hoo i did it ... time travel!
So when will we meet up with that hot guy from "Journeyman" ?? 
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gumpbowl
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19th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 06:33 am | |
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| I think God would like real sugar. "He" would not need to worry.
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Ric
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20th Post Sun Nov 4th, 2007 04:29 pm | |
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tennis gal wrote: albertmorris wrote: tennis gal wrote: But do you understand God having a secretary???? Do you think she has to get coffee for him?
And would it be organic? Or would he prefer Postum? Would God want honey or sugar?
I should have edited that to say Him/Her.
And I think He/She prefers Splenda.....but surely He/She doesn't have to count carbs like us mortals.
What is Postum????? Is that like Sanka?
Nothing is like Sanka.
Postum is a coffee substitute..... ick....
Attachment: Postum.gif (Downloaded 123 times)
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