Friday, August 07, 2009
PZ Rides A Biblical Lie
For those who are rational, no explanation is necessary. For those who believe, no explanation will ever be enough.
Headlines That Make Me Happy
Stripper Found Not Guilty of Rape for Strap-on Incident with Best Man
Clicking the link will only ruin the satisfaction you are getting from your out-of-control imagination. Resist. And dream.
Also. Rape isn't funny. What's wrong with you?
Clicking the link will only ruin the satisfaction you are getting from your out-of-control imagination. Resist. And dream.
Also. Rape isn't funny. What's wrong with you?
Cynical Fridays
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Deeply, Deeply Stupid White Boys
Red Tory has posted the video interview FiredogLake did with the Young Cons. Not only are they predictably bad rappers (nice socks boys), but they are deeply stupid. Crack a book boys and learn yourselves some history. Or, you could pull the Meghan McCain defense and claim that anything that happened prior to your birth is all hard to know and stuff. Aren't you a Columbia grad Meghan?
Reminds me of time Barbie told girls that "Math is Hard!"
Close enough.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Words I Have Never Seen Or Heard
Paixhan, n.
Naval Gunnery (now hist.).
Brit. /{sm}pe{shti}ks{schwa}n/, U.S. /{sm}p{ope}k{smm}sæn/ Forms: 18 Paixham (irreg.), 18 Paixhans, 18- Paixhan, 19- Paixhain (irreg.).Also with lower-case initial. [< the name of Henri-Joseph Paixhans (1783-1854), French army officer, who devised various armaments.]
I. Compounds.
1. attrib. and in the genitive. Designating armaments devised by Paixhans and originally used by the French Navy; spec. a system using large-calibre weapons to fire shells rather than shot.
[1828 Foreign Q. Rev. 2 590 Two distinct Commissions..have..expressed a decided opinion in favour of M. Paixhans's bomb-cannon, and of the propriety of admitting them, in small number, on board of ships of the line.] 1832 Daily Evening Transcript (Boston) 2 Jan. 2/2 The Paixhan's cannon..sends 160 iron balls weighing half a pound each to a distance of from 3,000 to 4,000 feet. 1858 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Dec. 66/2 The introduction of Paixhans shells into naval warfare. 1937 C. W. ELLIOTT Winfield Scott 459 Three long thirty-twos and three eight-inch Paixhain guns were brought ashore and set up, with back-breaking labor. 1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 1731/1 Effective American light artillery and Paixhan siege guns overcame Mexican forces in the north.
II. Simple uses.
2. A weapon of this type.
1846 Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 15 July 2/2 She will also carry out twenty guns of large calibre, big Paixhans or Bomfords. 1861 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury (Electronic text) 13 Nov., The barbette of Castle Pinckney, which, with a good supply of rifle cannon, Dahlgrens or Columbiads, or Paixhans, can enter the combat with powerful arms. 1862 T. WINTHROP Life in Open Air 209 They build their log-station, pile up barrels of pork, beans, and molasses, like mortars and Paixhans in an arsenal. 1997 Washington Q. (Nexis) 20 39 The French developed the first..shell gun{em}the paixhans{em}the first machine gun.
Now I have to find a way to work this word into a conversation. I'm not optimistic.
Naval Gunnery (now hist.).
Brit. /{sm}pe{shti}ks{schwa}n/, U.S. /{sm}p{ope}k{smm}sæn/ Forms: 18 Paixham (irreg.), 18 Paixhans, 18- Paixhan, 19- Paixhain (irreg.).Also with lower-case initial. [< the name of Henri-Joseph Paixhans (1783-1854), French army officer, who devised various armaments.]
I. Compounds.
1. attrib. and in the genitive. Designating armaments devised by Paixhans and originally used by the French Navy; spec. a system using large-calibre weapons to fire shells rather than shot.
[1828 Foreign Q. Rev. 2 590 Two distinct Commissions..have..expressed a decided opinion in favour of M. Paixhans's bomb-cannon, and of the propriety of admitting them, in small number, on board of ships of the line.] 1832 Daily Evening Transcript (Boston) 2 Jan. 2/2 The Paixhan's cannon..sends 160 iron balls weighing half a pound each to a distance of from 3,000 to 4,000 feet. 1858 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Dec. 66/2 The introduction of Paixhans shells into naval warfare. 1937 C. W. ELLIOTT Winfield Scott 459 Three long thirty-twos and three eight-inch Paixhain guns were brought ashore and set up, with back-breaking labor. 1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 1731/1 Effective American light artillery and Paixhan siege guns overcame Mexican forces in the north.
II. Simple uses.
2. A weapon of this type.
1846 Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 15 July 2/2 She will also carry out twenty guns of large calibre, big Paixhans or Bomfords. 1861 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury (Electronic text) 13 Nov., The barbette of Castle Pinckney, which, with a good supply of rifle cannon, Dahlgrens or Columbiads, or Paixhans, can enter the combat with powerful arms. 1862 T. WINTHROP Life in Open Air 209 They build their log-station, pile up barrels of pork, beans, and molasses, like mortars and Paixhans in an arsenal. 1997 Washington Q. (Nexis) 20 39 The French developed the first..shell gun{em}the paixhans{em}the first machine gun.
Now I have to find a way to work this word into a conversation. I'm not optimistic.
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