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02-09-2011, 03:22 AM
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Re: Miscellany
Why is it beheading when other be- started words seem to be intensifying and when someone is beheaded, they are getting the opposite of more heads?
If I could have waited another hour (or two), I would have posted this at  , but I would have forgotten by then. Wouldn't want that.
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02-09-2011, 03:31 AM
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Re: Miscellany
Wait, wait. What? Beheading DOESN'T mean getting more heads? It's not like bedazzling?
Well, shit.
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02-09-2011, 06:12 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Re: Miscellany
Behanding is the punishment for thievery in some barbaric countries that are on the moral level of spear-shaking Pygmies.
Also, beforeskinning is what Jews do to their male babies, in case you were wondering how this ties into Jews.
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02-09-2011, 08:38 AM
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Re: Miscellany
Bereft and related forms (e.g. Bereavement) also speak of loss.
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02-09-2011, 11:52 AM
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Re: Miscellany
Beekeeping does not involve the loss of keeping.
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02-09-2011, 02:46 PM
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Re: Miscellany
For some reason, behooving involves neither the increase nor diminishment of hooves.
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02-09-2011, 02:57 PM
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the internet says I'm right
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Re: Miscellany
Apparently the etymologies are related, however.
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bereave, v.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English bi-, beréafian = Old Frisian birâv(i)a, Old Saxon birôƀôn, (Middle Dutch beroven, Dutch berooven), Old High German biroubôn, (Middle High German berouben, modern German berauben), Gothic biraubôn < Germanic *birauƀôjan, < bi-, be- prefix + *rauƀôjan, in Old English réafian to plunder, spoil, rob; see reave v.1
behove | behoove, v.
Etymology: Old English bi-, behófian (corresponding to Middle Low German behoven, Middle Dutch and Dutch behoeven), < bihóf n.: see behoof n.
behead, v.
Etymology: Old English behéafdi-an, < be- prefix 3 (with privative force) + héafod head n.1; compare Middle High German behoubeten in same sense, modern German enthaupten.
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02-09-2011, 04:35 PM
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Re: Miscellany
All of this because I read how some baggage handler was beheaded at Reagan a few years ago while trying to get the conveyor belt thingy lined up at the plane. And the article wasn't even about that.
Still not sure how she got beheaded, but I'm pretty sure it's connected with the fact that women shouldn't be driving. Her stress levels were probably at 240%!
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02-09-2011, 06:24 PM
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Re: Miscellany
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Apparently the etymologies are related, however.
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Originally Posted by OED
bereave, v.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English bi-, beréafian = Old Frisian birâv(i)a, Old Saxon birôƀôn, (Middle Dutch beroven, Dutch berooven), Old High German biroubôn, (Middle High German berouben, modern German berauben), Gothic biraubôn < Germanic *birauƀôjan, < bi-, be- prefix + *rauƀôjan, in Old English réafian to plunder, spoil, rob; see reave v.1
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That part is wrong, it is the other way around: beroven is modern Dutch.
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02-09-2011, 06:30 PM
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Re: Miscellany
OED pwnd. 
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02-09-2011, 11:05 PM
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02-09-2011, 11:07 PM
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Re: Miscellany
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02-09-2011, 11:08 PM
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LadyShea needs one of those kiddo or she'll never get a decent picture of the lad.
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02-09-2011, 11:30 PM
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Re: Miscellany
Some text on the side of a Chipotle bag.
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02-09-2011, 11:44 PM
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Re: Miscellany
I cannot even tell you how many times...
tshhh tshhh
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02-09-2011, 11:46 PM
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Re: Miscellany
That's like a dwarf Megatherium!
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02-09-2011, 11:50 PM
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02-09-2011, 11:51 PM
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02-10-2011, 12:09 AM
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02-10-2011, 01:01 AM
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improperly uses ellipses....... with panache
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02-10-2011, 05:58 PM
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improperly uses ellipses....... with panache
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ms meryl streep as maggie thatcher, the iron lady
i  meryl streep
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02-10-2011, 06:39 PM
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02-10-2011, 06:44 PM
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Re: Miscellany
Too much awesome.
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02-10-2011, 09:12 PM
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Re: Miscellany
Dangerous Minds has been doing a pretty good Reagan retrospective that people should be reading:
Dangerous Minds: Reagan
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02-11-2011, 12:10 AM
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