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scott
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response 25 of 187:
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Jul 19 16:56 UTC 2003 |
Ended up going over to Communications Electronics and getting a Sangean ATS
404. According to Ken they stopped carrying the Grundig stuff because of
quality problems, or something like that.
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cmcgee
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response 26 of 187:
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Jul 25 22:53 UTC 2003 |
Back to the short question:
What does algolagny mean?
couldn't find it in my shorter OED.
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kip
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response 27 of 187:
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Jul 25 23:57 UTC 2003 |
hyperdictionary.com eventually leads to algolagnia defined as sexual pleasure
derived from inflicting or experiencing pain.
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dcat
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response 28 of 187:
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Jul 26 00:00 UTC 2003 |
That's because it doesn't exist.
However, CancerWEB's medical dictionary has the following at
[http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=algolagnia&action=Search+OMD]:
algolagnia
Form of sexual perversion in which the infliction or the experiencing of pain
increases the pleasure of the sexual act or causes sexual pleasure independent
of the act; includes both sadism (active algolagnia) and masochism (passive
algolagnia).
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dcat
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response 29 of 187:
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Jul 26 00:01 UTC 2003 |
(CancerWEB's dictionary is linked to from Dictionary.com)
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tod
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response 30 of 187:
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Jul 26 00:05 UTC 2003 |
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janc
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response 31 of 187:
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Jul 26 01:38 UTC 2003 |
Oh, so that's what programming in Algol was really about. After all these
years, I finally understand.
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russ
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response 32 of 187:
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Jul 26 13:19 UTC 2003 |
That might explain Algol, but what about COBOL?
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novomit
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response 33 of 187:
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Jul 26 14:19 UTC 2003 |
I programmed in COBOL for about four years. It's more of a way of thinking
than a programing language.
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keesan
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response 34 of 187:
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Jul 26 17:45 UTC 2003 |
What does 'lifestyle' mean, as in 'this house reflects your lifestyle',
'lifestyle magazine' and a questionnaire asking which category of website you
are likely to visit, one of which is 'lifestyle'. Does it mean interior
decorating?
Also, is there currently a fashion color? I recall purple, then teal, then
everything went black.
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keesan
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response 35 of 187:
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Jul 28 03:40 UTC 2003 |
An ad in the Observer offers me the choice between buying a condominium or
a single family lifestyle.
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rcurl
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response 36 of 187:
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Jul 30 16:33 UTC 2003 |
Our daughter, who is attending a college in Ohio and will be a Senior this
Fall, has been called to jury duty in Ann Arbor. She has asked to be
excused when she was first called, but only got postponed to mid August.
However she has a required summer internship and if chosen for jury duty
could have her graduation delayed to finish up requirements. Her inquiries
to the Court Clerk's office obtained the answer that there is no exemption
for either school or employment - only for medical disabilities. What has
been the experience of anyone here, especially college students, in this
regard?
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mynxcat
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response 37 of 187:
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Jul 30 16:55 UTC 2003 |
Doesn't the college take jury-duty into consideration, like employers
are supposed to?
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cross
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response 38 of 187:
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Jul 30 17:44 UTC 2003 |
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tod
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response 39 of 187:
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Jul 30 18:18 UTC 2003 |
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beeswing
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response 40 of 187:
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Jul 30 22:28 UTC 2003 |
Sounds like the best thing.
I got called for federal duty when I was in college. I think I was a
sophomore. The form had a checklist of exemptions and one of them was
being a full time student. I checked it, returned it, and got a letter
saying I'd been excused.
I know the county jury duty here is much more rigid. You have to be damn
near dead to be exempt. It used to be that teachers and medical
personnel were exempt, but now they have to serve too. I think if you're
a student, you can be exempt, but you need some written verification on
a school letterhead validating that you are a student.
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jmsaul
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response 41 of 187:
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Jul 30 22:33 UTC 2003 |
Is she actually a resident here at this point? She could explain that she
lives in Ohio now.
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scott
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response 42 of 187:
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Jul 30 22:50 UTC 2003 |
According to George Carlin, you should tell the judge that you're "really good
at spotting guilty people". :)
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dcat
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response 43 of 187:
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Jul 30 23:00 UTC 2003 |
I'm just curious what college?
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rcurl
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response 44 of 187:
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Jul 30 23:17 UTC 2003 |
Is that relevant to this question of jury service?
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cross
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response 45 of 187:
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Jul 30 23:34 UTC 2003 |
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rcurl
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response 46 of 187:
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Jul 30 23:36 UTC 2003 |
No, but nearly as bad tuitionwise...Wittenberg.
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dcat
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response 47 of 187:
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Jul 31 00:28 UTC 2003 |
No, it wasn't relevant; as I said, I was just curious. I went to Oberlin for
two years.
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mynxcat
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response 48 of 187:
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Jul 31 03:17 UTC 2003 |
My boss went to Wittenberg.
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goose
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response 49 of 187:
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Jul 31 03:21 UTC 2003 |
Bonzo went to Bitburg.
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