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| Thread ID: 42718 | 2004-02-20 07:35:00 | WFTWE #90....Procellous: Weather or politics, what shall it be today?...... | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 216803 | 2004-02-20 07:35:00 | Procellous Adj. Stormy, which could apply equally well to weather and/or politics right now. It has been a clysmian couple of days, but whether rain, crocodile tears or porkies gets the nod is up to you. Adj. Clysmian: Related to or caused by floods or flooding. Cheers Billy 8-{) :) I resisted the temptation to use mythomania: The compulsive telling of lies and believing them, because WFTWE tries to be non-partisan and non-political!:D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 216804 | 2004-02-20 07:48:00 | ?:| | PoWa (203) | ||
| 216805 | 2004-02-20 10:56:00 | BT, I think your on the money except I would have led off with the secondary theme. People are very forgiving and resourceful but as far as I am concerned there is no forgiving the BS that has been coming from our lord's & master's of either hue in recent times. I don't know whether they think we should be inured to the c**p that they feel they must produce but I'm certainly getting sick of paying for it. </end rant> Didn't mean to put a downer on your post, just a wee bit topical, I live on a flat bit of the Hutt valley, no harm here tho ;) Cheers Murray |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 216806 | 2004-02-20 23:58:00 | That's not a downer Murray . I try to make WFTWE as topical as possible to give the words more relevance . I try not to be insensitive about it though, and as apolitical as possible of course . :| Clysmian is a good example of a topical choice, most people are familiar with cataclysm to describe a violent natural event but wouldn't necessarily recognise the Greek root kluso which means to wash . In broad terms, cata means down or wrongly so a cataclysmic flood is a flood that produces bad effects . I don't know what a good flood is, but I remember being taught at primary school about the importance of the annual flooding of the Nile to the agriculture of ancient Egypt . This was always contrasted with Mesopotamia, which had to use artificial irrigation for reasons which escape my ailing memory . :8} Works well too for politicians who are washed away by things done wrongly . Some politicians might be well advised to take lessons from Winston, the Teflon King of NZ politics . :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 216807 | 2004-02-21 01:05:00 | Perhaps it's the antics of the politicians which are causing the gods to cry. The thunderbolts seem to miss the proper targets. :_| |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 216808 | 2004-02-21 04:20:00 | LOL Graham :^O You are right on the money! Cheers Billy 8-{) :) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 216809 | 2004-02-21 04:37:00 | Perhaps the gods are also political, they did seem to be often on different sides in the olden days. My theory is that there is a madness virus sweeping the world, for which there is no known cure, being a prelude to the gods destroying those infected. The extremes of weather everyone around the world are experiencing is probably a manifestation of their displeasure. |
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