pericat, some of us AutoCAD geeks know very well that experience that allows you to associate the lines on the computer screen and the lines on the ground is invaluable.
Let me rephrase: The better AutoCAD geeks know this.
We're trying to find a definitive answer to the origin of this poem. Any takers?
I take it you already know.
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On Hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word.
That looks like beard and sounds like bird
And dead: it?s said like bed, not bead
For goodness sake, don?t call it ?deed?!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with sweet and straight, and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there?s dose and rose and lose
-- just look them up -- and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward, and font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart --
Come, come, I?ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I mastered it when I was five.
Crossovers
Really had to dig into the memory banks to identify some of them.
Tamara, Skwid,
It supposedly has its origins in an Aboriginal rite-of-passage imitating bifurcation in kangaroos. As sympathetic magic, I suppose I understand it; the kangaroo is associated with prowess. But as a fashion statement?
Michael Heraghty - One benefit of the Popdex ranking is that people who want to investigate this don't have to chase the spam through the blogs. Some of the bloggers hit had said the spammer was promoting kiddie porn, which would have gotten Florida's cyber-crime people involved.
After seeing the site before it went down, the verdict was "they look legal to me." I'm waiting to hear where the line between "annoying but legal" and "should be investigated" is for public advertising.
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