[Vhfcn-l] Sunday musings

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> On Nov 6, 2022, at 11:56 AM, Gary Thewlis via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
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> I will be gone for a couple of days, so this is going out early.
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> The three most common expressions in aviation are, 'Why is it doing that?,
> 'Where are we?' and 'Oh Crap.' 
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> Unknown
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> When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to
> answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
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> Theodore Roosevelt 
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> Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry
> reason: fear. 
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> Molly Ivins 
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> When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to
> be bought and sold are legislators.
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> PJ O'Rourke
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> Do you think God gets stoned? I think so. look at the platypus. 
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> Unknown
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> You're not that lucky and I'm not that desperate! 
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> Anonymous
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> Fiddlesticks
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> One apocryphal story is that fiddlesticks came from the wooden bars on ships
> that stopped crockery sliding off tables in rough weather, and that officers
> used to play silly games with them, hence the name. 
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> There's an ounce of truth in this because the protective slats, bars or
> rails around the edges of shipboard tables are indeed called fiddles. But to
> leap from this undisputed fact to its being the origin of fiddlesticks is
> too great for most minds, however athletic.
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> A fiddlestick was undoubtedly at first a violin bow. (Both fiddle and violin
> come from the Roman goddess of joy, Vitula, who gave her name to a stringed
> instrument; fiddle came down to us via the Germanic languages, violin
> through the Romance ones.) Fiddlestick is recorded from the fifteenth
> century, and Shakespeare used a proverb based on it in Henry IV: "the devil
> rides on a fiddle-stick", meaning that a commotion has broken out; the
> imagery is obviously related to the broomstick of a witch, and perhaps
> there's some thought behind it of the noise that a fiddle might make if the
> devil got to play it.
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> At some point in Shakespeare's lifetime, it seems fiddlestick began to be
> used for something insignificant or trivial. This may have been because a
> violin bow was regarded as inconsequential or perhaps simply because the
> word sounds intrinsically silly. It took on a humorous slant as a word one
> could use to replace another in a contemptuous response to a remark. George
> Farquhar used it in this way in his play Sir Henry Wildair of 1701: "Golden
> pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!". From here it was a short step to using the
> word as a disparaging comment to mean that something just said was nonsense.
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> There is a link between the violin bow and ship's table senses of fiddle, in
> that the word has been used in several fields for various wooden
> contrivances with a more or less fanciful resemblance to a violin and that
> this is the source of the ship usage. But otherwise, ship's fiddles and the
> retort are unconnected.
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> Across the board
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> this term has a specialized gambling sense in the US. In the UK it is
> primarily known in the sense of something that applies to all, as in "the
> cutbacks will be across the board".
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> It's definitely of American origin and comes from horse racing, in which it
> refers to a bet in which equal amounts are staked on a horse to win, place,
> or show in a race - that is, come in first, second, or third. The Oxford
> English Dictionary's first citation is from 1950, but it's actually much
> older - there are examples in US newspapers going back to the beginning of
> the twentieth century. The earliest found was from The Post-Standard of
> Syracuse, New York, in 1902, about a scam perpetrated on a local bookmaker:
> "This affected the bookmaker to the extent of allowing him to make another
> bet of $30 across the board, this bet to net $160".
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> The board itself was the blackboard on which bookmakers chalked up the odds
> for each horse in each race, so to bet across the board was to select all
> three options - win, place, and show - for one horse.
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> Edward Hunter, a  US Journalist, invented what war Korean term ?
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> A: Brainwashing
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> In 1951 disposable what were invented?
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> A:  diapers
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> Fire escapes, windshield wipers, and bullet proof vests were all invented by
> what group?
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> A:  women
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> Denis Gabor of Hungary, in 1971, won the Nobel prize for what invention?
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> A:  Holograms
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> The Wright brothers made aircraft but what was their other job?
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> A:  Bicycle manufacturers
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> Who invented the Linux computer operating system?
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> A: Linus Torwalds
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> in 1662 what calculating aid was invented by William Oughtred?
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> A: Slide Rule
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