[Vhfcn-l] Vhfcn-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 4

[Bruce E. Carlson]

Not  sure that I understand the question

Respects -- Bruce

From: Nguyen Nguyen via Vhfcn-l
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2023 11:08 AM
To: Bruce Carlson
Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] Vhfcn-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 4

Please advise me on the status of the port I sent you two days ago.
Will it go our to everyone on the net?
Thanks

* A mere acknowledgement upon receipt solicited.

Regards,
Nguyên ND

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>   1. Monday musings (Gary Thewlis)
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> From: "Gary Thewlis" <gthewlis at comcast.net>
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> Subject: [Vhfcn-l] Monday musings
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> Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
> principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
> 
> Ambrose Bierce
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> 
> The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
> 
> Albert Einstein
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> Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
> distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
> 
> Ambrose Bierce
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> I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party.
> 
> Barack Obama on Dick Cheney
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> I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.
> 
> Anonymous
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> 
> My housekeeping style is best described as 'there appears to have been a
> struggle.'
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> Anonymous
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> 
> Missing opposites
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> 
> What has happened is that the root words have vanished, leaving the
> negatives behind. There are quite a number of these orphaned negatives.
> Comic writers have often exploited this fact to startle readers, as in P G
> Wodehouse's "I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from
> being gruntled" (from The Code of the Woosters).
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> 
> 
> For instance, gormless is now mainly an informal British English word that
> describes somebody foolish, lacking sense or initiative. This comes from a
> defunct term, usually spelt gaum, a dialect word meaning care or attention;
> in turn this derives from an Old Norse word gaumr. Though rarely recorded,
> at one time gaum-like was also around, for someone with an intelligent look
> about them. Curiously, the verb to gorm also existed, which meant to stare
> vacantly, implying almost the opposite; but this may be related to the Irish
> gom for a stupid-looking person and so may be unconnected with the other
> sense of gorm.
> 
> 
> 
> Ruthless is easier, since ruth was a well-attested Middle English word for a
> feeling of pity or compassion. This was formed about the twelfth century
> from the Anglo-Saxon noun and verb rue, with the same sense (we still have
> the verb, of course, with the closely related idea of regret). The adjective
> ruthless appeared in the fourteenth century. The noun is now archaic, but
> the adjective survived.
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> Jackpot
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> 
> This word has always had associations with gambling, at first not the big
> lotteries of today with their rollover jackpots, but with the game of poker.
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> In its early days in the US in the 1820s, poker was a gambling game for four
> players using a deck of only 20 cards; its reputation was commonly as a
> crooked game for cheats and hustlers. Its rules evolved very quickly through
> the following decades. Players began to use the full deck of 52 cards so
> more could take part in a game and, around the 1860s, some bright spark had
> the idea of improving the game by introducing a rule that nobody could open
> the betting unless his hand contained two jacks or better. If, after the
> usual rounds of dealing extra cards, nobody else had a hand good enough to
> bid, the player with the good hand took the accumulated stakes, which
> obviously enough became known as the jack pot.
> 
> 
> 
> This version of the game took a while to catch on. Though the term is first
> recorded in an issue of The National Police Gazette in 1865, it doesn't
> appear with any frequency until the middle 1870s. A puzzled reference to it
> is in a story with the title The Young Men at Narragansett Pier, which
> appeared in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette of 21 August 1876:
> 
> 
> 
> One never sees these young men standing around barrooms holding one end of a
> straw to their mouths and the other to a julep. They are never seen playing
> billiards for wine and cigars, or passing out of the game in a Jack pot when
> they hold a bob-tailed flush. Indeed, like the reader and myself, they do
> not know what a Jack pot is, unless it is a pot to put jacks in, which is
> sometimes the case. [bob-tailed flush: a useless one, missing one card of
> the set, like a chopped-off rabbit's tail.]
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> The term began to be applied to lotteries only around the start of the
> twentieth century.
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> 
> In the USA, there is a sports league for rock-paper-scissors competitions.
> 
> 
> 
> Although Christopher Columbus was the first to discover the American
> continent, it was the Italian Amerigo Vespucci who came up with the idea
> that this might be a new continent and not an Indian island, as Columbus had
> initially thought. In memory of this insight, the continent was named
> "America" after Amerigo Vespucci.
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> 
> 
> Alaska crosses the border with the eastern hemisphere and is thus the most
> eastern and western state in the USA.
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> 
> 
>> From 1789 to 1790, New York was the capital of the USA.
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> 
> To date, there have been a total of 2,055 atomic bomb tests worldwide. 1,039
> were carried out by the USA alone, 718 by the Soviet Union and 198 by
> France.
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> 
> 
> In September 1719, prisoners in Paris were released under the condition that
> they marry a prostitute and emigrate to Louisiana, USA. The objective was to
> advance French colonies along the Mississippi.
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> 
> 
> Adolf Hitler's nephew William Patrick Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1939
> and even fought alongside the Americans against Nazi Germany during the
> Second World War. He was even awarded the Purple Heart for his
> accomplishments during the war. After the war, however, he changed his name
> to William Patrick Stuart-Houston.
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