Hey Thump

[BuckeyeNation27]

Would you feel weird getting a BJ from Sinead O'Connor? Looking down at that bald head bobbing up and down might give 27 a prison flashback

have an apple........oh wait.....

 

[iambrutus]

this keyboard sucks!

 

[OSUsushichic]

I have an office.

I'm eating an egg sandwich.

I have a voice message but don't want to check it.

I am post padding ... I like Post-It pads.

 

[iambrutus]

i hate voicemail, we have a PC based phone system at the office and its very easy to transfer voicemail to other people, very nice :)

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

BN27,

That looks like Gary the Retard.

is grads name gary?

 

[buckeyegrad]

A blue. Duh.......

Thump, how can you be sure? Is the fruit called an orange because it is that color or is the color named orange because it resembles the fruit. Or is their a third explanation. There was (is?) the royal House of Orange in Europe, so where does that name come from......hmmmmmmmm

 

[gregorylee]

 

[AKAK]

I've always been curious about that.

the color named orange because it resembles the fruit.

That's the answer.

Here's some add explanation from an etomological source:

In Old English, before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English as yellow-red

 

[osugrad21]

Struggling today eh 27

I gave you props for a good one yesterday. Therfore, I feel completely comfortable telling you both attempts at humor in this thread sucked.

Sorry. You'll have to try again in another thread.

 

[Thump]

Struggling today eh 27

I gave you props for a good one yesterday. Therfore, I feel completely comfortable telling you both attempts at humor in this thread sucked.

Sorry. You'll have to try again in another thread.

Ouch!!

 

[iambrutus]

i'm very impressed with the topics covered with this thread

 

[buckeyegrad]

I've always been curious about that.

That's the answer.

Here's some add explanation from an etomological source: In Old English, before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English as yellow-red

I just did an etomological search with the Oxford English Dictionary and found the same thing....so my question becomes valid:

If an orange was blue, what would we call it? Since we already have the word "blue" to describe a color, the word would not be derived from the fruit. Therefore, we would not likely call it a "blue" as Thump suggested. My guess is that we would still call it an orange regardless of whether it was blue, red, white, or pink.

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

tangerine?

 

[AKAK]

If an orange was blue, what would we call it? Since we already have the word "blue" to describe a color, the word would not be derived from the fruit. Therefore, we would not likely call it a "blue" as Thump suggested. My guess is that we would still call it an orange regardless of whether it was blue, red, white, or pink.

I guess in the Ukraine they call eggplants "blue." (This is according to a Russian firend of mine... yes I realize they are purple, so maybe Ukranians are color blind)... but... If I had to wager, they already had a word for blue and took to calling the vegetable that.

This more or less goes back to one or two phenonema, depending on your point of view.

The first, we just had a thread about... which is the "Coke, Soda, Pop" thread where in certain places they call all carbonated beverages coke... even after Soda was already available to describe it. (Coke was accidentally invented as it is now when a Soda Jerk used Soda-- carbonated water-- to mix with cola syrup instead of water- or whatever he was supposed to use--... at the time it was a headache remedy)

The other is the a "rose by any other name" philosophy.

 

[Thump]

Chicken Tenders Rule.

BTW, I'm going to Popeye's Chicken for the first time tonight, any recommendations or feedback on the place?