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Write a paragraph using as many large words as possible about someting you know way too much about. I want to have to run to the OED people !

― anthony, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Fourth Amendment is served if a judicial mind passes upon the existence of probable cause. Where the issue is submitted upon an application of a warrant, the magistrate is trusted to evaluate the credibility of the affiant in an ex parte proceeding. The magistrate is concerned, not with whether the informant lied, but with whether the affiant is truthful in his recitation of what he was told. If the magistrate doubts the credibility of the affiant, he may require that the informant be identified or even produced. It seems that the same approach is equally sufficient where the search was without a warrant, that is to say, that it should rest entirely with the judge who hears the motion to suppress to decide whether he needs such disclosure as to the informant in order to decide whether the officer is a believable witness.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dieborken is the descendant of Bonnard inasmuch as he depicts the ocean front playgrounds of the idle rich. However Bonnard , indicative of his habits of self refrence depicted the interiors in jewel tones. The colors collpased in on themselves and did not delineate the pictoral plane. Dieborken freed by the modernist traditon of innovation from the tradtions of both perspective and realism was cabalpe off abstracting similar landscapes. I mean abstract , not in the genral non onjective sense. But in the literal disstillation of landscape into essential colors ( esp. the yellowgreens, the bluegreens and the ochres)

― anthony, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and shapes. This said the curves you expect in landscapes. ( esp. the horizon line) do not exist . It is entirly a rigid gemoteric formalism borrowed from Color Feild and the early minimalists.

― anthony, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*insert Tolkien rant here* Too sleepy to actually write it, see.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Misses Cums-while-baking ranawayallday.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y could have written lyrics for Slade methinks ...

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To act all pedantic...

Write a paragraph using as many large words as possible about someting you know way too much about. I want to have to run to the OED people !

"Someting"??? Don't you mean "something"? Also, you want to run to the OED people? As in you want to go to those people in charge of the OED?

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best Brainbombs song is "Die You Fuck", which bypasses the vitrification they occasionally fall prey to by explicitly making the connection between the limbic system and resulting decathexis, the appropriateness of which is reinforced by swelling, almost intrauterine ostinatos.

― dave q, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels a conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to prove commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable amount of unpredictability must invariably be taken into account."

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

this is a good idea . go ahead

― anthony, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! Another thread, pregnant with possibility, quashed by the terrorists.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The multiple subjectivities engaged in epiphenomenal ontology form a dialetic between the hegemony of the aesthetic and the morphology of society. If society exists, sui generis, then achieveing verstehen lies in diametric opposition to the phenomenological semiotics of discursive construction.
So there.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

you spelled achieving wrong

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You're so pedantic, Mark.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that was his point.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Really?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, really!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i love it when brits are being so british ...

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

there is of course no such thing as "being british"

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes there is

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

No there isn't. There is being English, and being anti-English (Scottish/Irish) and being torn between wanting to be English and self loathing for not being English (Welsh).

Of course all true Englishmen live in Gibraltar or the Falkland Isles which confuses things a touch.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not strictly true though, is it Pete? I'm Welsh and I'm not filled with self loathing. I'm filled with love and joy and too much coffee.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

xenophobia is an english trait but a word of greek origin.
hope that clears things up.

― joni, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

There are at least some people who identify themselves as British, and of course we've no business thelling them there's no such thing.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a reason it's called the ACT of union

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: Achieving
Ha! Made you look it up! Mwhaaaa....
...actually I was just typing too fast...

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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