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Is the D600 overpriced?
On 2012.10.06 20:45 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2012-10-06 12:28:06 -0700, Eric Stevens said: On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:23:51 +0100, Bruce wrote: Robert Coe wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:46:49 +0100, Bruce wrote: : : Hence 'to pop your clogs" is a euphemism for death. : : Until I looked this up using Google I had thought the currency of 'pop : your clogs' was much wider than it is. It was too obscure for an : international forum such as this; for that I apologise. Interesting. That one had sailed over my head entirely! Another euphemism I use for death is "to snuff it". It's a reference to the days before people's homes were lit by either gas or electricity. If someone was ill in bed, they would have a candle burning in the room at all times. When they died, the candle would be extinguished or "snuffed out". So people would say "X has snuffed it" to mean the person X died. Then there is the expression used mainly by pilots when speaking of a fatal accident, that so and so has "bought the farm". "Bought the farm", is an expression developed in the U.S. military, and not necessarily limited to airmen. Starting during WWII. U.S. Servicemen carry a G.I. life insurance policy for combat death, which during WWII paid, IIRC $10K. Given the high number of draftees, literally conscripted off "the farm", $10K was a substantial contribution to help pay off the mortgage on the family farm in the 1940's. Those about to enter combat were usually reminded to make sure that their paperwork, including their insurance information was up to date, so if anything happened to them they would still be able to "buy the farm" for Mom & Dad. That completes it. Thanks. Two typical pilot expressions also originating in WWII were, "auger in" & "crater". "auger in" was descriptive drilling a hole for a grave, and of the "Auger in" referred to an unrecoverable spin to the ground, actually and predated WW II by a many years, possibly pre-WW-I. It was a "popular press" reference generally despised by pilots. -- "There were, unfortunately, no great principles on which parties were divided – politics became a mere struggle for office." -Sir John A. Macdonald |
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