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dictionary.com doesn't give any sensible translation of riff - please enlighten me of your meaning of it.
On topic - Does anyone has a clue of what they need helium for ?
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dictionary.com doesn't give any sensible translation of riff - please enlighten me of your meaning of it.
On topic - Does anyone has a clue of what they need helium for ?With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Most of those were just companies who owned businesses in Germany before the war and who's German managers basically got letters from the Nazi government saying they now owned to companies and not to pay attention to those American pig dogs who used to own them. The entire german automobile industry effectively came under the control of the German government to produce war material (the US and UK did the same) so it is hard to blame GM for a company they had no control over.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Actually, we do.
Ford, General Motors, IBM, George Bush's grandfather Preston Bush was one of their bankers . . . the list goes on and on.
In fact after the war GM accountants came to Germany expecting to fine that Opel effectively no longer existed. Instead they found that the German CEO haddone the minimum necissary to prevent Nazi nationalization and had actually put aside in swiss bank account the correct number of dividend payouts for shareholders since they could not be delivered during the war.
Bush's grandfather on the other hand was just a piece of ****. He kept working with the Nazis from the US even after the US entered the war. He was facing charges at one point but because he was so well politically connected (to Republicans of course) they made sure he wasn't brought up on charges for trading with the enemy.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Hmm, maybe if we try and speed up global warming, a storm will get him. Then we won't have to contaminate the rocket.Comment
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riff: in jazz or pop a short, memorable melodic pattern repeated many times in succession (see also ostinato)I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That's what they use to pressurize the fuel tanks on the rocket. It's a good gas for this purpose in that it doesn't react with other substances.On topic - Does anyone has a clue of what they need helium for ?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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It means to complain, argue, make fun of. It is slang and not standard English.Originally posted by BlackCat
dictionary.com doesn't give any sensible translation of riff - please enlighten me of your meaning of it.Last edited by Dinner; November 27, 2005, 13:48.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Thanks. Neither the music nor the Berber explanation fitted well into DanS sentenceOriginally posted by Oerdin
It means to complain, argue, make fun off. It is slang and not standard English.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Fits just fine. Somebody would "riff" off of you by repeating what you have said, or by repeating something derived from what you said.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Still some local slang even if it's common in the whole US.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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I'm surprised it wasn't in dictionary.com.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Another way of putting it would be to 'play off of' someone or something."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
"...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
"sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.Comment
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I thought the following article about ESA space was interesting in the part that says...
Launchers too are set to be the focus of heated discussion, particularly from countries such as Germany, France and Italy that invest heavily in rockets like the Ariane 5 and the newly developed Vega rocket.
Rachel Villain, Director of Space and Communications at the Paris-based Euroconsult agency, said there could even be calls for a ban on the use of non-European launcher vehicles, which is likely to be heavily resisted by some.
"Some people may ask for a ban on foreign vehicles to launch satellites; that would be a contentious issue," she told the BBC News website.
This is directed at SpaceX. Sweden's state-owned space corporation MDA recently ordered a 2008 launch from SpaceX.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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now all what we need to do is privatize NASA."Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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Which would be the equivalent of killing NASA, considering that NASA couldn't survive in the private sector.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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OMG, Dan's supporting SOCIALISM!!!11!!!1111!!111!!!!!1!Originally posted by DanS
Which would be the equivalent of killing NASA, considering that NASA couldn't survive in the private sector.Comment
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