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Seeing a current American scandal as an opportunity to recycle a joke, I asked a friend this morning, "Why don't Congressmen use bookmarks?" He said, "They just send e-mails?" It took a little confusion to establish that I meant the old kind of bookmarks, the ones you mark your place with in a book. Maybe we need a retronym. (It would be off-topic for me to mention that the answer is, "They just bend over the pages.")  SignatureJerry Friedman > Seeing a current American scandal as an opportunity to recycle a joke, > I asked a friend this morning, "Why don't Congressmen use bookmarks?" [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > (It would be off-topic for me to mention that the answer is, "They just > bend over the pages.") I don't see how your friend's answer fits the question anyway, unless he is asserting that the only thing Congressmen do on computers is send email, as in "They only send email". I don't think we need a retronym, as bookmarking a website is quite similar to the marking of a page in a book; Presumably, that's why the word was chosen. A bookmark for a webpage is fairly unrelated to the sending of email. What was the confusion? > > Seeing a current American scandal as an opportunity to recycle a joke, > > I asked a friend this morning, "Why don't Congressmen use bookmarks?" [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > A bookmark for a webpage is fairly unrelated to the sending of email. What > was the confusion? It was early in the morning and he was scrambling for an answer. SignatureJerry Friedman > > > Seeing a current American scandal as an opportunity to recycle a joke, > > > I asked a friend this morning, "Why don't Congressmen use bookmarks?" [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > It was early in the morning and he was scrambling for an answer. Which was easier in the IT version anyway. They link to the pages. > Seeing a current American scandal as an opportunity to recycle a joke, > I asked a friend this morning, "Why don't Congressmen use bookmarks?" > > He said, "They just send e-mails?" With entrenchment of vote selling, many Congressmen are just sending fee mails, while others barter for females. > It took a little confusion to establish that I meant the old kind of > bookmarks, the ones you mark your place with in a book. Maybe we > need a retronym. Fear not. I had to read the rest of the thread before I could work out what other kind of bookmark existed. For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I was reading it. SignaturePeter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address could disappear at any time. > For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to > my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I > was reading it. I never have quite got the hang of using that sort of bookmark; I always lose them when I want one. I eventually had to resort to remembering where I was in the book. -=Eric >> For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to >> my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >always lose them when I want one. I eventually had to resort to >remembering where I was in the book. You can get free bookmarks from public libraries here. Jeanne picks up a few each week to replace those that have been chewed by the dog, whose attitude is that anything that falls to the floor is his. SignatureRobin Bignall Herts, England > >> For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to > >> my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > up a few each week to replace those that have been chewed by the dog, > whose attitude is that anything that falls to the floor is his. One of my more harmless eccentricities is that, in a small and disorderly way, I collect bookmarks of all descriptions. I still can't forgive my ex-sister-in-law for giving me a book from a jumbly and keeping for herself the hand-stitched Victorian bookmark she found inside: it bore the uplifting Biblical quotation, "Jesus wept". SignatureMike. > .... > > >I never have quite got the hang of using that sort of bookmark; I > > >always lose them when I want one. I eventually had to resort to > > >remembering where I was in the book. Easy. I need lots of bookmarks to mark things on pages I like, not just where I'm at. And I read several books concurrently anyway. Well... here's my confession. At first I just grabbed the nearest thing at hand, and that was a piece of tissue from the box by the bed. Then I found it to be so great! It is thin, particularly when I peel the double-ply apart. Some have faint sketches of nice design too (cute pink hearts). And there's practically an unlimited supply! (Plus when it gets to the sad part, even if I happen to be down the beach or somewhere, I could use my bookmarks as an emergency tear mopper and nose blower. And as a serviette after those hot jam doughnuts too!). Another favourite is the colourful 'post-it' paper, cut into thin strips to save the trees. > ... I collect bookmarks of all descriptions. I still can't > forgive my ex-sister-in-law for giving me a book from a jumbly and > keeping for herself the hand-stitched Victorian bookmark she found > inside: it bore the uplifting Biblical quotation, "Jesus wept". There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. Have always thought people should send each other practical things like bookmarks instead of Christmas cards. Solo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com [...] > Another favourite is the colourful 'post-it' paper, cut into thin > strips to save the trees. This is sound policy: I always use post-its for pages I want to come back to. > > ... I collect bookmarks of all descriptions. I still can't > > forgive my ex-sister-in-law for giving me a book from a jumbly and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Have always thought people should send each other practical things like > bookmarks instead of Christmas cards. That's a sound idea, too: Photoshop experts could make some really good personalised ones for Christmas. I'll see if I can scare up some Pom ones for you. SignatureMike. > > There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another > > one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I'll see if I can scare up some Pom ones for you. Oooo...goodie. While I think about it, please pass a message on to the Nottingham Lace people to make bookmarks. I gave all my (non-bookmark) collection of lace pieces to the in-laws who are now ex-in-laws, thinking that I could get more anytime but alas when I went back to Nottingham somehow couldn't find them or something happened I can't remember now. I'm N'laceless. Maybe I'll make personalised AUEer bookmarks? Taking orders.... Solo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com >> > There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another >> > one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Nottingham somehow couldn't find them or something happened I can't >remember now. I'm N'laceless. The Lace Market area adjacent to Nottingham's city centre started being turned into a des res district probably during the 1960s. SignatureRobin Bignall Herts, England > >Oooo...goodie. While I think about it, please pass a message on to the > >Nottingham Lace people to make bookmarks. I gave all my (non-bookmark) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > The Lace Market area adjacent to Nottingham's city centre started > being turned into a des res district probably during the 1960s. Des res -- that's new to me. It's in Encarta, marked "Late 20th century. Shortening of desirable residence." SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux >> >Oooo...goodie. While I think about it, please pass a message on to the >> >Nottingham Lace people to make bookmarks. I gave all my (non-bookmark) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Des res -- that's new to me. It's in Encarta, marked "Late 20th century. >Shortening of desirable residence." Estate-agent-speak. Used by others only jocularly. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >>> ... > >> The Lace Market area adjacent to Nottingham's city centre started [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Estate-agent-speak. Used by others only jocularly. Strange... Why can't I see Donna's post that you quoted? (No, I did not killfile.) Solo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com > > > There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another > > > one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Oooo...goodie. [...] Solo, I've assembled a few. If you'd care to email me your address I can slip them in the post. SignatureMike. >>>>There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another >>>>one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Solo, I've assembled a few. If you'd care to email me your address I > can slip them in the post. I must have missed this thread the first time round. Is there a word for bookmark lovers? A friend who has just visited Rome brought me back a very useful gift - a bookmark calendar, from which each month's page is designed to be used as a bookmark. I've never seen the like in the UK. It's called "Gatti di roma" - and has lovely pictures of Italian moggies. My current favourite bookmark was designed by a young friend of mine and can be seen at http://alefsinwonderland.com/haystack.htm (To appreciate the pun you need to know that the name of the Hebrew letter is prononunced "hay".) SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > [...] > I must have missed this thread the first time round. Is there a word for > bookmark lovers? > > A friend who has just visited Rome brought me back a very useful gift - > a bookmark calendar, .... Great idea. And thanks for the picture. I did a quick search and found a website for bookmark collectors you might find interesting at http://www.miragebookmark.ch/wb_exchange_bookmarks.htm I've removed my name from the subject line so it doesn't keep hanging there doing nothing :-) SignatureSolo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com > I've removed my name from the subject line so it doesn't keep hanging > there doing nothing :-) Ooops... Try again. SignatureSolo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com > >>>>There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another > >>>>one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > as a bookmark. I've never seen the like in the UK. It's called "Gatti > di roma" - and has lovely pictures of Italian moggies. They're around, but I'm not about to pay three quid. I saw some in Chelt today, and there was one in the Coventry Cathedral shop last week, depicting a series of lighthouses with "light of the world"-type Biblical quotations. > My current favourite bookmark was designed by a young friend of mine and > can be seen at http://alefsinwonderland.com/haystack.htm (To appreciate > the pun you need to know that the name of the Hebrew letter is > prononunced "hay".) And as elegant as witty, too. SignatureMike. > ... > Solo, I've assembled a few. If you'd care to email me your address I > can slip them in the post. Woww... a man of his word. Thank you very much! That'll be really cool! I'm thinking... if some imposter(!) emails you how would you know that it's not me? Anyway, I'll email. PS I've removed my name from the subject line. Thanks for making it catch my attention. SignatureSolo Thesailor http://sailingstoriesandtips.blogspot.com > <...> > Another favourite is the colourful 'post-it' paper, cut into thin > strips to save the trees. <...> They also sell it already cut into thin strips. They've caught on. > > <...> > > Another favourite is the colourful 'post-it' paper, cut into thin > > strips to save the trees. <...> > > They also sell it already cut into thin strips. They've caught on. I confess to being lazy enough to have bought a bundle as a result of your revelation; but they'll also make good stocking-fillers for my adult children at a quid for three Filofax packs of 350. Fluorescent bookmarks: not sure if that's a good idea. SignatureMike. [...] >There, there... Just send the design and I'll hand-stitch you another >one. Want some Aussie ones for your collection? I love bookmarks too. >Have always thought people should send each other practical things like >bookmarks instead of Christmas cards. Reminds me of my yoof. Some time in primary school we had some species of gift exchange. We all had to bring in a present and in return we would get one. I can't remember what I gave, but I got a leather bookmark. I'm sure I would value it now, but at the time I felt cheated. What made it worse was these twins who had newly arrived from, my memory tells me, Canada (they were a boy and a girl and looked identical). They came up to me, all smiles, and said that it was their present and wasn't it great! I had to pretend that it was Just What I Wanted. That, somehow, made it worse. SignatureRichard Bollard Canberra Australia To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT. > You can get free bookmarks from public libraries here. Jeanne picks > up a few each week to replace those that have been chewed by the dog, > whose attitude is that anything that falls to the floor is his. As a matter of fcat, I'm about to print up a hundred or two for the science fiction convention I'm co-chairing. I'll probably end up with some few dozen spares that I'll never be able to remember where they are when I need one. -=Eric In alt.usage.english, Peter Moylan wrote: >For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to >my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I >was reading it. Post-it® notes. SignatureMike Barnes Cheshire, England Peter Moylan: >> For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor next to >> my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from my hands as I >> was reading it. Yes, well, at least it isn't falling into the bathwater. That's what usually happens with me! Mike Barnes: > Post-it® notes. Not a good idea if there's any chance you'll set the book aside and forget to come back to it. In the long term the glue comes off and leaves sticky residue on the page. [Hmm-- thread merge? :-)] SignatureMark Brader "You have a truly warped mind. Toronto I admire that in a person." msb@vex.net -- Bill Davidsen > Mike Barnes: >> Post-it® notes. > > Not a good idea if there's any chance you'll set the book aside and > forget to come back to it. In the long term the glue comes off and > leaves sticky residue on the page. [Hmm-- thread merge? :-)] That reminds me of something I discovered while doing renovations to our house. After Blu-Tack has been on a wall for a while, it flows down in a long vertical streak that is almost impossible to remove. It clogs up sandpaper and laughs at knives. SignaturePeter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address could disappear at any time. > In alt.usage.english, Peter Moylan wrote: >> For me, a bookmark continues to be the thing I find on the floor >> next to my bed in the morning, and next to the book that fell from >> my hands as I was reading it. > > Post-it® notes. I believe that these have an advertising slogan something like "for things you can't afford to forget". Yesterday my sister sent me a jpeg with that slogan down the side. The picture was of a man and woman asleep in bed. On the woman's forehead was her name on a yellow sticker. SignaturePeter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address could disappear at any time. |
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