Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2010

Is there a well-known "Bar Harbor _House_?"
Couldn't quite get a confirmation.
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[The jetset moving around]

Where do cows go "baa"?

What would "swamp out" mean here?
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[Jack Torrance ironically contemplates his job prospects]
Custodial engineer--swamping out Greyhound buses. The automotive

=SDC= Q58: Treasure chest
There's quite a grand building I sometimes walk past here on the way to the
central library. Over the left-hand entrance, chiseled in the stone, it says
"CITY ANALYST". Over the right-hand entrance it says "CITY _____". It's a

=SDC= Q25: Good question:
There's a musical instrument which, if we give credence to one man who plays
it, can evoke a barefoot country boy or an impossibly beautiful woman. The
Hall of Fame for this instrument is located in a city that received its name

"Come on, how did you translate 'alazoneia'?" Tom __. (verb)
--
Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist

Place A sounds like an English verb (1).
Place B is due north of Place A. It can be spelled like an English
noun (2) but it is pronounced like the politically incorrect name for
an ethnic group. A fictional leader of this ethnic group tried to

What is the need for "in" here? Does it show "until they entered the
town?"
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They were passing a SIDEWINDER 15 mi. sign, and Wendy relaxed a

What is the subject of this expurgated sentence?
__ 1969 _______ _______ ____ 1,083,000 _____ _________ 869,000 ____,
199,000 ______, _____, ____ ___ _____ __________ ________, ___ 15,000
____________ ________.

On tonight's episode of the Australian TV show Talkin' 'Bout Your
Generation, there was a question about the meaning of "swot vac" (a
break from school or the like, used for study before exams).
In the discussion, it was claimed that "SWOT" was an acronym for "study

Sirs, consider this passage.
``The danger of the Internet is that it threatens to overwhelm us with
so much information that, instead of democratizing and enriching our
political lives, it is actually drowing us in irrelevancies.''

"with spit and baling wire"
seems to be an known idiom, right,
meaning
"practically with nothing?"

Why might you not want to play cards with the person represented by these
three pictures?
http://geraldfriedman.tripod.com/sdcq13/
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=SDC= Q40: Elements
Where's this? Who took the photo?
http://i55.tinypic.com/72d7va.png
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"The timing of the earthquake in New Zealand saved many lives."
Any problem with this?
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