Etymology

[Captain Willard]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Nonce.

 

Stands for not on normal courtyard exercise.

 

Originates in Wakefield prison which didn't have its own segregated area for sex offenders, so that was written outside their cells to ensure the screws didn't let them out at the same time as the other prisoners.

I met a retired prison guard at a wedding once. After a few drinks he told me that when the sex offenders were in the exercise yard, they’d sometimes let out a few of the prison nutcases to recreate a Christians versus lions scenario for everybody else’s amusement looking out the cell windows.  Now there are so many sex offenders that it’s no longer practical. Times have changed. 

[VladimirIlyich]

57 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

I met a retired prison guard at a wedding once. After a few drinks he told me that when the sex offenders were in the exercise yard, they’d sometimes let out a few of the prison nutcases to recreate a Christians versus lions scenario for everybody else’s amusement looking out the cell windows.  Now there are so many sex offenders that it’s no longer practical. Times have changed. 

I'd like to see that a Rolf Harris' nick.

While the harcases are beating him to a pulp they can say to each other 'Can you tell what it is yet?'

[Guest]

8 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I like the fact that the word "helicopter" breaks down into helico ( from the Greek for "spiral") and pter (from the Greek for "wing").

So Peter is actually Wing? 
 

Wing Sampras.

Wing Townsend.

Wing Gabriel.

 

Wonder what other Greek words translate to names?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

33 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

So Peter is actually Wing? 
 

Wing Sampras.

Wing Townsend.

Wing Gabriel.

 

Wonder what other Greek words translate to names?

Peter is from the Latin for "rock".

 

"Pter" - as in old wingy-finger, the pterodactyl - is from the Greek for "wing".

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

33 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

So Peter is actually Wing? 
 

Wing Sampras.

Wing Townsend.

Wing Gabriel.

 

Wonder what other Greek words translate to names?

Peter comes from the Greek for rock/stone, as in petrified. the rock of Jesus - Peter the apostle. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

River horse (according to the Greeks).

[Mudface]

Just now, AngryOfTuebrook said:

River horse (according to the Greeks).

 

Them cunts must have had some fugly horses back then.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Just now, Mudface said:

 

Them cunts must have had some fugly horses back then.

I've bet on worse.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Interesting fact about hippos: on land, they can run faster than humans and in water they can swim faster than humans. So in a triathlon the bike leg is your best chance of beating them.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Le Duan]

Snob

Sino Nobile - Without Nobility 

[easytoslip]

I thought it was the study of ants and  other horrific things like insects ? 

I exclude Moths and Butterflies. 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

14 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Not quite. From Wikipedia :

The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite to the north'). Antarcticus is derived from the Greek ἀντι- ('anti-') and ἀρκτικός ('of the Bear', 'northern').

[VladimirIlyich]

5 hours ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

Not quite. From Wikipedia :

The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite to the north'). Antarcticus is derived from the Greek ἀντι- ('anti-') and ἀρκτικός ('of the Bear', 'northern').

Not a million miles away though?

[Remmie]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Not a million miles away though?

Hence the expression 'not quite' 

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, Remmie said:

Hence the expression 'not quite' 

 

pedantic

/pɪˈdantɪk/

 

adjective

excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.

'his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic'

synonyms: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky, dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, scholastic, casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical, captious, hair-splitting, quibbling, pettifogging, fault-finding, hypercritical, cavilling, carping, nitpicking, pernickety, persnickety, overnice, learned, cerebral, didactic, bookish, pedagogic, donnish, highbrow, ivory-tower, pretentious, pompous, intellectual, academic, scholarly, literary, egghead

[Evelyn Tentions]

23 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

 

pedantic

/pɪˈdantɪk/

 

adjective

excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.

'his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic'

synonyms: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky, dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, scholastic, casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical, captious, hair-splitting, quibbling, pettifogging, fault-finding, hypercritical, cavilling, carping, nitpicking, pernickety, persnickety, overnice, learned, cerebral, didactic, bookish, pedagogic, donnish, highbrow, ivory-tower, pretentious, pompous, intellectual, academic, scholarly, literary, egghead

 

[VladimirIlyich]

58 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

 

Wat?