Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:37:52 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 06:02:45, Torstein Hall wrote:
>On September 29, 1999 at 04:55:46, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On September 29, 1999 at 02:15:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>My wife and I went to the movies "Forest Gump" and "Rain Man" on separate
>>>occasions.
>>>
>>>After each movie, we both agreed that I was some kind of strange clone of the
>>>main character.
>>>
>>>Can you imagine some sarcastic rain man/forest clone running around and acting
>>>like a whinging twit all the time?
>>>
>>>That's me.
>>
>>Didn't you write that you are 1/4 norwegian? That would explain the whinging
>>twit part :o).
>>
>>Best wishes...
>>Mogens
>
>Dear Mogens and Dan,
>
>Please explain what a whinging twit is! As a 1/1 norwegian it might be usefull
>to know!
A whinging twit is:
Main Entry: whinge
Pronunciation: 'hwinj, 'winj
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): whinged; whing·ing or whinge·ing
Etymology: from (assumed) Middle English, from Old English hwinsian; akin to Old
High German winsOn to moan
Date: 12th century
British : to complain fretfully : WHINE
Main Entry: 1twit
Pronunciation: 'twit
Function: noun
Date: 1528
1 : an act of twitting : TAUNT
2 : a silly annoying person : FOOL
Hence, "A whining fool."
My ancestry:
Dad: 1/2 Finnish, 1/2 Norwegian {roughly}
Mother: English, Irish, Welsh, Dutch {and a smattering of other stuff}
So I'm almost Finnish, but not quite Dane.
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