Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:08:50 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 13:37:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
And with that ancestry sarcasm is all very natural, almost a given.
Pete
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