Cummer gain?
Steve Hayes
Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright Politically
Timed
Can anyone tell me what this means?
What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
What does "outing" mean in that context -- going out together, or exposing
secreta?
How many capers have the Duct Tape Crowd outed, and how do you out a caper
anyway?
Or are they simply casting nasturtiums?
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Jeffrey Turner
> Seen in another newsgroup:
>
> Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright Politically
> Timed
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
> What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
Presumably the hyper-cautious, those who put duct tape and
plastic over their windows after the anthrax mailings.
> What does "outing" mean in that context -- going out together, or exposing
> secreta?
Looks like "trotting out."
> How many capers have the Duct Tape Crowd outed, and how do you out a caper
> anyway?
Point at the bottle of little green things in the fridge and
say, "That one's gay!"
> Or are they simply casting nasturtiums?
Only for a production of "Flower Drum Song."
--Jeff
--
It is only those who have neither
fired a shot nor heard the shrieks
and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for blood, more vengeance, more
desolation. War is hell.
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Mike Lyle
> Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> Seen in another newsgroup:
>>
>> Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright
>> Politically Timed
>>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what this means?
>>
>> What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
>
> Presumably the hyper-cautious, those who put duct tape and
> plastic over their windows after the anthrax mailings.
>
>> What does "outing" mean in that context -- going out together, or
>> exposing secreta?
>
> Looks like "trotting out."
My reading is "Outing for duct-tape crowd", where "outing" = "going
out" or "coming out" ("sortie") rather than "bringing out".
--
Mike.
Frances Kemmish
Perhaps it's a typo for "cutting another caper"?
Jim Lawton
>Seen in another newsgroup:
>
>Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright Politically
>Timed
>
>
>Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
>What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
see http://www.velvetland.org/music/PIANO/King_George.htm
You can Google for more.
>
>What does "outing" mean in that context -- going out together, or exposing
>secreta?
I didn't have time to pursue both the web and group links - maybe you do.
>
>How many capers have the Duct Tape Crowd outed, and how do you out a caper
>anyway?
Well, if it was a government scam, you would reveal the actual truth of it.
>Or are they simply casting nasturtiums?
Their mass is too low to get a decent range.
--
Jim
the polymoth
Donna Richoux
> Seen in another newsgroup:
>
> Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright Politically
> Timed
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
> What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
There's a well-known confusion of "duct tape" and "duck tape". Somebody
is reaching for bird puns.
--
What a lark -- Donna Richoux
Peter Duncanson
wrote:
Possibly, although the people concerned might be too earnest and
pun-resistant.
The post containing the queried text is in misc.activism.progressive.
It has a link to:
http://raenergy.igc.org/esa.html
Eugenics and the Republican controlled FDA
...
Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper?
Asian flu just another eugenics exercise? Or is it to kill
all edible birds except the corporate owned farm birds hmmm?
Then of course the martial law part.
http://www.rense.com/general67/avianflufright.htm
which page is headed:
Avian Flu Fright -
Politically-Timed For
Global 'Iatrogenocide'
A Public Health Warning and Political Essay by a Harvard-trained
Author of Fifteen Books Including the American bestseller,
Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola-Nature, Accident or Intentional?
By Leonard G. Horowitz, DMD, MA, MPH
10-11-5
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
Don Phillipson
news:j00sl1lvcio2kn25a...@4ax.com...
> Seen in another newsgroup:
>
> Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright
Politically
> Timed
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
> What is the "Duct Tape Crowd"?
For many North Americans, this means enthusiasts of
the Red Green Show on TV. He is an avatar of Rube
Goldberg and duct tape is his favourite building material.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
ray o'hara
>
> Bird Flu: Duct Tape Crowd outing another caper? Avian Flu Fright
Politically
> Timed
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means?
Outing means exposing. A caper is a scam or a crime. . The duct tape crowd
are chicken littles, they get that name from Tom Ridge the first Homeland
Security czar advising people to put duct tape around the edges of windows
to seal them and to keep any airborne pathogens out.
Steve Hayes
Thank you!
Yours was the last reply I read, but the one I came closest to understanding,
and it's also the most plausible.
I'd heard of "cutting" capers, but not outing them, and the use of the term
for a scam or a crime is new to me. I thought of capers as juyful jumping, or
as seeds resembling thos of nasturtiums.
Charles Riggs
wrote:
>Steve Hayes <haye...@hotmail.com> wrote:
It is Donna who seems confused. The original, and still correct, term
is duck tape; it was first used, I believe, by the US military. It was
corrupted by those who didn't know its many uses into "duct tape", but
purists still call it by its original name. We've done this before,
by the way.
--
Charles Riggs
Chris Waigl
> It is Donna who seems confused. The original, and still correct, term is
> duck tape; it was first used, I believe, by the US military. It was
> corrupted by those who didn't know its many uses into "duct tape", but
> purists still call it by its original name. We've done this before, by
> the way.
The current state of knowledge has been summarised by Michael Quinion on
World Wide Words <http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-duc4.htm>.
In short, the situation is complicated enough that if someone wants to
make a pun on duck/duct tape, it is unclear in which direction to make it.
It therefore will fall flat.
Chris Waigl
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