What is the meaning of runneth?
John O'Flaherty
>
> There is a word that I can't find on dictionary. The word is "runneth." I saw
> the word in the title, "Couples(famous golf pro) runneth over." What is the
> meaning of the word.
"Runneth" is an antiquated form of the verb "run". It is how the 3rd
person singular present tense was once said. There is a cliché or set
phrase in English, "My cup runneth over" which means I am fortunate to
have an abundance of something. The writer was making a word play on
that phrase based on the similarity of "cup" and "Couples".
>
> And I want to know the whole meaning of following; "It has often been said that
> one should never mess with those who buy ink by the barrel." In this sentence,
> is the "those" writers of press?
Yes, I think so.
> Many thanks for your kind answer,
>
> East Man
You're welcome.
john
Martin Ambuhl
East Man wrote:
>
> There is a word that I can't find on dictionary. The word is "runneth." I saw
> the word in the title, "Couples(famous golf pro) runneth over." What is the
> meaning of the word.
"Runneth" is an old form of "runs", the third person singular of "(to)
run". The headline you saw was an overly cute pun on the Biblical "My
cup runneth over" (Psalms 23.5, AV). Failed creative writing students
seem to become sportswriters with appalling frequency.
>
> And I want to know the whole meaning of following; "It has often been said that
> one should never mess with those who buy ink by the barrel." In this sentence,
> is the "those" writers of press?
That is a reasonable interpretation.
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> There is a word that I can't find on dictionary. The word is "runneth." I saw
> the word in the title, "Couples(famous golf pro) runneth over." What is the
> meaning of the word.
The "-eth" inflection is the archaic third person singular of
present indicative. In other words, "runneth" is an old way of
saying "runs."
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> And I want to know the whole meaning of following; "It has often been said that
> one should never mess with those who buy ink by the barrel." In this sentence,
> is the "those" writers of press?
>......
You're probably right. I can't think of anyone else that buys ink
by the barrel.
----NM
Wxwilki
>East Man wrote:
>>
>> There is a word that I can't find on dictionary. The word is "runneth." I
>saw
>> the word in the title, "Couples(famous golf pro) runneth over." What is
>the
>> meaning of the word.
>
>"Runneth" is an old form of "runs", the third person singular of "(to)
>run". The headline you saw was an overly cute pun on the Biblical "My
>cup runneth over" (Psalms 23.5, AV). Failed creative writing students
>seem to become sportswriters with appalling frequency.
Possibly because the creative writers are busy writing; leaving only sports
writers to teach creative writing.
:-)
--Bill
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Kerr-Mudd,John
> Thanks
>
CONTEXT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_cup_runneth_over
--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
Peter Moylan
Peter T. Daniels
a decent newsreader.
Snidely
the short straw.
/dps
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Kerr-Mudd,John
> Peter T. Daniels was thinking very hard :
>> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 5:30:42 AM UTC-4, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
>>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:00:15 GMT, ipk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>> CONTEXT!
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_cup_runneth_over
>>> --
>>> Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
>>
>> If you can't see the beginning of the thread on 1 Jan 2000, get
>> a decent newsreader.
>
that must have occurred in the past, what 35 years?
If only a user of a proper newsreader knew how to delete sigs.
> All the world's a stage of trade-offs. We mortals are merely holding
> the short straw.
>
Peter T. Daniels
drive'). When you choose a newsgroup in GG, it shows you about 25 headers,
and the top so-many of them are bold, meaning they contain at least one
message you haven't read. If everything visible is bold, you can scroll
down to see the earliest-added-to thread that has something new. That
depends entirely on how active your groupmates have been, and how seldom
you visit.
When you click on that thread, it shows you the headers of up to the
last 25 messages in the thread. Typically, only one or a handful are
new since the last visit.
If you want to see the very first message in a thread, you go to the
button that accesses the 25-message "pages" and go to p.1. (There
are never more than 40 pages because after 1000 messages it starts
a new thread.
I do not delete Mudd's .sig (and only Mudd's .sig) because I want
to emphasize that everything he types is humbug. Bah.
(Actually. I have deleted it twice that I can recall, when he typed
something that was actually true rather than an ignorant insult.)
Peter Moylan
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:34:19 GMT, Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter T. Daniels was thinking very hard :
>>> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 5:30:42 AM UTC-4, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:00:15 GMT, ipk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CONTEXT!
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_cup_runneth_over
>>>> --
>>>> Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
>>>
>>> If you can't see the beginning of the thread on 1 Jan 2000, get
>>> a decent newsreader.
>>
> In general, I'm unwilling to download the (tens of?) thousands of
> headers that must have occurred in the past, what 35 years?
> If only a user of a proper newsreader knew how to delete sigs.
automatically from replies.
Steve Hayes
> Thanks
Don't mention it.
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Aside: I've always thought that 'lisp' should be spelled "lithp". More
onomatopoeic.
Peter Moylan
> Aside: I've always thought that 'lisp' should be spelled "lithp".
> More onomatopoeic.
that it was cruel to give this disability a name that the sufferers
couldn't pronounce.
On the other hand, he did appreciate the disability parking permit.
Mack A. Damia
I told a variation of this joke:
There is an old, old story about a traveling evangelist who also
advertised himself as a faith healer. In one of his crusade services
he jumped on the platform and said, “I have faith that two people will
be healed tonight. Where are you?” he asked. “Who would like to be
healed?”
A man ran down the aisle, named Harry. Asked what his ailment was,
Harry said he had a lisp. He explained sadly, “I can’t talk wite.” He
was instructed to go behind a curtain.
Another man hobbled down on crutches. His name was Frank. He said, “I
haven’t walked in 20 years without crutches.”
He was told to go behind the curtain with Harry. Then the healer said
“Frank, you’ve been healed. Slide those crutches out under curtain one
at a time.” Slowly the crutches appeared under the curtain, and the
crowd went crazy. The healer held up the crutches and broke them over
his knee. Everyone cheered!
Then dramatically he declared that Harry was healed of his speech
impediment too. The evangelist said: “Harry, the next sentence you
speak will be the first you’ve ever said normally.” Then he said,
“Usher, take him a microphone.” After he was certain Harry had the
microphone the evangelist asked, “What would you like to say, Harry?”
There was a moment of silence. Then, from behind the curtain came
these words, “He fell on his ath.”
Peter Moylan
was addressing a crowd. At one point he dropped a worm into a glass of
whisky, and then held it up to show that the worm had shrivelled up and
died. Next, he dropped another worm into a glass of water, and showed
the crowd that the worm was still alive.
"Now, what do we learn from that?", he asked.
From the back, someone called out "If you drink whisky, you'll never
have worms".
RH Draney
and got to the part where he placed the stethoscope against her upper
torso to listen to her heartbeat and respiration....
"Big breaths", he instructed....
"Yeth, and I'm only thikthteen!", she proudly replied....r
HVanS
wrote:
on the turntable, the hole healed itself....
Cheers, Harvey
Ken Blake
> On 22/07/2020 11:48, occam wrote:
>> On 18/07/2020 11:00, ipk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Knoweth not.
>>
>
> Why doth thou not Googleth it?
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For one thing, I think that some providers may not allow you to fetch
bodies for a headline that far back, and even the ones that do, you'd
likely have to fetch _all_ the headlines to catch that one, and then you
have no idea which body you want to request to go with it.
Or that could be sarcasm over my head.
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Peter Moylan
> On 7/18/2020 7:28 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 5:30:42 AM UTC-4, Kerr-Mudd,John
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:00:15 GMT, ipk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>> CONTEXT!
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_cup_runneth_over -- Bah, and
>>> indeed, Humbug.
>>
>> If you can't see the beginning of the thread on 1 Jan 2000, get a
>> decent newsreader.
>>
>
> I don't think it's all "newsreader" on that.
>
> For one thing, I think that some providers may not allow you to fetch
> bodies for a headline that far back, and even the ones that do,
> you'd likely have to fetch _all_ the headlines to catch that one, and
> then you have no idea which body you want to request to go with it.
>
> Or that could be sarcasm over my head.
Groups news server rather than the one you are using.
As far as I know, though, Google has not told us how to access its news
server with a decent newsreader.