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spains...@gmail.com

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Dec 5, 2021, 3:34:24 PM12/5/21
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I'm sure Tony is right in saying that "tight" can mean "drunk"
in his dialect. That ought to have have spilt out into popular
music though? In the mean time - before somebody wheels out
UB40 - from Tony's neck of the woods:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heK8QjhWGag>

spains...@gmail.com

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Dec 5, 2021, 4:04:25 PM12/5/21
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The UB40 reference to save you "wheeling it out". Not many
references to getting drunk, in popular music however?

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc>

Tony Cooper

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Dec 5, 2021, 4:53:28 PM12/5/21
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"Tight", in the US, can mean "drunk", "parsimonious", "close" (as in
being good friends with someone) , "succinct" (tightly written prose),
and "securely fastened". And, it probably has other meanings that
escape me at the moment.

Add an "s" at the end of the word and they fit the lower part of the
body.

In the mean time" would mean the time in which someone was unpleasant
and unkind to others. Not to be mean, but I think you need to omit
the space between "n" and "t".

--

Tony Cooper Orlando Florida

spains...@gmail.com

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Dec 5, 2021, 5:03:18 PM12/5/21
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"Mean time" is wrong and "meantime" is correct.

soup

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Dec 5, 2021, 5:06:39 PM12/5/21
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Prefer Neil Diamond .

Tony Cooper

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Dec 5, 2021, 5:17:51 PM12/5/21
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 14:03:15 -0800 (PST), "spains...@gmail.com"
"That's what I said.", he said tightly.

Ross Clark

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Dec 5, 2021, 10:21:31 PM12/5/21
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"Tight" = "drunk" is attested from the early 19th century.
Mainly American I think, but known in England. (I have heaps of
quotations, but tracking down which of them are from which side is
tedious.) It was current in my youth*, but now seems a little old.

*The British film "Whisky Galore" (1949) was renamed "Tight Little
Island" for North American exhibition. Some sort of Hayes Code taboo on
naming the drink in the title?

lar3ryca

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Dec 5, 2021, 10:26:04 PM12/5/21
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A Walrus went to a Tupperware party.
He was looking for a tight seal.

Dingbat

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Jan 8, 2022, 6:52:36 PM1/8/22
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On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden said that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be stronger, closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from his desire to create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S., U.K., Australia, and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.
> --
When countries are tight, what does it mean? Countries don't have friends; they have interests.

None

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Jan 8, 2022, 6:59:29 PM1/8/22
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2021 19:26:01 -0800, lar3ryca wrote:
Daddy don't live in that New York City no more.
He don't get tight ev'ry night, pass out on the barroom floor.

charles

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Jan 9, 2022, 4:37:37 AM1/9/22
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In article <fbf5d94d-2d55-422d...@googlegroups.com>,
It's not the countries that are tight, it's the alliance. 'Tight' = held
together.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

Peter T. Daniels

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Jan 9, 2022, 10:15:40 AM1/9/22
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Canada is "Our Friendly Neighbor to the North."

spains...@gmail.com

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Jan 9, 2022, 11:12:28 AM1/9/22
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Don't you mean "Neighborino"?

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnewjEEUs1c>

Peter T. Daniels

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Jan 9, 2022, 12:15:48 PM1/9/22
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On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 11:12:28 AM UTC-5, spains...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 3:15:40 PM UTC, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 6:52:36 PM UTC-5, Dingbat wrote:

> > > On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden said that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be stronger, closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from his desire to create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S., U.K., Australia, and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.
> > > When countries are tight, what does it mean? Countries don't have friends; they have interests.
> > Canada is "Our Friendly Neighbor to the North."
>
> Don't you mean "Neighborino"?

The one thing we know about Springfield's location is that it is
in the uS. (That part of the "Filmed on location in ..." cr5edit at
the very end of *The Simpsons Movie* is not redacted.

> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnewjEEUs1c>

I assume that is a Simpsons clip. I don't do unidentified OOtoob links.

Peter Moylan

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Jan 9, 2022, 7:02:03 PM1/9/22
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>> On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden
>> said that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be
>> stronger, closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from
>> his desire to create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S.,
>> U.K., Australia, and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.

India and Australia are especially valuable, because they are good
places to install US missile bases.

--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org

Peter T. Daniels

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Jan 10, 2022, 12:36:09 AM1/10/22
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On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 7:02:03 PM UTC-5, Peter Moylan wrote:
> >> On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden
> >> said that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be
> >> stronger, closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from
> >> his desire to create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S.,
> >> U.K., Australia, and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.
> India and Australia are especially valuable, because they are good
> places to install US missile bases.

The US used to favor Pakistan.

CDB

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Jan 10, 2022, 8:38:55 AM1/10/22
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On 1/9/2022 7:01 PM, Peter Moylan wrote:

>>> On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden
>>> said that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be
>>> stronger, closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from
>>> his desire to create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S.,
>>> U.K., Australia, and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.

> India and Australia are especially valuable, because they are good
> places to install US missile bases.

Don't forget us. When they shoot down Russian missiles coming over the
pole, Canada is a great place for them to crash-land.











Richard Heathfield

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Jan 10, 2022, 8:57:59 AM1/10/22
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During the Cold War a German citizen once proved to my father that the
Germans do too have a sense of humour.

GC: What is the difference between a tactical nuclear weapon and a
strategic nuclear weapon?

Dad: I don't know (he did, actually, but he was pretty sure the answer
was classified).

GC: A tactical nuclear weapon is one that lands in Germany.


And he was more or less right.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

Dingbat

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Jan 10, 2022, 12:47:54 PM1/10/22
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FWIW:
adv TITE/ TYTE (obsolete) Promptly, At once
adj TITELY

Jerry Friedman

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Jan 10, 2022, 2:24:43 PM1/10/22
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That's funny--the adjective had -ly and the adverb didn't.

--
Jerry Friedman

bruce bowser

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Jan 10, 2022, 8:33:12 PM1/10/22
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On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 8:57:59 AM UTC-5, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 10/01/2022 13:38, CDB wrote:
> > On 1/9/2022 7:01 PM, Peter Moylan wrote:
> >
> >>>> On the occasion of India's PM's visit to the White House, Biden said
> >>>> that the American-Indian relationship was “destined to be stronger,
> >>>> closer, and tighter,” a position likely stemming from his desire to
> >>>> create an Indo-Pacific alliance between the U.S., U.K., Australia,
> >>>> and India to oppose China’s regional ambitions.
> >
> >> India and Australia are especially valuable, because they are good
> >> places to install US missile bases.
> >
> > Don't forget us. When they shoot down Russian missiles coming over the
> > pole, Canada is a great place for them to crash-land.
>
> During the Cold War a German citizen once proved to my father that the
> Germans do too have a sense of humour.

Just so you don't get too far away from reality, Saskia Rosehdahl, Oskar Roehlers, Jan Böhmermann and others, especially Harald Schmidt (late night) specialize in comedy.
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