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Jitze Couperus

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Sep 10, 2005, 3:21:36 PM9/10/05
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There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".


Name A, B and C.


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Mickwick

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Sep 12, 2005, 4:56:34 PM9/12/05
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In alt.usage.english, Jitze Couperus wrote:
>
>There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
>Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
>I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
>words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
>condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
>Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".
>
>Name A, B and C.

C: The Picturedrome cinema.

A: Je m'etais ennuye but now ... paf!

B: I go pictures?

(Pictured, Rome? Nope. Totally lost.)

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Mickwick

Jitze Couperus

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Sep 12, 2005, 6:03:34 PM9/12/05
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:56:34 +0100, Mickwick <gro...@reply-to.domain>
wrote:

Totally lost? I don't think so... you are so hot on the trail
that I would recommend a lesser sheep be awarded so
for this effort. - this is the only answer so far after the
question has languished for over 2 days... so it must be hard.

I must confess that I didn't fully understand this one even
though I have the crib sheet with the answers next to me.
I thought Gerlish was maybe a derivative akin to "Valley Girl"
- until I googled on it und das pfennig ist gefallen.

Jitze


Wood Avens

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Sep 12, 2005, 6:24:35 PM9/12/05
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:21:36 GMT, couperus-e...@znet.com (Jitze
Couperus) wrote:

>
>There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
>Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
>I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
>words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
>condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
>Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".
>
>
>Name A, B and C.

Hippo
Drome
Hippodrome

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Rich Ragan

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Sep 12, 2005, 5:55:31 PM9/12/05
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"Mickwick" <gro...@reply-to.domain> wrote in message
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Yeh, I had gotten as far as the Picturedrome for C but was having trouble
making any other
headway and set this one aside.

I was willing to posit A as Tourette's syndrome since I liked the similarity
of the
'drome" part with Picturedrome and there is the French Connection
but B "to go Drome" or "to go picture" left me cold.
Pictured Rome was interesting but led nowhere

Besides, these are all words Jitze knows. I'm not sure there are any words
he
doesn't know so the assertion that he learned some new words last year seems
dubious.

However, nothing ventured nothing gained so here is my latest surmise:
A: Tourette's syndrome
B: To go tourettes (there appears to be some usage of this according to
Google, presumably a meaning akin to coprolalia )
C: Picturedrome

and one alternative though Pic's syndrome is not pyschological
A: Pic's syndrome
B: "to go to the pics"
C: Picturedrome


Rich


Jeffrey Turner

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Sep 12, 2005, 10:40:56 PM9/12/05
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Rich Ragan wrote:

How about B: "to go 'ome"?

--Jeff

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philosophers have praised it as an
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pronouncement of the Greek who said,
"War is an evil in as much as it produces
more wicked men than it takes away."
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the Omrud

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Sep 13, 2005, 2:37:13 PM9/13/05
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Wood Avens spake thusly:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:21:36 GMT, couperus-e...@znet.com (Jitze
> Couperus) wrote:
>
> >There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
> >Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
> >I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
> >words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
> >condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
> >Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".
> >
> >Name A, B and C.
>
> Hippo
> Drome
> Hippodrome

Well, C is Picturedrome. But then I get stuck.

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David
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the Omrud

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Sep 13, 2005, 2:39:23 PM9/13/05
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the Omrud spake thusly:

Ah, if I had seen the earlier references to Picturedrome, I had
forgotten them. Still, this was All My Own Work.

Rich Ragan

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Sep 18, 2005, 6:04:07 PM9/18/05
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Gerlish expression might be "der Pictur" (anagrammed) and "to go 'ome"

Rich

Philip Eden

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Sep 18, 2005, 6:42:46 PM9/18/05
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"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
news:432331eb.2058076390@news.znet.com...

>
> There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
> Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
> I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
> words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
> condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
> Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".
>
> Name A, B and C.
>
The Northampton Picturedrome used to be known in the
SE Midlands - at least in my day - as Bonkers' Paradise.
The French ailment is a fear of catching CJD from British
beef, and is known in London psychiatric circles as
BBS, or Bovine Bonkers Syndrome. And, of course,
the Gerlish-sounding expression is "to go bonkers".

Philip Eden


Rich Ragan

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Sep 19, 2005, 10:06:14 AM9/19/05
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"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
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>

Picturedrome is C
Tarantism is A (non-stop uncontrollable dancing mania first appeared in
France in 1374)
To go raving (non-stop dancing)

Rich


Rich Ragan

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Sep 19, 2005, 10:45:59 AM9/19/05
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And if it was not totally obviously (T.O.) clear, Picturedrome's host
dance events like raves and raving is also connected to "raving mad"
thoroughly connecting tarantism, raving, and the Picturedrome.

Rich

Jitze Couperus

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Sep 20, 2005, 4:23:46 AM9/20/05
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:45:59 GMT, Rich Ragan
<Rich....@dontMailMe.com> wrote:

>Rich Ragan wrote:
>> "Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
>> news:432331eb.2058076390@news.znet.com...
>>
>>>There's a building (C) in Holmfirth, Macclesfield, Chippenham,
>>>Bognor Regis and Northampton (and elsewhere, probably, though
>>>I haven't found any outside England) that connects two
>>>words (A and B) that I learned this year. A is a psychological
>>>condition which used to afflict Frenchmen; B occurs in the
>>>Gerlish-sounding expression "to go B".
>>>
>>>
>>>Name A, B and C.
>>>

Respectively: dromomania, kino, Picturedrome

Jitze

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