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20 Jul 2005, 7:07 pm

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I can help with two more of those. The plastic tube on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet. The lever on the side of a recliner has no name, it is simply called a recliner lever.


I had to look up "shoeleaces" on wikipedia to find that out. I'm amazed the dang things have names at all.



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20 Jul 2005, 7:08 pm

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Can you put the donut joke in your comics? It'd be a a big crack up.


The... huh? I can't find that on this thread. Who told a donut joke?



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20 Jul 2005, 8:13 pm

Serissa wrote:
I think I've figured a good example- stacitices and stalagmites.


Here's how I explain it in my science classes:
Stalactites - ceiling
Stalagmites - ground



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20 Jul 2005, 8:59 pm

On the thread where you talked about the cop thing. Nevermind. :oops:



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20 Jul 2005, 9:49 pm

I always get 'kitchen' and 'dining room' mixed up, for some reason.



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22 Jul 2005, 11:26 pm

stlf wrote:
The little plastic things on the end of your shoelaces...is there a name for those??

the plastic thingies that attatch store tags to clothes you buy.


The things that attach tags to clothing are called tagger tails.



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23 Jul 2005, 9:05 am

On a slightly related tangent to the topic, I wonder if you are refering to words that are interposed as I would say outwith instead of without until Middleschool. :?:


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24 Jul 2005, 4:10 pm

I usually have more trouble remembering names of things when I'm trying to use them in a sentence. And then of course I end up having to say "That thingy. You know..." and then three hours or even three days later I recall the name of it.

It's usually either the simplest name in the world or one I don't know in the first place, which is fine cause usually the other person doesn't know it either. So we both feel stupid. :D


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24 Jul 2005, 8:44 pm

Serissa wrote:
Tim_p wrote:
I can help with two more of those. The plastic tube on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet. The lever on the side of a recliner has no name, it is simply called a recliner lever.


I had to look up "shoeleaces" on wikipedia to find that out. I'm amazed the dang things have names at all.


Frankly I am too, even though I knew the name, it just doesn't important enough to have a unique name.