Boredom relief

[megaman]

I said:

Did it have viking kittens?

Nah..haha.
I am checking out that Viking Kittens stuff now.

[megaman]

That guy bar one rules.

[Reverse Stockholm Syndrome]

For nattie:
www.cyborgname.com/cyborger.cgi?acronym=NATTIE&robotchoice=chi2
I don't wanna think about her exploring what.

For mega: www.cyborgname.com/cyborger.cgi?acronym=MEGAMAN&robotchoice=governor2k3

Me:
www.cyborgname.com/cyborger.cgi?acronym=ELWYN&robotchoice=edox

Everyone else can make their own. ;D

[megaman]

Haha thanks.

[nattie]

ok........i don't even know what half of those words mean!!

[Reverse Stockholm Syndrome]

Poor jock.

From the Oxford English Dictionary Online:

networked a.


1962 Rep. Comm. Broadcasting 1960 159 in Parl. Papers 1961-2 (Cmnd. 1753) IX. 259 They must..use an old recorded *networked programme. 1974 Telecommunications 8 37/2 The markets for both stand-alone computers and networked computers will grow. 1982 Financial Times 18 Jan. (Survey: Computers) p. ix/4 The future trend in computing is towards networked systems, which will link together a wide variety of information-processing equipment. 1983 Listener 2 June 30/2 Some potentially popular American imports do not get full networked screening from ITV. 1991 Introd. to Postgrad. Studies, University of Ulster (BNC) 10 Students can address networked printers, plotters, laserprinters and micro subnets from whatever campus they are resident on.

Android

An automaton resembling a human being. Also attrib.

1727-51 CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v., Albertus Magnus is recorded as having made a famous androides. 1819 Pantolog. s.v., M. de Kempelen..constructed an androides capable of playing at chess. 1847 CRAIG, Android. 1951 C. SIMAK Time & Again (1956) i. 1 Human gossip as well as android and robot gossip. 1958 Spectator 19 Sept. 379/1 Today SF must be more than a blood-and-sex day~dream spattered with words like androids (robots made of flesh and bone).

trained
In various senses corresponding to those of the verb.

{dag}1. Drawn, trailed along, etc.; fig. attracted, allured, enticed. Obs.

1579 SPENSER Sheph. Cal. Oct. 24 Whereto thou list their trayned willes entice.


2. Disciplined; made proficient by discipline. a. spec. Subjected to military discipline and instruction, drilled; esp. in trained band = TRAIN-BAND (now Hist.); so {dag}trained man, soldier, a soldier belonging to a trainband (obs.).

1570-6 LAMBARDE Peramb. Kent (1596) 70 The trained companies only shall resort to the places of their appointed Rendeuous. 1594 SIR H. COCKE in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. II. III. 175 Havinge..taken a perfect vyewe of all the Trayned Bandes. 1611 BIBLE Gen. xiv. 14 Abram..armed his trained seruants. 1617 MORYSON Itin. II. 105 To haue six thousand of the trained bands in readines. 1644 PRYNNE & WALKER Fiennes' Trial App. 25 Iames Powell of Bristoll, one of the Trained Souldiers of that City [called below Train Soldiers]. 1707 E. CHAMBERLAYNE Pres. St. Eng. II. xvi. (ed. 22) 217 Of the standing Militia, or Trained-Bands. 1827 HALLAM Const. Hist. (1876) II. ix. 133 The citizens of London mustered their trained bands on holidays.


b. gen. Disciplined, instructed, educated; made proficient by discipline and instruction.

1858 HAWTHORNE Fr. & It. Note-Bks. (1872) I. 21 The women..have a trained expression that supplies the place of beauty. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 855 To engage a trained hospital nurse. 1910 D. G. HOGARTH in Encycl. Brit. I. 248/2 An Art, whose products cannot be confounded with those of any other..by a trained eye.


3. Of a plant: Artificially caused to grow in some desired way; of a woman's figure, made slender or shaped by wearing a corset.

1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Peach-tree, Such trees, which are of one year's growth from the budding,..will soon overtake in growth those which are called trained trees. 1786 ABERCROMBIE Gard. Assist. 311 Those ready trained, denominated trained trees. 1871 Figure Training 90 Slender and elegantly trained figures.

terran
Science Fiction.

[Pronunciation] [Etymology] [Quotations] [Date chart]

A. adj. Of or pertaining to the planet Earth or its inhabitants. B. n. An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

[1881 W. D. HAY Three Hundred Years Hence xi. 267 I am speaking of the Terrane Exodus and the Cities of the Sea.] 1953 Cosmos Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Mag. Nov. 83 A chant rose to assail his ears, and the steady beat of a drum thundered in the Terran night. Ibid. 78 They set about the tremendous task of educating Martians and Terrans. 1960 K. AMIS New Maps of Hell (1961) ii. 63 Any Martian survey team would be well advised to read a sample of the stuff before reporting on Terran civilisation. 1962 E. F. RUSSELL Great Explosion i. 13 We shall face them and defeat them as Terrans always have done. 1969 New Scientist 23 Jan. 191/3 Like our planet, we Terrans tend to be fat and slow or thin and quick.

[Reverse Stockholm Syndrome]

infiltration
1. The action or process of infiltrating; percolation. a. In Physics and Geol., of water or mineral substances in solution.

1796 KIRWAN Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 427 The percolation or infiltration of the particles. Ibid. 428 The infiltration of sea-water through lavas. 1822 J. FLINT Lett. Amer. 102 The soil is..broken on the surface by funnel-shaped hollows... These inverted cones are evidently excavated by the infiltration of water. 1851-6 WOODWARD Mollusca 74 The phragmocone..owes its preservation to the infiltration of calc-spar. 1876 PAGE Adv. Text-bk. Geol. iii. 70 Waters of infiltration always contain less or more of these Salts.


b. Physiol. and Path., of fluids (esp. blood or fat) which penetrate the tissues.

1853 KANE Grinnell Exp. xvii. (1856) 129 The infiltration of fatty matter is rather alarming. 1866 A. FLINT Princ. Med. (1880) 54 Infiltration is a term ordinarily applied to the deposition of some material in or between the tissue-elements. 1874 VAN BUREN Dis. Genit. Org. 6 Contusions involving the urethra may lead to infiltration of urine.


c. fig. of immaterial elements or influences, as ideas, opinions, etc.

1840 MILL Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. Bentham 374 Principle after principle of those propounded by him is..making its way by infiltration into the understandings most shut against his influence. 1867 {emem} Inaug. Addr. St. Andrews (People's ed.) 8 Reason..is beginning to find its way by gradual infiltration even into English schools. 1875 MAINE Hist. Inst. viii. 235 The infiltration of tribal ideas.


d. The gradual penetration of one people into another.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 5/1 In the interior of the Empire the French work of gradual ‘infiltration’ will proceed by not less efficacious means. 1927 PEAKE & FLEURE Priests & Kings 54 As time went on there seems to have been an ever-increasing infiltration of Southern Steppe~folk from the desert. 1930 J. L. MYRES Who were the Greeks? ii. 55 The southward infiltration of Albanian and Slav into districts formerly Romanized.


e. Mil. The gradual or surreptitious penetration of enemy lines by small numbers of troops.

1930 Economist 16 Aug. 313/1 They thus succeeded..in reaching the outlying quarters of Peshawar, albeit in small numbers, by a process of nocturnal ‘infiltration’. 1933 B. H. L. HART Future of Infantry 27 We profited from the lesson taught us by the remarkable success, at our expense, of the new infiltration or soft spot tactics in..1918. 1967 N.Y. Times (Internat. Ed.) 11-12 Feb. 1/6 At a background briefing early in November, the American command made available infiltration figures covering the year through Sept. 30.


f. fig. (Cf. INFILTRATE v. 4.)

1940 Economist 15 June 1036/1 The Nazis have developed the technique of infiltration to such a pitch that [etc.]. 1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 209 Great uneasiness was caused in the country by the infiltration..of thousands of able-bodied young Germans in the guise of tourists. 1949 KOESTLER Promise & Fulfilment II. v. 281, I wonder whether an American don is the right match for the propaganda and infiltration experts of the Soviet Union. 1958 Times 20 Jan. 5/7 Alleged Communist infiltration into the Oxford branch of the National Union of Railwaymen. 1973 P. EVANS Bodyguard Man v. 44 You're an ex-Special Branch man, supposedly a professional at infiltration techniques.


2. The action of infiltrating a substance with something; the process, fact, or condition of being infiltrated or permeated; esp. in Path.

1830 HERSCHEL Stud. Nat. Phil. 61 Fluids..keep the country in a constant state of infiltration from below upwards. 1873 T. H. GREEN Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 51 Fatty Infiltration{em}which is often described as ‘fatty degeneration’{em}consists in the infiltration of the tissues with fat, which is deposited in them from the blood.


3. An infiltrated deposit.

a1812 KIRWAN (Webster 1828) Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities of other stones. 1815 BAKEWELL Introd. Geol. 21 This he attributes to a calcareous infiltration. 1898 J. HUTCHINSON Archives Surg. IX. 317 The cells composing the infiltration are round or oval in shape.



fig. 1882 CHILD Ballads I. xv. 179/2 This passage is clearly an infiltration from a different story.

exploration
1. The action of examining; investigation, scrutiny. Obs.

1543-4 Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 10 Sir William Bowyer..by diligente searche and exploration founde out dyuers greatte and plentyfull sprynges, at Hampsted heath. 1602 W. FULBECKE 1st Pt. Parall. Introd. 5 Men..who might by exploration seuer the dross from the gold. 1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. V. xxi. §20. 271 [The use of the divining rod] is a fruitlesse exploration, strongly senting of Pagan derivation. a1655 VINES Lord's Supp. (1677) 413 The exploration..of their competency. 1690 BOYLE Med. Hydrostat. Wks. 1772 V. 463 Our hydrostatical way of exploration.


b. Med. and Surg. The examination of an organ, a wound, etc. by the use of the finger, probe, or other physical appliance.

1860 in MAYNE Exp. Lex. 1880 W. BODENHAMER (title) The Physical Exploration of the Rectum. 1884 in Syd. Soc. Lex.


2. The action of exploring (a country, district, place, etc.); an instance of this. Also transf.

1823 LAMB Elia, Praise Chimney-sweepers 257 A lost chimney sweeper..tired with his tedious explorations..laid his black head upon the pillow. 1872 JENKINSON Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 299 This side of the Scawfell Pikes is deserving exploration. 1880 HAUGHTON Phys. Geog. v. 222 The exploration of the sources of the Blue Nile.



attrib. 1891 Pall Mall G. 11 Nov. 5/2 Mr. H. M. Stanley..would resume exploration work in Africa.

[Reverse Stockholm Syndrome]

So Megaman, are you looking forward to tonight's episode where Miriam shows off the mangina?

[nattie]

smart arse

[megaman]

Haha some kids just rang the door bell haha.
I looked through my vertical blinds and there was this little kid there haha.
I didn't answer the door haha.
I don't know why I find this so funny haha.

[nattie]

oh dear.......the poor children! meh, i don't care. i hate the little buggers

[megaman]

I think it's the second time they have done the rounds...I think they are trying to sell chocolate.

[megaman]

My preschool got burnt down .


Rockhampton school damaged by fire
08:45 AEST Thu Jul 1 2004

A school at Rockhampton in central Queensland has been extensively damaged by fire.

Firefighters were called to Parkhurst State School but were unable to prevent the flames sweeping through one block, which includes Year One rooms.

The cause of the blaze is unknown.

[PUNKER]

Damn! if only you were back in pre school.
At least the dream has come true for some kiddies!

[nattie]

thats odd...we were talking about our school burning down yesterday....hmmm....