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03-27-2009 , 01:48 AM

#101

HobbyHorse

Allegedly Attractive

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

HH,

How about I breach your face?

Shawn Johnson would not approve, Ginger.

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03-27-2009 , 01:50 AM

#102

kom

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 635

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Not Moby Dick, though. Everyone knows white whales can't jump.

needs some love

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03-27-2009 , 02:03 AM

#103

Blarg

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

blah blah blah, can't jump without legs, end of story. Whales are just flailing around in the water until both a whaleologist and a jumpologist tell me otherwise.

Can snakes jump?

I think someone should go to the Oxford English to resolve this question.

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03-27-2009 , 02:04 AM

#104

Dominic

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Originally Posted by prfsr_cain

elephants are the only animals that cannot jump

i also think they are the only 4-legged mammal whose knees all bend the same direction as humans.

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03-27-2009 , 02:07 AM

#105

Dominic

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Not Moby Dick, though. Everyone knows white whales can't jump.

hahahahahahahahaha......very nice, Wook.

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03-27-2009 , 02:15 AM

#106

Tapirboy

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Tapirs have four toes on each of their front feet, and three on each of their back feet.

(Also, they can jump, sort of.)

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03-27-2009 , 02:16 AM

#107

kudzudemon

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

Did he describe the part where the whale bends its knees and pushes off from the ground? Cause otherwise it's not jumping.

:: Double sigh ::

From various sources:

Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and other gaits in which the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively long duration of the aerial phase and high angle of initial launch. (Wikipedia/Wiktionary)

to project one's self through the air. (Biology online dictionary)

to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; (Dictionary.com)

to spring into the air (Merriam-Webster dictionary)

Now, I have seen this

to spring free from the ground or other base by the muscular action of feet and legs (also in the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

But only as an extrapolation, and never as the single definition.

Merriam-Webster also defines a punk as:
something or someone worthless or unimportant, or an inexperienced youth.

You know, just as an FYI.

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03-27-2009 , 02:28 AM

#108

Landonfan

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Originally Posted by kudzudemon

Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and other gaits in which the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively long duration of the aerial phase and high angle of initial launch. (Wikipedia/Wiktionary)

How do I know you didn't just edit this beforehand? Or that the person who originally wrote it isn't a dip****? Either way, it's too broad.

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to project one's self through the air. (Biology online dictionary)

Too broad.

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to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; (Dictionary.com)

Too broad.

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to spring into the air (Merriam-Webster dictionary)

Too broad.

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to spring free from the ground or other base by the muscular action of feet and legs (also in the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

Ding ding ding. I win. Thank you for admitting defeat.

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03-27-2009 , 02:34 AM

#109

HobbyHorse

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

Ding ding ding. I win. Thank you for admitting defeat.

Ooooo....lookie lookie lookie...somebody just waved a ginger flag in front of the kudz bull...

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03-27-2009 , 02:37 AM

#110

kudzudemon

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

How do I know you didn't just edit this beforehand? Or that the person who originally wrote it isn't a dip****? Either way, it's too broad.

Too broad.

Too broad.

Too broad.

Ding ding ding. I win. Thank you for admitting defeat.

So you are single handedly declaring all the dictionaries listed as unfit for your usage, cherry picking my post and misrepresenting me in a sad and futile effort to save face?

Landon, I think I'm beginning to understand why you got your mouth popped a few weeks ago.

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03-27-2009 , 03:04 AM

#111

Mandor_TFL

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Landon needs a new word to describe how a dolphin performs those tricks in Sea World. Pretty much everyone I know says the dolphin jumps out of the water thru the hoops.

Go ahead give me another word that works better that normal people would use.

Example " Hey buddy look at that dolphin _____ out of the water! "

While fly works, it clearly does not accurately describe what the dolphin is doing, as the dolphin never achieves true flight.

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03-27-2009 , 03:14 AM

#112

Landonfan

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Originally Posted by kudzudemon

So you are single handedly declaring all the dictionaries listed as unfit for your usage, cherry picking my post and misrepresenting me in a sad and futile effort to save face?

Yes, yes, and yes. If disagreeing with dictionaries is what I have to do to not accept a liberal definition of jumping, then that is what I will do. You can propel yourself through the air however you like, but if you didn't use legs to do it you're not jumping. I don't give a **** who says otherwise.

Last edited by Landonfan; 03-27-2009 at 03:23 AM.

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03-27-2009 , 03:22 AM

#113

Landonfan

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Originally Posted by Mandor_TFL

You can continue using jump, even though it's incorrect. Sort of like how everyone thinks of the tomato as a vegetable even though they know it's a fruit, as if vegetables are the tomato's adoptive family. Even though what dolphins do technically isn't jumping, you can think of jumping as it's foster family.

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03-27-2009 , 03:28 AM

#114

Shadowrun

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You can use jumping and it is correct. You dont get to make up definitions.

The easiest example being a person can jump using his hands. It doesnt have to involved with feet, thus giving rise to a more broad definition.

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03-27-2009 , 03:31 AM

#115

Landonfan

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We've already determined that jumping is subjective. I will define it however I see fit, within reason.

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03-27-2009 , 03:39 AM

#116

kudzudemon

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

That's funny. Landon came back and edited this post, threw that last line in there, after he had read Mandor's (and maybe shadowrun's) post. Throw in a final footstomp in an effort to reinforce a self-delusion of declarative authority.

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03-27-2009 , 03:42 AM

#117

kudzudemon

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Originally Posted by Landonfan

We've already determined that jumping is subjective. I will define it however I see fit, within reason.

No, you decided to pretend it was subjective. Don't be using that "we" to appeal to some misguided sense of corroboration. You want to hide behind a solipsistic veneer, be my guest.

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03-27-2009 , 04:10 AM

#118

Landonfan

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So the dictionary should control how I view the world? I disagree with the dictionary definition, and see no reason to do otherwise aside from a bunch of people telling me to. I've seen no solid evidence, I've only seen the opinion that jumping = X, and I'm not buying that.

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03-27-2009 , 04:14 AM

#119

thirddan

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Originally Posted by Sheakspeer

How about this for pointless knowledge . . . An infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of keyboards will never ever reproduce the works of Shakespeare over an infinite amount of time.

this seems obviously false to me, but i could be wrong...

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03-27-2009 , 04:34 AM

#120

Blarg

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Perhaps there is not an infinite amount of time?

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03-27-2009 , 04:40 AM

#121

youtalkfunny

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Bah, get a room, for Christ's sake.

Can we get back to the thread please?

Here's another one from Paul Harvey:

When the Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $24, they weren't living on that land at the time. After concluding the transaction, they got into their canoes and went home...

...to Brooklyn.

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03-27-2009 , 07:50 AM

#122

John Cole

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LF, stick with it.

BTW, one of the world's earliest dictionaries was a dictionary of hard words; however, its usefullness may have been somewhat limited given that the author neglected to arrange the words in alphabetical order.

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03-27-2009 , 08:34 AM

#123

sc000t

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Originally Posted by Blarg

Can snakes jump?

I think someone should go to the Oxford English to resolve this question.

I think I remember seeing something on the Discovery Channel or something like that where a certain kind of snake would jump/fly/fall whatever you want to call it from tree to tree. I'm not sure if they'd just get a running (slithering?) start and just run off a branch and fall or what, but thats about the only way a snake could be mistaken to "jump".

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03-27-2009 , 08:44 AM

#124

sc000t

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The word "that" is the only word in the english language that can be said three times in a row and still be gramatically correct.

The middle finger originates from the 100 years war between England and France. When the French would capture a English long archer, they would cut off his middle fingers so they could no longer use it to pull back their bow. So when the English archers would emerge victorious from a battle, they would wave their middle fingers proudly in the air at the defeated French soldiers in a sort of "**** you, I still have my middle finger you bastard" sort of way.