Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2006/02

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: [kl] Morons, Chestnuts and other cases of going nuts (Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:58:48 -0500

Really, thank you all, it has been a while since I had such a good laugh!
Could be from a Seinfeld episode!
Yet even the Seinfeld writers would hardly have had the boldness to call a
Jewish character Rommel! *Ich atme Luft von anderm Planeten!*

Best wishes and PLEASE carry on with this kind of stuff!
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>

> I looked in both Webster's 9th Collegiate and Collins' 2nd Edition English
> Dictionaries and both define "moron" in the derogatory sense, with no
> mention of chestnuts; I haven't gone as far as the OED yet, but I am
certain
> either Webster or Collins' would've included a mention of a "nut" in the
> etymology if there were in fact one to be had from the OED's definitive
> definition.
>

***

Correction! I meant "I do wish we would NOT call each names like
moron" -- That was my mistake, and I take full responsibility for it.

Sorry

Rafi

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