Author Topic: More nominative determinism  (Read 143575 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: More nominative determinism
« Reply #850 on: 15 November, 2023, 07:25:19 am »
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Giraffe

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Re: More nominative determinism
« Reply #851 on: 15 November, 2023, 08:44:20 am »
A company making floating wind turbines is called Vidi - I saw an eyesore.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: More nominative determinism
« Reply #852 on: 05 December, 2023, 12:25:13 pm »
A case of nominative non-determinism, thankfully, especially as we were having dinner. Met a person with the surname Morss. Like Morse code? No, Morss was a late medieval Icelandic god of farts. You would invoke the god Morss to afflict your enemy with a plague of unstoppable abominable farting.
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T42

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Re: More nominative determinism
« Reply #853 on: 05 December, 2023, 01:59:39 pm »
A case of nominative non-determinism, thankfully, especially as we were having dinner. Met a person with the surname Morss. Like Morse code? No, Morss was a late medieval Icelandic god of farts. You would invoke the god Morss to afflict your enemy with a plague of unstoppable abominable farting.

Or you could secretly inflict 850 mg of Metformin on them three times a day.
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Re: More nominative determinism
« Reply #854 on: 05 December, 2023, 02:04:22 pm »
Have we had Elon here? After all, everything he does stinks.

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