Nervous Guy

"The Lusty Lean"

'tis the bastard who gave us THIS: Poojer's Legacy!

The flying monkey

you know, the casual reader might read something else into this statement other than it's true nature as a glib remark regarding the exercising of my editorial rights as an admin....not that there's anything wrong with that...on second thought, yes there is.

I can assure you that I've never smoked a pole in my life.

oh Scott...you're so dreamy.

***cough***cough***pole smokers***cough***

maybe he can take up a collection and get him one of these... For VA.

VABills=Rudy. Doomed!

MarkVI is perfectly capable of defending himself...he doesn't need a garden gnome throwing down the gauntlet for him... And that other cheap remark doesn't qualify for a response.

VABills=Beerball

MarkVI = RJ.

Good luck.

all I have to say is GO BLUE! also...playing Notre Dame always make me...well, you know.

note to self...never challenge the Monkey.

Then why don't we have a national water reserve located right next to the national oil reserves?!?!? Stupid government!

Actually there are some that are quite adept at this feat.... Kidding...I kid! me I'd need an easy button.

Dammit Monkey...I'm only a scientist....not God!!

now if I was CTM...I'd just say I remember reading that somewhere ...me, I just google sh--...hence the citation. oh yeah...it was cut and paste...who has the time to type so much?

The word belfry, believe it or not, originally had nothing to do with bells. Belfry is from the Old French berfroi, meaning a wooden siege tower. The word first appears in English c. 1300 as berfreyes. Over the years the meaning shifted from a siege tower to watch towers (which may or may not have had alarm bells), and then eventually to bell towers and church steeples. The spelling shift occurred by c. 1430 when the spelling belfreyes appeared. Eventually the new L spelling created an association with bells and the modern sense denoting a room in a tower where bells are hung dates to 1549. Spelling shifts between L and R, as in berfreyes/belfry, are common in many languages, including English. The L and R sounds are formed almost identically, by raising the tip of the tongue close to the alveolar ridge, which contains the teeth. When pronouncing L, the tongue makes and maintains contact with the ridge; when sounding R, it comes close but does not touch. It is very easy to sound L when you mean R, and vice versa. While we are on the subject of belfries, the phrase bats in the belfry is an Americanism dating to 1899. This phrase is the source of the sense of bats or batty meaning eccentric or insane, which both appear in the first decade of the 20th century. A belfry is a likely place to find bats and the phrase is simply a jocular expression similar to not playing with a full deck or his elevator does not run all the way to the top. In this case the belfry represents the head and brain and bats were chosen for alliterative purposes and because the creatures can be found there. (Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Historical Dictionary of American Slang)