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General => General => Topic started by: Mr. Fortune Cookie on February 02, 2006, 02:32:23 pm
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I bet none of you (except maybe Yaminomalex and the Soveriegn of all knowledge) can answer this.
Why does an orange? You guyz have two days (Yaminomalex cannot help)
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This is an easy one.
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This is an easy one for me to answer, since a quick look at the big Oxford English Dictionary gives the historical details. The fruit definitely came first—it is recorded in English in the fourteenth century, while the application of its name to the colour only appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth. This raises the question of what people called the colour before they had a word for it: either they didn’t (few things in nature are that colour and there was no bright orange pigment available to artists and dyers until the early nineteenth century) or they borrowed terms like yellow, gold, amber, or red to describe various shades.
By the way, the word orange is interesting, etymologically speaking, because it’s an excellent example of a change called metanalysis in which the first letter of a word shifts to the end of the preceding word. So a numpire became an umpire, a napron became an apron, and so on. In Arabic, the fruit was named naranj (from Persian narang and Sanskrit naranga—the orange may have originated in northern India) and this name came with the fruit into Italian and also into Spanish, in which the fruit is still called naranja. The initial letter dropped off before the word reached English, possibly in Italian but more probably in French.
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Nice speech but WRONG
as a consolation prize, you get 3 spoon and a geese.
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Yay!
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Nice speech but WRONG
as a consolation prize, you get 3 spoon and a geese.
You can't a have a geese, however you can have a goose.
Just sayin'
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I wanted a geese...
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Nice speech but WRONG
as a consolation prize, you get 3 spoon and a geese.
You can't a have a geese, however you can have a goose.
Just sayin'
Why don't you shuts up. Here is many blender
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Nice speech but WRONG
as a consolation prize, you get 3 spoon and a geese.
You can't a have a geese, however you can have a goose.
Just sayin'
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The answer is an orange doer, duh!
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WRONG
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Why does an orange?
Because internet.
We've been over this. XP *SHOT*
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WRONG again, you guyz aren't tryin'.
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Bcause of theswirls of cinamen on every bite.
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Bcause of theswirls of cinamen on every bite.
That is WRONG, even though cinnamon toast crunch has the taste you can see
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because sweet cinamen is da winna mon?
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Why does an orange? You guyz have two days
No one got it right so far + you are running out of time... :twisted:
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Why does an orange?
Because internet.
We've been over this. XP *SHOT*
Say it with more emotion, plz.
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BECAUSE FUCKING INTERNET!!!!!1
GOD DAMN, WE'VE ALREADY BEEN OVER THIS SHIT!
...how's that?
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Why did you pummel my door with a shovel?
WRONG again
You got until around 5:00 PM to get the correct one
(I would do it exactly 3:32, but I am busy today)
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What an educative thread.
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BECAUSE FUCKING INTERNET!!!!!1
GOD DAMN, WE'VE ALREADY BEEN OVER THIS SHIT!
...how's that?
Josh, you've made me proud son.
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Good. ^_^
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You guyz have one guess before I say the answer and me + Yamino will call you all morons. I was supposed to post the answer earlier, so guess!!!
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Because you want Yamino hard, up the butt?
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Everybody luves Raymond, fwel.
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Okay WRONG. Time's up.
Why does an orange?
Because the more it does the much
You guyz couldn't get that? you morons.
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I am saved.
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. . . okay. >_>
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I say your wrong and yami is right!
So I say it so it is!
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Because the more it does the much
That was the answer. Deal with it
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Thank you, wise master, you have tought me another lesson for the day.
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Here is another fortune "That will be $50 please"
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No thanks, Chow Yung-Fat, I'll have the shrimp fried rice intead, plz.
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No thanks, Chow Yung-Fat, I'll have the shrimp fried rice intead, plz.
And then???
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Wait!
Rock Howard is Geese's son.
*is 20 posts behind*
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Wait!
Rock Howard is Geese's son.
*is 20 posts behind*
Yeah, I think everyone missed that joke.
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And then???