For those that know everything.

[lilranch2001]

Some more famous Hoosiers...

George Ade humorist, Kentland
Leon Ames actor, Portland
Anne Baxter actress, Michigan City
Larry Bird basketball player, French Lick
Bill Blass fashion designer, Fort Wayne
Hoagy Carmichael songwriter, Bloomington
James Dean actor, Marion
Eugene V. Debs Socialist leader, Terre Haute
Theodore Dreiser writer, Terre Haute
Bernard F. Gimbel merchant, Vincennes
Virgil Grissom astronaut, Mitchell
Alfred Bertram Guthrie author, Bedford
Phil Harris actor, band leader, Linton
John Milton Hay statesman, Salem
James R. Hoffa labor leader, Brazil
Michael Jackson singer, Gary
Buck Jones actor, Vincennes
David Letterman TV host, comedian, Indianapolis
Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals, Indianapolis
Carole Lombard actress, Fort Wayne
Shelley Long actress, Fort Wayne
Marjorie Main actress, Acton
James McCracken tenor, Gary
John Cougar Mellencamp singer,songwriter, Seymour
Joaquin Miller poet, Liberty
Andrew J. Moyer inventor, Star City
Paul Osborn playwright, Evansville
Cole Porter songwriter, Peru
Ernest Taylor Pyle journalist, Dana
J. Danforth Quayle vice president, Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley poet, Greenfield
Ned Rorem composer, Richmond
Red Skelton comedian, Vincennes
Rex Stout mystery writer, Noblesville
Booth Tarkington author, Indianapolis
Twyla Tharp dancer, choreographer, Portland
Forrest Tucker actor, Plainfield
Harold C. Urey physicist, Walkerton
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. author, Indianapolis
Jessamyn West author, North Vernon
Wendell Willkie lawyer, Elwood
Wilbur Wright inventor, Millville
Willis Van Devanter Supreme Court justice, Marion

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[turnkey4099]

My brain struggles with the concept of learning a foreign to me language. I've heard several times that English is the hardest to learn.

I really enjoy learning new "Aussie" words though.

I learne russian in the AF. That is one very rigid language with only, IIRC 6 odd conjugations, tell at a glance the gemder of any noun , etc. That opened my eyes to how much of a mess English would be to anyone used to organized language.

 

[bunyip]

Mud lizard Crocodile
dead horse Sauce, also known as camo in the armed forces mess
sanger Sandwich
snag Sausage also known as a mystery bag
chook Chicken
donga A portable site building, a lean to or ones wedding tackle
shoot/shot through Leaving or left the scene
noah Noahs ark/ Shark
seppo Term of endearment for an american, septic tank/ Yank
walloper Police officer
garbo Garbage collector
sprog Child/offspring
togs swmming outfit
scrubber lady of questionable character
shed Barn
joe blake Snake
grey ghost Sub species of human that can materialise instantly at an expired parking meter and issue a ticket, wears a grey uniform and much admired by the public
arvo Afternoon
avo Avocado

not words I use but do comprehend, there are others....

Here endeth the lesson

 

[CADplans]

My 8 year old daughter (at that time) ,, who was always a science wiz,, asked why the ice cubes in the freezer got smaller over time,,
I explained,, the ice cubes did not melt,, but, the solid ice changed directly to a gas,, the process was known as "sublimation"

Two weeks later, her science teacher was discussing how matter changed state,, solids melt to liquid, liquids change to gas,,
and, the teacher asked if anyone knew another way that matter could change state,,, Becca put up her hand,,,

The teacher, who was always shocked at how much Becca knew,, said
"Becca,, I got you this time,, there is NO WAY that you know the answer to this!!"

Well, Becca went on to explain how a solid could change directly to a gas by sublimation,,,

22 years later,, that teacher STILL talks about how Becca,, at eight years old,, knew what sublimation was!! :laughing:

I never told the teacher about the ice cube discussion that occurred just a few days before,,,

 

[ovrszd]

Thank you bunyip for the translations. I'm so entertained by this. For some strange reason.

Bruce, an old Infantry saying. "Those that draw fire tend to piss off those around them". Learned that in Vietnam.

 

[bunyip]

Bruce, an old Infantry saying. "Those that draw fire tend to piss off those around them". Learned that in Vietnam.

We call drivers and idiots in general that bring attention to themselves for all the wrong reasons 'heat seekers'

 

[Jstpssng]

Well of course others wouldn't 'comprehend' that one as it's usually expressed in the most vile descriptive word(s) for a human being in any language known to mankind.

(past and present languages included)

Here it's a fisherman's fly; more specifically, a streamer tied to imitate a smelt. Ice out is still a ways out; but I'm starting to get a little spring
fever.