(urth) Lake of Birds

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Hey! Your ideas are only egregious in the etymological sense!
The current Portuguese national anthem speaks of 'your egregious grandparents'; nobody knows what it means (the fatherland's outstanding forefathers).

No dia 23/05/2012, às 05:09, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:

> I knew when I saw the term "egregious ideas" bandied about my name would soon follow one way or another heh heh
> 
> --- On Tue, 5/22/12, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Lake of Birds
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 8:58 PM
> 
> > From: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <meuemaildobruno at gmail.com>
> 
> >"In English, "Forewarned is four-armed"."
> >
> >Thanks, I had never heard this expression in English. 
> 
> 
> The real expression is "Forewarned is forearmed."  "Forearmed"  means "armed in advance" and is hardly ever used outside this proverb.   I was making a joke--a man with four arms is worth two men, as in the Portuguese proverb.  (This leads us to Marc's ideas about the doubling of limbs on Blue and Green.)
> 
> Jerry Friedman
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