<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hey! Your ideas are only egregious in the etymological sense!</div><div>The current Portuguese national anthem speaks of 'your egregious grandparents'; nobody knows what it means (the fatherland's outstanding forefathers).<br></div><div><br>No dia 23/05/2012, às 05:09, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">marcaramini@yahoo.com</a>> escreveu:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I knew when I saw the term "egregious ideas" bandied about my name would soon follow one way or another heh heh<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 5/22/12, Jerry Friedman <i><<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><br>From: Jerry Friedman <<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Lake of Birds<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 8:58 PM<br><br>
<div class="plainMail">> From: Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <<a href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=meuemaildobruno@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:meuemaildobruno@gmail.com">meuemaildobruno@gmail.com</a>><br><br>>"In English, "Forewarned is four-armed"."<br>><br>>Thanks, I had never heard this expression in English. <br><br><br>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.)<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a href="http://us.mc1618.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=urth@urth.net" ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net/" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Urth Mailing List</span><br><span>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a></span><br><span>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>