If the professor on Gilligan's Island make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
Dave On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > speaking of obscure language questions... > > As my sons were growing up, we wondered what happened to Frigerators. > We knew about re-frigerators, but where were the originals? > A big landfill somewhere? > When the milk gets warm and you put it back in the refrigerator, whats > happening? > You replacing the original frigeration it had before breakfast? > > And Be'Jesus. > If you can scare the Be'Jesus out of somebody, where does it go? > How is it replenished? > How do you know if you have enough? > > Regards, Bob S. > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I know that there are quite a few language and grammar geeks among PDMLers. >> That's why I thought I'd share this linguistic question that >> got me puzzled. >> >> I see that almost everybody who is talking about Circular Polarizers uses an >> abbreviation "CPL", either as a noun or adjective (e.g. CPL filter). The >> curious part is that none of the online photography articles and reviews >> that talks about "CPL" bothers to deabbreviate it. >> (Just as a reference, all scientific journals where I've published my >> articles require to define any abbreviation before using it for the first >> time, even for those that are common in the field.) >> >> So, my question is "What does the `L' in CPL stand for?" >> I have 3 versions of what it might be (or what photographers who use that >> abbreviation might mean), including a standard one that is typically used in >> optical methods in physics, chemistry and related areas of science. None of >> those 3 would be strictly speaking correct. >> So, I am suspecting that I might be missing something more obvious. >> >> So, what does the `L' in CPL stand for? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Igor >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
