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quiescent
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:27 pm
by skinem
Quiescent
qui-es-cent (adjective)
(kwee ess nt)
Inactive or at rest
Quiescence (noun)
Quiescently (adverb)
Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:01 pm
by Stargzer
I remember this word from long ago. Back in the early 1970s spent several summers as a Good Humor Man, selling ice cream on a route from a truck. The frozen pops (Popsicle happens to be a trademark, so Good Humor's "nickel-sicle" was called a Jet) said on their ingredients list ". . . quiescently frozen . . . ." When I looked it up, I figured the pops didn't scream as they were frozen . . .
As it turns out, I was close. Check out
How Stuff Works or
The Straight Dope, but do it quietly.
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:15 am
by gailr
... When I looked it up, I figured the pops didn't scream as they were frozen . . .
Tell me, Clarice - have the pops stopped screaming?
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:43 am
by Huny
... When I looked it up, I figured the pops didn't scream as they were frozen . . .
Tell me, Clarice - have the pops stopped screaming?
Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops
before they stopped screaming...
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:13 am
by Bailey
Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops before they stopped screaming...
with some fava beans and a little Chianti...
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:41 am
by Huny
Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops before they stopped screaming...
with some fava beans and a little Chianti...
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...Now ya want me to do ya a fava? What is this, quid pro quo or somethin'? Can't ya just be nice and quiescently for once in ya life and not eat all the hors d'oeuvres? By the way, would you like some cheese with that wine?... or maybe just a cup of "Joe" to try and cleanse the palette?...
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:47 pm
by gailr
...Now ya want me to do ya a fava? What is this, quid pro quo or somethin'? Can't ya just be nice and quiescently for once in ya life and not eat all the hors d'oeuvres? By the way, would you like some cheese with that [gr edit]wino?...[/gr edit] or maybe just a cup of "Joe" to try and cleanse the palette?...
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:17 pm
by Huny
...Now ya want me to do ya a fava? What is this, quid pro quo or somethin'? Can't ya just be nice and quiescently for once in ya life and not eat all the hors d'oeuvres? By the way, would you like some cheese with that [gr edit]wino?...[/gr edit] or maybe just a cup of "Joe" to try and cleanse the palette?...
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:59 pm
by Stargzer
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Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops before they stopped screaming...
I have a friend, a great teller of tales, often tall, who swears he was at a raw bar (an establishment that serves raw oysters) when the guy next to him took delivery of a plate of oysters on the half-shell and stared at it for a few moments, as if he wasn't sure what to do. My friend said to him, "If you bite them just right they won't scream on the way down." Said guy got a funny look on his face and walked off, leaving said friend to take possession of the plate of oysters. Knowing him as I do, it's hard to tell if this is a tall tale or a true tale.
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:06 pm
by Brazilian dude
"If you bite them just right they won't scream on the way down."
Oh, just now do I realize this is what I was supposed to tell the ladies last week. Ouch!
Brazilian dude
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:34 pm
by Huny
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Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops before they stopped screaming...
I have a friend, a great teller of tales, often tall, who swears he was at a raw bar (an establishment that serves raw oysters) when the guy next to him took delivery of a plate of oysters on the half-shell and stared at it for a few moments, as if he wasn't sure what to do. My friend said to him, "If you bite them just right they won't scream on the way down." Said guy got a funny look on his face and walked off, leaving said friend to take possession of the plate of oysters. Knowing him as I do, it's hard to tell if this is a tall tale or a true tale.
Great story, stargzer!!
Sounds to me like your friend had a lot of siblings while growing up...he sounds like a survivalist- but maybe not by choice. He-he.
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:37 pm
by Huny
"If you bite them just right they won't scream on the way down."
Oh, just now do I realize this is what I was supposed to tell the ladies last week. Ouch!
Brazilian dude
Real lady charmer there, BD. I always did hear that latin men were, well...
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:28 pm
by Bailey
Why, Dr., I thought you only ate pops before they stopped screaming...
with some fava beans and a little Chianti...
mark
...Now ya want me to do ya a fava? What is this, quid pro quo or somethin'? Can't ya just be nice and quiescently for once in ya life and not eat all the hors d'oeuvres? By the way, would you like some cheese with that wine?... or maybe just a cup of "Joe" to try and cleanse the palette?...
yeah a big fava, more puns! As a classmate in 6th grade said to me, "Well, I've had horse dovers too and fillet mignon and it's just fish!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:40 pm
by Brazilian dude
Real lady charmer there, BD. I always did hear that latin men were, well...
Whatever they have told you is wrong. Don't believe them. I'm the walking proof that's a load of baloney!
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:54 pm
by Bailey
I dunno, All the SA men I've met assured me the rumors are all true. Of course I have no first-hand experience.
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