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Jul 5, 2003
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BN11
West Hoathly Seagull said:
Thyristor

It's an electronics component which is a bit like a diode but unlike a diode will not conduct until a voltage is applied to its third terminal, known as a "gate". For the record a diode is a component which will only allow current to pass in one direction. A diode has only two terminals. That's really dull, isn't it?
 
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sydney

tinky ****in winky
Jul 11, 2003
18,162
town full of eejits
isnt a paraclete a budgie with a cleft palate..?
and a thyristor is someone who wanks a lot
hegemony is the natural propensity to attain the rightful (morally correct outcome)
and pedagogic is something to do with children or feet.....
i havent looked any of these up so feel free to take the piss please...!;)
 






Parson Henry

New member
Jan 6, 2004
10,207
Victor Bhanerjee's notebook
ben andrews' girlfriend said:
Or if you moved to france, yes

Is that because Easy, on reading this, will storm into a 'hissy fit' and demand vengance on Hampstead Heath one cold and frosty morining?

Who will be my second?
 
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
13,884
tokyo
Hegemony: I always thought it referred to a person, team, country, culture etc being dominant and far more powerful than it's competitors. Basically, being the number one with no real challengers.

Facile: I didn't think it meant easy. I thought it meant something was a little simplistic and not well thought out. Much like all the argument the :dunce: NIMBY's are putting against Falmer.

As for Oleagenous. I've never heard of it before but i think i will use it whenever i talk to / about my old french housemate. He was an oleagenous gimp.
 


West Hoathly Seagull

Honorary Ruffian
Aug 26, 2003
3,550
Sharpthorne/SW11
ben andrews' girlfriend said:
Spelled oleagenous - by far my faourite word - it means oily, greasy, seedy - often used to describe a character

Archer, Bellotti, Mr White. On spelling, BAG, I bow to your superior student brain. My spelling went to pieces years ago.
 




maffew

Well-known member
Dec 10, 2003
9,343
Worcester England
Richie Morris said:
A quango is an organization which is established by a government to consider a subject of public importance, but which is independent from the government.

Quango

what a cool word. bet you had to look that up though, I had absolutely no idea what it meant
 


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