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Nate Branscom
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:42 pm
Post subject: Re: what's the word "proctive" mean? |
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R H Draney wrote:
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I've never understood this attitude toward Belgians...how can any nationality
that produces Rene Magritte be all bad?...r
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Re: Proctive
Ceci n'est pas un mot.
--Nate (one who makes jokes that nobody laughs at)
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:29 pm
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:56:52 GMT, Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@earthlink.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:09:45 GMT, "Pat Durkin"
durk183@sbcglobal.com> said:
"Robert Lieblich" <robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote in message
[...]
At least -- and thank goodness -- Google has no listing for
"proctivologist."
I did consider "proactive", but decided the user was probably searching
for a short form for "proctological (proctologic)".
I am in favor. Maybe the exams would be shorter, as well, if that term
were adopted.
I recently saw a reference to "digital proctological
examination". Are the exams speedier when they do them
digitally rather than the old-fashioned way?
On the hole, yes. |
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Jim
the polymoth |
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Ted Schuerzinger
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:35 pm
Post subject: Re: If Google has it it must be true. |
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Somebody claiming to be Jim Lawton <usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo>
wrote in news:4e6em157s6vm8mbn0q6ov7au3pebpl2rsd@4ax.com:
| Quote: | I'm sorry, you are extremeley positive. I said " in a way which
_didn't_ suggest a misspelling"
It is used
consistently
This is a consistent use,
Extention table, also adjustable height. Solid beech wood frame and
legs. Wood veneered tops. Finished with transparent proctive varnish
OR stained cherry with transparent proctive varnish OR stained wenge
transparent proctive varnish.
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Considering that this quote also has the misspelling "extention", I'd say
it's a distinct possibility that "proctive" is a misspelling as well.
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Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
Oh Marge, anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there....
--Homer Simpson
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Jim Lawton
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:16 am
Post subject: Re: If Google has it it must be true. |
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On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:35:43 -0000, Ted Schuerzinger <fedya@bestweb.spam> wrote:
| Quote: | Somebody claiming to be Jim Lawton <usenet1@jimlawton.TAKEOUTinfo
wrote in news:4e6em157s6vm8mbn0q6ov7au3pebpl2rsd@4ax.com:
I'm sorry, you are extremeley positive. I said " in a way which
_didn't_ suggest a misspelling"
It is used
consistently
This is a consistent use,
Extention table, also adjustable height. Solid beech wood frame and
legs. Wood veneered tops. Finished with transparent proctive varnish
OR stained cherry with transparent proctive varnish OR stained wenge
transparent proctive varnish.
Considering that this quote also has the misspelling "extention", I'd say
it's a distinct possibility that "proctive" is a misspelling as well.
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Yes, I noticed that - can't win them all, ha ha.
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Jim
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Richard Bollard
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:20 am
Post subject: Re: what's the word "proctive" mean? |
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:09:32 +0800, Robert Bannister
<robban@it.net.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
Somebody claiming to be Robert Lieblich <robert.lieblich@verizon.net
wrote in news:4364CAA8.66D5AA5F@verizon.net:
Perhaps because there's no such word as "proctive." There, is,
however, a word "proactive," and we are fortunate to have books called
"dictionaries" that help with such things:
"Proactive" is, of course, the opposite of "propassive".
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that proactive is a silly
sociologists' word that we don't need.
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I saw it defined once as "prememptively reactive".
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Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia
To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT. |
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Richard Bollard
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:21 am
Post subject: Re: what's the word "proctive" mean? |
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On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:54:38 +0000, Charles Riggs <chriggs@éircom.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | On 1 Nov 2005 00:01:44 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote:
William filted:
Charles Riggs wrote:
I could also do without estate agents, life insurance salesmen, used
car salesmen, American Republicans, hunters and gun owners,
Midwesterners, loud people, women who giggle, people who jog, men who
wear white socks, people who don't tip, door to door salesmen, fat
people without a medical excuse, and Belgians.
I'm sort of with you on the rest of that list, but the Belgians!
Please. Surely you've tasted their chocolates?
I've never understood this attitude toward Belgians...how can any nationality
that produces Rene Magritte be all bad?...r
What can I say, Ron? Women who giggle aren't all bad either. No-one is
*all* bad; Stalin, it is said, was great with children, for example.
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But better with a really good olive oil.
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Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia
To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT. |
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:54 am
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John Holmes wrote:
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
At least -- and thank goodness -- Google has no listing for
"proctivologist."
Well, now it gets 4 (soon to be 5) hits in Google groups, followed by:
New! Get the latest messages on proctivologist emailed to you with
Google Alerts.
It must be a manifestation of that principle that you can't observe a
system without causing perturbations in that system.
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I think Heisenberg said that, but I'm not sure.
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Bob Lieblich
I bet Peter Olcott is sure |
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