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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:56 am
Post subject: Cavalry vs. Calvary |
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Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said, "Calvary
Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering
*is* their specialty, of course.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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don groves
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:10 am
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In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
| Quote: | Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said, "Calvary
Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering
*is* their specialty, of course.
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There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:40 am
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don groves wrote:
| Quote: | Skitt hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense
mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
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True, but the connection I mentioned, inadvertent as it may have been, was
much better. More honest, anyway.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:58 am
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don groves filted:
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In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said, "Calvary
Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering
*is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
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And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary....r |
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:11 am
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense
mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
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....and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.
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Mike Barnes
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:14 pm
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In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said, "Calvary
Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering
*is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary....r
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I'll have to Mull that over.
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Mike Barnes
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Andy Dingley
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:40 pm
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:56:15 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net>
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| Quote: | Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
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Yes. When I was a young kid I lived nearby to a huge shed of a
building; "Calvary Baptist Church". Clearly this had to be such a
huge building for a church, because they needed the extra room for the
horses... |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:43 pm
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:11:31 -0500, "Maria Conlon"
<mariaconlon001@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense
mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
...and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.
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and subsequent nappy washing.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:45 pm
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Mike Barnes wrote:
| Quote: | In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting
intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
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Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
Mike. |
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Mike Barnes
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:57 pm
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In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a
collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said,
"Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting
intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
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Some instances are appalling.
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Mike Barnes
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:46 pm
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Andy Dingley wrote:
| Quote: | On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:56:15 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net
wrote:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
Yes. When I was a young kid I lived nearby to a huge shed of a
building; "Calvary Baptist Church". Clearly this had to be such a
huge building for a church, because they needed the extra room for
the
horses...
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OT, a while ago I learnt that one of Imperial Britain's regular
exports was flat-pack churches in corrugated iron. IKEA, eat your
heart out. There's quite a nice simple little example in use,
appropriately, as a joiner's workshop in Faversham, Kent.
Mike. |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:47 pm
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Mike Barnes wrote:
| Quote: | In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
In alt.usage.english, R H Draney wrote:
don groves filted:
In article <35ak7pF4hpbfmU1@individual.net>, Skitt at skitt99
@comcast.net hath writ:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio
Services, a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded
greeting said, "Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate!
Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of
course.
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry
always
comes riding over a hill to save the day.
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in
Calgary....r
I'll have to Mull that over.
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?
Some instances are appalling.
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A rum remark.
Mike. |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:50 pm
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Andy Dingley filted:
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:56:15 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net
wrote:
Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,
Yes. When I was a young kid I lived nearby to a huge shed of a
building; "Calvary Baptist Church". Clearly this had to be such a
huge building for a church, because they needed the extra room for the
horses...
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In barely-related news, a cousin of mine passed away last week...she was the one
who had tried to read to me out of a picture book when I was about three years
old, and when she got to "C is for Camel" got corrected: "no, Alice, that's a
dromedary!"...in the intervening decades, we always sent her anything and
everything to do with camels that happened to turn up, at one time including the
video for the Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the
pre-Civil-War US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved in this odd
experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is misleading...seems to require
horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r |
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Frances Kemmish
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:39 pm
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | In barely-related news, a cousin of mine passed away last week...she was the one
who had tried to read to me out of a picture book when I was about three years
old, and when she got to "C is for Camel" got corrected: "no, Alice, that's a
dromedary!"...in the intervening decades, we always sent her anything and
everything to do with camels that happened to turn up, at one time including the
video for the Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the
pre-Civil-War US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved in this odd
experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is misleading...seems to require
horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r
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Does the Air Cavalry use flying horses? |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:41 pm
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R H Draney wrote:
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| Quote: | Disney movie "Hawmps!", a fictionalized account of the
pre-Civil-War
US Camel Corps....
More serious works on the subject describe the soldiers involved in
this odd experiment as "cavalry", but I wonder if this is
misleading...seems to require horses..."gamalry", maybe?...r
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The usual British term was "camelry". I can't remember where I've
read it, but I'm sure it's been more than once: T.E.Lawrence and
ancient history texts seem likely. The word appears to have been
coined by Liddell or Scott for their 1854 Greek Lexicon. (One of our
maths masters had been in the Camel Corps, and had that
prematurely-age-spotted look of some old tropical hands: perhaps he
used the term.)
Mike. |
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