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# Hey do you know what else is gun about etymology?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:35, archived)
# Is this a subtle hint that I should shut up before somebody shoots me?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:41, archived)
# no, he's posting from JAIL
(arseboon dilbaro arseboon dilbaro, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:43, archived)
# i heard that post in a John Bunnell voice
(I helped save b3ta! Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:05, archived)
# No I just wanted to hear your take on things
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:57, archived)
# Oh well sometimes it's entertaining
Look at this old definition for the verb "to troll", for instance:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/troll_4

Falling out of use, that definition, for some reason.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:08, archived)
# Yeah, it's an american fishing term - a corruption of "trawl".
Internet trolling also originally came from that meaning as well - to "troll for newbs" on usenet by posting something that an experienced user would quickly disregard but new people would instantly react to.

People talk these days as though it's the ogre type troll rather than the american fishing type troll so I guess etymology is a bitch.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:13, archived)
# Jargon from the ancient past is fun, too.
A typical cottage carder has a single large drum (the swift)
accompanied by a pair of in-feed rollers (nippers), one or more pairs
of worker and stripper rollers, a fancy, and a doffer. In-feed to the
carder is usually accomplished by hand or by conveyor belt and often
the output of the cottage carder is stored as a batt or further
processed into roving and wound into bumps with an accessory bump
winder.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:12, archived)
# OH MY
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:20, archived)
# sexy
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 12:15, archived)
# I really don't know what insects have got to do with it anyway
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:49, archived)
# They can smell decay and lead you to the corpses of gun victims
if you align your mind with their insect ways.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:53, archived)
# The interesting thing about giant insects is that if they were constructed the same way as tiny insects they wouldn't be able to stand under their own weight
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:02, archived)
# Or breathe, apparently.
I think this is a volume-to-surface-area thing, since they do it passively through holes instead of pumping.
Could possibly have a really giant flat insect, like a rectangular beetle a mile wide.

In fact it wouldn't even have to be rectangular, I don't know why I said that. Just trying to keep things simple.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:18, archived)
# I'm sure if it became a necessity in the food chain then nature would find a way
Kind of like how Giant wetas (that red thing is a tomato) have evolved to fill a missing rodent/rabbit gap in the NZ food chain.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:24, archived)
# Wagh.
I see youtube has a weta Vs. camel spider battle. Weta wins, I think.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:33, archived)
# Yeah I don't really see how the camel spider could come back from that
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:39, archived)