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What a farce!

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ruffilb

Diamond Member
I just paid 29.95 for a MONTHLY subscription to the oxford english dictionary >.>

I feel oh so dirty.

So feel free to ask me to look words up now.

:roll:
 
I can't provide definitions YET, the stupid order hasn't even gone through.

You'd think at 29.95 per person/month they could afford some bandwidth >.<

I have something to do for school and it HAS to be the OED.
 
Double shame. Now I'm printing out 20+ pages of definitions. On Paper.

Not only do I kill trees, I kill my wallet.
 
Originally posted by: suse920
foxtrot
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1. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
1872 F. M. A. ROE Army Lett. (1909) 70 He has a fox trot, which is wonderfully easy. 1888 Century Mag. Oct. XXXVI. 897 She heard a horse approaching at a *fox-trot. 1894 R. KIPLING Day's Work (1898) 58 Would you consider a fox-trot, an' single-foot, an' rack, an' pace, an' amble, distinctions not worth distinguishin'? 1946 M. C. SELF Horseman's Encycl. 134 Fox trot, a slow, shuffling trot, the fox-trot is one of the gaits permitted in a five-gaited saddler as a ?slow-gait?.

2. A modern dance, of American origin, consisting chiefly of alternating measures of long and short steps; also, a piece of music suitable as an accompaniment for the fox-trot.
1915 Truth 17 Mar. 1/5 A new dance, the ?Fox-trot?, a relation of..?Ragtime?. 1915 Victor Record Catal. May, Dance records... Fox trots. 1917 S. B. LEACOCK Frenzied Fiction (1919) v. 70 The others were dancing the fox-trot to the victrola on the piazza. 1919 G. D'EGVILLE How & what to Dance (1922) 55 The Fox-Trot is a dance of many steps, and to the casual observer everybody seems to have different ones. 1919 E. SCOTT All about Latest Dances 68 The true basis of the American Fox-Trot is an alternation of four slow and four or eight quick movements, depending on the step chosen. 1923 {emem} A.B.C. of Dancing 84 The foxtrot is not a dance in the sense that the waltz and polka are dances because it has no distinctive rhythm and no characteristic step or figure. 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 127/1 You have just heard a fox-trot, ?I call her honey because she sticks to me?. 1946 R. CAPELL Simiomata II. 48 Kirou remembers Macaskie singing foxtrots.

Hence {sm}fox-trot v. intr., to dance a fox-trot; {sm}fox-trotter, one who fox-trots; {sm}fox-trotting vbl. n.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 July 3/7 Such [folk] dances should not be classed with fox-trotting, bunny-hugging, Wilson gliding, [etc.]. 1919 Punch 26 Feb. 166/2 I've fox-trotted in Stranraer, Irish-jigged in Mullingar. 1919 E. SCOTT All about Latest Dances 72 Some fox-trotters spin round at intervals on the soles of their feet. 1923 R. D. PAINE Comrades of Rolling Ocean v. 75 A dozen couples..fox-trotted in a clear space of the forward deck. 1928 F. N. HART Bellamy Trial i. 18 He seems to have spent most of his time perfecting his golf game and his fox-trotting abilities. 1967 V. NABOKOV Speak, Memory (ed. 2) xiii. 254 On the Cunard liner Pannonia which left Greece on May 18, 1919..I learned to foxtrot.
 
Originally posted by: ruffilb
I can't provide definitions YET, the stupid order hasn't even gone through.

You'd think at 29.95 per person/month they could afford some bandwidth >.<

I have something to do for school and it HAS to be the OED.
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Sucks man, id of gotten it free from p2p, but im just all electronically badass like that.
 
Originally posted by: newParadigm
Originally posted by: ruffilb
I can't provide definitions YET, the stupid order hasn't even gone through.

You'd think at 29.95 per person/month they could afford some bandwidth >.<

I have something to do for school and it HAS to be the OED.
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Sucks man, id of gotten it free from p2p, but im just all electronically badass like that.
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DSL. Don't have time.

I mean...

My morals don't permit me to do that.

Time also = why I'm killing so many trees.
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
why not buy the real dictionary
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I don't have time. Also, I'd have to go copy the definitions, by hand or otherwise, which would take even longer than buying it in a store.
 
Originally posted by: ruffilb
Originally posted by: sniperruff
why not buy the real dictionary
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I don't have time. Also, I'd have to go copy the definitions, by hand or otherwise, which would take even longer than buying it in a store.
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Digicams are good for that.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: ruffilb
Originally posted by: sniperruff
why not buy the real dictionary
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I don't have time. Also, I'd have to go copy the definitions, by hand or otherwise, which would take even longer than buying it in a store.
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Digicams are good for that.
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Yes, but then I have to FIND the digicam 😉
 
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