Dan O’Brian - American athlete (pentathlon)
Tim O’Brian - writer (The Things They Carried)
Pat O’Brian’s - a famous bar in New Orleans
epitaph.
interment: the act or ritual of interring or burying.
internment: The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
Ned Nederlander: A character in “The Three Amigos”, played by Martin Short.
Taters: Slang for po-ta-toes.
Mater (pronounced ma ter) - latinate way to refer to one’s mother
mater (pronounced may ter) - tomatoes
The camel has a single hump
The dromedary two.
Or else… the other way around…
I’m never sure … are you?
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shipment - goods transported by road.
cargo - goods transported by water.
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Leela from Futurama - has one eye.
Leela from Doctor Who - has two eyes.
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Davros - appeared on Doctor Who.
Stephen Hawking - Appeared on Star Trek : TNG
Napoleon ought never to be confused with Nelson, in spite of their hats being so alike; they can easily be distinguished from one another by the fact that Nelson always stood with his arm like this, while Napoleon always stood with his arms like that.
Doc Severinson was Johnny Carson’s bandleader on The Tonight Show.
Doc Holliday was in the gunfight at the OK Corral.
Doc Brown built a time machine out of a DeLorean.
Doc Graham played in his first and only major league baseball game for five minutes and never got a chance at bat.
Leeloo - Orange-haired chick from the movie The 5th Element
The Fifth Elephant - A Disworld book by Terry Pratchett
Coral snake - deadly
Milk snake - harmless
“Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, venom lack.”
Graf Zeppelin was a Nazi German battleship used in World War II.
Led Zepplin was a British Rock and Roll band formed well after WW2, and is one of the greatest bands ever.
Bill Graham: Rock promoter
Billy Graham: God promoter
Graham Chapman: Famous Python
Graham Kerr: Famous chef
Graham cracker: Famous snack
OJ Simpson: killed two people (?)
Homer Simpson: killed many boxes of doughnuts
Jessica Simpson: kills 30 minutes of air time each week
Umm… Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin was the man who founded the first, and largest, company to manufacture rigid airships. Hence the whole class of machines acquired the name Zeppelin.
During the 'tween War years the airship company formed by the Graf Zeppelin built several passenger airships - the two kings of the passenger service were the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin. My quick Googling hasn’t brought me an end of service date for the airship, but I suspect the passenger load died away to nothing after the Hindenburg disaster.
In the German military build up of the late 1930’s the planned aircraft carrier of the newly reborn Kriegsmarine was going to be called Graf Zeppelin in honor of the pioneering work done with airships by the original Graf Zeppelin. However, because of the political difficulties in getting the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe to cooperate, the Graf Zeppelin was never given a high priority for completion. It was launched in 1938, however, launching a hull only rarely completes the construction process. (For example, there are many pictures of the launching of the Bismark which show that nothing above the weather deck had yet been installed.) There are reports that the Graf Zeppelin was moved to a Norweigian fjord around the same time as the Tirpitz, but the political tug of war between the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe, kept Goering from being willing to allow for even the construction of planes or training of pilots for <shuddering> Naval duty.
Nor was this the only facet of the the Battle of the Atlantic which suffered from the Axis POV because of the rivalry betweeen the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine - as bad as the Murmansk run was for Allied convoys, had the Luftwaffe and Dornitz’ unterzeeboten been able to coordinate their efforts it would have been im-frigging-possible to get anything through. (With possibly catastrophic consequences for the war as a whole for the Allies.)
Are you possibly thinking of the Admiral Graf Spee, a pocket battleship?
Actually, ivylass, “effect” is also a verb, in the sense of “to bring about” – as in “to effect a change”. (Sorry; not a very good example, but it’s almost midnight and I’m old and tired.)
And I think “affect” is also a noun. But I’ll have to look that one up…
yeah, it’s “an emotion or feeling attached to a response…” – whatever the hell that means.
Had you inserted the word “usually” in each sentence, though, I wouldn’t have quibbled. But, then, I like to quibble. So, thank you.
A blond is a male; a blonde is a female.
A fiancé is a male; a fiancée is a female.
A masseur is a male; a masseuse is a female.
René is a male; Renée is a female.
It’s Lord Beaconsfield, né Disraeli; Mrs. Clinton, née Rodham.
I sure wish someone had taught this to H.A. Rey. I worry that Curious George had a nasty accident in his infancy.
Hey, here are some monkey differences for y’all:
New World (South and Central American) monkeys: Have nostrils far apart. Have 36 teeth. All live in the trees. Some can grasp with their tails. No New World monkeys have cheek pouches. Thumbs are usually only partly opposable (but spider monkeys have no thumbs).
Old World (African and Asian) monkeys: Have nostrils close together. Have 32 teeth, like apes (including humans) do. Some live in the trees; some live on the ground. {Of the ground-livers, males are often twice as large as the females; okay, I’m outside of the New World/Old World comparison here; just think this is interesting.} None can grasp with their tails. {Here I go again: Ground-livers have shorter tails than arboreal monkeys.} Some Old World monkeys have cheek pouches. Thumbs are fully opposable (except for the poor thumbless colobus).
Scott Adams: writer of classic 1980’s text adventures (not related to Scott Adams above.
This thread is informative if confusing. How come in the whole Marlowe/Marley explanation above no-one mentioned Marlowe the playwright?
Roddy McDowall: British actor. Starred in How Green Was My Valley and Planet of the Apes. Died in 1998.
Malcolm McDowell: British actor. Starred in A Clockwork Orange. Currently alive. Real name is Malcolm Taylor.
Andi McDowell: Crappy American actress.
In a similar vein:
A rooster clucks defiance.
A lawyer …