MANGETOUT!! I applaud you!

In My Humble Opinion
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Having lurked here for quite some time, I have been on a sometimes grievous plight. I needed a name. I thought to my self, should I use the name the universe gave me? My Liscence plate perhaps? My favorite icecream maybe - but Ben and or Jerry may not like that . Should I be labeled by my career choice? Hmmm…now there’s a possibility. I am a chef. So why not the title POLISH CHEF…:slight_smile:

No…too…uh…hmp…dumb, for lack of better jargon.

Thankfully - Mangetout- saved the day for me, and now I have a name. Not knowing how to link to another post yet, Mangetout brought up the word Birefringence as being a good name for a doper. The thread was in GQ and it was regarding the gasoline sheen on deli meats. As food is my passion as well as Mr.Mangetout’s I decided to take his lauded advice and run with it. So now I have a name…

Birefringence that is I…
If anyone has any questions regarding cooking gourmet or ghetto style please feel free to ask…!!!

Thanks again Mangetout…

[sub]…is this in the right forum mods or should it be somewhere else?[/sub]

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You’re lucky it wasn’t Atomic Badger Racing (a possible username I have been unsuccessfully pushing for a while now).

Welcome to the boards.

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I wish I’d seen Atomic Badger Racing before I registered :stuck_out_tongue:

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Birefringence

Mangetout does have redeeming values. He has to. :wink:

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I’m delighted to see the name in use, for a doper if not for a cat.

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There is no evidence that it isn’t a cat doper.

BTW, why does nobody know how to spell “license” anymore? It seems like a sudden change.

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I’ll have you know that ALL of my values are redeeming, when viewed from the correct angle.

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I was wondering that myself. Is it perhaps a British spelling? Though I thought UK and AU spellings were nearly identical.

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Sez here that it’s a British variant. It just looks wrong to me. Nobody uses weird spellings like “gaol” anymore, right? Common usage will probably strike it out of existence sometime next century.

Does anybody know a site or book or anything that points out some differences between American, British, Australian, and Canadian English?

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I would have liked Atomic Badger Racing, but then my new username came to mind and it just fit so well.

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Just curious, does everybody in Chicago has some weird attraction to ferrets?

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Inasmuch as I think Mange deserves applause just on general principle, I’m dropping in to applaud him.

[…enthusiastic applause…] :slight_smile:

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That’s not how they’re spelling it, though. I knew about that variation.

Instead I have seen maybe four or five instances of people spelling it “liscence” as though sudenly a whole group of people have needed to write it, but have no clue as to how it’s spelled, so they have imitated each other.

I have no problem with a wrong spelling every once in a while, it just seems like a sudden onslaught of the same spelling of the same word, and it’s incorrect at that.

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I’m pleased to report that I worked the word “birefringence” into conversations twice today.

Okay, so I’m

  1. easy to entertain
  2. bored
  3. a nerd
  4. all of the above.
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Oddly enough - I worked it into a couple conversations today as well. A lot of the people I work with - I own a catering company - had no clue what I was talking about. Though the gentleman whose son’s wedding we catered knew the word…

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Quartz is birefringent.

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Ah, but can you use it as an adverb? :wink: