In Florida we have two, mostly: Spanish and English.
I’m sorry, to avoid further TM confusion, make it:
Ebon ----> Emal Eggshell Enamel
Sorry, I don’t understand a word of this and still have no idea what you meant to say with your remark on Belgium.
Must be a language thing 
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Look in Belgium for it.
Eban Emael A thank you card would be nice every once in a while. Starting a military alliance with Luxembourg and France, IMO, is ill-advised. Germany…
As for trademark law, it would be a good mark (well, unless someone actually registered that already – don’t forget lapse): distinct, alliterative, unusual, a combination of the distinct and the practical.
E-“bon”: good (Fr)
E-“mal”: bad (Fr)
Something can look very good – like a decorated eggshell – yet crack at the slightest pressure. From the article above:
Well, I couldn’t make anything of your word play that dropped out of nowhere into a thread like this one and fail to see what this issue has to do with this thread.
By the way: the location doesn’t exactly border the Belgian coastline. It is southwarts of Lanaken but indeed on a very strategical point.
The reason why it was taken so surprisingly was because the military staff didn’t expect an air attack (let be by gliders), but one over land ( by which the fort would have been very difficult to be taken as it was considered to be). It was of course a major strategical blunder of their part but I have serious doubts its quick fall had much to do with its architecture as your post describes it (although my memory on my info is that the top could be considered to have formed almost an airport, which is in my opinion indeed a blunder). In any case: the use of gliders and parachutists was a genial idea of the Germans.
If you want to talk about the first days of the WorldWar and come with your opinions or better said: internet “sources” then I suggest that you open an other thread.
And no, your “trademark suggestion” wouldn’t work.
“E” is not exactly a good shortage for “Est” in my opinion, when “thinking French”.
One needs to be a bit more then dyslexic to come up with that sort of word mutilation
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I think you mean “an ingenious idea”, as the Germans weren’t particularly genial in either World War… 
Honestly, I did not want to bring up WWII – even though it is apparent that Belgium was the lynchpin to the entire fall of Western Europe, the Third Reich’s brief dominance, and the holocaust. That’s just the logical progression. Belgian Congo drums, did those ever exist?
National Namecalling Day?
Iraq is more interesting. Aldebaran, I know you oppose the “war” in Iraq. Even though there are far more Iraqis participating in forming a new government than opposing it, and the “deadline” for pullout is looming. I understand that the concern in Europe is for “immediate” elections.
Yet, the UN advisor thinks that is impractical, the Europeans have offered little support, and the US favors elections also.
What, exactly, are you opposing, if it’s not merely the United States?
By opposing the “war” – aren’t you now just supporting Baathist resistance and al Qaeda?
The “war” from any traditional standpoint is over. Saddam, Uday, Qusay, and many of the rest have been wrapped up. The statue did not impress me, but the Lice Man (Saddam) did.
One last question, an important one: When did the Europeans become concerned about fair elections in Iraq?
I do not remember much for the over three decades Saddam was in power.
I’m not sure if you are trying to be witty or clever, but generally, citizens of the United States are called “Americans”, not US’ers. Just as “Iraqers”, Suadi Arabiers", “Mexicers” and “Former USSR’ers” are not appropriate.
I thought you might like to know so as not to appear an ignorant savage when posting.
I don’t know of anyone who actually cheers at the prospect of going to war. Do not confuse a desire to show support for the people who risk their lives to defend this country with a desire to go and indescriminately blow up other cultures with the same enthusiasm as one would root for the Patriots winning the superbowl.
People will be enthusiastic about going to war as long as they feel that going to war will right some perceived injustice or offense.
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No, I try to avoid dyslexic misspelling of a word that is for me among the diffult ones to write. Members who are familiar with my posts here know that since day 1 of my posting history on this board.
If I would use the other word and then mix up the letters like it is bound to happen 9 times out of 10, I would see the same sort of comments as you just wrote.
I thought you would be served by being informed about this so as not appear to be an ignorant rude savage when posting to me.
- Where was tehre a need to “defend your country” when marching into Iraq and flatten it - mostly from a safe distance - with “smart bombs” that killed thousands of people.
- I guess you have missed all the flag waving coverage of all those young people who all of a sudden ran to US army facilities in order to enlist themselves for the US army.
- I guess you missed all the hostility towards people who opposed this bloodshed and wanted the US soldeirs home and the Iraqi victims to live.
- I guess you also missed the cheering about “our heros” and the displays of yellow ribbons (the meaning of that escapes me) and the flag waving and the cheers when some Iraqi city was “taken” and the references to “the bastards” when talking about the Iraqi people… etc…
- I guess you have missed the threads made here to ask “which country should we take next” and similar.
Not quite. Replace “people” with “people who are easily brainwashed with government double talk and lies” = “people who are too lazy to think for themselves in a Media Culture”.
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I suppose you could cut and paste but whatever. I don’t want to hijack this thread any more than necessary.
That’s not the point. Soldiers join the military with the understanding that they will be asked to risk their lives. Most are regular people. One can support their bravery without supporting out foreign policy.
Most of you post is nonsense anyway. We did not go in and “flatten” Iraq. We did not drop bombs that killed “thousands” of people. So please spare us your hyperbole.
For someone so quick to criticize out “media culture” and our ability to think for ourselves, you seem to demonstrate a lack of ability to recognize media hype when you see it. Regardless of what you see in the media, no one who has family in Iraq is particularly eager or excited for them to stay there. I doubt that teenagers are lining up like it was Dec 8, 1941. And most of us here in NYC have “gotten over” the whole 9/11 thing a long time ago.
I would imagine that most of the people in the “which country should we take next” threads are pimply faced teenagers with little chance of going to Iraq in anything other than a Rainbow Six 3 Expansion Pack.
If you knew anything about Americans you would realize that apathy is far more common than cheering. Not that apathy is any better, but realizing that would make you appear more knowledgeable in your critiques.
Sure. Just to make you feel good I shall store the word somewhere and everytime make cut/paste artwork… Why not.
So sorry, but I think you are a bit out of your mind when you believe I shall do that just because you can’t live with it that a dyslexic person posts on the SDMB.
I see. So you say no coutless houses/infrastructure was flattened and those thousands of people who are burried are not dead. You must believe in the Return of the Zombies then.
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No, it is the fact that the media can make such a hype on such things for such a very long time, that strikes me.
It is the fact that there is a tendency among the vast majority of the population to believe everything that is brought in the media without any use of critical mind - and without comparing those media with foreign - that is striking.
Probably by now. I am talking about the war drumming flag waving support for going there and the labelling those who opposed it as such nice things like “Saddam supporters” and " US haters" and “unpatriotistic” etc…
I don’t even mention the childisch immature behaviour of the US government itself towards its allies who didn’t applaud them for invade and occupy a sovereign nation for reasons that changed by the day and were never “reasons” to begin with.
I don’t know about 1941 so I can’t compare. And when NY is a bit over the shock, that doesn’t mean the rest of the US is. (And when I visit my friends in NY that tells me an other story but then they are very personally involved, as I am).
Sorry, but teenagers get their ideas somewhere. If their parents/educators aren’t sober on this issues because of their own flag waving, you create teenagers who belive the US is the Master of the World and the Universe and who believe that “taking a country” is something absolutely normal to talk about and to expect.
It is exactly that apathy that I witness since years (and which I detest since years because of its inherent hypocrisy), that makes it possible for the media to make and sustain such hypes and for people to let themselves dragged into it and carried away so easily.
I don’t know why you don’t see that. You can make apathic people buy and swallow about everything because of their mental lazyness. It is exactly what the US government did and still does, and this “Iraq” and “War on Terrorism” rethoric is not exactly a first case of mass influencing/mass misleading in your history.
I shall give you an easy example: Ask an US’er what he thinks of socialism and you shall get an astonishing twisted idea and perspective about the issue, rammed into their mind by decades of anti-communism propaganda. As if socialism and communism are exactly the same. (You can even find enough examples of that on this very message board).
An other result of that apathy and lazyness is the low % of US’ers - who like to picture themselves as “the most free” and whatever patriotistic boasting you can think of - that are even too lazy and apathic to actually enlist to vote and next go out of their home to actually vote.
Yet they are convinced that “you must support the president and the army” whenever a president many of them were too lazy to go voting for rears the war drum. They can be made believe everything or want to believe it because “the president knows” and “we are the Greatest Nation”. But please don’t ask us to go voting.
I’m sorry, but if you are taught to be as patriotistic like US’ers are, then also make sure that people are taught it is a necessity to take your responsibility and be patriotistic the day that you are asked to give your opinion on the nation’s leadership.
The more since that leadership can push the button to set the whole planet on fire.
Which is also something many US’ers seem to be well aware of and extremely proud on. Yet they still don’t find it needed to take responsibility for that leadership whenever it causes them the minor effort to leave their home and vote.
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And yet you manage to articulate the rest of your sentences fine.
Did I say “no” house were flattened? Are you familiar with the terms “some” and “most”? As in “some buildings were destroyed”. That is very different than you unsubstantiated hyperbole that “we leveled the country” or even a significant portion of it. Compare post-war Baghdad with post-war Berlin for a comparison.
A fact according to who? Your own biased and ignorant opinion of Americans? The fact is that most Americans are educated and intelligent.
It’s the day after the Pearl Harbor attack that brought the US into WWII, FYI.
Considering one of the towers partially fell on my office on my first day of work and my girlfriend works in the next building over, I would say that I am personally involved.
Somehow you don’t strike me as the type of person who hangs out with NYPD or FDNY folks so I hesitate to speculate what your friends are “involved” in but I could be wrong.
Anyhow, the rest of your posts are not worth responding to since you insist using gross exagerations and stereotypes to characterize a nation of nearly 280 million people from all walks of life. It is as innacurate as describing all Muslims as screeching madmen with ratty beards and turbines all ready to blow themselves up to kill the Great Satan and steal all our virgins.
Your view of America and Americans is highly skewed and you should really attempt to broaden it a little.
Well to address the first question, yes. People will always be enthusiastic about the War when it seems to benefit them.
No one marches in the streets of Paris when Russia goes off to fight China…so why would people be doing the same for America in Iraq?
But when a war becomes more large, thus more important, the fervor becomes such as well.
Actually, I am convinced that I don’t. But you don’t seem to be familiar with dyslexia at all and I don’t feel any urge to inform you on a matter on which you can get informed yourself very easily.
They are personally involved in the sense that their son/ husband → father of their grandchild/baby died in WTC II. Which is why I am involved since he was one of my closest friends since childhood.
I was also very personal involved when your war mongering president and government set up for flattening Afghanistan and were seeking support = facilities in surrounding nations and support in the EU in order to be albe to take off with their killing machines. That is why I know that your current president is an intellectual zero, among others.
You are free to consider your “involvement” more personal.
I see it as pointless to reply on the rest of our post since you are determined not to see my points.
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Surely we need some way to curb the “delta” population?
Alerbaran
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Aldebaran: Back. OFF. This is GD, not the Pit.
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Quite so. There is a thread in the Pit just for Aldebaran alone right now.
opened by…uh…me…
Not again!?
He isn’t going to change, you know… and he presents a … different… point of view, an extreme that, however, shows us what quite a few other people in the world think.
Not that I’m likely to agree with him on much - but it is sometimes quite intereting to cross swords with him, as it were. No point preaching to the choir!
If I can stand him, I think the rest of us should be able to as well… and when he crosses the line, well, that’s what the admins are here for (thanks!)
Dani
And I admit that sometimes I even like his sense of humor
Salaam aleikum Gaudere,
Not to discuss your authority, but did you also read this
To which the post you mentioned above is my reply?
If I answered out of line of the board rules, is that not because I was provoked first by a post that is in my opinion in its wording equally out of line of the board rules?
If it is not … Can you let me know why it is not while my reply seems to be. It would help me to get acquainted with the baord’s rule and its distintcions.
Thank you.
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NooneSpecial, since we are considered to be distant cousins in bloodline anyway, it is quite inevitable that you shall grow to like me. All my cousins do. They say…
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Aldebaran, New Iskander was making a…well, you know, one of those ‘joke’ things. For the humor impaired its called ‘funny’. Though I regret it deeply, I doubt even the Prez. will send in the blackhawks into Belgum air space to hunt down WeMAd (Weapons of Mass Alderbaran) and throw gooy pies at said deranged criminal. Its unfortunate, but I think the reality is, The Bush will just have to let this one slide. Thats why he’s not getting my vote btw. Oh sure, there are myriad other reasons…but THIS one is at the very top of the list!!
-XT