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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
My Google news thingy brought to my attention Britney Spears got a major haircut. And she still has hair. She didn't shave it again. Why is it a story?
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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Staff member
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Just came across this story about a ghost boat washing up in the Marshall Islands, with 1400 pounds of cocaine on board.

Marshall Islands cocaine: Ghost boat carrying 1,400 pounds of drugs washes up on remote Pacific island - CNN

(CNN)A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers -- but loaded with around 1,430 pounds (649 kg) of cocaine.

The 18-foot (5.4-meter) fiberglass vessel was discovered on a beach at Ailuk Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of coral atolls and volcanic islands between the Philippines and Hawaii.

The cocaine came sealed and wrapped in blocks, according to the Marshall Islands police, who then collected and destroyed most of the packages by burning them in an incinerator. Photos of the blocks show stained, yellowing plastic, stamped with a red logo that bears the letters "KW."

One resident on Ailuk, which is home to around 400 people, discovered the boat last week, according to CNN affiliate Radio New Zealand. The vessel was too heavy for residents to lift onto the beach -- so they investigated the inside, where a large compartment under the deck revealed the bricks of cocaine.
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The residents notified the authorities, and police brought the drugs back to the capital of Majuro, on another island. This week, police brought the cocaine to the incinerator; only 4.4 pounds (2 kg) were saved for the US Drug Enforcement Agency to conduct laboratory analysis, authorities said.

In total, the haul is worth an estimated $80 million, according to RNZ -- and is the largest amount of cocaine to ever wash onto the Marshall Islands.

Authorities said they believed the boat had drifted over from South or Central America, and could have been at sea for one or two years.
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It must have drifted quite a ways to get there.

I guess the ghosts didn't want it anymore.
 
Wu Wei

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
the weather folks LIED!!!!!!
we were on the line and we were forcast to get between 5 to 18 inches of snow......at 7:30 this morning, it was still snowing, and we had TWENTY FOUR FREAKING INCHES
 
sun rise

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
ChristineM said:
Is that an Americaneese for a
English mumbling/rabbiting/rambling?
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Jibber-jabber is a coupling of "jibber" and "jabber", which are themselves variants of the same onomatopoeic verb meaning "To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter, talk nonsense". "Jibber" (spelt "gibber") was used by Shakespeare; "jabber" is recorded in 1499. (There are a number of similar words in English all meanig much the same thing - e.g. gabble, yabber, gab, jabble.) The earliest sighting of "jibber-jabber" recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1922, but that doesn't mean that was "the year it first appeared". Given English-speakers' love of reduplicated words (e.g. helter-skelter, hanky-panky, roly-poly, willy-nilly, hocus-pocus), coupling "jibber" and "jabber" would have been a natural formation at any time in the last 400 years, and it may have been commonplace for many years before it finally appeared in print. (VSD)

Yes, the OED is rather out of date on that one. Jibber-jabber appeared in Abel Boyer's 1751 English/French Dictionary - defined as 'to speak gibberish'.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/61/messages/90.html
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
sun rise said:
Jibber-jabber is a coupling of "jibber" and "jabber", which are themselves variants of the same onomatopoeic verb meaning "To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter, talk nonsense". "Jibber" (spelt "gibber") was used by Shakespeare; "jabber" is recorded in 1499. (There are a number of similar words in English all meanig much the same thing - e.g. gabble, yabber, gab, jabble.) The earliest sighting of "jibber-jabber" recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1922, but that doesn't mean that was "the year it first appeared". Given English-speakers' love of reduplicated words (e.g. helter-skelter, hanky-panky, roly-poly, willy-nilly, hocus-pocus), coupling "jibber" and "jabber" would have been a natural formation at any time in the last 400 years, and it may have been commonplace for many years before it finally appeared in print. (VSD)

Yes, the OED is rather out of date on that one. Jibber-jabber appeared in Abel Boyer's 1751 English/French Dictionary - defined as 'to speak gibberish'.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/61/messages/90.html
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Well. Ya live and learn. Ive heard jabber ("stop yer jabbering") in that context a time or few but never together with jibber which is a new one for me.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I don't listen to metal as much as I used to, but watching Dethkloks confirms the metal is still a part of me, and I am still a metalhead.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I wish I could believe black people can't be racist, because then it means my animosity towards certain religions and religious types isn't really much of an issue.
 
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