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It's emulsion paint on a man made fibre garment. I've tried just putting it through the washing machine but that didn't shift it.
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lilBuddha
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Careful the dyes even if the sweater is a natural fiber. Test any solvent in a hidden area.
IME, latex does not easily remove in the wash.
I would take the item to a professional.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Careful the dyes even if the sweater is a natural fiber. Test any solvent in a hidden area.
IME, latex does not easily remove in the wash.
I would take the item to a professional.
I'd be embarrassed taking it to a professional, it's a very manky old acrylic sweater that is so worn it's gone all bobbly. But it has great sentimental meaning to me and I wouldn't part with it for anything.
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Is there too much paint for you to be able to accept it as a sign that it has lived life to the full?
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This Stain Devil may help. I checked and it is suppose to work on both polyester and viscose.
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Originally posted by monkeylizard:
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
Comrades - if I was taking out a civil action against someone in the UK, preventing them from entering a house/district, or approaching/talking/communicating in any way with a person, I'd be looking to take out an injunction. (which I'm not, this is for a novel)
What would it be called in the USA?
Restraining Order and Order of Protection. Two different things. Both have the same purpose, but one has teeth and lives longer. An RO doesn't last a long time and violating it is nothing but a contempt of court fine. An OP lasts a year or more. It carries criminal penalties for violating it.
That's excellent. Thank you!
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I am doing the final bits and bobs of formatting and tidying up on my PhD thesis ready to take it for printing and binding tomorrow. So whilst this is not a life and death question, it is a sanity-saving question, and if I can't get it sorted out soon it might still become life and death ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
So, MS Word (grrrrr). In previous versions of the thesis I had separated out odd sections with a horizontal line, made by a few dashes (ie ------), which became a line across the whole page when I pressed enter. Despite leaving gaps above and below these lines, when I copy the text just as far as the end of the text and then paste it into a new document, the horizontal line appears as well. So I now have 3 or 4 random unwanted horizontal lines in my thesis which I cannot get rid of whatever I try. I am using MS Word 2003 (I think) on Windows XP.
I have tried everything I can think of in the format, view, edit and tools menus but nothing gets rid of those bastard lines. At one point one of them seemed to disappear and I jubilantly hit save, but it has since reappeared in the same place despite me not reinserting the line. I am giving up for now and if all else fails I shall blitz them with tippex, but surely there must be a more techy solution? All help gratefully received, thank you!
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BroJames I think I love you - link 2 (the one about removing borders and shading) did the trick. You are utterly wonderful ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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This is going by memory and is technically not a good fix but nobody will notice.
Right click on the line, select properties and either change the width to "none" or the colour to "white"
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Why does the price or petrol continue to rise when there is a global recession meaning people are commuting and using their car less and we have more fuel-efficient cars?
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Emerging nations.
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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
BroJames I think I love you
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I have a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in which he says Rudolf's nose glowed "like a hot razzie". What's a hot razzie? Google won't tell me.
(ps kids think it's hilarious that Rudolf is "smokin' a cigar all day"! great message for kids!)
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Razzie means raspberry. Perhaps it was a trendy drink back in ye-olden days. The hot toddie of its time. Just a guess.
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Yeah, that's as far as I could guess too, monkeylizard.
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There was an animated Christmas Carol (was it the one with Mr. Magoo?) where Tiny Tim sings about "razzleberry dressing".
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I wonder if "hot razzie" could be this:
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Red Hot Dollars were introduced by the Heide Candy Company in either 1925 or 1926. They were round pieces of gum candy bearing the dollar sign imprint. The "red hot" referred to a popular slang expression of the times - something that was new, up to date and very popular was considered "red hot." The name has nothing to do with the flavor which was (and still is) raspberry. The name was later changed to Red Raspberry Dollars to better reflect the actual taste.
The color works, anyway....
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Occasionally, song lyrics mean absolutely nothing.
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Occasionally, song lyrics mean absolutely nothing.
Well, that's really true, isn't it? ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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I think it's a lid too, at least that's what it seems to be called on an upright when it's the only one that matters. (There is also a sound lid on the top of an upright piano, but in my experience it's never opened because it's always covered with piles of music!) I suppose on a grand you work out which one's meant by the context.
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I think it's the "fall" or "fall board". The lock that keeps jammy fingers of the keyboard is the "fall lock" ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Just an interesting question on my part. I have wide-ish feet 4E, and have not bought shoes off the rack for a few decades (One of the advantages of being in a wheelchair is that shoes last forever)
My "dress shoes" are beginning to look tacky. I was looking at a pair in a store which I quite like - they have velcro closings, and I have been informed that they are quite wide for a standard shoe.
So tell me, O shipmates, what width are standard off-the-rack shoes? The clerk couldn't help.
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Leaf
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I thought the standard width for shoes was "C" - "A" and "B" being on the continuum for narrower feet, "D" and upward on the continuum for wider feet.
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Huia
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Does anyone know where the expression "fell pregnant" originated? For some reason it annoys me intensely - I think it's because I associate it in my mind with people being seen as fallen.
I know it may have no connection whatsoever, but daoes anyome know, or can you help me to a useful website?
Huia
[ 16. December 2010, 17:59: Message edited by: Huia ]
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Fall pregnant has always made sense. It is a take on the verb 'to befall' - to happen to [someone]
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lilBuddha
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Standard for Shoe width for men is D and women B, I am fairly certain.
Not that it is more than a rough guide. Deuced things vary so much it is frustrating.
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Drifting Star
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For women in the UK the standard width is definitely not B. I suspect it varies between C and D depending on the shoe manufacturer.
[ETA That's probably not massively interesting to PeteC anyway...]
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Originally posted by Huia:
Does anyone know where the expression "fell pregnant" originated? For some reason it annoys me intensely - I think it's because I associate it in my mind with people being seen as fallen.
Annoys me too because it implies people get pregnant by accident.
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Jengie jon
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Ok what essential piece of news have I missed?
After years when I rarely heard of rough sleepers, this winter there seems to be a number of them (three separate reports to date). Has something changed and I not spotted it? Or do they just appear when we have a Conservative government?
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Possibly, although in Leeds we are currently on a cold-weather protocol so there are (allegedly) no rough sleepers to be found out on the streets.
I suspect the debate about rough sleepers got binned in favour of dealing with drugs and criminal justice.
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Fall pregnant has always made sense. It is a take on the verb 'to befall' - to happen to [someone]
Thanks Pete.
I still don't like it as it sounds like something that just happens to a woman, rather than her having any active involvement.
I also take Ken's point about it sounding accidental, although I suppose historically it is something over which a vast number of women didn't have a lot of control.
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Originally posted by Huia:
I still don't like it as it sounds like something that just happens to a woman, rather than her having any active involvement.
You also fall ill, or fall asleep or fall to thinking of the old days. It just indicates a change of state.
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Or do they just appear when we have a Conservative government?
That would be the lesson of experience.
Also unemployment has been rising for years, yet house prices are still rising - in real terms they are perhaps four or five times higher than they were in the 1970s when mass unemployment came back - so we'd expect a housing crisis.
The only solution to the inevitable housing crisis is for prices to fall to a quarter of what they are now. Which would wipe vast quantities of capital out of millions of people (including me)
Essentially British housing market is in that old ethical dilemma - would it be right for ten people to imprison and torture one innocent person in order to improve their own lives slightly? (If not ten a hundred? A million?)
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Originally posted by Huia:
... I suppose historically it is something over which a vast number of women didn't have a lot of control.
But somebody still had to do something.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
You also fall ill, or fall asleep...
That's the exact point. Those are involuntary or unconscious things (though you can make them more or less likely). No-one can choose to go to sleep. You just have to wait around until it happens.
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But you could be having all the (non-contraceptived) sex you like, you still don't have control over whether or not the actual conception occurs. So, similarly, you have to wait around to find out if it's happening.
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by Huia:
... I suppose historically it is something over which a vast number of women didn't have a lot of control.
But somebody still had to do something.
And for most of history that somebody was male and the woman was often 'done to' rather than 'doing'. Seduction, rape, 'wifely duty' - whatever the excuse, the woman is the one who ends up pregnant when she perhaps really didn't want to be.
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Originally posted by jlg:
And for most of history that somebody was male and the woman was often 'done to' rather than 'doing'. Seduction, rape, 'wifely duty' - whatever the excuse, the woman is the one who ends up pregnant when she perhaps really didn't want to be.
I almost choked on my dinner one evening at a diner-type restaurant in the Land of Comet. Two men were sitting in the booth behind me grumbling about their finances. One complained that "The wife went and got herself pregnant."
How she managed this on her own I don't know, but it was obviously done just to annoy him.
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Can someone please explain why Norman St. John-Stevas is pronounced:
"Sinjun"-Stevas
Was it a left-over from his youth?
Is it a class/breeding thing?
Did it come from Norman-French "Saint Jean"?
Another one is, should I say "Fanshaw" for Featherstone-Haugh.
Any etymographers in the house?
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I've always thought "St. John" as a name was pronounced "Sinjun." It seems a pretty natural contraction in English and it's certainly not unique to him
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I have always heard 'Fister' (or perhaps 'Fisterer') used as the pronounciation for Feathersone-Haugh, but I can see that 'Fanshaw' would be equally logical (if logic enters into it at all!)
Along the same lines, am I correct that St Mary's, Rotherhithe is called 'Redriff'? (I don't trust my source.)
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Originally posted by NJA:
Can someone please explain why Norman St. John-Stevas is pronounced:
"Sinjun"-Stevas
Was it a left-over from his youth?
Is it a class/breeding thing?
Did it come from Norman-French "Saint Jean"?
Another one is, should I say "Fanshaw" for Featherstone-Haugh.
Any etymographers in the house?
I notice that Wiki has a page on 'counterintuitive pronunciation' issues, which may be helpful. Or not. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Originally posted by Huia:
Does anyone know where the expression "fell pregnant" originated? For some reason it annoys me intensely - I think it's because I associate it in my mind with people being seen as fallen.
I know it may have no connection whatsoever, but daoes anyome know, or can you help me to a useful website?
Huia
French's got this as well, in 'tomber enceinte'. I wonder if there's a Latin equivalent?
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
I notice that Wiki has a page on 'counterintuitive pronunciation' issues, which may be helpful. Or not.
Thanks, I thought of showing that to friends from abroad but I can't think of a more boring way of learning English.
If someone wrote a book explaining how some of these alternatives came about, that would be interesting.
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On the subject of fibres, I'm told that linen has very low electorstatic charge emission compared to other fibres, synthetic ones especially, can anyone explain why
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Originally posted by georgiaboy:
Along the same lines, am I correct that St Mary's, Rotherhithe is called 'Redriff'? (I don't trust my source.)
Friend of mine was organist there; he pronounced it as you would expect. But he didn't live there, so the real locals might say it Redriff. (Local pronunciations keep outsiders - um - out )
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Originally posted by Wesley J:
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Originally posted by Huia:
Does anyone know where the expression "fell pregnant" originated? For some reason it annoys me intensely - I think it's because I associate it in my mind with people being seen as fallen.
I know it may have no connection whatsoever, but daoes anyome know, or can you help me to a useful website?
Huia
French's got this as well, in 'tomber enceinte'. I wonder if there's a Latin equivalent?
Could be - Spanish is caer embarazada ...
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Originally posted by georgiaboy:
Along the same lines, am I correct that St Mary's, Rotherhithe is called 'Redriff'? (I don't trust my source.)
Never heard that. Most people I've met from Rotherhithe pronounce it "Rovrive"
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