I had not checked ECF since Friday, almost 400 pages not even going to try and catch up.
Theres a ton of stuff if you missed 400 pages
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Theres a ton of stuff if you missed 400 pages
Some aren't entries.
Some are just friendly comments or members posting interesting facts.
Relax and lighten up.
It's a fun thread.
Aaaahaha, it seems that Google has had enough of me Googling non-stop. Damn bugger started to ask for Captcha verifications.
Oh well... it's time to cook some as well, so... see ya all later!
Now THAT is funny. I've never seen google use a Captcha. A search engine, with it's crawlers, wanting to verify that YOU are human is just DRIPPING with irony.
Maybe this will bring me luck today, since the hula hooping bear didn't work yesterday...
@SmokeyJoe . . .
The earliest known usage of vape
E-cigarettes were not commercially available until the 21st century, having been invented in China in 2003, yet the word vapeactually dates to the early 1980s. Its earliest known use is in an article, “Why do People Smoke” in New Society in 1983. The author, Rob Stepney, described a hypothetical device being explored at the time:
“an inhaler or ‘non-combustible’ cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but…delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour. (The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as vaping.)”
Thus, it seems that vaping the word existed before vaping the phenomenon. Oxford Dictionaries research indicates that while this sense of vape was in use in the1990s, as evidenced by posts within the UseNet bulletin board system, it wasn’t until around 2009 that it started to appear regularly in mainstream sources. (VAPE is named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2014 | OxfordWords blog )
In Addition . . . Posted December 18, 2007 (Guess by Whom
Also another resource . . .
Etymology of 'vape': slang - Etymology of 'vape' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Last - but surely not the least:
Vape and vaping aren’t new as abbreviations. The oldest I’ve found is from the early 1950s in the name of the doubly-abbreviated Vape-Sorber, a device for removing petrol and oil vapour from the air. There’s also the long-established electric vape mat, which releases insecticide. Some science-fiction writers have used vape for killing opponents with an advanced weapon that flashes them into smoke, while others (especially those writingStar Wars spin-offs) have found vape, helpfully rhyming with rape, to be a usefully euphemistic epithet. But Oxford Dictionaries say that the first use in the current sense is astonishingly early:
There have also been experiments with a “non-combustible” cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but again delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour. (The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as “vaping.”)
New Society, 28 Jul. 1983.
So the word existed long before the phenomenon. The evidence suggests that this sense began to appear in online bulletin boards in the 1990s but that it took until the rise of widely available e-cigarettes around 2009 for it to be encountered regularly in mainstream sources:
His study of 40 smokers is trying to determine how e-cigarettes deliver nicotine and whether they suppress withdrawal symptoms. I found “vaping” too, well, plastic to be enjoyable.
Independent on Saturday (South Africa); 16 May 2009. (World Wide Words: Vape )
BTW: In addition to "My" earlier post ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
I just found this in the same Oxford Dictionary article which I thought was interesting enough to post too:
You won! lol
And thats not even all of it by far when it comes to the term Vape...
LOL the grass here in South Florida is wet too
Thanks Nancy, I didn't think the sides mattered just remember the article saying to label them that way, maybe so you could remember when you switch them around.
looks like a workout and a halfMaybe this will bring me luck today, since the hula hooping bear didn't work yesterday...
WOOHOO
Congratulations Everyone!
Winners! Winners! Chicken Dinners!
Going to have to Order Popeyes to Fill those Excited Eyes
But leave a little room for Your Shiney New
Congratulations Everyone!
Winners! Winners! Chicken Dinners!
Going to have to Order Popeyes to Fill those Excited Eyes
But leave a little room for Your Shiney New
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maybe it's time to release the zombies...
Hula Hoop didn't work for me Yesterday either,,,,,,,, I'm gonna give Balancing Spinning Plates a shot todayMaybe this will bring me luck today, since the hula hooping bear didn't work yesterday...
I'm gonna try my luck with the dancing stickman today
Congratulations to the latest group of winners. May you enjoy the prize and please let us know how the tank / mod performs. Good luck to the rest of us, wishing our random numbers get chosen.
Good evening
Good evening
or a pair of gymnasts balancing one leg on one shoulder spining a cloth on each free hand and each foot haha which i saw friday nightHula Hoop didn't work for me Yesterday either,,,,,,,, I'm gonna give Balancing Spinning Plates a shot today
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