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Assassin anyone?

....... then there is 'Phal'

which translates roughly as, '............. 'a severe rectal burning sensation !'

This has gone so far

That I wonder where it will end up!

What does the verb 'to muder' mean, JR..... Perhaps from the German noun for 'mother'....? In which case, why a garotte?

I feel a Flanders and Swann coming on....

kerrensimmonds wrote:This has gone so far

That I wonder where it will end up!

What does the verb 'to muder' mean, JR..... Perhaps from the German noun for 'mother'....? In which case, why a garotte?

I feel a Flanders and Swann coming on....

Showing yer age Kerren.

My Mum and Dad told me about them !

kerrensimmonds wrote:
What does the verb 'to muder' mean, JR..... Perhaps from the German noun for 'mother'....? In which case, why a garotte?

I just had to look this up.

"mude" (with umlaut) is an adj meaning "tired". I'm looking at a large pocket dictionary, but it does have have every word to do with Motherhood (mutterschaft) in it!

We need a word from Barbara! Literally.

Love

Munch

Angela Woodford wrote:

kerrensimmonds wrote:
What does the verb 'to muder' mean, JR..... Perhaps from the German noun for 'mother'....? In which case, why a garotte?

I just had to look this up.

"mude" (with umlaut) is an adj meaning "tired". I'm looking at a large pocket dictionary, but it does have have every word to do with Motherhood (mutterschaft) in it!

We need a word from Barbara! Literally.

Love

Munch

Why d'you need large pockets to own a dictionary ?

But - - it's not my dictionary. I've never done German. The dictionary is a remnant from the education of one of my offspring. Probably my son's as the girls rarely had large pockets; they spoil the line of one's clothes. Ungemutlich!

Angela Woodford wrote: Ungemutlich!

Angela, you're not wearing your umlauts, shame on you.

englishangel asked: "Asssassins anyone?"

The name comes from an Islamic military order, whose popular Arabic name was hashishiyyin, (hence, assassins) supposedly because they carried out their attacks while under the influence of drugs. The original group numbered no more than a couple of hundred and were active between about 1090 AD and 1256 AD. The Assassins killed almost exclusively using the dagger and were masters of disguise, getting to know their victim and his habits and biding their time until the circumstances were exactly right. The motives were almost always religious and most of their victims were Muslims, but later in the period a splinter group led by Sinan ibn Salman ibn Muhammed (a.k.a. the Old Man of the Mountains) took to killing for money. They were feared throughout Western Europe and leaders such as the King of France, employed extra bodyguards to protect themselves from this hidden threat - hullo, hang on a minute, in the words of that great philosopher, Yogi Bear, I'm suffering from deja vu all over again!

Well, Englishangel, you did ask!

Yeah, but I want to know what happened to them in 1256...

A long way....
I wonder what Gemma thinks of all of this....?

Why 1256?

Why 1256?
Their base at Alamut (in present-day Iran) was taken and destroyed by the advancing Mongols, 15 December 1256. There is a theory that Osama bin Laden sees himself and his men as lineal successors - hence the deja vu bit!

Ajarn Philip wrote:

Angela Woodford wrote: Ungemutlich!

Angela, you're not wearing your umlauts, shame on you.

I had a useful notebook, next to the phone and computer, where I'd write any bits I'd otherwise forget. In it I wrote instructions for putting in accents. It's the thing that has totally disappeared in The Move, curse it! Not even in the final box to unpack labelled "Angela, Stuff, Nothing Important".

I was so so hoping that nobody would notice the absence of accents. I'm sorry, Philip! *blows kiss* very careless of me!

Angela Woodford wrote: I had a useful notebook,
In it I wrote instructions for putting in accents. It's the thing that has totally disappeared in The Move,

I was so so hoping that nobody would notice the absence of accents. I'm sorry, Philip! *blows kiss* very careless of me!

http://www.asciitable.com/
You want the extended ASCII character set at the bottom of the page:
press ALT and type in the three character number alongside the character you want.
Then release ALT key to show it on screen.

In Word ** click INSERT then SYMBOL
In this screen choose your font from Font on the left, second/third line, choose and click the character you want.

(** Copyright acknowledged but there seems to be no ASCII code for the symbol)

Interestingly only a few of the extended ASCII characters work in Word (ie you often can't use ALT and the number). However, ALT+167 and ALT + 255 do work. Why is ALT 255 of interest? In a security environment it is an actual character which, for example, you can use as a file name but it cannot be seen by third parties.
On web pages I insert search words on pages; the reader cannot see them but search engines like Google do and classify the page accordingly. This is done by colouring the letters with the same colour as the background. You might be able to do this in this forum by colouring your text very pale blue (though why you would want to do that I'm not sure!)

HTH