it's 1918 in bologna
Daniel Karrenberg
daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net
Thu Jul 10 10:31:52 UTC 2003
On 10.07 12:19, Randy Bush wrote:
> ...
>
> note the 37.xxxx address. cute, eh? and i thought omphaloskepsis
> was greek!
Someone is going to have fun when tat part of 37/8 gets assigned and used.
Daniel
>From http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-omp1.htm :
OMPHALOSKEPSISI pronunciation
Contemplating one's navel as an aid to meditation.
This word seems to be relatively new, at least the Merriam-Webster
Word of the Day column claims it to have been invented only in the
1920s. It turns up in only a few dictionaries and seems to be a word
that survives more for the chance to show off one's erudition than as
a real aid to communication. ....
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