This stupid fucker asked you to repeat yourself because you are in a loud bar, I can hear the music very clearly, and you insist on speaking at a volume befitting a nunnery... the fact that you are speaking with what sounds like a southern accent on a cell phone with poor reception isn't helping matters. Based on the conversation, or what little of it I relayed before you hung up on me for asking you to repeat one sentence, you are a complete jackass to your deaf friend to begin with... my one regret in this whole saga is that I am not allowed to relay (hearing user is a complete royal douchebag, you should cut off ties with him)... closest I can come is relaying (sounds annoyed), (sounds irritated), (sounds impatient), all three were used... that is the closest I can come to outright saying it... because well, he did sound annoyed, irritated, and impatient.
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Definitions of nunnery on the Web:
* the convent of a community of nuns
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* a place of residence for nuns; (obsolete) a brothel
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nunnery
* an establishment of nuns
medievalwriting.50megs.com/churchglossary/glossaryn.htm
* A collection of buildings for women who have devoted themselves to a religious life (nuns).
www.engagingplaces.org.uk/resources/art64210
* A building where nuns live.
myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/view_glossary_563_N.html
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Quoth Hanzoku View PostHeh, that's a new one. I wonder how a nunnery went from brothel -> living places for nuns.
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Quoth draco664 View PostI suspect that it was the other way round. It probably always referred to nuns' living quarters, and brothels were given the name as a euphamism, which then fell out of use.
(Why, yes, I'm a history geek, why do you ask? I'm also a recovering catholic who once studied to become a nun.)
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Get thee to a nunnery..."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth morgana View PostThis is correct. Nunnery = brothel is tudor/elizabethan slang.
I still use old slang.....it confuses people
Plus insulting people in old/middle English they usually don't realize you've just insulted themHonestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes
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Quoth jackfaire View PostI do not bite my thumb at you sir but I do bite my thumb sir.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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All this talk about brothels and bordellos has me wondering if smileyeagle has had a relay call to one of those 900 numbers? Or are calls to 900 numbers even allowed? (A 900 number in the US had a fee associated with it, and they're not all sex lines.)"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Nope, no 900 calls allowed... we aint picking up the bill thank you very much.
That said, I have before relayed phone sex between people in a couple... one time a gay couple... oh, now THAT was fun.
It is hilarious listening to someone relaying phone sex, since we use ASR software to dictate the hearing user's side of the conversation you can hear both sides of the conversation... and the relay operator will go from being all into it (at the caller's request, of course ) to being all monotone and somber for the ASRLast edited by smileyeagle1021; 11-19-2009, 04:20 AM.If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song
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