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"Gentleman" Jim McGullion, Fulham's one saving glory!

Started by Nick Bateman, December 21, 2015, 03:12:24 PM

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Black, White and Fred

Always makes me laugh when he shouts about a decision and then can't quite get the frog out of his throat. Just Croaks along until he can pause to have a good cough.
'A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

3rd Gen Fulham Fan since 1996

Twig

Quote from: Nick Bateman on December 21, 2015, 06:44:03 PM
Quote from: Neil D on December 21, 2015, 06:26:18 PM
Quote from: Nick Bateman on December 21, 2015, 03:12:24 PM

His vocal orations are the finest,
Without wishing to appear overly critical at this time of universal bonhomie, could I point out that orations are invariably 'vocal' and, thus, its use here is a tautology?

Excellent Neil.  Good to see fellow Fulham fans knowledgeable of vocabulary syntax.

I'm not aware there is any other form of syntax is there? Tautology again?

rogerpbackinMidEastUS

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Quote from: Neil D on December 21, 2015, 06:26:18 PM
Quote from: Nick Bateman on December 21, 2015, 03:12:24 PM

His vocal orations are the finest,


Without wishing to appear overly critical at this time of universal bonhomie, could I point out that orations are invariably 'vocal' and, thus, its use here is a tautology?


Aha, It's the use of the word invariably which tripped you up.
"almost invariably" would be appropriate if it were not a conjunctivitis and an
impossible dubloon of two words, which invariably should never be used together
as for example Andy Lonegan and Joe Lewis.

Tautology or the excavation of tauts from Egyptian diggings by tautologists must never be
confused with tort lawyers who are living parasites.
In this instance it would be easy to argue that the word 'ology' the study of any type of
knowledge (frequently sciences) is a suffix however it could be argued  that Ologolyology is
the study of ancient Robertson's jam labels.

Ologists therefore would refer to people who perform Ology eg: Signtologists who dig up old signs,  
Garbologists who collect rubbish or Latrineologists who study writing on toilet walls.
(Note the old song by Donnie Lonegan:  "My old mans a garbologist, he wears a garbologists hat"
Kilroy was a famous Latrineologists who no one ever met.

One of the biggest finds on a toilet wall, believed to date back to ancient Aztec times was the
enscription  "Telephono aNn   CC1  MPTG  FFC1 pour bon tiempo

Which leads me to my final point that Orations are not always entirely vocal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCNqjZ0oLKI
Frank Bridges masterpiece "Orations"

COYW
VERY DAFT AND A LOT DAFTER THAN I SEEM, SOMETIMES