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originally posted by: cimmerius
Since “5 by 5” seems to get repeated mention, I wondered what it meant. Don’t know if it has been mentioned before. No links since it isn’t worth the trouble.
“The phrase "five by five" is used several times in the movie Event Horizon to refer to a ship being fully operational. In the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith used the phrase "Five by Five." No one in the show knew what she meant by this.”
“Five by five is a radio communications expression that means 'loud and clear'. ... “
“Five by five (disambiguation) — Five by five may refer to: a phrase used in radio communication to mean I understand you perfectly.”
“Five by five by extension has come to mean "I understand you perfectly" in situations other than radio communication, the way Loud and Clear entered slang, post-WW2.”
These are all from the initial returns page of a yandex.com search.
I remembered the phrase from the Buffy show years ago, so I thought it might have a specific meaning. Was there any different conclusion with respect to this thread? “fully operational” might be relevant.
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From the 1942 Universal Picture "Behind the Eight Ball", starring The Ritz Brothers, Carol Bruce and Sonny Dunham. The song title "Mister Five By Five" was a reference to the famous Oklahoma blues and jazz singer Jimmy Rushing (who played with Count Basie).
originally posted by: Justoneman
Nothing happens if someone doesn't act.
In the Aarne–Thompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped together as type 709, Snow White. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia", "Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig", "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree",[4] "The Young Slave", and "La petite Toute-Belle".
At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony."
Snow White's father, the king, marries again. His new wife is a very beautiful, but also vain and wicked woman who practices witchcraft. The new queen possesses a magic mirror
Eventually, the angry queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her.
After seeing the tears in the princess's eyes, the huntsman reluctantly agrees to spare Snow White and brings the queen the heart of an animal instead.
a prince stumbles upon a seemingly-dead Snow White lying in her glass coffin during a hunting trip.
As a punishment for the attempted murder of Snow White, the prince orders the Queen to wear a pair of red-hot iron slippers and to dance in them until she drops dead.
I just remember that I used to work with an evil incapable cow with that surname, so it rang a bell.
originally posted by: Nevercompromise
Ok, not related to your post other than you say you are Welsh.
I mentioned to Rel about the Paleo Hebrew Pictographs and the ancient Hebrew language.
It is said today that the last 2 people's that speak ancient Hebrew in it's closest dialect are the Welsh, and the Cherokee.
dnaconsultants.com...
The Cherokee do not have DNA that matchup with any other American Indian tribe.
Their closest DNA match to any people are the Scottish.
I suspect their link to the Scots are the same as yours.
The Cherokee syllabary is here
www.nativehistoryassociation.org...
I have listened to the Cherokee songs and can hear almost all vowels are "a". But I cannot hear it in the Welsh and it confuses me.
I would like your opinion on hearing Cherokee if you hear it.
a reply to: angelchemuel
The first reports of what would come to be known as the Mandan tribe began to trickle out from French explorers in the region of the Missouri River in present-day North and South Dakota in the early 1700s. These natives were said to have rather fair skin and to have red or blonde hair and blue or grey eyes, and indeed especially the women were purportedly so Nordic in appearance that if it were not for their clothing they were said to be nearly indistinguishable from whites. In 1738, the French Canadian trader Sieur de la Verendrye made the first official outside contact with the Mandan and described them as living in 9 villages at a tributary of the Missouri river called the Heart River, and noted that they also exhibited customs that were decidedly more European than the neighboring tribes.
Less speculatively, more recent analysis of a portion of the wall by forensic geologist Scott Wolter and Dr. John Geissman in 2013 determined that the feature was made via “fluid sand at depth rising up through fractures of the overlying hardened clay…” and, “What looked like mortar between the stone blocks was actually sandy-clay from the surrounding rock that had squeezed between blocks.”
Wolter and Geissman did note, however, that the process was “unique to say the least. . . . What was truly amazing is how the fractures formed within sandstone . . made it look just like stone blocks in a masonry wall.” But ultimately, Wolter and Geissman were convinced it was natural by, among other things, the fact that when core samples were taken, all of the rocks were magnetized in such a way as to strongly indicate they were formed in place, rather than made and put there.
Shelton, however, has an answer for that. According to him, the ancient people could have used “cast instead of cut stone,” meaning a form of prehistoric cement that was formed into blocks. In support, Shelton noted that other megalithic sites across the ancient world were similarly constructed of cast stone. However, it is difficult to find other authorities in the field who concur with Shelton’s opinion. Rather, most agree with Gleissman and many other’s assessment of the rock wall being a natural phenomenon.
originally posted by: hangedman13
a reply to: Justoneman
That is a tale I haven't heard in a long time. I remember reading about a "white" tribe in the states predating the colonization. I won't rule it out since the history of the America's is spotty at best. Funny thing, I read that in an older book about mysteries and there seems to be a great many "forgotten" conspiracies that can be found in older books.
Character Analysis of Klaus : Persons with the name Klaus, are the mediators, peacemakers and the helpers of the world. They have the talent and ability to work well with others and are co-operative, courteous and very considerate towards others. In many ways they are dependent upon others and seem to function best when in a partnership or in a form of group activity.
Some 2,500 people took off their clothes on Saturday to pose for U.S. photographic artist Spencer Tunick at Sydney's Bondi Beach in an effort to raise awareness about skin cancer.
Tunick, known for staging mass nude photo shoots at world landmarks, used a megaphone to direct attendees into several poses on the beach before many took a naked dip in the ocean.
The New York-based artist collaborated with a charity on the naked art installation in a bid to raise awareness about melanoma, Australia's fourth most common form of cancer.
In shrieks and lamentations they complain,
And even the Power Divine itself blaspheme.
I understood[254] that to this mode of pain
Are doomed the sinners of the carnal kind,
Who o’er their reason let their impulse reign.
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