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reply to post by dollukka


Bingo....nice job, Dolluka. I mostly just screwed around with it, fumbling through various things I may use on vectors. I like your results quite nicely.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


Yours have nice details .. pls continue

reply to post by WWJFKD


Those top three is the same photo that I used, those are just at different sizes and different brightnesses. I came up with an idea at work this afternoon for how I could get that pic at a much better resolution, so I am going to work on it...

there is also a picture of JFK sitting in a chair reading that I liked too... I might see what I can do with that one, although I am not sure about it since he looks more relaxed then he does in the ones where he is in deep discussion with his brother... (ie: those first three photo's)

Give me several hours tonight to work on it, and hopefully by morning I will have you something that you will think is absolutely perfect!

Wish me luck!

I am getting it !!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!

Just a bit more time and this will be finished!!! WOOOHOOO!

reply to post by OpinionatedB


I am waiting with baited breath.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan

baited breath

I have often pondered what that really means. I mean, what bait do you use. What do you do when they take the bait. What do modern mouthwashes do to baited breath. Can you bait your breath after eating garlic.

Finally, how could we put the concept of baited breath into an Avatar?

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reply to post by pheonix358


phrases.org.uk...

Bated breath
Meaning

Breathing that is subdued because of some emotion or difficulty.
Origin

Which is it - bated or baited? We have baited hooks and baited traps, but bated - what's that? Bated doesn't even seem to be a real word, where else do you hear it? Having said that, 'baited breath' makes little sense either. How can breath be baited? With worms?

There seems little guidance in contemporary texts. Search in Google and you'll find about the same number of hits for 'baited breath' as 'bated breath'. In one of the best selling books of all time, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (whose publisher could surely have afforded the services of a proof-reader), we have:

"The whole common room listened with baited breath."

As so often is the case, help is found in the writings of the Bard. The earliest known citation of the phrase is from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 1596:

What should I say to you? Should I not say
'Hath a dog money? is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or
Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
You spurn'd me such a day; another time
You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies
I'll lend you thus much moneys'?

'Bated' is simply a shortened form of 'abated', meaning 'to bring down, lower or depress'. 'Abated breath' makes perfect sense and that's where the phrase comes from.

Geoffrey Taylor, in his little poem Cruel, Clever Cat, 1933, used the confusion over the spelling of the word to good comic effect:

Sally, having swallowed cheese
Directs down holes the scented breeze
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

reply to post by pheonix358


Damn you. You got me.

Ok, so i am misusing it. "bated breath", as in "abate", or to reduce. Meaning, "Ill hold my breath in anciticpation".

Well, i guess you learn something new every day!

www.straightdope.com...

As far as how you put it in the avatar...that above link mentions eating worms....i bet a zombie avatar could have baited breath.

bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by vkey08

 

Love it as always

OpinionatedB
reply to post by vkey08

 

ohhh... back surgery... sorry. DO NOT overdo anything right now just rest up, do the physical therapy exercises and rest more.

I am very sorry. Been there, done that... nothing sucks more.

Is your husband helping you? Make sure you have someone to help you with all the little things!

edit on 20-12-2013 by OpinionatedB because: (no reason given)

My husband died 6 1/2 years ago, it's just me and the girls and they are doing their best to help out

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


I assumed you really meant "baited" breath... as in mackerel. I wasn't sure why you'd want to advertise that, but...

I was going to send you some Scope for Christmas.

reply to post by vkey08


my mom lost 3 discs in her back about a year ago. She didn't have surgery, as the shots have worked miraculously. But she spent 3 months writhing in bed. It was so hard to see, and broke my heart.

Tonight she made pancakes for everyone, while i made the bacon and some homemade raspberry syrup. There is a future after recovery, i swear.

I hope your comes quickly.

reply to post by Zarniwoop


nah, moldy corn. We are baiting for wild hog.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan

Damn you. You got me.

Did not intend to get you, was just being humorous.

See my next post

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reply to post by pheonix358


me too

reply to post by WWJFKD

Breathing that is subdued because of some emotion or difficulty.

Origin

That was a truly wicked post!

As an Author (or an aspiring one) I tend to use both archaic and modernistic word forms.

It may be simply 'an error in ignorance' to use baited rather than the historically correct bated, which in itself is a bastardization of the term abated. The Bard should be shot at dawn for that one. On the other hand we need to accept that Language is a living entity, always growing and maturing as old branches die and fall off.

Take the word Wicked as the prime modern example.

Only a few short decades ago, wicked meant evil.

Now it can be used as a generalized non specific adjective or adverb.

I can go down this page looking at all the wicked Avatars. They are all awesomely wicked.

Mine is wicked because it is my next book cover, it was created by a very wickedly pretty Dollukka who is wickedly talented and who has a wicked son depicted in her wicked Avatar.

BFFT is also a wicked talent with a wicked Avatar who can be wickedly clever.

To sum up, the origins of words is a good place to start but Language has a life all its own and is a wicked canvas to paint words with.

Sorry, I am being a little wicked. I like being baited with bated breath.

Lol

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reply to post by pheonix358


Or - I hear "Wicked" is a wicked musical.

Used as both Noun and adjective in the same sentence

reply to post by pheonix358


you sound more like a Bostonian than an Australian in this post. Wicked cool! LOL

You should hear how those little sayings get butchered in the daily vernacular of those that live around me. Not that I can complain about it....it is typically people who speak at least 1 more language than me fluently (ok, i am not so bad with my Spanglish ). I figure my Spanish is at least as bad as their English. LOL

reply to post by WWJFKD


Throw a Wickedly in there and make it a Hat Trick.

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


That would be a wicked hat trick.

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