Saint Victor!

Anyway, Nauseous was a character in "Up Pompeii".

 

I once put 2/6d (also known as half a crown) each way on a horse with odds of 3 to 1 which shows just how much I know about gambling. I think it was some when around 1957 so half a crown was a night out at the cinema and fish and chips on the way home. I'd never been in a bookies before or since.

 

It should have the same rule as poisonous-poisoned. The toad is poisonous and licking it makes you poisoned. When someone says they're nauseous, it sounds like they mean they make others nauseated.

I don't like it when words become accepted just because no one realises they're structurally incorrect. "Octopi" is in the OED too, but I could write an essay on why that's not an acceptable word. Yes, I'm so arrogant I disagree with the dictionary.

 

Quite so.

 

For the record, I like our "Saint X" threads.

 

I agree with all of that. You have the makings of a staunch pedant, Joe.

 

The local newspaper of the time reported my great Uncles WW1 military funeral as "pathetic". There is a word whose meaning has changed over time through inappropriate usage.

 

And for the record, I'd rather not. Did someone say [or will say], the needs of the many are outweighed by the needs of the few, or the one..?

 

But licking a venomous snake would be ok as long as it didn't bite you.

 

Is "staunch pedant" another way of saying "cockwomble"?

Only joking, Joe.

 

Well I agree to a point. The OED does not include "octopi" though. In fact it goes into some detail on this:

 

Oh, maybe it's a different dictionary.

 

Spock? I've never watched a single episode of Star Trek but I think that was Spock.

 

Seems it was Kirk, to Spock:

[video=youtube;hYvlhHPLzCA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYvlhHPLzCA[/video]

I think this is something else that could be described as "disputed" as well

 

Indeed, there are several, maybe many, words where the original meaning has changed, even over the last 100 years or so. Off the top of my head, I can think of the example, intelligent and/or intelligence. Today, this word has become a description for someone who is bright, smart, clever, but all it does mean is that the person has knowledge or has gained knowledge, i.e. to be intelligent of.

Intelligence agencies are not clever. Their job is to gain knowledge.

 

Star Trek was the 60's phenomenon that Game of Thrones is now, and other iconic TV series have been. I'm not sure that anything has quite topped the impact ST has made through the years.

 

Something's wrong with the world when you get your philosophy from old sci-fi TV programmes. Though some brief research hints that they may have just paraphrased something Jeremy Bentham once said.

 

There's a lot of wisdom to be found in ostensibly trashy fiction. No-one has been able to sum up the concept of "with great power comes great responsibility" more succinctly than Uncle Ben (not that one).

 

I like his wisdom and his rice isn't bad either.

 

My memory is hazy and I'm not a huge Star Trek fan but I think that clip is from one of the films rather than the TV show. Kirk and the crew rescue Spock (or something) after he sacrifices himself to save the ship. I imagine Spock probably said "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" as he saved the ship.


EDIT: Yeah, thought so. Here's the clip from the previous film.

[video=youtube;Xa6c3OTr6yA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6c3OTr6yA[/video]