Well this might be promising...

[Ken Blake]

Chris S. has written on 4/17/2013 3:34 PM:

I was a graduate student in EE from Sept 57 to Jan 59! What was your major?

PS: It's "Purdue". "Perdue" means "lost" in French.

"Perdue" is the French feminine "lost." The masculine is "perdu," as
in the famous Proust novel "À la recherche du temps perdu."

And "perdue" is also, of course, a brand of chicken.

 

[Ken Blake]

I have trouble understanding that sentence.

AFAICT, micturation means a desire or need to urinate.

Any assistance will be welcome

I thought it meant urination itself, rather than the desire or need.
Am I wrong?

 

[Ken Blake]

One of my favorite experiences (a few years ago now) was when I bought
10 items at $1.29 each, and the clerk wrote the numbers on a piece of
paper and computed the result by long multiplication:

1.29
x10

LOL!

But I'm glad to hear he got the correct answer.

Ken

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Perdue" is the French feminine "lost." The masculine is "perdu," as
in the famous Proust novel "À la recherche du temps perdu."

And "perdue" is also, of course, a brand of chicken.

Hmm. I had no idea about the chicken. In fact, when Chris S. made his
remark about thinking of chicken, I was lost (perdu, in my case).

 

[Chris S.]

I was graduated from High School in 1955. Trigonometry was in my third
year, 53-54, so it was almost exactly 50 years ago,

If I remember correctly, I also had a K&E.

I liked the K&E best. Probably why I always sold the Post back for Friday
beer.
It was much more mechanically staple.

I got outa HS in 56. Small town HS in Ohio. No trig there! Had to go to
Purdue!
Suffered mightily..

Chris

 

[Juan Wei]

Chris S. has written on 4/17/2013 7:39 PM:

OOPS! Fat fingers. Must have been thinking about chicken...

Got my BSEE in spring of '61.
Lived in Cary Hall Quad for the first 3 years...
Drank my beer at the Wagon Wheel in Lafayette.....

So we overlapped! I taught one course and was a lab assistant in a
couple of others. The course I taught was Intro to E-M Theory (or
something like that). If you had the worst instructor imaginable, that
was me! (I did improve substantially when I got to Rutgers )

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I thought it meant urination itself, rather than the desire or need.
Am I wrong?

Perhaps you're wrong, or I'm wrong, or we're both right. I can't believe
that we're both wrong

I didn't spend much time with the definition, so I could easily have
misread or miswritten it. It's a word that I believe I knew about in the
past, but I surely didn't when I read it above. I was more concerned
about having no conception of being able to understand John Williamson
meant, and the particulars of that word were of no help to this
American.

Here's where I looked: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/micturate

It looks like I conflated the current meaning with the etymology. That
entry, and several other dictionaries as well, show that you are right &
I am wrong.

 

[Juan Wei]

Ken Blake has written on 4/17/2013 8:06 PM:

"Perdue" is the French feminine "lost." The masculine is "perdu," as
in the famous Proust novel "À la recherche du temps perdu."

Now who's showing off!

And "perdue" is also, of course, a brand of chicken.

Actually, the brand of chicken is "Perdue"! ;-)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

What, no tax? LOL!!

Kudos to the clerk for actually KNOWING what long multiplication is

Thank you for that. Clearly you are more of a glass-half-full person
than I am

There must have been a tax, but your asking that taxes my memory.

(OK, I'm not proud of that pun, but I had to do it.)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

One of my favorite experiences (a few years ago now) was when I bought
10 items at $1.29 each, and the clerk wrote the numbers on a piece of
paper and computed the result by long multiplication:

1.29
x10

LOL!

But I'm glad to hear he got the correct answer.

Ken

Now that you bring it up, I'm not so sure

No, of course he did. If he had gotten it wrong, I can't imagine that I
would forget it...

 

[Chris S.]

Chris S. has written on 4/17/2013 7:39 PM:

So we overlapped! I taught one course and was a lab assistant in a
couple of others. The course I taught was Intro to E-M Theory (or
something like that). If you had the worst instructor imaginable, that
was me! (I did improve substantially when I got to Rutgers )

We've talked about this in the past I think. We did overlap! I think when
we were putting down that wannabe Engineer, Bob something.

Don't remember a course in Electro Magnetic theory, but coulda been?

Chris

 

[Wolf K]

Yes but it was soooo inaccurate!
The logarithm tables with 6 digits were much more precise.
;-)

First thing our teacher of slide-rule lore taught us: Precision is not
the same as accuracy.

 

[Juan Wei]

Chris S. has written on 4/17/2013 8:36 PM:

We've talked about this in the past I think. We did overlap! I think when
we were putting down that wannabe Engineer, Bob something.

Don't remember a course in Electro Magnetic theory, but coulda been?

I think it was a sophomore class.

 

[charlie]

I liked the K&E best. Probably why I always sold the Post back for
Friday beer.
It was much more mechanically staple.

I got outa HS in 56. Small town HS in Ohio. No trig there! Had to go to
Purdue!
Suffered mightily..

Chris

My father's K&E duplex log deci-trig rule had a mildly interesting history.
He was in college, and needed a decent slide rule (during the early part
of WWII) A friend of my grandfather worked for the Illinois Power
company, and was able to obtain a new slide rule for my father.
It was made in Germany, during WWII, and imported into the US, along
with some other "critical" items.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Ken.

The first time I heard the word (and had to look it up) was when Jim P.
mentioned it a year or two ago. All of us old guys with BPH know about it -
even if we don't know that word. ;^{

Bing's references leave me confused, but it seems that micturation is the
urge, while micturition is the act. Maybe.

(But I don't know how micturation relates to Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 or Blue or
9. <g> Maybe John W. will explain it to us.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8 Pro


"Ken Blake" wrote in message

I have trouble understanding that sentence.

AFAICT, micturation means a desire or need to urinate.

Any assistance will be welcome

I thought it meant urination itself, rather than the desire or need.
Am I wrong?

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

=> "Taking the mickey" ...

Sorry, I don't speak English[1].

Fortunately, Google does,or at least knows someone who does.

Thanks for the clarification (and it was a clarification, thanks to
Google's buddy, http://www.phrases.org.uk).

[1] Although I *do* speak a vaguely related language

We'uns talk Merkin.

 

[Tom Lake]

"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message

Per Nil:

It's probably totally changed by now but five years ago when my
granddaughter was in high school, she said everybody mocked anybody who
came to school with an iPad. Only iPods and iPhones were cool.

When I was in high school, they mocked me because I carried a slide
rule.
--
Crash

When I was in school, they mocked me because I carried an abacus!

Tom L

 

[Roy Smith]

One of my favorite experiences (a few years ago now) was when I bought
10 items at $1.29 each, and the clerk wrote the numbers on a piece of
paper and computed the result by long multiplication:

1.29
x10

I was at a fast food restaurant and asked the cashier what sizes
they offered their chicken nuggets in. He replied 6, 10, and 20.
So I said that I'd take half a dozen and he replied that they
didn't have then in that size. Makes you wonder sometimes...

 

[Ken Blake]

I was graduated from High School in 1955. Trigonometry was in my third
year, 53-54, so it was almost exactly 50 years ago,

Typo, of course, that should be "almost exactly 60 years ago."

 

[Glenn]

Typo, of course, that should be "almost exactly 60 years ago."

What do you mean typo, I graduated in 1956 so it was old,
old, old.