This reminds me of a cartoon I saw once. There were two disembodied hands at a desk, the left is juggling with a few balls, and the right has a piece of paper on which it was scrawling in angry writing "tonight the left hand gets it. die die DIE!"
It comes from old greek. phil- meaning love of, pasion for, interest in etc, anthropic - of man.
So it means something like "love of humankind" (generally).
Words with similar bits in are like necro-philia, (love of dead things) or the ghastly "X-phile". Also things like anthropo-morphic (people-shaped)./learning greek, have too much time on hands.
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Ak, it's like aol chats... only slightly worse.
Except they like Lynx.
This reminds me of a cartoon I saw once.
There were two disembodied hands at a desk, the left is juggling with a few balls, and the right has a piece of paper on which it was scrawling in angry writing "tonight the left hand gets it. die die DIE!"
They used MIDI! For the title sequence. MIDI I tell you!
ouch.
They haven't got our inside leg measurements yet.
Actually, I'd better check...
It comes from old greek.
/learning greek, have too much time on hands.
phil- meaning love of, pasion for, interest in etc, anthropic - of man.
So it means something like "love of humankind" (generally).
Words with similar bits in are like necro-philia, (love of dead things) or the ghastly "X-phile".
Also things like anthropo-morphic (people-shaped).
If we can't use AdBlock without breaking a social contract, are we similarly breaking a social contract by filtering our e-mails for spam?
The broadcasters want us to stay tuned all the time also. Do I break a social contract by switching off the TV?
Oh, my spyware handles that for me!
What operating system do you see marvin running?
What sort of auience were you aiming at? Fans, non-fans, British, American, et cetera?
Also, the "beware of the leopard" adds an element of the unusual or unexpected, which just makes it more amusing.
Are you as big a Apple mac fan as Douglas?