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<span class="marker">Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''</span>
'''Jiminy Cricket'''<br />
a character from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ Pinocchio]
==Endnote 324==
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]
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'''moon'''<br />
to spend time idly
'''camphonated'''<br />
more like "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor
==Endnote 324a==
'''loamy'''<br />
consisting of rich, arable soil
[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]
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'''whorl'''<br />
a circular arrangement
'''funiculi'''<br />
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord
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'''uncolloped'''<br />
having no fat
'''latissimal'''<br />
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles
'''Nordicular'''<br />
i.e., Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed
'''armamentarium'''<br />
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments
'''callow'''<br />
immature; inexperienced
'''dinkle'''<br />
a euphemism for "penis"
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'''three-setter'''<br />
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than five, because one player has gone up 3 to 0
'''cavalier'''<br />
disdainful; unceremonious
'''burr'''<br />
here used to mean "irritant"
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'''canvas restraint-wrap'''<br />
straitjacket
'''catgut'''<br />
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').
'''"...his late great Da's..."'''<br />
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.
'''rheumy'''<br />
full of thin mucous
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'''Bedouins'''<br />
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant
'''buggered'''<br />
being on the receiving end of anal sex
'''b/w'''<br />
Black and white
'''J. Gleason'''<br />
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.
'''Zoltan'''<br />
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"
'''cretinous'''<br />
stupid
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==Endnote 324f==
'''Orly'''<br />
one of the airports serving Paris
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'''redoubted'''<br />
formidable
'''"...When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom..."'''<br />
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]
'''Modus Tollens'''<br />
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"
'''Nucleic acids'''<br />
DNA and RNA
'''A and G, T and C'''<br />
adenine and guanine, thymine and cytosine, the compounds that make up DNA
'''Csíkszentmihályi'''<br />
The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.
'''lemma'''<br />
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof
'''Boardman MN'''<br />
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities
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'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."'''<br />
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician.
'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."'''<br />
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.
'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."'''<br />
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.
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'''jury-rigged'''<br />
a corruption of "jerry-rigged" (a pejorative term about Germans), which basically means rigged in a makeshift, ad hod manner
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'''castigations'''<br />
criticisms; reprimands
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'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."'''<br />
part of an old Irish blessing
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'''incubus'''<br />
a male demon that seduces female humans
'''glycerine'''<br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine glycerol]
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