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sdotyam Started conversation Jun 13, 2003
that has been invented for something that doesn`t exist and never has.
I`ll start you off: Telepathy or Telepathic.
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Ommigosh Posted Jun 13, 2003
There must be loads
Utopia, phlogiston, Philospher's stone, democracy, my pay rise
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sdotyam Posted Jun 13, 2003
Allow: Philosophers stone, Phlogiston.
Not Allow: Utopia, Democracy, Pay rise, New Labour.
Any more?
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HarpoNotMarx (((2*1)^6)-6-(2*8)=42 Posted Jun 13, 2003
You can't disallow New Labour
It's just another way of saying Old Tory, and slightly more right wing!
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sdotyam Posted Jun 13, 2003
New labour is a label that describes a `real thing`. You may not agree its very different to some other real thing but that does not invalidate its existence.
Yes. Thank-you Sarah for vampire,werewolf,ghost. All allowed.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Jun 13, 2003
Valhalla?
For that matter, any number of place names from fiction. Hogwarts, Pern, Middle Earth, Ambridge, Walford, etc.
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sdotyam Posted Jun 13, 2003
Valhalla is o.k. but strange you didn`t mention `Heaven`?
However, lets leave names from fictional works aside as we `know` they are just that- fictional. Thinking more along the lines of words used as if they describe `real` things.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Jun 13, 2003
I steered clear of Heaven, Hell, God, etc. as they are very much debatable. I don't think there are any followers of ancient Norse paganism on h2g2, though, so Valhalla seemed reasonable.
Vulcan, the planet that was once thought to have an orbit within that of Mercury.
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Ythika the purple giraffe - Minister for Unusual Musical Instruments Posted Jun 14, 2003
Yeti, Yowie, poltergeist
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Ythika the purple giraffe - Minister for Unusual Musical Instruments Posted Jun 18, 2003
Sorry for the delay - a Yowie is an Australian "mythic" bush creature possibly a relative of Bigfoot and the Yeti. We even have a Tim, The Yowie Man who has changed his name by deed poll who goes out to look for yowies and ghost etc. I'm pretty sure he is trying to debunk them.
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