The Cellar - July 5, 2012 - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

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classicman

07-06-2012 11:46 PM

the shadow of a single atom

Flint

07-06-2012 11:51 PM

tenterhooks?

DanaC

07-07-2012 05:12 AM

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on tenterhooks
anxiously waiting for news about someone or something

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of tenterhook (a hook that holds cloth that is stretched to dry), suggesting that someone's emotions are tightly stretched like a piece of cloth held by tenterhooks

Trilby

07-07-2012 07:26 AM

I thought it was that nasty thing in the desert in Star wars.

CaliforniaMama

07-07-2012 09:06 AM

Thanks for playing along ~ you guys came up with some great answers.

The answer is: It IS a sunspot!!!!

It is super detailed sunspot called Big Bear's Sunspot because it was seen from Big Bear Solar Observatory in California.

More here.

xoxoxoBruce

07-07-2012 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 818841)

tenterhooks?

Here we say tenderhooks (tender-hooks, tender hooks), which is a corruption of tenterhooks the Brits use.

edit - spell check wanted to change tenderhooks to tenterhooks.

Sundae

07-07-2012 02:31 PM

You say tidbits too.

BigV	07-10-2012 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama (Post 818865)

so.

neither animal nor mineral nor vegetable. you trickster you.

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