Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Jonathan Lighter]

Palisade. It's like Kool-Aid for Royals.

JL


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> Those pictures are worth a thousand words! Wiktionary's first definition (
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palisade) is basically a long stake in the
> ground and pointed at the top. I was not getting it!
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> On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
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> > Torbert is correct:
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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> >> From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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> >> I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
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> >> I'm wrong.
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> >> Torbert
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> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
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> >>> Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
> >>> Pacific
> >>> Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
> >>> the
> >>> last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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