Citizenship

Xenon, Warrior Princess and xenophone would probably be better punchlines for a joke about xenophobia. I just took too many chemistry classes and so instead thought of Xenon the element with the symbol Xe. It is a colorless, dense, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Noble gases are special ... kind of noble. They don't interact with common run of the mill elements or chemicals.

 

Uh, not really. That's Xena, warrior princess. Lucy Lawless. I liked her!
From Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).
Exactly as you wrote in your correct definition of xenophobia.

 

Neither do I, Bill. Why should I? I just shun 'em and walk past with my nose in the air. I make sure they know their place. Breeding, y'know.

 

Xena was neutered?? I had no idea!

 

She probably drives a Neon though.

 

I'm more focused on noble grapes. I still have not ordered my vvines for my back yard vineyard. Now I'm hopping to install my vines late next spring. I was thinking Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The grower at my favorite local vineyard recommended I begin with Peteit Verdot and Peteit Syrah. So that's the plan for now. At some point I will add rows of Viognier and Gamay. Having these Vineyard daydreams and working on my attic pub sustains me on the days I'm not able to get out on two wheels.

 

And what did she ever do to deserve that!! That's awful. Nobody should have to drive one of them. Exception: Vladimir Putin of course. But he never will.

BTW - not neutered - Xena is feminine. Xenon is neuter. Xenos is masculine.

 

Dang that 10-minute timer! I just revised that and it failed to make it. - Xene is feminine. Xena is made up - made to sound feminine for people who aren't used to Greek. Latin "a" ending on Greek stem. Ingenious. I like that. Real Greeks wouldn't -- at all. I'd be washing up on the shores of the Bosphorus about now...

Two offences, per the Greek magistrate.

(1) Using the Roman alphabet.
(2) Using a half-Roman word.

"C'mon, git th' rope, Themistocles."
"Yep, Demosthenes, he'll look good hangin' from th' top o'th' Acropolis."

 

No sarcastic remarks from me.
I do not recognize you as a representative of anyone. My praise of two elected high officeholders, who made the time to talk to me during their busy campaigns, was not a lecture towards anyone. How dare you assert such.

 

Not neutered after all. That's a relief.

 

Octopodes...let's see...one's in the Northern Hemishpere and the other in the Southern Hemisphere?

 

Yep, there are those (antipodes) and all these too - including Steve's octopodes. I'm thinking they're free-range or he'd have a heck of a feed bill!

• antipodes.
• monopodes.
• octopodes.
• megapodes.
• pygopodes.
• hexapodes.
• hemipodes.
• pinopodes.

 

To keep track of all those, you'd need to be a podeiatrist.

 

Pretty much the same thing. "Pod" = foot. "Pode" = foot-like part. Yep, the Greeks had a word for everything... "and you can, too."

 

Octopodes...hm. Must be something I eight.

 

I've heard they're not bad eating -- but I don't like the look of them. I'll pass.

 

Taco is Japanese for octopus. It is good sashimi. It's kind of chewy with a mild taste.