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Issue 677                          27 July 2011.

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Quotes
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An economist is an expert[1] who will know tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
  - Laurence J. Peter

Everyone has a right to a university degree[2] in America, even if
it's in Hamburger Technology.
  - Clive James

It is easier to forgive[3] an enemy than to forgive a friend.
  - William Blake

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an
American and then write any kind of music you wish.
  - Virgil Thomson

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A Joke
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***Baffling[4] Bible***

Interpretation Terri asked her Sunday School class to draw pictures of
their favorite bible stories. She was puzzled[5] by Kyle's picture which
showed four people on an airplane, so she asked him which story it was
meant to represent. "The flight[6] to Egypt," said Kyle. "I see... And
that must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus," Miss Terri said. "But who's
the fourth person?" "Oh, that's Pontius -- the Pilot[7]!"

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Vocabulary
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[1] A person with a lot of skill in or knowledge of a certain
    subject.
[2] Everyone can finish a university.
[3] Stop being angry about the bad thing(s) another person did earlier
[4] very hard or impossible to understand
[5] confused, not knowing how to understand it
[6] a. moving in air
    b. escape
[7] the word "pilot" is pronounced the same way as "Pilate".

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Translation
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A közgazdász egy olyan szakértő, aki holnap már tudja, miért nem
történtek meg azok a dolgok, amiket tegnap mára jósolt.
  - Laurence J. Peter

Amerikában mindenkinek joga van egy egyetemi diplomához, még ha azt
csak Hamburger Technológiából szerzi is.
  - Clive James

Könnyebb az ellenségnek megbocsátani, mint a barátnak.
  - William Blake

Amerikai zenét könnyen lehet írni. Mindössze amerikainak kell lenned
és olyan zenét írnod, amilyet csak kívánsz.
  - Virgil Thomson

***Zavarbaejtő Biblia***

(A vicc lényegét az angol kiejtés/leírás-ból akadó félreértés
hordozza, ezért ez a fordításban nem jelenik meg. Lásd a "Vocabulary"
részt ("flight" and "pilot").)

Interpretáció Terri megkérte vasárnapi iskolásait, hogy rajzolják le
kedvenc bibliai történetüket. Kicsit értetlenül állt Kyle képe előtt,
amelyen négy személy volt egy repülőben, ezért megkérdezte a fiút,
melyik történetet szándékozta megjeleníteni. "Az Egyiptomba való
menekülést," mondta Kyle. "Értem... És az ott Mária, József és Jézus,"
mondta Miss Terri. "De ki a negyedik személy?" "Ó, hát ő Pontius -- a
Pilóta!"

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Vocabulary Extra
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baffle tr.v. (baf•fled, baf•fling, baf•fles)
 1. To frustrate or check (a person) as by confusing or
    perplexing; stymie.
 2. To impede the force or movement of.
baffle n.
 1. A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid
    or light.
 2. A partition that prevents interference between sound waves
    in a loudspeaker.

baffling adj.
 impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling

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Quotations from Literature
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In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes
forget the somber secret ever baffling the conjecture that it
compels.
  - Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose

All these baffling head-reaches after immortality are but the panics
of souls frightened by the fear of death, and cursed with the
thrice-cursed gift of imagination.
  - John Barleycorn by London, Jack

But how to reach them, now that I had found the only vulnerable spot
in their mighty prison, was still a baffling riddle.
  - Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Let us make a foray upon the dominions of that noisy barbarian, a
great raid from Finisterre to Hatteras, catching his fishermen
unawares, baffling the fleets that trust to his power, and shooting
sly arrows into the livers of men who court his good graces.
  - The Mirror of the Sea  by Conrad, Joseph

There was evidently something about Diana's Grove which both
interested and baffled him. Before leaving, he moved all over the
place unsatisfied, and in one spot, close to the edge of the Brow,
where there was a deep hollow, he appeared to be afraid. After
returning several times to this place, he suddenly turned and ran in a
panic of fear to the higher ground, crossing as he did so the
outcropping rock. Then he seemed to breathe more freely, and recovered
some of his jaunty impudence.
  - The Lair of the White Worm  by Stoker, Bram

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Etymology
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baffle
 1540s, "to disgrace," perhaps a Scottish respelling of bauchle
 "to disgrace publicly" (especially a perjured knight), which
 is probably related to Fr. bafouer "to abuse, hoodwink"
 (16c.), possibly from baf, a natural sound of disgust, like
 bah (cf. Ger. baff machen "to flabbergast"). Meaning "to
 bewilder, confuse" is from 1640s; that of "to defeat someone's
 efforts" is from 1675. The noun sense of "shielding device" is
 first recorded 1881. Related: Baffled "confounded" (1650s);
 bafflement (1841).
baffling
 1783, "bewildering," from baffle; earlier a sailor's word for
 winds that blow variously and make headway difficult
 (c.1770s).

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