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This Is The Way the World Ends...
Topic Started: Feb 4 2007, 08:23 PM (1,601 Views)
Carpenter
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Drummerboy
Mar 18 2007, 10:51 AM
Oh, yeah. China's waiting for everything to go up in flames and it's gonna become a powerhouse.

You mean superpower?
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Carpenter
Mar 18 2007, 10:52 AM
Drummerboy
Mar 18 2007, 10:51 AM
Oh, yeah. China's waiting for everything to go up in flames and it's gonna become a powerhouse.

You mean superpower?

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Huh. Well, there's no way to know for sure... I'd put my money on something other than God or ourselves killing off Humanity. Gamma Ray Burst, meteors, whatever. It'll happen eventually.
- However, by then we'll be so borg-ified that 'humanity' will have lost meaning.
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Nothing about llamas taking over the world.:(
...and somebody spoke and I went into a dream....
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psychedeliclucifersam
Mar 19 2007, 03:13 PM
Nothing about llamas taking over the world.:(

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Carpenter
Mar 18 2007, 10:52 AM
Drummerboy
Mar 18 2007, 10:51 AM
Oh, yeah. China's waiting for everything to go up in flames and it's gonna become a powerhouse.

You mean superpower?

No, powerhouse can work too.
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I suppose you could define China as a facility to generate electrical power.
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Oh, of course you can. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/powerhouse
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The only thing you proved is that I'm right.
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sjmcd
Mar 19 2007, 03:47 PM
psychedeliclucifersam
Mar 19 2007, 03:13 PM
Nothing about llamas taking over the world.:(

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I can control the llamas.
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PsychicEqualizer
Mar 20 2007, 01:23 PM
sjmcd
Mar 19 2007, 03:47 PM
psychedeliclucifersam
Mar 19 2007, 03:13 PM
Nothing about llamas taking over the world.:(

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I can control the llamas.

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Carpenter
Mar 20 2007, 12:28 PM
The only thing you proved is that I'm right.

Read the line under that.
2. One that possesses great force or energy: She is an editorial powerhouse.

Your definition of the word is too literal. She is not an editorial "facility to generate electrical power".
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fourside
Mar 20 2007, 07:31 PM
Carpenter
Mar 20 2007, 12:28 PM
The only thing you proved is that I'm right.

Read the line under that.
2. One that possesses great force or energy: She is an editorial powerhouse.

Your definition of the word is too literal. She is not an editorial "facility to generate electrical power".

No but that phrase simply isn't used for that. It has nothing to do with literal or not. There are often times phrases that could be used for certain things but just aren't, and if he had gone on a show on CNN or something and said 'powerhouse' in place of superpower somebody would've corrected or ridiculed him.
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Mar 20 2007, 04:25 PM
fourside
Mar 20 2007, 07:31 PM
Carpenter
Mar 20 2007, 12:28 PM
The only thing you proved is that I'm right.

Read the line under that.
2. One that possesses great force or energy: She is an editorial powerhouse.

Your definition of the word is too literal. She is not an editorial "facility to generate electrical power".

No but that phrase simply isn't used for that. It has nothing to do with literal or not. There are often times phrases that could be used for certain things but just aren't, and if he had gone on a show on CNN or something and said 'powerhouse' in place of superpower somebody would've corrected or ridiculed him.

I don't really understand what you're saying. Powerhouse has more than one meaning. Drummerboy didn't make a colossal mistake whichever way you look at it, although he obviously could have picked a better word to avoid this.
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fourside
Mar 20 2007, 08:35 PM
Carpenter
Mar 20 2007, 04:25 PM
fourside
Mar 20 2007, 07:31 PM
Carpenter
Mar 20 2007, 12:28 PM
The only thing you proved is that I'm right.

Read the line under that.
2. One that possesses great force or energy: She is an editorial powerhouse.

Your definition of the word is too literal. She is not an editorial "facility to generate electrical power".

No but that phrase simply isn't used for that. It has nothing to do with literal or not. There are often times phrases that could be used for certain things but just aren't, and if he had gone on a show on CNN or something and said 'powerhouse' in place of superpower somebody would've corrected or ridiculed him.

I don't really understand what you're saying. Powerhouse has more than one meaning. Drummerboy didn't make a colossal mistake whichever way you look at it, although he obviously could have picked a better word to avoid this.

I never said he made a colossal mistake. As a matter of fact, I asked a question.

Powerhouse has more than one meaning, but none of them are a synonym of 'superpower' in reference to a nation.
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