Is it true there was supposed to be a big bole out in the 2000 bomb and was it suppsoed to bole up the entrie world

-- Brittany Anne Archibald (Brittany00@hotmail.com), February 27, 2000

Answers

Yes.

-- I'mSo (lame@prepped.com), February 27, 2000.

Dito. Yse. I beleiv os.

-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), February 27, 2000.

By the way, we may not be out of danger yet, according the posters here. She may still bole up.

-- I'mSo (lame@prepped.com), February 27, 2000.

The entrie world was boled up. Don't tell me you missed it...

-- a programmer (a@programmer.com), February 27, 2000.

Dear Brittany Anne-- How old are you? Pam

-- Pam (Jpjgood@penn.com), February 27, 2000.

First you're going to have to tell me what the hell you're talking about, then I'll tell you if it is true. What is a bole?

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 28, 2000.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bole

11 entries found.

bhel-2

Important derivatives are: bowl1, bulk1, boulevard, boulder, bull1, phallus, ball1, balloon, ballot, bold, fool.

To blow, swell; with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of tumescent masculinity.

1.Zero-grade form bh-. a.bowl1, from Old English bolla, pot, bowl; b.bole, from Old Norse bolr, tree trunk; c.bulk, from Old Norse bulki, cargo (< rolled-up load); d.rocambole, from Old High German bolla, ball; e.(boulevard), bulwark, from Middle High German bole, beam, plank; f.boll, from Middle Dutch bolle, round object; g.biltong, from Middle Dutch bille, buttock; h.boulder, from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish bullersten, rounded stone, boulder, from *buller-, round object. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h all from Germanic *bul-. 2.Suffixed zero-grade form *bh-n-. a.bull1, from Old Norse boli, bull, from Germanic *bulln-, bull; b.bullock, from Old English bulluc, bull, from Germanic *bulluka-; c.phallus; ithyphallic, from Greek phallos, phallus; d.full2, from Latin full, a fuller, possibly from bhel-2. 3.O-grade form *bhol-. a.bollix, from Old English beallucas, testicles; b.ball1, from Old English *beall, ball; c.bilberry, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Danish bolle, round roll; d.balloon, ballot, (ballottement), from Italian dialectal balla, ball; e.pall-mall, from Italian palla, ball; f.bale1, from Old French bale, rolled-up bundle. a, b, c, d, e, and f all from Germanic *ball-. 4.Possibly suffixed o-grade form *bhol-to-. a.bold, from Old English bald, beald, bold; b.bawd, from Old Low German bald, bold. Both a and b from Germanic *balthaz, bold. 5.Suffixed o-grade form *bhol-n-. fils2, follicle, fool; (folliculitis), from Latin follis, bellows, inflated ball. 6.baleen, from Greek phal(l)aina, whale, possibly from bhel-2. 7.phellem; phelloderm, phellogen, from Greek phellos, cork, cork oak, conceivably from bhel-2 (but more likely unrelated).

[Pokorny 3. bhel- 120. (The following derivatives of this root are entered separately: bhel-3, bhelgh-, bhleu-.)]

Pronunciation Key

Source: The American Heritage. Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright ) 1996, 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

bole1 (bl) n.

The trunk of a tree.

[Middle English from Old Norse bolr; see bhel-2 in Indo-European Roots.]

Pronunciation Key

Source: The American Heritage. Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright ) 1996, 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

bole2 (bl) n.

1.Any of various soft, fine clays, especially a reddish-brown variety used as a pigment. 2.Color. A moderate reddish brown.

[Middle English from Medieval Latin blus; see bolus.]

bole adj.

Pronunciation Key

Source: The American Heritage. Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright ) 1996, 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

bole \Bole\, n. [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. b[*a]l, Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. Bulge.] The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.

Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. --Tennyson. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

bole \Bole\, n. [Etym. doubtful.] An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.]

Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. --Sir W. Scott. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

bole \Bole\, n. A measure. See Boll, n., 2. --Mortimer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

bole \Bole\, n. [Gr. ? a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. Bolus.] 1. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

2. A bolus; a dose. --Coleridge.

Armenian bole. See under Armenian.

Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Boll \Boll\, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.] 1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.] Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Clay \Clay\ (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. Clog.] 1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

I also am formed out of the clay. --Job xxxiii. 6.

The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. --Byron.

Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder.

Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned.

Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.

Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.

Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.

Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.

Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug.

Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.

Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc.

Fire clay, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick.

Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.

Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

bole n 1: a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) 2: the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber [syn: trunk, tree trunk] 3: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa [syn: Bole, Bolanci] Source: WordNet . 1.6, ) 1997 Princeton University

bole

bole: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, ) 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB

-- use your computer and (justlookitup@the.internet), February 28, 2000.

Since I've been around this old planet for a while and have never once heard that word I didn't bother looking it up because I suspected I'd come up with a load of crap like you just did.

I still don't know what it means in the context of the original post, but oh well, I've seen stranger things. Guess I'll just go with my original instincts and mentally move this thread off to my "cybergarbage" category.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), February 28, 2000.

.... where it belongs with all of Hawk's postings.

-- Mikey2k (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), February 28, 2000.

Perhaps Sir Dick of the Dale or Ol' Git can explain whether or not muswrestling could have been involved.

-- flora (***@__._), February 28, 2000.

Good post Mikey2k.

How often has "good post" been seen below Carl Jenkins little cut and paste jobs? I see that pieter (unfortunately a fellow countryman) is trying to compete with the the jenkster on who can post the most irrelevant rubbish here.

-- Mr. Sane (hhh@home.com), February 28, 2000.

Mr Sane,

If everything Carl and Pieter post is Rubbish to you then why dont you start posting some things that you feel have value instead of whining your sorry troll butt off?

Or better yet go to your Time Bomb 2000 Bookmark and click "Delete" I'm sure you would be much happier, and I'm certain we all would be!

-- Delete Whining Trolls (-@-.-), February 28, 2000.

ImSo:

*Great* answer! Laughed my ass off!

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), February 28, 2000.

HAWK:

You missed the meaning because of Brittany's spurious 'space' character between 'a big bole' and 'out.' This whole post could be construed as a test of those whose right hemisphere is fully up to speed -- it requires a holistic approach to translate arcane dialects.

IMSO & FLINT:

Your typical Polly condescension resulted in a great missed opportunity to educate young Miss Brittany. You didn't hear or see the big boleup because you're both deaf and blind. It was an 11.5 on the Richter scale.

Miss BRITTANY ANNE ARCHIBALD:

Thanks for writing in those questions. You must have nice parents to have encouraged you to ask such grownup questions on a grownup website, to have helped you learn how to write, to learn how to use the keyboard, and of course for giving you access to a computer. Is it your own? And by the way, how old are you? I never had a little girl, but I have two boys who when young used to ask good grownup questions, too.

And the real answers to your questions are: yes, most of us on TimeBomb2000 were pretty sure there was going to be a big blowup. A v ery few of us, like I, were also pretty sure it was going to going to blow up the entire world. It looks like we were wrong. Grownups can be wrong, but hopefully they try to be right as much as possible -- especially to set a good example for young people like you. I think PAM is a mother, and that's why she asked how old you are too. And don't worry about IMSO and FLINT -- I don't think they've figured out how to be a Daddy yet.

Keep asking questions, Brittany,

Sincerely,

Doctor Bill

-- William J. Schenker, MD (wjs@linkfast.net), February 28, 2000.

Maybe Brittany is more worldly than we know and she was really referencing the climactic qualities of Ravel's Bolero.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 29, 2000.