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PNJSNAK · #41 (**permalink**) 03-17-2003, 09:59 PM

Nothing!!!! That's what I heard about Texas!! How many Texans are coming Northwest to the Fling, just outside of Columbus,
O H I O !!!!!!!

I love doing nothing with Seinfeld!!!!!!!

PNJSNAK · #42 (**permalink**) 03-17-2003, 10:01 PM

Sorry, Northeast!!!!!!!

Steve R · #43 (**permalink**) 03-18-2003, 05:03 PM

Notheast... Yeah even a Texan knows which way to point his plastic pony

decooney · #44 (**permalink**) 03-18-2003, 05:42 PM

Something about Nothing -

No thing; not anything: The box contained nothing. I've heard nothing about it.
No part; no portion: Nothing remains of the old house but the cellar hole.
One of no consequence, significance, or interest: The new nonsmoking policy is nothing to me.

n.
Something that has no existence.
Something that has no quantitative value; zero: a score of two to nothing.
One that has no substance or importance; a nonentity: “A nothing is a dreadful thing to hold onto” (Edna O'Brien).

adj.
Insignificant or worthless: “the utterly nothing role of a wealthy suitor” (Bosley Crowther).

adv.
In no way or degree; not at all: She looks nothing like her sister.

Idioms:
for nothing
Free of charge.
To no avail: all that trouble for nothing.
For no reason: fired him for nothing.
in nothing flat
In very little time; very quickly.
nothing doing Informal
Certainly not.

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[Middle English, from Old English nthing : n, no; see no2 + thing, thing; see thing.]
Usage Note: According to the traditional rule, nothing is invariably treated as a singular, even when followed by an exception phrase containing a plural noun: Nothing except your fears stands (not stand) in your way. Nothing but roses meets (not meet) the eye. See Usage Note at none.

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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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nothing

\Noth"ing\, adv. In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. --Milton.

The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. --Burke.

Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

nothing

\Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.] 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.

2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. --Shak.

3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. --Is. xli. 24.

'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. --Dryden.

4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.

Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer.

To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

nothing

n : a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nil, nix, nada, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

nothing

Art Burtt · #45 (**permalink**) 03-18-2003, 06:20 PM

If Classic would send me the rest of my parts that I paid for I'd have lots to do. If I'm not careful my wife will find something for me to do. I hate painting!!

BLACKJACK · #46 (**permalink**) 03-18-2003, 09:45 PM

DUANE - - --

DON'T YOU HAVE A COBRA TO POLISH OR SOMETHING ???

Y' ALL HAVE A REALLY GREAT DAY.

BLACKJACK

4RE KLR · #47 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 06:04 AM

Art,

Sorry about your wows with Classic Roadsters. I hear it is a sticky mess there now. Looks like I got ride of mine in the nick of time.

Now back to nothing. I have too much to do to just do nothing. Can't make "NO MONEY" doing nothing.

4RE KLR · #48 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 06:06 AM

BTW who is Hi-per Rods? Are they new or I just have not noticed

TerrysSPF · #49 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 08:01 AM

NOTHING....................is what's still sitting in my garage - and it's almost spring! This could be a long summer with NOTHING to drive. I may have to add some more Dinan go-fast goodies to the Bimmer to tide me over. ....Or sell it and get the Cobra!

Flyin_Freddie · #50 (**permalink**) 03-19-2003, 09:15 AM

...actually, for once, I have no opinion concerning this thread. Empty, null, void, devoid of any substance, a vacuum.....

Damn, c'mon Spring time!

4RE KLR · #51 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 08:35 AM

Are we there yet?

BLACKJACK · #52 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 09:15 AM

STEVE,

I THINK NOT.

THAT REMINDS ME OF THE STORY OF RENE DES CARTES, THE 17TH CENTURY MATHMETICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER.

DES CARTES WALKED INTO A BAR AND THE BARTENDER ASKED, "CAN I GET YOU A DRINK ?"

DES CARTES RESPONDED, " I THINK NOT" - - - - - - AND, "POOF", HE DISAPPEARED.

I'M SORRY - - I JUST COULDN'T RESIST IT.

PERHAPS THE SAME FATE AWAITS THIS THREAD - - AND FOR THE SAME REASON.

(COGNITO ERGO SUM).

Y'ALL HAVE A REALLY GREAT DAY,

BLACKJACK

petek · #53 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 10:09 AM

decooney · #54 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 11:00 AM

Hi Blackjack,

Yeah, I saw the thread and just had to look up the word and its origin...

As for the Cobra, taking a break from making some engine/camshaft changes ALL this last weekend. ... a little Fine Tuning now for my driving taste. Seems like I do much less polishing with my curent plain silver car with dull black components vs. my last car which was mirror black and chrome components. i.e. less chrome, and more focus on function and driving performance this time around. See Ya.

BT SNAKE · #55 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 11:30 AM

Well I came over here to do something about nothing. That is to say I am increasing my post count...

I'm still torqued about losing over 300 of them a couple months ago..

Hersh

Chaplin · #56 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 02:34 PM

Post Count?
What's a post count?

Chaplin · #57 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 02:36 PM

Oh, that

CobERA · #58 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 05:40 PM

I may have to ask several hundred times, but what is a post count?

(once)

Steve R · #59 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 06:28 PM

Rick,
It refers to the number of bed posts you have seen in your lifetime

4RE KLR · #60 (**permalink**) 03-20-2003, 07:39 PM

uh ohh here we go, no longer talking about nothing. Now we have something. We have to stop this before it gets out of hand.

Blackjack,
You are just to funny, & hey I didn't have to get out my seventeenth century dictionary!