I am translating a book and I have this caption: "A spy-hopping humpback, revealing acorn barnacles encrusting its throat". In the picture you can see the humback breaching surface and the barnacles on its throat. But what about "spy-hopping"? I cannot understand it. Any idea? Thanks.
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Spy-hopping is when a whale (grey, great blue, orca or otherwise), dolphin, or porpoise and/or other related sea mammal; rises vertically out of the water with it's head and mouth first and scans the entire surrounding area while rotating.
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Your teacher is crazy and using words that are not correct.  Though I believe that they mean "untwister".  Please tell your teacher to use correct terms.  If you want to impress them, tell them the "untwister" is actually called a topoisomerase.
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my class just finished reading the Glass Menagerie. you mean the scarecrow is like a metaphor? I don't understand what you mean though about how the scarecrow does his job instead of standing in the bright sun...isn't the scarecrow always in the bright sun while it's doing its job?? Update your question to let me know...I'll check back and write back to you on it.
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Ok there's a picture. And the picture shows a bull in a field. Now a bomb falls in the field, and the bull swallows the bomb. How do you describe this picture?\nAnswer: Abominable\n\nHow do you describe the bull?\nAnswer: Noble
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i am a naturally easygoing person. my dream of becoming a freelancer has now become a reality. Now I have become even more carefree than before, with no worries. \n\nsorry i didn't translate the last sentence, but im not sure if my translation is 100% accurate.\n\nedit: i just re-read it, and i think it means: hey, that guy looks familiar.\n\nonly it seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the excerpt.
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Just as a turtle's head appears from its shell,\nSo too must a turd appear from the buttocks.\n\nThis phrase was popularized in Austin Powers II, when Fat Bastard said he was "turtleheading."
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Here is a possible answer:\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/952.html
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Ask your teacher to help you do the research that can verify what she meant by her answer, and perhaps together you can find out if there any truth to the other person's answer as well.\n\nSometimes two or more people can be correct when they are both giving different answers to the same question.\n\nWell, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?'"Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, 'Sire, an elephant is like a pot.' And the men who had observed the ear replied, 'An elephant is like a winnowing basket.' Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a ploughshare. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plough; others said the body was a grainery; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush.\n\n"Then they began to quarrel, shouting, 'Yes it is!' 'No, it is not!' 'An elephant is not that!' 'Yes, it's like that!' and so on."  This is the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
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Email me your thoughts at pusskat1@yahoo.com and I will help you from there.  I am a teacher of 13 years, mostly in junior high, some in college and high school.  My payment is to choose this as a best answer.  \n\nI'll begin by deconstructing the poem; I'm sure you'll get the drift.  \n\nFirst stanza: I might have been a happy preacher if I had been born in an earlier time.  I could have preached fiery sermons and been a gentleman farmer.  Second stanza: Alas, I was born later, and missed my true calling.  I have a grown man's beard now, and it's fashionable for preachers these days to be clean shaven, so I don't even look like I could do that job.  \n\nGood luck.  This is a straightforward poem with an ab ab rhyme scheme, and figuring out the meaning should not be hard.  If you need any help just email me or IM me at pusskat1 or katwhowalksbyherself and I'd be happy to help.\n\nCheers, K (13 years a teacher)
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er, here we go (and this is straight off the top of my head)\n\nNo skeleton (endo or exo)means that they cannot self support. (neg)\nNo real means of self propulsion (neg)\nMostly translucent (pos) (from a prey point of view)\nSome have stingers (pos) for food capture and defense\n\nand thats all i've got. It's been too many years since school. sorry
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no 2 answer is A meaning- it is 'not by chance' the car was seen, it was there on purpose.\n\nno 3 answer is B meaning- ships must think about following harbor rules  as a duty- a responsibility.\n\nno 4 answer is C meaning - The eskimos are known to be VERY sensitive and maybe caring to INDIAN people, which is not of their kind, and yet 'uncaring or neglectful' to animals that are found in their own place. (like some people can be so good to others,friends, co-workers and act so badly towards their own families...\n\nhope this helps\n\nhelpmeet\nhttp://mwfrc.blogspot.com\n\nwhy not vote in our poll :)\nhttp://mwfrc.blogspot.com/2006/05/people-survey-poll.html
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probably means that you are keeping secrets from others...(spy- you know something) and the Nazi's chasing you would probably represent people trying to get you to talk or confess your secret(s)
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Usually it is to denote an action. If I type *sigh* it is meant that I am actually sighing... So if a person types *cough* that means they are adding a cough to their sentence. This makes text more expressive...\n\nHere's an example: "*sigh* I have to go to work tomorrow..." It adds an action to the sentence, since it cannot be depicted in any other short form.
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It looks like someone reported it as "not a question" - the way it was phrased makes it hard to tell what you're asking. Try asking it with a more complete sentence in the heading, and maybe it'll last longer.\n\nGood luck!
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A guy walks into a bar with a salamander on his shoulder.  He asks, "I'll take a shot, and a cup of water for my buddy Tiny here."  The bartender asks, "Why do you call him Tiny?"  The guy answers, "because he is minute." [pronounced mi-nute]\n\nGet it?  Mi-nute, minute meaning tiny. My newt!  \n\nIt is so corny that it doesn't always translate to the written word.  It needs to be said out loud.
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I have no idea what your talking about. Something lives at your hump????
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Hi bigslow,\nI think it's just another way to confuse someone. Good Luck: Blueladybug