The term is also used in Australian English, although the term singlet is more common in Australia. In British English, the term vest is used, while "tank top" refers to a sleeveless pullover. In India, such a vest, primarily designed to be an undershirt, is called a baniyaan. The name derives from its resemblance to a tank suit, a style of one-piece women's swimsuit with shoulder straps. "Tank suit" in turn refers to "swimming tank," an obsolete term for what are now called "swimming pools."
Hmm...
I saw this thing on PBS about clothing history and they seemed to think tshirts and tank tops both entered common use when soldiers came back from WWII (or maybe WWI) where they had been underclothing. They attributed the "tank top: to men in tanks stripped down to their undershirts because they were hot.
Now I'm going to obsess on this!
By getting to ignore habeus corpus and having the ability to declare any person, including US citizens, an "enemy combatant" at will, George W has executive power that George III did not have. Those cowards who voted for the bill have failed at their most basic responsibility of safeguarding democracy against those who would usurp it.
Just imagine! Hundreds of years of this noble experiment of self-government have been subverted by one handful of fanatics with box-cutters and another handful of fanatics with Diebold machines! The good things in this world are truly fragile.
Completely random thing that has probably come up in some thread or other...but it seems bugmenot is out-o-bidness. That's weird...and unuseful.
Just imagine! Hundreds of years of this noble experiment of self-government have been subverted by one handful of fanatics with box-cutters and another handful of fanatics with Diebold machines!
Oh well. It was nice while it lasted.
IOMoreCheeryN, [link] (warning - excessive kitty cuteness!)
Shot byJeremy K. in Taiwan, who rescued this kitten from the street, where government animal control patrols would have apparently offed it (Taiwan is an island, after all, and there's a feral cat problem)
Woo hoo! TAR11 will happen.
Doctors, or otherwise people I come to for medical advice all the time: why is my lower lashline twitching? Why has it been doing this for weeks? I've practically poked my eyes out trying to get whatever it is out of my eye but it appears to be a weird muscle spasm down there.
Are you reading the news?
bon bon - when I had that happen, it ended up being eye-strain which was cured by bifocals. 38 with bifocals. Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
I get the eye twitch when I'm tired and/or stressed.
