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O.E. onbutan “on the outside of,” from on “on” + be “by” + utan “outside,” from ut (see out). By 13c. it had forced out O.E. ymbe for meaning “in the neighborhood of.” Abouts, with adverbial genitive, still found in hereabouts, etc., is probably a northern dialectal form. About face as a military command (short for right about face) is first attested 1861, Amer.Eng.
Breaking the whole truth down into smaller lies. . .
on another note, yes you have found bUMpHLEGM.COM – the home of free media. not left wing, not right wing, i kinda feel right now like i’m tied to the wing of American Airlines Flight 77 as we fly down towards the pentagon…not knowing if we exist outside of a whitehouse strategists mind…!all hail discordia!
Our major aim is to keep the internet where it is today – a totally impotent source of biased rambling controlled by IBM, the US military, Microsoft, Google and people with generally too much time on their hands…So eat it up kiddies, on those breaks between writing chunks of your post grad research essays or creating meaningless spreadsheets for reports on subjects you really couldn’t give a nutsack about we expect to see you here on the front line of the rear end of the hyper-global-inter-dexa-multi-mega-webber-net. Slaves of the world unite! Together we can have open discussion [but please leave me out of it!] and make ourselves feel validated without really getting anything done – just like politics at the pub after a few imported beers. And thats what we here at bUMpHLEGM HQ are truly about, nothing at all, glazed in a tasty sugary coating that most of us can enjoy but has been found to have unpleasant side-effects in some patients if prescribed for long periods. Rest easy citizens. . .
