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my arms - DAMN
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NJL said:exactly...i'm in deep contact with the qintar....he's in hiding....
Did the Karate Clowns find him or are the Terrorist targeting his neighborhood again.
here's some insight into what it means to be the Qintar:
Google Search said:Qintar = The quintal is a historical unit of mass with many different definitions in different countries. It has a convoluted etymology. Starting from the classical Latin word, centenarius, meaning hundredlike, it became Late Latin centenarium pondus, then in succession, Late Greek, kentenarion, Arabic, qintar, Mediaeval Latin, quintale, and finally Old French quintal before passing into English. The unit was and still is used in the Arab world, where it is known as the qintar. It is currently defined informally as 50 kg. The qintar was imported to Europe by traders.
In France it was defined as 100 livres, about 48.95 kg, although it has now been redefined as 100 kg. In Spain it is still defined as 100 libras, or about 46 kg, and in Portugal as 128 libras or about 58.75 kg. The English quintal, now obsolete, was defined sometimes as 100 lb (exactly 45.359 237 kg) and sometimes as 112 lb (about 50.80 kg).
The metric quintal is defined in the U.S. as 100 kilograms. This unit is not recognised by the SI, but is used in
agriculture for measuring grain.
In music or music theory quintal is the quality of chords built from fifths and anything related to things constructed by fifths such as counterpoint. However, because of inversion these are more accurately described by the term quartal.
The qintar was small and made of metal. It was Ahmik's birthday. He was now four years old. As a present, Ahmik's father made the qintar. In the front of the qintar, a string was attached for Ahmik to pull on. On the other end a sharp metal piece hung down. Ahmik's father told him to take it with him whenever he went outside the door. It was a sort of tracking device. As Ahmik walked with the qintar rolling behind, the long metal piece would drag on the ground marking his path. He never got lost, his parents would always be able to find him.
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bassman314
I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process...
What the hell? I just read 4 threads, wasted 10 minutes on them and I still don't know what the **** is going on here?
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