A Call-Out Thread For Town Heretic

[ok doser]

Not a call-out thread, per se, more of a "Yoo-Hoo!" for town to clarify the meaning of a phrase he uses often:

... the compact you still live in, derive benefits from and are subject to.

... In our compact we've determined ...

... not in a secular compact where people have a right to ...

... No compact can survive that ...

... the serious issues of the compact and the need to address them.

... the founding principles of our compact.

...both have contributed to the compact...

...great contributions to our compact...

...within our compact...

...I think it's bad for the compact...

...something established within the compact...

:dizzy:


and that's just since January 1st :noway:



the other day I asked him straight-out:

define "compact" in this usage

be succinct

that request for a definition got buried in another line of dialogue that was ongoing, so I thought it merited its own thread

 

[ok doser]

A few dictionary definitions:

Oxford:

Main definitions of compact in English : compact1compact2 • • • • compact1 adjective • 1Closely and neatly packed together; dense. ‘a compact cluster of houses’ 1. 1.1 Having all the necessary components or features neatly fitted into a small space. ‘this compact car has plenty of boot space’ • • 1.2 (of a person or animal) small, strong, and well proportioned. • • 1.3 (of speech or writing) concise in expression. ‘a compact summary of the play’ 3. • • 2compact ofarchaic Composed or made up of. ‘towns compact of wooden houses’ • verb [WITH OBJECT] • 1Exert force on (something) so that it becomes more dense; compress. ‘the rubbish was taken to the depot to be compacted’ ‘compacted earth’ 1. 1.1no object Become compressed by the exertion of force. ‘the snow hardened and compacted’ • • 1.2archaic Form (something) by pressing its component parts firmly together. ‘the foundation of the walls, compacted of Granite and Lime’ • • 1.3 Express in fewer words; condense. ‘the ideas are compacted into two sentences’ • 3. noun • 1A small flat case containing face powder, a mirror, and a powder puff. • • 2Something that is a small and conveniently shaped example of its kind, in particular a compact camera. ‘a wide selection of films is available for your 35 mm compact’ • • 3Metallurgy A mass of powdered metal compacted together in preparation for sintering. ‘strength is then introduced by infiltrating glass into the compact’ • Origin Late Middle English: from Latin compact- ‘closely put together, joined’, from the verb compingere, from com- ‘together’ + pangere ‘fasten’. Pronunciation compact /kəmˈpakt/ Main definitions of compact in English : compact1compact2 • • • • compact2 noun • A formal agreement or contract between two or more parties. ‘they signed a compact with the United States’ ‘a peace compact’ • verb [WITH OBJECT] • Make or enter into (a formal agreement) with another party or parties. ‘the Democratic Party compacted an alliance with dissident groups’ Origin Late 16th century: from Latin compactum, past participle of compacisci, from com- ‘with’ + pacisci ‘make a covenant’. Compare with pact. Pronunciation compact /ˈkɒmpakt/

Merriam Webster (focused):

4 Definition of compact 1. : an agreement or covenant between two or more parties

Black’s Law:

What is COMPACT? An agreement or contract. Usually applied to conventions between nations or sovereign states. A compact is a mutual consent of parties concerned respecting some property or right that is the object of the stipulation, or something that is to be done or forborne. Chesapeake & O. Canal Co. v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 4 Gill & J. (Md.) 1. The terms "compact" and "contract" are synonymous. Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat. 1, 92, 5 L. Ed 547. COMPANAGE. All kinds of food, except bread and drink. Spelman Law Dictionary: What is COMPACT? definition of COMPACT (Black's Law Dictionary)

 

[patrick jane]

Is the "compact" like The Borg?

 

[ok doser]

Is the "compact" like The Borg?

darned if i know, but it's a term he uses a lot (and nobody else uses at all in this context), so it seemed worth nailing down what he thinks he means by it

 

[patrick jane]

darned if i know, but it's a term he uses a lot (and nobody else uses at all in this context), so it seemed worth nailing down what he thinks he means by it

I'd like to know myself actually.

 

[ok doser]

i thought for the longest time that it had something to do with supra, but the supra was in the sports car/grand tourer class, not compact :idunno:

 

[ok doser]

now that's a compact! :thumb:

 

[ok doser]

the Ford Anglia 105E was also a compact:

 

[ok doser]

this one's been slightly modified - no word on whether they've gotten the invisibility booster to work yet

 

[ClimateSanity]

I saw supra in the footnotes of a document I read yesterday

Sent from my XT1254 using TheologyOnline mobile app

 

[Foxfire]

now that's a compact! :thumb:

lain:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

:chuckle:
I'd hate to see Rhode Island and Delaware try and enter THAT one together!

 

[patrick jane]

Town may still be sleeping, it's not noon yet

 

[Tambora]

 

[Nick M]

i thought for the longest time that it had something to do with supra, but the supra was in the sports car/grand tourer class, not compact :idunno:

Toyota didn't invent that word. It has a meaning also, and he is using it correctly when he does.

 

[Arthur Brain]

Wow, a SOD thread about TH, there's a shock...

Get a life you sad man. How are you not even bored by your own obsession yet?!

:kookoo:

 

[ok doser]

Toyota didn't invent that word. It has a meaning also, and he is using it correctly when he does.

as correctly as if he used "ibid" :chuckle:

 

[ClimateSanity]

Wow, a SOD thread about TH, there's a shock...

Get a life you sad man. How are you not even bored by your own obsession yet?!

:kookoo:

If he is a sad man, that makes you even sadder for feeling the need to constantly point this out to him.

 

[musterion]

The Nash Metropolitan. Compact but not too compact. Hardtop makes a great clown car.

 

[Ktoyou]

okdoser, You should pay more attention to more interesting threads like my thread on the manhandled man on United Airlines. If you listen to those videos and then play this one.

You will hear how much he sounds like a Tasmanian Devil.

 

[musterion]

Sherm should play this every time Crucible is caught logging back in.

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