Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.
It begins as a prehistoric adventure (a popular genre at the time), and is related in the solemn, archaic cadences of a fable.
Couple this with the fact that you don't need a computer to enable the streaming of live TV to iPad 2, and the constraints of archaic TV watching are a thing of the past.
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"Dear, " which always looked fine atop a business letter, or a handwritten note, is increasingly seen as archaic and old-fashioned on a computer screen or on a smartphone or mobile device.
Alpha hand shape, common in pocket watches, adds a slightly archaic flavor to dial.
To turn an honest centavo, businesses must cope with awful roads, high energy costs, archaic labour laws and a Byzantine bureaucracy.
"New leaf" refers not to the world of plants, but to the formal, even archaic, term for a two-sided piece of paper.
The heart of the matter is that the advertising has lost some of its exuberance because the advertising agency selection practices are a bit archaic.
Two separate penal codes relate to the gays in Kenya and the archaic laws can lead to a 5 to 14 year jail term.
But colleges as factories for teaching what anyone can now get out of a book seem archaic enough that we should probably stop using them to do such.
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The current state is a jumbled mix of archaic, incomplete or conflicting rules and objectives.
To some this comparison might sound archaic, unnecessary, or even a bit outlandish.
To say men shouldn't marry career women is archaic, and doesn't serve a purpose other than invite confrontation.
He said until now there were few vehicles that could meet the "archaic" regulations in London which include a 28 ft (8.5 m) turning circle.
The Sacramento Kings have been fighting a facility war for over a decade to replace the archaic basketball arena that the team use to sellout regularly.
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As well as archaic and unhelpful regulations, UK legislation is a "complete mess" when it comes to penalties say campaigners.
Boston's move was a by-product of an archaic system in place between the U.S. and Japanese leagues for the past decade.
The primitive "Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire" (1945) emerges from a fog, the grazing sheep as archaic as the megaliths.
But it will also set off a profound debate about our chaotic, archaic election procedures and what some consider our antiquated Electoral College.
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
Optimizing functionality for a particular task, such as playing a DVD or recording a TV show, may still be an advantage of standalone devices, but the sheer amount of content both on a device and accessible through a home network will soon bring these archaic interfaces to their knees.
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Kim Dotcom is a web developer and my TV reference is archaic.
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Barring a smattering of genes from Neanderthals and other archaic Asian forms, all our ancestors lived in the continent of Africa until 150, 000 years ago.
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The work should begin with a shakeout of the FDA regulatory apparatus, an archaic structure that can no longer cope with the pace and complexity of modern bioscience.
Even if measures to open India's retail sector become reality, firms are likely to face a host of other impediments to investment including archaic laws, rickety infrastructure and difficulty in buying land, industry participants say.
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Imagine a city where only astronauts live, with otherworldly, yet archaic training facilities and no public access under any circumstances.
No one doubts that the archaic, overlapping patchwork of agencies needs modernising, with regulation refocused on a firm's activities rather than its legal form.
Commissioner Terri Mascherin, a Chicago attorney, said the effort "could have shown a little more backbone" in repealing laws and statutes that were archaic or of questionable constitutionality.
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Her Malawian lawyer, Alan Chinula, said he was hopeful of a successful appeal as the initial rejection was based "on an archaic law of over 50 years ago".
Miguel Senna Fernandes, a lawyer and member of the local legislative assembly, has written plays for a theater troupe that performs in the original Macanese patois, an archaic blend of Portuguese and Cantonese.
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