But there have been many other times when I have found myself drawn into long and often interesting arguments about what conservatism can now mean, what it has meant in the past, whether it means the same thing in Britain and America, and whether it now encompasses so many ideas and factions that it can barely be described at all.
Your friendship and your concern and general championing of me have meant, and mean still, more to me than I can ever say.
There was a Guardian journalist at the briefing, one whose take on what devolution has meant and might yet mean in Wales is here.
He wondered if the facts really meant what they so clearly did mean (to all the world except Ron).
Mr. BAILEY: It can be, and it's difficult with--you know, the use of some words that meant something 20 years ago may mean, you know, something totally different with the MTV generation.
Value investing can mean a number of different things, but is generally meant to refer to a class of investors who look for investments trading at a price below where certain valuation fundamentals suggest they should be trading at.
And I will have more to say to all these guys and more to say to those of you that are in the back of the room that have meant so much to me and continue to mean so much to me.
It did not mean those in the team were going to be replaced, but it meant the squad was freshened up, you increased competition for places and you increased strength in depth.
For lots of people, particularly the growing number of working women, speeding up at work, which you might think would mean slowing down at home, enjoying that promised land of leisure, meant just the opposite: home got sped up, too.
Although quantum doesn't mean "big", I think that's what the Romney team meant.
What I meant when I was 26 is quite different than what I mean now when, you know, I had no idea it would.
Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: No, I didn't mean from--if I said from the band, I didn't--I meant from the record industry.
This meant that if Doncaster could somehow snatch a win, it wouldn't just mean promotion, it would mean the League 1 title as well.
"It's meant to be like a twin, " said Dave Bedwood, a partner at Lean Mean Fighting Machine.
Pushing air cooling to its limits might mean buying a bigger fan to the mortal PC builder, but for Mike at Total Geekdom, it meant constructing a wind tunnel case.
ENGADGET: Wind tunnel PC case pushes the air cooling envelope, does its thing for cancer research
The growing use of cellphones, computers and the net meant that families no longer gathered round the TV for shared experiences but this did not mean, said the report, that these communal times had vanished.
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