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Offline BFM_JANE

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #90 on: May 15, 2008, 12:37:46 AM »
Capiche! No?
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #91 on: May 30, 2008, 08:41:32 AM »
Gullable is not in the dictionary
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #92 on: May 30, 2008, 09:40:03 AM »
Gullable isn't in the dictionary, but gullible is, capiche?
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #93 on: May 30, 2008, 12:03:53 PM »
oooh shot down in flames, silly me
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #94 on: May 31, 2008, 01:03:20 AM »



ROFL!  :siderofl:


Wow!  It's that time AGAIN!:

ad·ju·di·cate [uh-joo-di-keyt]

–verb (used with object)

1.   to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
2.   to settle or determine (an issue or dispute) judicially.

–verb (used without object)

3.   to sit in judgment (usually fol. by upon).


[Origin: 1690–1700; < L adjūdicātus (ptp. of adjūdicāre).]



Wifey and daughter-child were in disagreement as to whether daughter-child's new clothes were appropriate attire, so I had to step in and adjudicate a settlement. (Daughter-child lost, of course! Do you think I'm NUTS?!?!  :LOL: )




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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #95 on: May 31, 2008, 01:05:15 AM »
Erg. As a debater, I hate all adjudicators. For some reason we always get the one who has no idea what he/she is doing.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #96 on: May 31, 2008, 01:18:18 AM »
Quote from: BFM_Hydra on May 31, 2008, 01:05:15 AM
Erg. As a debater, I hate all adjudicators. For some reason we always get the one who has no idea what he/she is doing.

No you don't.


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #97 on: June 18, 2008, 03:42:06 PM »
Society doesn't like adjudicators. It seems we prefer to do what we want and, if it's wrong/bad, make the decision to not do it on our own. Maybe it's just me...
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #98 on: June 19, 2008, 07:52:04 PM »


Hmmmm.....

You post, JANE, and another thread got me to thinking:...

Is Darwinism just Mother Nature's final adjudicator??

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #99 on: June 21, 2008, 10:45:18 PM »


Okay. A new one before I leave for a bit:

fid [fid]

–noun Nautical.

1.   a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
2.   a stout bar used to hold a running bowsprit in its extended position.
3.   a wooden or metal pin for parting strands of a rope.
4.   a bar or pin used as a key or toggle.



[Origin: 1605–15; orig. uncert.]

Some digging elsewhere, however, revealed that it was a 17th century Old Irish word for "tree, or any chunk of wood."



What can I say?  RUSTY0 knows his fids!
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #100 on: June 22, 2008, 01:47:05 AM »
I have no idea what a spar is when used as a noun and "a running bowsprit in its extended position" is incomprehensible...

However, the other day, I found myself on a sea vessel (yes, I did) and I was walking around on the poop deck (whatever that is). I stumbled (it was already shaky footing, the waters were choppy) and looked around to see what I tripped on. It was an eel and it was alive! I don't know how it got there but I needed to kill it immediately. I grabbed the nearest object (a fid) and smashed it to death.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #101 on: June 22, 2008, 02:08:15 AM »

A spar is a mast, boom, pole - pretty much anything solid (not a rope or wire) that holds up sails etc.  A bowsprit is a spar that extends out from the bow of a boat - that allows a sail to be rigged further out from the mast so you can have a bigger sail.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #102 on: June 30, 2008, 08:07:35 PM »


Recent WINNERS!:



JANE: Best use OF A fid!


Kiwi: Best explanation of a nautical thingamajig!


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #103 on: July 17, 2008, 08:54:14 PM »
Well, it's been a while, and I know that you've all been waiting with worms in your mouth, er, I mean, baited bated breath, so without further ado!...


ilk [ilk]

–noun

1.   family, class, or kind: he and all his ilk.

–adjective
2.   same.

—Idiom
3.   of that ilk,
a.   (in Scotland) of the same family name or place: Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.
b.   of the same class or kind.



[Origin: bef. 900; ME ilke, OE ilca (pronoun) the same, equiv. to demonstrative i (c. Goth is he, L is that) + a reduced form of līc like1; cf. which, such]



Don't you HATE spam-nading CAMPERS?  Me too!  'Guess were of the same ilk!

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #104 on: July 17, 2008, 10:31:35 PM »
I'll have to name a town zetlandpeat.

Is an ilk the same as a moose? Are mice of the same ilk as a kangaroo?
is s"ilk" tha same ilk as cotton.

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'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'





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I would like to be a glowworm, a glowworms never glum, it`s hard to be downhearted when the sun shines out your bum.


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