Hijack time again. This time hijacking tsuwm's wwftd "foible" which he allowed me to
suggest to him. Feeble was I ere I saw foible. One of my foibles is an excessive fondness
for le mot juste. I get upset unduly when I think someone else has used a word erroneously.

I think it would be fun for other members to post here peculiar goibles they perceive in their
associates. Like the three friends who were discussing their foibles. The first guy admitted to
compulsion to mentally undress each female he met. The second confessed to compulsion
seek sexual favors from his female employees, and named some of the victims. The third
guy blurted that his foible was gossip and ran off to spread what he had just learned.
EDIT : Birdseed caught the typo I have put inot red.
foible
n.
5obs. var. of Fr faible: see FEEBLE6
1 a small weakness; slight frailty in character
2 the weakest part of a sword blade, from the middle to the point: cf. FORTE1 (sense 1)
—SYN FAULT

tsuwm wwftd http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/

Well, I'll put one of mine; it drives me crazy when other people do it, yet I can't seem to help doing it myself: I start out saying something, then go off on some little sidetrack or rumination (verbal) before ever getting around to making my point.

"...to post here peculiar goibles "

This would be a weakness only a gentile should have.

Unless you pronounce it with a soft "g" in which case it would be a NY petshop.

My boss's foible is the phrase "quote unquote" in all sorts of places it shouldn't be allowed to go. eg "I'm going to, quote unquote, reschedule the meeting." while doing the little finger movements.

Dear Zed: Forty years ago, I had a superior, the least of whose foibles was using two fingers
on each hand making quotation marks to go with "quote - unquote".