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Gambrel roof
I didn't know it before, but the word "gambrel" means angled like a horse's hind leg.
Let's get "risible" again
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If, then is a gambrel a crook?
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Gambler is an anagram from gambrel, but not necessarily a crook. My impression of gamblers is the old one about horses being smarter than the gamblers. You will never see a horse bet on a human.
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wwh,
the annagramatic part was just a bonus I noticed before buttoning the post - the authorized gambrel/crook connection was the angle of the horses leg/crook. I figure a gambrel roof's a gambrel roof by virtue of a similar likeness.
and all the rest - apologies for the many many separately posted tom swifties. They were meant as silly presents, individually wrapped. I bugged on the bandwidth differerntial. (I promised someone I'd stay off for the evening in penance, but I find the punishment too harsh) [blush and kisses] [sad]
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My apologies Insel. I didn`t mean to make you feel bad. Ten lashes with a wet noodle for me.
There have been several posts in the past by some of our folks who have slower computers who don`t get to enjoy some threads because they are toooo long. No way I wanted you off for the evening. I love seeing so many different people on Board. That's what makes it interesting - all those different opinions and styles.
I'm glad you decided to post anyway. Friends?
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Kriminy! I don't know what you're talking about, bel! Forget it! Delete the post! I ain't in the leastwise hurt an 'precieate yo kandly lookin' out for 'tothers! 
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Tumbledown (rather than tumblety-down) and Higgledy-piggledy still in common use where I come from. Middle class UK.
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Sorry - don't know how to edit yet, or if its possible.
Higgledy-piggledy is used (generally) about numbers of small objects as in "The books were not stacked, they just lay about higgledy-piggledly".
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Ro*, You'll see two icons at the upper right of your posts. The one to the left is your edit icon. (I feel a double dactyl coming on....)
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I wasn't not sure whether to go here or to a thread which deals with odd stuff you hear on the radio, but probably this is a good venue.
Yesterday, on NPR, there was a rather pompous commentator giving out a rant on the word "lucubrate", which he says is somehow becoming popular. What he objects to is that it is misused, not only as to its meaning, by making it mean more than it's supposed to, but also by making it a transitive verb. All well and good, but then he mentioned other words which he would like to see used more, such as "etiolated" and "inchoate". What made this entertaining was that the fool twice pronounced "etiolated" as uh-TIE-o-lated. (At least he didn't render "inchoate" as in-chote.)
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