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Partridge: "To indulge in physically intimate endearments, esp. in those provocative caresses which constitute the normal preliminaries to sexual congress. Coll.: C. 17-19. Cf. firk, q.v."
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A convenient coinage to give lyricists something with which to rhyme "canoodle"?
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Dear FB: I remember a little quip in Readers Digest long ago: "This may be the machine age, but love is still made
by hand."
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By "hand"??? 
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You wouldn't want it mass produced, would you?
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It's probably good this thread went nowhere. Firkydoodle, Imagine 
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Since this thread has had not a post in awhile, I will post
one I received earlier today from another:
EU DIRECTIVE 456179
In order to meet the conditions for joining the Single European
Currency, all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland must be made aware that the phrase
"spending a penny" is not to be used after 31 December 2009.
From that date on the correct term will be 'euronating'.
Somewhat irreverant, and sure to offend some, but clever
nonetheless.
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.  Thanks Luke I was looking for a good laugh to round out my day
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> euronating
I would have started a whole new thread for that one!
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England could be considered a Euronation 
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Pound for pound I don't think the euro has hit that
Euronation yet, has it???
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That Euronation might be waiting till the pound exactly equals one euro.
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this word's been niggling at me for five years and so I finally looked it up: firkytoodle
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this word's been niggling at me for five years and so I finally looked it up: firkytoodleyou flirt.
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this word's been niggling at me for five years and so I finally looked it up: firkytoodle
Hmm, not quite sure how that happened. I blame it on the dord and such ilk. Patridge plainly gives firkytoodle.
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jim, I don't quite know how to put this without making (at least) one of us look bad, but I probably wouldn't have waited five years had this been posted by someone else.
-joe (reputation and rarities) friday
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I don't quite know how to put this without making (at least) one of us look bad, but I probably wouldn't have waited five years had this been posted by someone else
Ya know? I have a feeling that this was one of my (many) wwh-prompted postings. And, that still doesn't explain how I turned toodle into doodle.
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You can ask for dispensation 
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Who has the authority to grant it???
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Usually the oldest one, but since men have a tendency to lie at least as much about age as women, that will be hard to find out.
I can volunteer. (might even be the oldest)
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Well, I think Dale wins that contest. He just admitted to being 104 in another thread.... 
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Age?
Where was the headlight dimmer switch placed prior to being
put on the steering wheel column?
The bottle top of Royal Crown cola had a hole in it. What was
it used for?
What method did women use to appear to be wearing stockings when
none were available due to rationing in World War II?
What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you
could not tell whether it was coming or going?
How was butch wax used?
Before inline skates, how did you keep your skates attached to
your shoes?
Which was the most dreaded disease of the 1940's and 1950's?
SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
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1. on the floor. (I wish it still was.)
2. sprinkle clothes for ironing.
3. pen marking to simulate the stocking seam.
4. (this one I don't know)
5. men's hair.
6. skate key.
7. polio
I can't because there aren't ten....
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ability to count to ten is one of the first things to go. 
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What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you
could not tell whether it was coming or goingNash Metropolitan. There are plenty of similar quizzes floating around the web. Bonus question: when was the Internet invented and by whom?
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Age?
Where was the headlight dimmer switch placed prior to being
put on the steering wheel column?
The bottle top of Royal Crown cola had a hole in it. What was
it used for?
What method did women use to appear to be wearing stockings when
none were available due to rationing in World War II?
What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you
could not tell whether it was coming or going?
How was butch wax used?
Before inline skates, how did you keep your skates attached to
your shoes?
Which was the most dreaded disease of the 1940's and 1950's?
SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
1. got that one 2. No idea 3. No idea 4. My guess woulda been VW 5. Butch wax? 6. My earliest memories of skates were straps 7. Polio. 8. No one can get all Ten And zmjezhds bonus question. Tricky, guessing the ARPA team.
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SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known?
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Tricky, guessing the ARPA team.Yes, tricky. The "father of the Internet" is Vinton Cerf who co-authored RFC 675 Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program ( link) which was published in December 1974. On January 1, 1983, TCP/IP protocols became the only approved protocol on the ARPANET. Between those two dates, some experiments were carried out connecting one or more networks with ARPANET.
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I prefer to keep the mystery element alive. The fact that I volunteerd to be the oldest and said I might be doesn't mean that I am. ( as noticed by twosleepy )
Half of the articles of that quizz are completely unknown to me. I must have been born in
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SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known? Beats me, but at least some people can count. I am fully aware there were not ten there, but paying attention to what one reads before posting is exactly my point. Appreciate the wink. It may be alzheimers, but maybe part-timers, sometimers, or half-timers (???) The answer to two of them according to the quiz found on the net were Studebaker and Skate Key.
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SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known? You are quite correct, Latishya. Age means nothing if the questions are culturally based (and/or biased), and most of those are, and may even be quite localized ("Butch Wax", for one). I knew most because I am a middle-aged American, of which there are quite a few on this board, but certainly not close to all! :0)
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Tricky, guessing the ARPA team.Yes, tricky. The "father of the Internet" is Vinton Cerf who co-authored RFC 675 Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program ( link) which was published in December 1974. On January 1, 1983, TCP/IP protocols became the only approved protocol on the ARPANET. Between those two dates, some experiments were carried out connecting one or more networks with ARPANET. I thought AlGore was. ;^)
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Age?
Where was the headlight dimmer switch placed prior to being
put on the steering wheel column?
The bottle top of Royal Crown cola had a hole in it. What was
it used for?
What method did women use to appear to be wearing stockings when
none were available due to rationing in World War II?
What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you
could not tell whether it was coming or going?
How was butch wax used?
Before inline skates, how did you keep your skates attached to
your shoes?
Which was the most dreaded disease of the 1940's and 1950's?
SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP.
WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT??
As someone has noted, there are not ten questions here. AGE? -- 71. 1. Dimmer switch -- the first car I remember in our family had no dimmer switch but when they cam they were on the floor. 2. Royal Crown bottle cap -- actually there were several holes in it sealed with a cork or cardboard liner. It allowed the bottle to be used to sprinkle clothing before ironing them before the existence of steam irons. 3. "fake" nylons -- painted or inked on the legs. 4. Post war car -- best answer Tucker alternative answer Studebacker 5. butch wax -- made butch or flat top hair cuts stand up 6. skates -- they were clamp-ons and a hex key adjusted the clamps & length 7. dreaded disease -- poliomyelitis, sometimes called infantile paralysis -- before penicillin though there were numerous dreaded diseases such as scarlet fever, diptheria, etc. 8. Unasked question about early cars: what was on the steering wheel that helped the engine run smoother? 9. Another early car question: what kind of hand injury was related to starting cars? Why didn't left handed people get it? 10. When a circus came to a town, how did it get there?
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8. choke
9. crank to turn over the engine. it was done right-handed. my dad broke his arm when he was young cranking his brother's car.
10. train
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