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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Dibs on this #102710 05/10/03 01:30 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... A compelling example of vacuuous rhetoric? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs on this #102711 05/10/03 01:39 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,852 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,852 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA a minimalist reply a placeholder, keeping dibs on the spot but most likely, just a slip of the finger, and will be the subject of minor embarrassment when WM logs on next time and finds the tempest in a teapot started by an inadvertent hit-the-wrong-key-by-mistake-darn-it-now-I-have-to reconstruct-the-whole-silly-message glitch. Not to worry, WM, happens to all of us every now and then. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs on this #102712 05/10/03 03:00 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >a minimalist reply >a placeholder, keeping dibs on the spot knowing wordminstrel (as I don't) I'm thinking this could well be the actual answer.. -joe (his dibs) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs on this #102713 05/10/03 10:50 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs on this #102714 05/10/03 11:17 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 Dear Tsuwm: In dis spot, if in no other, I am "his dibs". Dis who may, none can dibs me away. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs on this #102715 05/11/03 02:27 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky In dis spot, if in no other, I am "his dibs". And here I'd been thinking you were his nibs! ;-) wofa, I got out my copy of "Dibs"; nowhere does it say where the name Dibs came from. In the story, both his mother and his teachers were calling him that before Ms. Axline met him. But there is so much emphasis on protecting the clients' privacy that I suspect she gave him the name. This was the first printing, 1968: the book cost seventy-five cents! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dibs #102716 05/13/03 09:03 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina S sjm old hand sjm old hand S Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >dibs vs bags In my childhood both were used interchangeably, now that I (outwardly) appear to be grown-up, dibs is the verb I both hear and use more often. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Me, too! Me, too! #102717 05/14/03 04:44 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Ah! Another person cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,810 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 458 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 15 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,852 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,944 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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