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A compelling example of vacuuous rhetoric?
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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.
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>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
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Dear Tsuwm: In dis spot, if in no other, I am "his dibs". Dis who may, none can dibs me away. 
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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!
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>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.
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Ah! Another person cleverly disguised as a responsible adult 
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