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what could be wrong with this? onliest thing I can imagine is that you used Quick Reply instead of Reply.
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what could be wrong with this? onliest thing I can imagine is that you used Quick Reply instead of Reply. I think TS is correct Bran...its all working here fine for me 
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AHD4 says jumbo is, perhaps from the slang term meaning 'clumsy fellow'. Etymonline takes it one step further, suggesting that the slang term is from a West African language word for elephant.
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suggesting that the slang term is from a West African language word for elephant.
Yeah. Folks do hate an unsolved etymology. Origin uncertain is a bad thing.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Yehm, always hate unsolved problems, I do.
TS AKA tsuwm, I never use quick reply cause I know my answers never will be quick.
I got a serious problem. The link function works. Script promp works. (don't want it) I can make a list. (don't want it)
The whole rest of the the cute little quares is LIMP, LAME, DEAD,
PASSÉ, GONE. If only I knew the origin. Yes I hate unsolved problems.
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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Visual words sound like? Yeah, that wasn't very good, was it? I just meant the inherent quality in both: jumbo = very large, and elephants are very large. Hey--visualization onomatopoeia? (Just kidding--I got your point!) PM'ing me won't do you any good, Branny/all: I have nothing to do with the way this place functions. And in fact yesterday I tried to put an image in a PM but it showed only as a link, not a picture. Let's see:  Ok, that worked. Now, bolding. Ok, that worked for me. Let me go find an image somewhere:  Well, that worked here, too. Dunno what why it didn't work in my PM. [shrug]
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And I thought it was the J was the elephant's trunk and the u was the ear or something like that. Yeah, jumbo probably got its meaning of largeness from its use as the name of a particularly large elephant.
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J shape works for Jumbo shrimp too I presume.
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"" PM'ing me won't do you any good, Branny/all: I have nothing to do with the way this place functions."" I know Jackie, thanks for the glorious elephant. But someone of the higher techs here might understand the following: I get left at page bottom: Error on page. I copied the error details: Message: Object required Line: 20 Char: 3 Code: 0 URI: http://wordsmith.org/board/ubb_js/standard_text_editor.js?v=7.5.6Of course this makes it clear to me once more that I can use computers, but I cannot understand them. ( as goes for light switches, TV's, cars, you name it. :-)smile,:-)
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