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today's wwftd is... jackpudding
Date:
Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:26:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:
wwftd master <mikef3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To:
wwftd minions <tsuwm@aol.com>
the worthless word for the day is: jackpudding
a clown; a buffoon; a merry-andrew
"Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the drearest
interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding."
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, "The History of England"
1. What are the "drearest interests" (unless it simply a typo)
2 If Booth is an MP, how would the interests of his constituents be intrusted to anyone else?
3. "Jackpudding" is very likely a synonym for "wanker" ("pudding" at one time meant "sausage")
-tsuwm http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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