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in truth or dare, it's when you get two dares instead and you get to choose the lesser of the evils.
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Well bill, there is alwasy the expression that "Their IQ is equal to the shoe size" and the new rejoinder," and i think they lie about what size shoes they wear... "
it all modern day evolution.. engineers go out and build idiot proof machines, and god( or the what ever force you want to name) goes out and provides the world with a better class of idiot.. so to keep the engineers employed...
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>are there any other valid "re-sized" words? wow, I had two(2) problems with this question: what is meant by a "re-sized" word, and (more pointedly) what is meant by "valid"? (to wit <ahem>, I don't know if quarter-wit should be considered "valid") I suppose you could take any word with a number or size and "adjust" the size, usually with the object being to intensify. e.g., joe is likely to do this task in a full-assed manner; teD has posted another of his thrice-told tales; etc.
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<<double dare>>
Dear wwh,
A dare would downsize your challenge.
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>we should check OED, but W3 traces it from ME wetewold as in cokewold (cuckold).
OED2 not only supports this, but suggests a direct path from cokewold, and shows the second sense as transf. (? with pun on wit-all.) One who has little sense; a half-witted person; a fool; occas. a witling.
Shakespeare was an early user of the cuckold sense.
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I, too, remember double dare from my childhood (which predates Truth or Dare by a considerable amount). In my neighborhood the person who was double dared usually claimed that it meant that the issuer of the dare had to perform the required feat first.
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