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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread football aptronym #51515 01/02/2002 3:59 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Linebacker for the University of Oregon Ducks: Wesly Mallard. http://goducks.fansonly.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mallard_wesly01.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51516 01/03/2002 12:04 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Poor chap! Wouldn't it be terrible if he received an injury that made it difficult for him to walk? And could you keep a straight face whilst you invited him to play whist? However, if he ever feels unwanted or unloved, he can come to the UK and join a Steam Locomotive preservation society! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51517 01/03/2002 12:20 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Poor chap! Wouldn't it be terrible if he received an injury that made it difficult for him to walk? Oh, to him it'd prolly be like water off a duck's back... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51518 01/03/2002 12:27 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 I dunno - I think it might give him a deceitful walk. It seems probable that he would weave his way on tangled webs . . . Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: if it walks like a duck... #51519 01/03/2002 2:10 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 ...or you might say "wimble-wamble". [no whiter than the average duck] (hi dubious!) [/unwhitened] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: if it walks like a duck... #51520 01/03/2002 2:18 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 wambling seems appropriate, but I'm not so sure about wimbling - that sounds like a boring occupation to me. Perhaps ducking and diving would be a better description? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wimble-wamble #51521 01/03/2002 3:30 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 >not so sure about wimbling - that sounds like a boring occupation yeahbut, in wimble-wamble it's supposedly a reduplication of wamble and nothing to do with wimbling atall. OED gives it as Brit. dialect meaning to roll about in walking; evidently not where you are. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: wimble-wamble #51522 01/03/2002 4:04 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Nay, lad; reaund 'ere tha's mo' like to 'ear 'em say, "weighvin." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51523 01/03/2002 8:12 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... Mallard He must be a mean quackler! so go ahead and shoot me, quackle instead of tackle, get it? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51524 01/04/2002 3:36 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky It seems probable that he would weave his way on tangled webs . . . Well, if his webs got tangled (good one!), he'd weeble and he'd wobble and he would fall down. Hmm...how much wood could a wood duck duck if a wood duck could and would duck wood? (Oh my stars, folks, she's gone to stream-of-consciousness again!) What does one wood duck say to another? "Wood you like to go out with me?" What does a wood duck say to a wood duck decoy? "Why don't you answer me? What are you, a wooden-head?" What does a wood duck do to ward off bad luck? Knocks on wood, of course! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: football aptronym #51525 01/05/2002 7:07 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago How did the mallard cross the road? Via duct.Not via an elephant. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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. 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