#6459
10/06/2000 10:18 AM
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Jo, what an adorable picture of Max! I always knew he was a cutie!  Speaking of not sleeping--that may be the cause of my double-posting and other weirdnesses. I am just up again, after what seems to have become my customary amount: five and a half hours or so. There's just too much neat stuff going on, in the real and the virtual world, for me to want to waste time sleeping, when I can be exploring and enjoying! Sleep-deprived? Yes. Joyous? ALL THE TIME!
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in light of the recent events, I have to wonder why I didn't receive an award for latest entry by an old curmudgeon, or the Outside and Beyond the Pail [sic] award.
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Pail [sic]We call it a sick bucket over this side of the pond, tsuwm
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Outside and Beyond the Pail
In my Godmother's nettie, which was a little way down the garden path, was a notice designed to deal with this problem
We aim to please: you aim too, please
Perhaps this should be in the "Directions" thread?
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nettie
Nettie??
Meanwhile in Nettie WV (just off Route 64) the weather is:
Temperature: 66°F / 19°C
RealFeel Temperature™: 67°F / 19°C
Humidity: 88%
Winds: WSW 8 mph / 13 kmh
Pressure: 29.99"
Visibility: 10 mi. / 16 km
What / where / why nettie??
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vomitoryYes, it does conjure up the sound of people being disgorged in streams, doesn't it! BTW in this weird wired & wonderful planet, there are not only a set of people who collect barf bags, but there are others who spend hours programming pictures of frogs dancing on the website of these sickos... http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Theater/7314/BBHOME.htm
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Vomit in one thread, farting in another, prostitution in another. Where will it all end?
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>latest entry by an old curmudgeon
Actually you did get that award but we're FedExing you the prize - look out for cross Atlantic bucket deliveries!
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barf bags
Did you know that J K Rowling invented the names for the houses at Hogwarts on an aeroplane and wrote them on the back of a sick bag. A friends daughter was horrified when told that she'd taken it home until it was pointed out that it wasn't a "used" sick back.
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Barf bags and bicycles, interesting as they are, are not terribly challenging. Let the next challenge begin! Maybe some of the spectators on the sidelines will then be enticed to join the fun...
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Allo ammelah, The ball is in your court. What challenge have you got for us? 
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nettieThe nettie is a Northern (strictly speaking, north-eastern) English equivalent to the Londoner's Khazi, and the Ozzies Dunny. No doubt there is a both a "Cymric" and a Welsh term for it. The term is usually pronounced with a double glottal stop - "ne''ie"
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look out for cross Atlantic bucket deliveriesI hate to think what the prize may be, if it is annoying the delivery service 
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>look out for cross Atlantic bucket deliveries
be sure to shout "gardyloo!" when you expect arrival.
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Stranger that I am, I was rather hoping that an addict or old hand would present a challenge to the rest of us.
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I was thinking "one off" but if anyone has a good idea, you are welcome.
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how about a stinky-pinky challenge? this came up the other day, and it's a simple rhyming game -- think up a word-rhyme (two or more words which all rhyme) and give a clue, everyone else tries to guess the rhyme. anyone could clue (to verb a noun) and anyone could guess. all we'd need is a moderator -- and a new thread.
ron obvious' example clue: rotund feline = ?
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very small urban cat = itty-bitty city kitty
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Is thinking "one off" the same as thinking "one up"? If so, please do.
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very small urban cat = itty-bitty city kitty
tsuwm,
If I recall from one of my daughter's books a few years ago,
another (preferable, IMHO) name for what you are talking
about is hinky-pinky. I think there were variations. If
they were single-syllable words they were hink-pinks;
two-syllable ones were hinky-pinkies. Three might have been hinkety-pinketies. Anybody know?
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Kia ora, ammelah - care to enlighten this dullard on the origin of your nym? As to a challenge, please feel free to have a go at my feeble offering, there are still six days to go. I am longing for an opportunity to indulge in another truly groan-inspiring piece of wordplay, perhaps even worse than that behind the prize I offered tsuwm for crossing the line first. I am also hoping that AWADtalk's resident etymythologist, Jazzoctopus, will have a crack at it. I have composed an entry myself as an homage to his unique skills, but my effort seems too pale a shadow of the master's work to be exposed to the light of day.
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stinky-pinky would be the adult version. <g> here is the obligatory link: http://www.hinkypinky.com/faq.html
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I don't know about hinky-pinkies, but I'm quite familiar with hanky-panky [hanky-pankies?]. What are the former?
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#6482
10/08/2000 12:46 PM
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Since you asked, Max, my name is my own invention. While looking for something "very unique" (which hadn't been registered with Yahoo yet -- not an easy task) and which I felt a strong connection to, I hit upon this combination of the first letters of my first name and the nonsense syllables I use to announce meal times to my toddler! Sorry for the rather humdrum explanation. Perhaps I should have thought up an exotic or arcane story to go with it.
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>hanky-pankies
Aren't they small packs of tissues?
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And a hunky-punky is a muscly guy with a pink Mohawk?
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#6485
10/09/2000 12:20 PM
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and a honky-ponky is an unwashed white person
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"hanky-pankies Aren't they small packs of tissues?"
han[ky-pan[ky 7ha%4kc pa%4kc8
n.
5altered ? after (SLEIGHT OF) HAND < HOCUS-POCUS6 [Colloq.] trickery or deception, orig. as used in tricks of illusion or sleight of hand, now esp. in connection with shady dealings or illicit sexual activity
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