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#108197 07/23/03 01:57 PM
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Oh, well. Maybe in context? As an observer? Any way at all?
Shucks!


#108198 07/23/03 09:13 PM
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Nope. You could have confused it with mob-handed, of course.


#108199 07/23/03 09:26 PM
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>"ham fisted" = something done in in anger.

ham-fishted ~= heavy-handed?


#108200 07/24/03 01:53 AM
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ham-fishted

Is that as in gobshmacked?


#108201 07/24/03 09:53 AM
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as in gobshmacked?

Or either cornobbled, one.


#108202 07/24/03 10:54 AM
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Or either cornobbled, one.

Faldage - since I've never met you IRL - do you actually talk like that? I'll be terribly disappointed if I ever do meet you, and you don't!


#108203 07/24/03 11:04 AM
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He does, and sometimes not, one


#108204 07/24/03 11:47 AM
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Or either


#108205 07/24/03 12:24 PM
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ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


#108206 07/24/03 12:33 PM
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for some reason I associate "ham-fistesd" with Harry Potter's cousin, Dudley. I am almost sure I've seen the word in JK Rowling books


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