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#211687 - 07/10/13 07:03 PM Re: Wednesday's Word and Wofa's flashes. [Re: jenny jenny]
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Worcester, MA It's Morse Code - "dot dot dot dot".Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
FOUR-FLASH - either H or EEEE, depending on how long you waited between flashes
PEONY-ANTE - the florists' poker game
PENNE-ANTE - the pasta-lover's poker game
PENNSY-ANTE - the rail commuter's p.g.
You get the idea.
Or, on a different tack altogether:
PENNY-ANE - an old Beatles Christmas song (no L)
#211698 - 07/11/13 11:30 AM Thursday...already.. [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi standpat
PRONUNCIATION:
(STAND-pat)
MEANING:
adjective: Refusing to consider change in one's beliefs and opinions, especially in politics.
noun: One who refuses to consider change.
ETYMOLOGY:
In a game of poker, to stand pat is to play one's hand as dealt, without drawing other cards. From pat (apt). Earliest documented use: 1910.
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plus h
STANDPHAT - a once phat rapper whose jive is so yesterday but refuses to change because so is she.
#211702 - 07/11/13 02:03 PM Re: Thursday...already.. [Re: jenny jenny]
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STANDPA - what my father's mother has to say to my father's father because he's too deaf to hear them strike up the Star Spangled Banner
STANDPOT - the Port-a-Potty under the bleacher seats
#211704 - 07/11/13 02:45 PM Re: Thursday...already.. [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
STANDPA - what my father's mother has to say to my father's father because he's too deaf to hear them strike up the Star Spangled Banner
STANDPOT - the Port-a-Potty under the bleacher seats
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SIT-AND-PAT - what Wofaholicdoc's father's father does while the band plays the Star Spangled Banner until Wofahulicdoc's father's mother gets back from the standpot under the stands.
#211713 - 07/12/13 02:35 AM "Sit-and-pat' [Re: jenny jenny]
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I fold !
(It is a poker-themed week, isn't it?!)
#211714 - 07/12/13 03:23 AM Re: "Sit-and-pat' [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
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I fold !
(It is a poker-themed week, isn't it?!)
Maybeso, codo, but tomorrow is Friday.
Friday is the day that your silly card is the card that becomes an unlikely leader of an inside straight.
#211715 - 07/12/13 11:21 AM And the band begins to play [Re: jenny jenny]
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BLUE CHIP
PRONUNCIATION:
(BLOO chip)
MEANING:
adjective: Having high value and reliability.
noun: A reliable and highly valuable asset, such as a stock, a company, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
In poker (and other gambling games), a blue chip typically represents high value. Earliest documented use: 1873.
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BLUE SHIP - I'm sorry, I know you reserved the Yellow Submarine, but unfortunately it's in drydock this week so we've given you a free upgrade
(Well, it's better than
BLUE CHAP - Commander Peary left his Long Johns home...)
#211717 - 07/12/13 02:22 PM And the band begins to play...a blue note [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi BLUE SLIP - downsizing cooperations no longer give PINK SLIPS to discharged employees instead they give BLUE SLIPS to those they keep.
Reason: ---> saves paper <---
#211726 - 07/12/13 07:31 PM Is that sexism or what? [Re: jenny jenny]
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I thought it was the gals got pink slips and the guys got blue slips. No?
#211753 - 07/15/13 09:10 PM "...it means exactly what I want it to..." said [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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MENSAL
PRONUNCIATION:
(MEN-suhl)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Monthly.
2. Relating to the table.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin mensis (month). Earliest documented use: 1475.
For 2: From Latin mensa (table). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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MESSAL
1: In need of guidance; disorganized
2: A small meal; also, the room in which it is consumed (cf. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
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