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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: double dare #38292 08/13/01 07:55 PM A Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered A in truth or dare, it's when you get two dares instead and you get to choose the lesser of the evils. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: down sizing phrases/words #38293 08/13/01 08:06 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park 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... my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Downsizing... #38294 08/13/01 08:23 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 >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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: double dare #38295 08/13/01 10:12 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City <<double dare>> Dear wwh, A dare would downsize your challenge. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: origin of wittol #38296 08/13/01 11:03 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 >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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: double dare #38297 08/14/01 12:23 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 757 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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