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Re: from Jackie
...because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting.
This is, no doubt, a ref. to biting the hand that feeds you?since the fishermen (and crew) are catching the fish to eat, (and sell it to other to eat) isn't this a case of you, feeding the hands on what bites?
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WW says, "So the Byrne site is incorrect? I don't have her dictionary--just the site."
A suspicious lawyer might surmise that Dub-Dub possesses the dictionary but chose to mis-cite, it to stimulate discussion. His suspicion is allayed by noting that the dictionary's dust jacket includes a part of its text and prominantly displays the word hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian -- which Dub-Dub would have long since cited, had she seen it.
Post-edit, re response to hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian: my god, I've created a monster!
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Dear Keiva,
You wrote: His suspicion is allayed by noting that the dictionary's dust jacket includes a part of its text and prominantly displays the word hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian...
Your suspicion is justly allayed because I would have added hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian to my legal use of such hippopotomonstrosesquipedalious words. Recently, I mentioned hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia and, what follows (with mincing feet) the hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobe!
Rest assured, by your insightful deduction, I do not possess Mrs. Bryne's dictionary. Ordered it on Amazon, but they cancelled! They probably intuited the trouble it would cause here. The Byrne site was incorrect; they've acknowledged the mistake to me, thanks to contsuwm.
And I, for one, will incorrectly use cornobbled for the rest of my days. [Ducking for fear of flying fish here]
Best regards,
Hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliadubdub
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hit by a fish?/hit by a fist?
Well, if a sailor or fisherman picks up a small flying fish from the deck, grips it in his fist, and then slugs you one...then it's like Candide, the best of all possible words! (or meanings) [having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too-e]
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the whole furshlugginer thing
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
This is MadŽ, do you hear me? MadŽ!
... I've always speculated that "potrzebie" is really a Polish word, which would be pronounced something like "p'CHEB-ya" in the original and mean a rubber ball, or a bad check, or maybe even Tigger, or something else that bounces...
Any Polish-speakers listening who might comment? or am I just being too imaginative?
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Cornobbled?
"It's the whole fishlugginer thing...You lug the high fish, and I'll lug the low fish..." from Loch Lomad
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