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#84441 10/30/02 11:16 AM
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heck even my NAME'S a typo!)

I've always wondered about that. I tend to mentally yell your first name, because of those two capital letters. It's actually quite unsettling, all this mental yelling, and I've been here for almost two years - you'd think I'd be used to it!


#84442 10/30/02 12:56 PM
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I tend to mentally yell your first name
Oh, Bean, how funny! You kill me!


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A few more: mummy, eerie, booboo, voodoo, added, referee, peeve, daddled....

Please, what does "daddled" mean?!


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re:what does "daddled" mean?!

just a guess, but it think it is a nonsense word --something like dilly- dally, (past tense of dilly dally?)
she diddled and daddled and was late to school.


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I got this from a google hit:

Dadle \Dad"le\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Daddled, p. pr. & vb. n.
Daddling.] [Prob. freq. of dade.]
To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man;
hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.


I think daddled should be descriptive of a male parent by his progeny, a blending of dad and addled. "My old man, he is SO like daddled."



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