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- From: dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Peeve du jour
- Message-ID: <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:04:02 GMT
- References: <C19qnx.8wr@vcd.hp.com> <1993Jan23.043709.17206@netcom.com>
- Organization: More like Dis~, really.
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- In article <1993Jan23.043709.17206@netcom.com>, Not Of This Earth writes:
-
- > In article <C19qnx.8wr@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com
- > (Dave "Pecksniff" Munroe) writes:
- >
- > >My peeve is that a vomitory isn't what I thought it was.
- >
- > Peeve: People who won't let the other shoe drop.
- >
- > Well, what's it all mean, Mr. Natural?
- >
- > Peeve: People who are too goddam lazy to get off their ass and go grab
- > a dictionary.
- >
-
- !Peeve: Playing the 'dictionary' game: Someone is designated
- dictionary, chooses a word in the dictionary, and asks if
- anyone knows what it means. If not, then everyone writes
- down a definition, and hands it in to the designated dictionary,
- who reads them all out, including his own dictionary definition,
- and the players try to guess the real definition.
-
- Peeve: Choosing 'menhaden', and writing down the most ubiquitous
- definition ever "North American Fish"(*), and having my
- partner successfully choose that as the dictionary definition
- because she thought [correctly] that I was trying to pull a fast
- one. Grump.
-
- Peeve: Coming equal second out of six players.
-
- (*) not being American's we'd never heard of 'menhaden'. Quelle
- surprise.
-
- Dac
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au David Andrew Clayton. // _| _ _
- dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Canberra, Australia \X/ (_](_](_
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