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| 10 APR 2011 at 11:12pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Ha. You just can't think of a sentence using clacker. Let me drag something out of my childhood...... oh yes...... 'oi! poo face! shut yer clacker' yep, pretty sure I heard that on the street growing up. never addressed at moi, you understand... vulgar lot the northerners.) [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
carry on....
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| 11 APR 2011 at 12:44am |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | CLACKERS, When I was a kid we had a thing/toy called clackers they were 2 balls with a material Im not sure of, glass like but of course they couldnt be glass but they were on a long string with one clacker on each end with a plastic pc. in the middle that you would hold and then you would kind of swing them up and down and they would clack together. Anybody remember those? Its kind of hard to explain.......but anyway.
Why not start with a whole new word every 5th page or something?
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| 11 APR 2011 at 1:08am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Okay then, WALKERS can not become CLACKERS, because it has one too many letters.
However, WALKERS could become:
WANKERS
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| 11 APR 2011 at 1:20am |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | ooops, :-[
WANKERS becomes CANKERS
wankers, hahahaha, and Mark thinks my mind is in the gutter
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| 11 APR 2011 at 3:02am |
BrianSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | CANKERS becomes KNACKER
(Which is worse? Three Ss or two Ks?)
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| 11 APR 2011 at 3:41am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gamer (11 APR 2011 1:19am)
wankers, hahahaha, and Mark thinks my mind is in the gutter
Mark knows it is, ha ha!
Now, what the heck is a KNACKER? Is it one who "knacks"?
You people are insane. I'm gonna start using Russian words.
EDIT: Nevermind. Turns out KNACKER is a legitimate Brit word... for a buyer of 1) worn-out domestic animals or their carcasses for animal feed or fertilizer or, 2) old buildings and structures for their materials. Nice. Recycle. We call them ghouls or salvage companies here in the States.
The Brits have a use for everything! Waste not, want not, and all that. Well done.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 3:50am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | The knacker's yard was where broken down horses go to be turned into horsemeat but it rapidly came to mean scrap iron too. Hence the still used expression, both in UK and Oz, 'I'm knackered' which of course means 'I am excessively exhausted, beyond the point of recovery'. Or, to the average Aussie... 'I'm buggered'. no sexual innuendo implied)
Only word I can think of next though is
KNICKER one half of a pair of knickers?) or a thief, take your pick.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 4:12am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (11 APR 2011 3:50am)
Hence the still used expression, both in UK and Oz, 'I'm knackered' which of course means 'I am excessively exhausted, beyond the point of recovery'.
I knew what "knackered" means. You told me when you were at Uni you were knackered. You were tired.
Originally Posted By Caroline (11 APR 2011 3:50am)
Or, to the average Aussie... 'I'm buggered'.(no sexual innuendo implied)
Uh huh. Sure. You may want to talk with Helen, Caroline. She likes talking dirty.
Originally Posted By Caroline (11 APR 2011 3:50am)
Only word I can think of next though is KNICKER (one half of a pair of knickers?) or a thief, take your pick.
I object on the 1/2 of some panties, but I concur on "a thief". Maybe the pickpocket took half of a pair of some bloomers.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 7:52am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (11 APR 2011 3:40am)
Originally Posted By Gamer (11 APR 2011 1:19am)
wankers, hahahaha, and Mark thinks my mind is in the gutter
Mark knows it is, ha ha!
Now, what the heck is a KNACKER? Is it one who "knacks"?
You people are insane. I'm gonna start using Russian words.
EDIT: Nevermind. Turns out KNACKER is a legitimate Brit word... for a buyer of 1) worn-out domestic animals or their carcasses for animal feed or fertilizer or, 2) old buildings and structures for their materials. Nice. Recycle. We call them ghouls or salvage companies here in the States.
The Brits have a use for everything! Waste not, want not, and all that. Well done.
Heavens, but you bunch of wankers (what does wanker even mean? :-? ) are a collection of potty-mouths! Of course, I'm totally innocent and do not have the faintest idea what the alternative meanings for a word such as knacker might mean. [smiley=angel_smiley.gif] Or bug.. er.. -that bug- word.. : [smiley=angel.gif]
Of course, I do know that:
CLACKER = one who clacks
KNACKER = one who knacks
KNICKER = one who knicks
and, finally
KNOCKER = one who knocks
KNOCKER. And so, the KNICKER became the KNOCKER.
I find myself suddenly wondering if there was ever a time in history when those 'k's weren't silent k's. I mean, -why are they even there?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 11 APR 2011 at 11:03am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (11 APR 2011 7:52am)
I find myself suddenly wondering if there was ever a time in history when those 'k's weren't silent k's. I mean, -why are they even there?
To drive one Krazy. [img]http://www.mindspring.com/~markparrish/eek4.gif[/img]
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| 11 APR 2011 at 11:11am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I find myself suddenly wondering if there was ever a time in history when those 'k's weren't silent k's. I mean, -why are they even there?
In Old English, that creole language that evolved through the meshing of several other languages, these k's had a voice. It is only the gradual contraction of our language (still happening today) that made them silent.
Now get back to work and make some more words.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 12:06pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (11 APR 2011 11:10am)
I find myself suddenly wondering if there was ever a time in history when those 'k's weren't silent k's. I mean, -why are they even there?
In Old English, that creole language that evolved through the meshing of several other languages, these k's had a voice. It is only the gradual contraction of our language (still happening today) that made them silent.
I realize that it must have been audible at some point in time, but as an experiment, try saying the k out loud right now in all of : The Knacker knicked a set of knickers for the knotty knocker. 8-)
Now get back to work and make some more words.
Hullo! It's your turn! My word was KNOCKERS.
..... or can't you think of any? [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 11 APR 2011 at 7:36pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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KNOCKERS also has one too many letters, but your original KNOCKER is okay, Trav.
So the new word is KNOCKER, which becomes:
RECKONS
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| 11 APR 2011 at 7:55pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (11 APR 2011 7:35pm)
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KNOCKERS also has one too many letters, but your original KNOCKER is okay, Trav.
So the new word is KNOCKER, which becomes:
RECKONS
Tssk, I originally had clacker in the singular as well, I don't know how they always manage to get babies - must be all the distractions along the way.
Terry reckons that knocker is ok, so a new word beckons.
BECKONS
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:48pm |
MarkGuild Master
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BECKONS becomes:
BONKERS
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:49pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | BECKONS is now BONKERS
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:51pm |
MarkGuild Master
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That's right, Helen. We both can bask in the glory.
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:51pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Unbelieveable! You snuck that in as I typed. [smiley=tongue.gif]
okay, guess you were first so Ill think of something. [smiley=tongue.gif]
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:53pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | BONKERS is now BANKERS
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:56pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gamer (11 APR 2011 8:51pm)
Unbelieveable! You snuck that in as I typed. [smiley=tongue.gif]
okay, guess you were first so Ill think of something. [smiley=tongue.gif]
[smiley=rofl.gif] That's classic! (or bonkers) He was looking over your shoulder, Helen.
I think you both win, but if you let Mark crib off you again, you'll have to type faster!
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:57pm |
MarkGuild Master
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BANKERS becomes:
RANKLES
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| 11 APR 2011 at 8:58pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gamer (11 APR 2011 8:53pm)
BONKERS is now BANKERS
Arrgh.. I see Mark is fast on the trigger today - ok.. R grr. Ok, I was going to reply to bankers, but now I'll have to think a bit more..
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 12 APR 2011 at 12:54am |
HelenGuild Master
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[smiley=rofl.gif] That's classic! (or bonkers) He was looking over your shoulder, Helen.
hehehehe
RANKLES becomes ANKLETS
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| 12 APR 2011 at 1:15am |
MarkGuild Master
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ANKLETS becomes:
SALIENT
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