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That's definitely near the mark. However, the most offensive feedback is often no feedback at all.
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A little while ago, I realized that I use the phase "roly poly" to refer to isopods, and since then I was curious I looked up pill bug.
quote:NOUN: Also called wood louse. also called regionally Regional doodlebug. 1. A small terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Armadillidium closely related to the sow bug and having a convex, segmented, flexible body enabling it to curl into a ball when disturbed. In this sense also called roly-poly. 2. A sow bug. In both senses also called slater.
USAGE NOTE: Many people, especially science teachers, like to make a distinction between pill bugs and sow bugs. According to this usage, a pill bug, or roly-poly, is a terrestrial isopod crustacean whose segmented body gives it the ability to curl up into a ball when disturbed. A sow bug is any of several similar looking creatures that lack this ability. In popular usage, however, the names pill bug and sow bug, along with a number of other popular names, are used to refer to any of these tiny segmented crustaceans that are often mistaken for insects.
Anyone else have fun entymology stuff to share?
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I want to dobie that Hobbes thread but I can't think of anything. Well, nothing that doesn't involve "booty". And I think I've used up my demerits for the month.
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I thought of this dobie and found the link but I just couldn't post it on the board by itself. Discretion would dictate not posting it at all but I am juvenile enough to ignore that decent thought.
Potentially offensive link. Nudity involved, do not open if easily squicked.
My fat is reproducing in the downstairs bathroom...
I must be really dense but the last time this came up it took me a full day to figure the "Dobie" out. This time when "move" and "movie" ended up in two threads in the main topic window I remarked "Hey! That should have been in the Dobie thread."
*Pats self on back"
So I'm slow, but can be taught.
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I can't remember how long it took me to figure out what a dobie was. It was definitely after I had already made one, thinking myself so clever I wasn't the worst n00b ever, but sometimes I think I should just come up with a new screen name and a blank slate.
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I momentarily considered creating a dobie for the "Semi-Nude Gardening" thread entitled "Semi-Nude Gathering." It would have suggested going swimming somewhere in Wisconsin during the late spring/early summer (possibly in a quarry or something), but better sense prevailed and I decided against it.
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"The internet makes you stupid" to "The intent makes you stupid." It's subtle and would have been great if I had dobied it early on. If I had actually gone through it, I would have made it a true dobie and had it a parody of the original thread (with a funny link of course). I might even do it if the initial post weren't so long on the original thread. It would take me faaaar too long to dobie that sucker.
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