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can you find the true definition or will you choose a daffynition? Here are your choices:

1. A rascal, an itinerant farm laborer.

2. A U-shaped pipe used in plumbing that connects a vertical pipe with a horizontal pipe.

3. One who urinates on rocks.

4. The secondary krill filters on a baleen whale.

5. The third of a cow's four stomachs.

6. A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!)

7. A knife containing a small hammer and blade combined for minor shoe repairs.

8. A Welsh variation of Irish step-dance.

9. A rough hammered surface on metal.

10. A joke told using props.
 
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First response, so it has to be A
 
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First response, so it has to be A


There is no A. Do you mean 1?
 
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Originally posted by sattva:
There is no A. Do you mean 1?

Yep. That’s just the rascal in me coming out. ;-)
 
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There is no A. Do you mean 1?

Yep. That’s just the rascal in me coming out. ;-)


In this saha world, so much suffering, but the rascal in you, made me smile. Sometimes, it is the small things....
 
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I say it's 1, although the one used in my neighborhood was called a rock. (We are tough.)
 
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Did you say "1", Proof? To me this sounds as if you're describing "6".
 
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Sorry. Going to night school makes it hard to reckon numbers in daylight.
 
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# 7
 
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If I eliminate those I wrote and those I'm sure are wrong, that only leaves 1 and 10. I'll guess incorrectly and go with 10.
 
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Last call for votes!
 
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Number 1 for me please.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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Who wrote what:

1. A rascal, an itinerant farm laborer. Correct definition (Couldn't fool haberdasher or arnie)

2. A U-shaped pipe used in plumbing that connects a vertical pipe with a horizontal pipe. sattva

3. One who urinates on rocks. Geoff

4. The secondary krill filters on a baleen whale. Geoff (tinman chose this one)

5. The third of a cow's four stomachs. Kalleh (I was sure this one would get some votes. I thought it was the most creative!)

6. A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!) Haberdasher (Proofreader fell for this one. He used a rock, though.)

7. A knife containing a small hammer and blade combined for minor shoe repairs. Arnie (kalleh voted for this.)

8. A Welsh variation of Irish step-dance. Proofreader

9. A rough hammered surface on metal. Geoff

10. A joke told using props. sattva
 
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I liked mine, too, Sattva. I am going to do the next word, but it really was Shu's idea.
 
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A pink two-inches-or-so-in-diameter rubber ball used by children, usually poorer kids in bigger cities like New York and Chicago where they play on the sidewalks and in the streets (in stickball, two manhole covers is an automatic home run!) Haberdasher (Proofreader fell for this one. He used a rock, though.)

I think what he meant was that after a while the rubber petrified and essentially the ball turned into a rock, so it didn't bounce very well any more...

It was made by the Spalding company, and you could get it for a quarter or so in the candy store or the Five-and-Ten. The official name was the Spalding Hi-Bounce but it morphed into a "spaldeen," which might have lured you in.

Oh, and some hammers have a ball on the side opposite the face, instead of a nail-removing claw. That's the peen, and they're called "ball-peen hammers."
 
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Oh, and some hammers have a ball on the side opposite the face, instead of a nail-removing claw. That's the peen, and they're called "ball-peen hammers."

Used in metalworking.
 
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Spalpeen is an Irish word with three definitions, according to the OED Online:

1. A common workman or labourer; a farm-worker or harvester.
Attested from 1780

2. Used contemptuously: A low or mean fellow; a scamp, a rascal.
Attested from 1817

3. A youngster, a boy.
Attested from 1891
 
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Yes, I don't think it's all that uncommon in Ireland. I've definitely heard it.


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I'm a lot further from Ireland than arnie and I've seen it too. In comic books, even. Generally as an insult, or at least a pejorative, per tinman's Definition 2.
 
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Oh, you two are so smart! Smile
 
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