"Ow!", The Omnipotent Emperor Ent shouts.
"Darn the rules! If I'd used my snickersnee, I'd have beat them!"
"Say, what the heck is a snickersnee, anyway?", he asks.
"Your Dagger counts as one," aschaaf_86 says, "You could have used it."
aschaaf_86 enlightens The Omnipotent Emperor Ent, and the rest of the bar, by saying:
1:
snickˇerˇsnee
n.
1. A knife resembling a sword.
2. Archaic. The act of fighting with knives.
(Alteration of obsolete stick or snee, to cut and thrust in fighting with a knife, from Dutch steken of snijden: steken, to stab (from Middle Dutch);
see steig- in Indo-European Roots + of, or (from Middle Dutch) + snijden, to cut (from Middle Dutch sniden).)
2:
snickersnee n : fighting with knives (syn: (url="http://"http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=knife fight")knife fight(/url), (url="http://"http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=cut-and-thrust")cut-and-thrust(/url))
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Most people are swindled into believing stupid things like Santa, the Tooth Fairy, God(s), etc.
They later side with common sense and stop believing in most of them.
Yet most refuse to let go of the ridiculous notion of the existence of God(s).
(This message has been edited by aschaaf_86 (edited 04-29-2001).)
(This message has been edited by aschaaf_86 (edited 04-29-2001).)