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Matthiasa said:
Perknose said:
And he was wrong, it doesn't mean that at all. It never has. It only means fast. <shrug>
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Unless he used an updated dictionary then it could also mean
Main Entry: fleet-footed
Part of Speech: adj
Definition: quick and nimble on one's feet
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So ignoring the quick part it's close. 😛
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<Rant Alert on>

I see you didn't include the link, and selectively quoted what you did. Kindly allow me to redress your omission, good sir! 😛

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fleet-footed

Ahh, yes, Dictionary.com, the $5 crack whore of online dictionaries-- a true pandering prostitute which will swallow and then eagerly regurgitate any ignorant deconstruction of a word.

Yet, even Dictionary.com lists this and only this as its sole formally accepted definition:
fleet-foot·ed
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adjective able to run fast.
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In point of fact, what you tried to pass off without attribution was only appended, after other commercial BS, at the tail end of the listing, in what that pandering whore of a site calls its, errr, ummmm, (c'mon guys, corporate wants us to come up with something that sounds legitimate) Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon.

No doubt, this is the lexiconic bordello where "beg the question" means "to ask a question." It doesn't.

You're welcome to use it to reinforce your lazy misconceptions, of course, just try to wipe the cum-splatter off you when you leave, that stink lingers. 😉

</Rant alert off>

<------ Perk laughing his ass off at himself right now. Of ALL threads a geezeer grammar curmudgeon such as myself could choose to ponderously hijack, I choose a spaceman thread! 😛 😛 😛
 
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Perknose said:
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<------ Perk laughing his ass off at himself right now. Of ALL threads a geezeer grammar curmudgeon such as myself could choose to ponderously hijack, I choose a spaceman thread! 😛 😛 😛
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I'm waiting for you to do it in a nemesis1 thread.:colbert:
 
shortylickens said:
Have we ever had a thread go in the correct direction?
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What would be the correct direction for a spaceman thread? Back to the future? Forward into the past? Everywhere at once starting nowhere at all? In short, how can you be in two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all? :biggrin:

WelshBloke said:
I'm waiting for you to do it in a nemesis1 thread.:colbert:
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I wouldn't know where to start.

spaceman knows exactly what he's doing, like a jazz artist bending notes all out of any recognizable shape and deliberately going "off key" and into registers heretofore unknown while chasing a higher, if elusive, musical truth.

nemesis1, not so much. 😵
 
I don't wanna know your name
Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
OK you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked all right before
 
Perknose said:
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Originally Posted by WelshBloke View Post
I'm waiting for you to do it in a nemesis1 thread.
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I wouldn't know where to start.

spaceman knows exactly what he's doing, like a jazz artist bending notes all out of any recognizable shape and deliberately going "off key" and into registers heretofore unknown while chasing a higher, if elusive, musical truth.

nemesis1, not so much. 😵
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Here's the thing though - It doesn't matter where you begin or end. Or IF you begin or end. Things like time, order and logic are merely trite details.

At least that's what the pope told me. :whiste:
 
Perknose said:
<Rant Alert on>

I see you didn't include the link, and selectively quoted what you did. Kindly allow me to redress your omission, good sir! 😛

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fleet-footed

Ahh, yes, Dictionary.com, the $5 crack whore of online dictionaries-- a true pandering prostitute which will swallow and then eagerly regurgitate any ignorant deconstruction of a word.

Yet, even Dictionary.com lists this and only this as its sole formally accepted definition:
In point of fact, what you tried to pass off without attribution was only appended, after other commercial BS, at the tail end of the listing, in what that pandering whore of a site calls its, errr, ummmm, (c'mon guys, corporate wants us to come up with something that sounds legitimate) Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon.

No doubt, this is the lexiconic bordello where "beg the question" means "to ask a question." It doesn't.

You're welcome to use it to reinforce your lazy misconceptions, of course, just try to wipe the cum-splatter off you when you leave, that stink lingers. 😉

</Rant alert off>

<------ Perk laughing his ass off at himself right now. Of ALL threads a geezeer grammar curmudgeon such as myself could choose to ponderously hijack, I choose a spaceman thread! 😛 😛 😛
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Both of you are idiots. He was clearly talking about a shitload of boats. It is a well known tradition to keep foxes on the flagship of a larger fleet for good luck. This is why the incredible indie band named themselves the Fleet Foxes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJGJjXmyvII&feature=related
 
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