Originally posted by: MindStorm
Originally posted by: Millennium
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Funny, I just wrote this for another thread. Maybe it works here too:
You will find, if you care to look, that calling people morons has been very effective. People have called other people morons so much that that form of beatific christening has become a universal feature of all our lives. One diagnostic for effective penetration of the intended effect is to check for name calling and piling on. If you can find somebody identified publicly as a moron you will find all those who themselves have been called moron sometime in the past and unfortunately didn't have the inner whatever it is that enables so few to avoid stabbing themselves in the heart with the feeling that that term is exactly fitting of them, yes you will find them gathered round that reputed moron like stink on sh!t or blow flies to a corpse, sucking it for all it's worth. This of course is due to that unfortunate psychic tendency, unavoidable to the unsuspecting, that whenever one begins to hate himself in this way, the only outlet for that pain is to try to give it to somebody else. The beauty of slur slander calumny and putdown is that in this way the entire race is infected with an all consuming self hate that makes of everybody a WMD to every newborn child. In this way will we eventually hype our hate to a pitch sufficient to exterminate ourselves from the planet. That will happen, of course, unless by some miracle I cannot see, we finally and at last feel our shame.
Take your dribble elsewhere Loony... I am through with you.
You want to use the word DRIVEL,
moron. Dribble is something you do in addition to cluelessly chasing after a rolled up joint that's lying perfectly still on the ground while dragging your bare knuckles against the cement. You're right...the average person is pretty stupid.
ACTUALLY MORON, go to dictionary.com.
Drivel:
To slobber; drool.
To flow like spittle or saliva.
To talk stupidly or childishly.
Dribble:
To flow or fall in drops or an unsteady stream; trickle: Water dribbled from the leaky faucet.
To let saliva drip from the mouth; drool.
Sports.
To dribble a ball or puck.
To advance by dribbling: dribbled down the court.
v. tr.
To let flow or fall in drops or an unsteady stream.
Sports.
To move (a ball or puck) by repeated light bounces or kicks, as in basketball or soccer.
To hit (a baseball, for example) so that it bounces slowly.
n.
A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
A small quantity; a bit.
Sports. The act of dribbling a ball.
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[Frequentative of obsolete drib, alteration of drip.]
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dribbler n.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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dribble
\Drib"ble\, v. t. In various games, to propel (the ball) by successive slight hits or kicks so as to keep it always in control.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
\Drib"ble\, v. i. 1. In football and similar games, to dribble the ball.
2. To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
\Drib"ble\, n. An act of dribbling a ball.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
\Drib"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dribbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dribbing.] [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.] 1. To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
2. To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
3. To fall weakly and slowly. [Obs.] ``The dribbling dart of love.'' --Shak. (Meas. for Meas., i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
\Drib"ble\, v. t. To let fall in drops.
Let the cook . . . dribble it all the way upstairs. -- Swift.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
\Drib"ble\, n. A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dribble
n 1: the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle] 2: saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, drivel, slobber] 3: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribbling] v 1: run or flow slowly, or in an unsteady stream: "reports began to dribble in." [syn: trickle, filter] 2: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" [syn: drip] 3: move, as in hockey or soccer; "Carry the ball" [syn: carry] 4: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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dribble:
Main Entry: 1drib·ble
Pronunciation: 'dri-b&l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): drib·bled; drib·bling /-(&-)li[ng]/
Etymology: frequentative of drib (to dribble)
Date: circa 1589
transitive senses
1 : to issue sporadically and in small bits
2 : to let or cause to fall in drops little by little
3 a : to propel by successive slight taps or bounces with hand, foot, or stick b : to hit (as a baseball) so as to cause a slow bouncing
intransitive senses
1 : to fall or flow in drops or in a thin intermittent stream : TRICKLE
2 : to let saliva trickle from the corner of the mouth : DROOL
3 : to come or issue in piecemeal or desultory fashion
4 a : to dribble a ball or puck b : to proceed by dribbling c of a ball : to move with short bounces
- drib·bler /-b(&-)l&r/ noun
Drivel:
Main Entry: 1driv·el
Pronunciation: 'dri-v&l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -eled or -elled; -el·ing or driv·el·ling /-v(&-)li[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English dreflian; perhaps akin to Old Norse draf malt dregs
Date: before 12th century
intransitive senses
1 : to let saliva dribble from the mouth : SLAVER
2 : to talk stupidly and carelessly
transitive senses
1 : to utter in an infantile or imbecilic way
2 : to waste or fritter in a childish fashion
- driv·el·er /-v(&-)l&r/ noun
Wow! Guess what moron they are essentially the same thing! No points for you. Now go back into your hole.