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I think you need to reduce the geekiness factor and re-render.
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"hughes b" <omn### [at] charter net> wrote in message
news:3d6e093c@news.povray.org...
> "St." <dot### [at] dot com> wrote in message news:3d6d7add$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > "hughes b" <omn### [at] charter net> wrote in message
> > news:3d6d63bd@news.povray.org...
> > > I just don't even know why the word dibs exists so please don't ask
> >
> > Bob, why does.... ;)
>
> Glad you asked, Steve.
> >:-(
LOL! Sorry Bob...
> Well I just had to know what dibs originates from and what I found is that
> it's apparently a contraction of the word dibstones (dib possibly being a
> change of the word dab too); which itself can be pretty meaningless, until
> you know it is something from a childrens game like jacks where you would
> grab them up in a certain way to win. Dibstones were sheep knucklebones I
> guess (weird huh?), something I've never heard of, but the metal jacks
> supposedly replaced them. Not positive about it, just gathered that from
> what I read.
>
> When I try to find out what bagsey originated from I get nowhere. ha ha ha
Heh, ok, I think I can help out here. It's probably slang originating from
'Lahndon'. Kna what I mean guv?
I.e., not rhyming slang but a 'street' word nonetheless. It's a literal
meaning - 'bags' - " I want to keep it in my BAG", "I covet (want it in my BAG)" -
therefore > - "Bagsy me first".
As regards 'Dibs' and 'Dabs', I have a feeling that it has something to do with
"One potato, two potato, three potato four..." ? (Banana Splits?! ;) But I'm
probably wrong here...
~Steve~
<someone please pass this over to OT... I'm too cream-crackered...Z-z-Z-z-Z-z,
laterz...>
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"St." <dot### [at] dot com> wrote in message news:3d6e8575@news.povray.org...
>
> > > > I just don't even know why the word dibs exists so please don't ask
> > >
> > > Bob, why does.... ;)
> >
> > Glad you asked, Steve.
> >
> > Well I just had to know what dibs originates from and what I found is
that
> > it's apparently a contraction of the word dibstones (dib possibly being
a
> > change of the word dab too); which itself can be pretty meaningless,
until
> > you know it is something from a childrens game like jacks where you
would
> > grab them up in a certain way to win. Dibstones were sheep knucklebones
I
> > guess (weird huh?), something I've never heard of, but the metal jacks
> > supposedly replaced them. Not positive about it, just gathered that from
> > what I read.
> >
> > When I try to find out what bagsey (or bagsy?) originated from I get
nowhere.
>
> Heh, ok, I think I can help out here. It's probably slang originating
from
> 'Lahndon'. Kna what I mean guv?
> I.e., not rhyming slang but a 'street' word nonetheless. It's a literal
> meaning - 'bags' - " I want to keep it in my BAG", "I covet (want it in my
BAG)" -
> therefore > - "Bagsy me first".
>
> As regards 'Dibs' and 'Dabs', I have a feeling that it has something to
do with
> "One potato, two potato, three potato four..." ? (Banana Splits?! ;) But
I'm
> probably wrong here...
Well, dab is probably best defined as a tap or poke in the context dib is
meant, if I understood the origin correctly.
> <someone please pass this over to OT... I'm too
cream-crackered...Z-z-Z-z-Z-z,
> laterz...>
Okay, I will then. I hadn't been getting that group for a long time, and
just started again a couple days ago as a matter of fact.
So, bagged, in other words. That was too easy so I overlooked that. This is
kind of funny to me, and possibly to other North Americans too, saying bagsy
if it means bag in a roundabout way. If you say dibs no one knows what the
heck a dib is (not expect to anyway). Although it seems the same concept
still, which is to use a nonsensical word rather than clear meaning. Or am I
wrong?
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:57:28 +0200, ABX wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:09:06 +0100, "Mick Hazelgrove"
><mic### [at] mhazelgrove fsnet co uk> wrote:
>> Thomas, Ingo
>> Tor Olav, Steve
>> Mick
>
> sound like not UK but Europe :-)
Only one person from the UK actually traveled to the convention, but
three non-UK nationals attended. Mick is a UK national, but he didn't
travel to the convention because it was in his house:-)
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:53:58 -0500, hughes b wrote:
> "hughes b" <omn### [at] charter net> wrote in message
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>> When I try to find out what bagsey originated from I get nowhere. ha ha ha
>
> Doesn't help any spelling it either way, bagsy or bagsey (oops). Sorry for
> getting so off-topic here.
I'd spell it with two Gs in the middle like baggsie or baggsey.
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