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To: MineralMan

That's the thing most folks are missing, by and large the government really doesn't care about your fiber intake.

Interesting that you used the phrase "swiping a bank card", in duller moments the last few weeks I've been contemplating how the word "swipe" has changed in the last 20 years. Used to be it almost always meant "steal", now it's almost always meant as a specific form of the verb "use" reserved for things with magnetic data strips. Just a silly thought for a dull day.


36 posted on 02/09/2005 12:28:43 PM PST by discostu (quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
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To: discostu

Actually, "swipe" has always meant to move with a sweeping motion. It's an older meaning, but you may think of "taking a swipe at the ball" to find it in common usage;



Swipe - definition from gcide
Swipe \Swipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swiped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Swiping.]
1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping
motion, as a ball.
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Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A.
Proctor.
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2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]
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Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]
1. A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
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2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat
or club.
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Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over
either of the long fields. --R. A.
Proctor.
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3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written
also swypes.] --Craig.
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38 posted on 02/09/2005 12:33:23 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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