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To: crazyhorse691

Addlepated. I had to look it up. I like it.


9 posted on 05/13/2008 6:27:23 AM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Dahoser
I think Thomas Alva Edison's elementary teacher told him he was addlepated for asking so many questions. Or maybe she just used the word "addled", which means pretty much the same thing.

Or this might have happened to George Westinghouse, founder of the technology company of the same name.

Sorry - yes, I made a C in history. But hey, most of it happened long before I was born.

27 posted on 05/13/2008 6:57:56 AM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: Dahoser
I had to look it up also ... neat word.

stupid and confused; "blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne

29 posted on 05/13/2008 7:01:44 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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