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To: carriage_hill

“fulfill”, maybe?


4 posted on 09/15/2013 10:47:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill
“fulfill”, maybe?

"Fulfill" would be intelligible, carriage_hill, but I believe "fill" is closer to the source: a "filled" dance card. I've never heard of a filled, empty, or half-filled score card, but dance cards have been filled or left unfilled the past few centuries.

13 posted on 09/15/2013 11:54:14 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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