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To: Ottofire
...they just do not jive.

LOL

ROFL

jive: v.intr.

1. To play or dance to jive music.
2. Slang.

1. To talk nonsense; kid.
2. To talk or chat: “You just jive in one big group, putting each other on, trying to top the last line” (Time).

jibe v.intr.

1. (Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.

2. To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

**chuckle**
558 posted on 06/29/2009 6:29:12 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

LOL, thanks.

I think I have been misusing that term for at least a few decades, and never been corrected! Again, thanks!


585 posted on 06/29/2009 10:00:53 AM PDT by Ottofire (Philippians 1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.)
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