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Show Just Stuff by Jnn The English language has something that no other language has . . . those little non-discript, indispensible words that we use when we can't think, of the word we're trying to think of. How do you define deely-bob? It's different things to different people. Your deely-bob might be something entirely different than your neighbor's, The best description of a deely-bob would have to be that it is similar to a uung-a-ma-jig. But of course thing-a-ma-jigs may vary too. Then there are what-cha-ma-call-its, that run in the same family as deely-bobs and thing-a-ma-jigs, but they're really more along the lines of doo-dads and gadgets. "Thing-ma-whats-it" are useful if deely-bob, doo-dad or plain old "thing" won't work. Why-do-ya-call-it and where-do-you-call-it is a place and a who is a person, while a what-do-you-call-it is a thing. Who-do-you-call-it is often replaced by "what's his face" or "whose his nose." Think about it. How many times have you sent someone i in the other room after a "thing - a -ma whats it that's on the deely bob next to the what cha- ma- call - it? The strangest thing about using these thing - a - ma -call - it's, is that most of the time everyone knows exactly what it is you're talking about! |