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By johnm
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Miscellaneous wrote:There you go @johnm, is that what you want for everyone...but yourself? :wink:


Actually yes, if I could control the serfs the world would be a better place :twisted: :D
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By PeteSpencer
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It must be me but the word 'prank' makes my skin creep:

It has the same effect as scraping yer fingernails down a blackboard, especially when, as in the countless pathetic American videos on you tube, it is used as a verb. :puker:
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By lobstaboy
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PeteSpencer wrote:It must be me but the word 'prank' makes my skin creep:

It has the same effect as scraping yer fingernails down a blackboard, especially when, as in the countless pathetic American videos on you tube, it is used as a verb. :puker:



Well a quick search of trustworthy dictionaries shows that "prank" as both a noun and a verb has been in common use in English since the 1520s. And it's in Johnson's dictionary.
So I guess you're outvoted. Just don't watch annoying American videos - they'll rot your brain anyway ;)

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By eltonioni
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PeteSpencer wrote:It must be me but the word 'prank' makes my skin creep:

It has the same effect as scraping yer fingernails down a blackboard, especially when, as in the countless pathetic American videos on you tube, it is used as a verb. :puker:


I have a similar aversion to 'oddball'. Especially prefacing 'comedy' or 'SciFi'.

'Merkins seem most guilty of that too. Don't get me started on 'goofy'... 'goofy oddball comedy scifi' aaargghhhh!!!!
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By OCB
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PeteSpencer wrote:I guess 'prank ' is my 'moist'................................ :lol:


Ah, the English Language- without which this thread wouldn’t exist, and most comedians would have remained shipyard welders or doctors or whatever :)

Moist adjective = Moister.
Prank adjective = Pranker.
No?
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By akg1486
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PeteSpencer wrote:It must be me but the word 'prank' makes my skin creep:

Source was Canadian, and I suppose they use that particular Amercanism. Shatner is of course Canadian, too.

Odd to see so many commenting on that one word; I find corporate newspeak and PC phrases much worse.
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By PeteSpencer
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OCB wrote:
PeteSpencer wrote:I guess 'prank ' is my 'moist'................................ :lol:


Ah, the English Language- without which this thread wouldn’t exist, and most comedians would have remained shipyard welders or doctors or whatever :)

Moist adjective = Moister.
Prank adjective = Pranker.
No?


No . :wink:
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