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Had to share this with the forum....A conversation i recently had on-line. Makes one wonder..

Slothy (kibbing) <private> : Good defence <players name> although cant see how declarer could have been so gillible (unintentional mistype) Was responding to an uncanny discard she had made that made dec. misguess

<players name>: Sorry Slothy i look in Oxford dictionary and i dont find the word gillible. What it mean please?

Slothy: gillible not in dictionary...???? ah if you have 1998 Edition of Oxford English Dictionary it was put between the words GOAL and GOBBLE by mistake.. the publishers never picked up on it.....Please call me Alex....

<players name> : Why?

Slothy: Because that is the name of my neighbours milk-man..

<players name> : If you want....

<players name> : I look there, no gillible. But i have 1990 edition?

Slothy: I see you are from Denmark, thats a coincidence: Gillible derives from Old Danish word gillöböten, meaning "To hit a penguin over the head with the breast-bone of a dodo before the penguin has time to fly away..."

<players name>: Alex!!!!! You are joking me now. We have no penguins in Denmark!

Slothy: : ) yes but no penguins in zoos neither?

<players name> : Ha ha!!!!! I know you joking. Penguins cannot fly anyway!

Slothy: Could you fly if you were hit on the head very very hard with the bone of a dodo??

<10 min silence> (well we were talking about whether the mermaid in Copenhagen Harbour was sculptured from a body of a woman and a rainbow-trout on a plate next to her....)

<players name> : Alex!!! what does gillible mean! My English friend not here to ask!

Slothy: I mistyped gillible, it should be GULLIBLE. Sorry : ) And why you calling me by my neighbour's milk-man's name?

<players name> : Pffffttttt Cant find gullible either...That word doesnt exist

<half an hour later>

<players name>: FOUND IT!!

<10 or so mins later>

<players name>: wish i had not

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