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Strange usage of the word spill in children's book

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    #11
    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Any more of that pal and the word you'll be looking up will be defenestrate.
    From my dungeon? There are no windows.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #12
      Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
      From my dungeon? There are no windows.
      Ahh, - a Linux dungeon then, - or iOS.
      Z/OS??

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        #13
        Originally posted by BR14 View Post
        Ahh, - a Linux dungeon then, - or iOS.
        Z/OS??

        Unix, VM, VSE????

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          #14
          Originally posted by BR14 View Post
          Ahh, - a Linux dungeon then, - or iOS.
          Z/OS??

          iOS? How very dare you. I do not permit iThings in my house.

          Originally posted by BR14 View Post
          Unix, VM, VSE????
          Oooo. A VM dungeon. Now you're talking.
          Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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            #15
            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
            iOS? How very dare you. I do not permit iThings in my house.

            Oooo. A VM dungeon. Now you're talking.
            Colossal Cave, i think it was, - dwarves certainly featured

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              #16
              Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
              iOS? How very dare you. I do not permit iThings in my house.
              Ah, a kindred spirit who doesn't know how to make the bastard things work either...
              His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                #17
                Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                Ah, a kindred spirit who doesn't know how to make the bastard things work either...
                I have an iRon, but it gets little use

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  From "The owl who was afraid of the dark" here: https://books.google.ch/books?id=zZL...elf%22&f=false

                  "I'm not a good lander" he said, "I might spill myself".

                  Any ideas what this might mean? The book was written in 1968 so perhaps so older usage.
                  I loved that book as a kiddie. I concur that it means 'fall over' or similar. You can have a spill off a motorbike.

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                    #19
                    Or a gentleman might use one to light his cigar:

                    Commonwealth Cedar Spills | Just another WordPress site


                    Come on now, spill the beans.
                    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 16 August 2018, 21:44.
                    When the fun stops, STOP.

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                      #20
                      "The query arose from two well qualified English teachers"

                      nemo repente fuit stultissimus
                      But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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