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SeattleUte · 04-21-2008, 02:54 AM

As in, "that scared the dickins out of me."

TripletDaddy · 04-21-2008, 03:10 AM

I do, but only when I am looking at pretty weather cocks.

landpoke · 04-21-2008, 03:11 AM

Speak of the dickens is a common phrase among my people.

TripletDaddy · 04-21-2008, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by landpoke

Speak of the dickens is a common phrase among my people.

Are you a Satanist?

landpoke · 04-21-2008, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Are you a Satanist?

Raised but not practicing. Old habits etc.

il Padrino Ute · 04-21-2008, 03:33 AM

Around Christmas, I say it all the time. It's a seasonal catch phrase.

Kilgore Trout · 04-21-2008, 06:41 PM

My mother calls mischievous children that, as in, "Put your diaper back on you little dickens!".

Don't know the etymology on that one.

TripletDaddy · 04-21-2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

My mother calls mischievous children that, as in, "Put your diaper back on you little dickens!".

Don't know the etymology on that one.

it is a euphemism for Satan/The Devil.

FMCoug · 04-21-2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

My mother calls mischievous children that, as in, "Put your diaper back on you little dickens!".

Don't know the etymology on that one.

It's like the rest of Mormon swear words. Like flip, fetch, frickin', etc. She doesn't want to say "you little dick" so dickens works.

SeattleUte · 04-21-2008, 11:37 PM

Non-voters are presumed to be regular users of "the dickens" in various contexts.

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04-21-2008, 02:54 AM	#1
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	Do you ever say "the dickins"? As in, "that scared the dickins out of me." __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

04-21-2008, 03:10 AM	#2
TripletDaddy Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 9,483	I do, but only when I am looking at pretty weather cocks. __________________ Fitter. Happier. More Productive. "Everyone is against me. Everyone is fawning for 3D's attention and defending him." -- SeattleUte

04-21-2008, 03:11 AM	#3
landpoke Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: North Central God's Country Posts: 1,534	Speak of the dickens is a common phrase among my people. __________________ I see a hobo. And when I see the hobo, I think to myself, "This man is poor. His monetary value is low, and my monetary value is high, and it's a shame that he is himself. What can I do?"

04-21-2008, 03:33 AM	#6
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Around Christmas, I say it all the time. It's a seasonal catch phrase. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

04-21-2008, 06:41 PM	#7
Kilgore Trout Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: location, location. Posts: 54	My mother calls mischievous children that, as in, "Put your diaper back on you little dickens!". Don't know the etymology on that one.

04-21-2008, 11:37 PM	#10
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	Non-voters are presumed to be regular users of "the dickens" in various contexts. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster