>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Or if "discard" means to throw something away, does "card" mean to save it?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>This one just hit me today.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>If 'to card' means to check an ID, then does 'to discard' mean to not check an ID?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>How come you can incapacitate something but not aztecpacitate - or mayapacitate for that matter?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Azetc and the Mayan cultures were far more secretive than the Inca. Nobody really knows for sure whether or not you can aztecpacitate or mayapacitate anybody.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I didn't procipate a reply from you! :-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I wanted to disablunt you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>You don't misusually do
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BTW disapblunt surely?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I know. I don't usufoe make spelling misgives, and I didn't fakeise after I sent it... too late.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>As we're using antonyms you don't need the negatives
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>No, the antonyms make the negatives absolutely necessary. If I say "I did fakeise after I sent it", that would me that I didn't realise, so I have to use the negative to counter the antonym. The first sentence, of course, contained 2 negatives which cancelled each other and I was able to construct the sentence as normal.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Gee, I thought you made this game up, and you don't even know the rules? ;)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sorry. I read that as "I did fakeise till after I sent it". My eyes are a bit blurry.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And the double-negative in the 1st sentence: a master stroke of lack of supertlety.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Thanks. I'm used to plower. I'm not bteetotalering.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>You've lost me there. What's the opposite of teetotal? And "pupper"?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Almost, the question should be, "what's the opposite of 'teetotaler'". Why 'lush' of course. I suppose I could have used bbarrening.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Then I might have thought "What's bfecunding?" :-) All I could think of was "sot","p-head", "drunkard" ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And not 'pupper', but 'praise'.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Ah, the verb.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Not Stopd! You can't be obscause sometimes!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Gasp! Doff't take His name in vaout. You coolrooster.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Don't you mean, "Take Hisn't name in vaout"? And who are you cnothinging a coolcock? How uncherubimudent of you!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Double negative again - means it's back to normal, so negating it again makes it come out backward. Your statement effectively translates to "Take His name in vain". Now if we put back the "Doff't" with your sentence, then super - we have a triple negative and I would then no longer have any idea what the hell it means.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sorry ..You lost me at "Double negative again..."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And who are you not calling impubump?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hmmm. Bump is not the negative/opposite of dent, as a verb, but is as a noun. God help us if we start going all thesaurus on each other :-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hey it wasn't your chnoneenge. That doesn't youan I get to pick the part of speech with which to duel. Of course, it's not changeinept.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Not soutce not wcock did you not headume not the womantle of not araller not of the moututiae of the rules? Not fnor outcollapse, which pscience of speech to use ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Negatively subb!! Although, I have no idea whterrafirma it ends up postandive or not. And I don't thlead tthere is a rule abin which bogeyt of speech to use.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"Superb!! Although, I have no idea whair [sic] it ends up prenandive or not. And I don't thfollow twhere is a rule about which part ("bogey" the opposite of "par" - and without negation?) of speech to use."?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>"Positively superb!! I have no idea whether it ends up positive or not. And I don't think there is a rule..."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>About negation; you tend to negate each and every exchange of antonym. I negate only the entire sentence (if necessary). That's what I was talking about when I said that double negatives [in a sentence] negate the need for a negative.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Tshoe sthuses your spiterior kthenplinth of congramming and comgeting in general - fictionor the bringence, tcock negsecreted it. ... NOT!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Offly if it needs to be negegested. Samestupid it is not left atogether. It must not be likeableysed deciduousst in order to lotsure it out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"negegesteded"!
>>>>>
>>>>>When you're right, you're almost right. My apologies. It actually should have been "negegestedd".
>>>>
>>>>No cos "ate" is like "eated", so negate - negated; egested - egesteded.
>>>>
>>>>...
>>>Whoa there big fella. Ate is like eated??? Ate is just ate - past tense of eat. Egested is past tense of egest. So substituting negated would be negegestedd.
>>
>>No, cos you have to add the "ed" to make it he past tense of "negegested" as it is added to "negate".
>
>"ate" is past tense, and so is "egested", so when you substitute "egested" for "ate", the only letter left over at the end is a single 'd'. You can't just buy another vowel and stick it in willy nilly. It's a simple substitution algorithm, no?
>
>>Mornington Crescent!
>
>If that's one of those, I'm afraid you got me this time, and I'm sure it's a dilly. ;)

No :-)

Mornington Crescent is a parody game that features in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The game, whose rules are never explained, satirises complicated strategy games, particularly the abstruse jargon involved in such games as contract bridge or chess. ...

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game).

I thought that being an honorary Englishman you might have listened to the show, up to his death compared by Humphrey Littleton.

The last few exchanges we had reminded me of a typical winding up of the game. Equivalent to saying "Checkmate" :-)