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Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Jackal1 on October 22, 2003, 03:08:01 AM

Haven`t been on since last Friday morning until today.
  I saw at least twenty uses of the term dolt on text in the MA within an hour.
  Has HT started the final count down by inducing the term DOLT?
  Little lambs eat dolts
  and goats eat dolts........................ .................

  We have had it wrong for all these years.

 Baaaaaaaaa baaaa ba`ba`ba ` baaaaaaaaa
 :D

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: F4i on October 22, 2003, 03:22:38 AM

I woulda changed my handle to "Dolt" already, but I'm sure 50 people have already called HTC and asked for it.  

TBolt Dolt

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: jodgi on October 22, 2003, 04:03:58 AM

Please explain the finer subtleties of the word "dolt" to a person who speaks English as a 2nd (or 3rd) language.
I feel like I'm missing out on some of the fun.

I'm used to playing with words, deliberately using a word with the right meaning but with less idiomatic accuracy. Taking up childhood expressions in adult conversations. And all the sublime fun that can be had with such and all related things.

Why is it that "dolt" makes everyone smile so much? Is it the word or is it simply the fact that HT called us names?

Oh, and this post is serious. I'm not fishing. I don't even have my rod with me.

(Funny... there are so many levels of meaning and irony on these boards that I felt the need to mark my post to be taken face value.)

(I'm also aware that I may have laid my head on  the guillotine)

Chop away!

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: F4i on October 22, 2003, 04:23:32 AM

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Originally posted by jodgi
Why is it that "dolt" makes everyone smile so much? Is it the word or is it simply the fact that HT called us names?

Oh, and this post is serious. I'm not fishing. I don't even have my rod with me.

(Funny... there are so many levels of meaning and irony on these boards that I felt the need to mark my post to be taken face value.)
 

I'm glad that you said you're serious about your question, jodgi.  I figured it for a troll.  :D

It's funny because hitech told us that we're a bunch of ignorant fools.  But, he said it in a politically correct - almost non-offensive - way when he used the word "dolts."  His action was understandable because there were too many clowns complaining about the quality of AH2 -- an unfinished product.

Dictionary http://www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: dolt
Pronunciation: 'dOlt
Function: noun
Etymology: probably akin to Old English dol foolish
Date: 1553
Definition: a stupid person, usually a Bish or Knit in Aces High[/color]

Hope this helps.  :)

TBolt

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: jodgi on October 22, 2003, 05:35:42 AM

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But, he said it in a politically correct - almost non-offensive - way when he used the word "dolts."

Thanks F4i

This is the first english word since I was still learning english that has really puzzled me. It made me feel... well.. NON enlish :D

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Sarge on October 22, 2003, 07:39:40 AM

See the Top 10 Ask Jeeves results for "dolt"


5 entries found for dolt.
dolt    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (dlt)
n.
A stupid person; a dunce.


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[Middle English dulte, from past participle of dullen, to dull, from dul, dull. See dull.]
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doltish adj.
doltish·ly adv.
doltish·ness n.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


dolt

\Dolt\, n. [OE. dulte, prop. p. p. of dullen to dull. See Dull.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. --Drayton.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


dolt

\Dolt\, v. i. To behave foolishly. [Obs.]


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


dolt

n : a person who is not very bright: "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, dullard, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University


dolt

DOLT: in Acronym Finder

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: mudder on October 22, 2003, 07:44:21 AM

I find the word dolt, in and of itself, a funny word, like duffus, dork, ding-dong. Maybe its a colloquealism that can't be translated well. Don't know it's roots. Anyway, I am a natural born monoglot, unable to learn any other languages. That must make me an American.:)

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: jodgi on October 22, 2003, 07:49:59 AM

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...colloquealism... ...monoglot...

When I finally had sussed it out, you through (hehe, there you go: throw) two more words in the air...

:mad:

:p

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: 1K0N on October 22, 2003, 08:05:58 AM

I was driving the other day and some Dolt cut me off in traffic, I yelled "Fricken Dolt" my wife laughed at me.. Then she asked what the hell a Dolt means... Not having a perfect answer I told her it was a guy from texas........










The car that cut me off had texas plates.... :)

1K0N

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Grizzly on October 22, 2003, 03:32:10 PM

It is Kind of interesting why the word "dolt" should resonate here so well.

Words often have a flavor of their own. To me, for no particular reason, the word dolt brings to mind a clumsy sort of idiot, who doesn't know how stupid he is, going through life with a false sense of superiority. I think it matches a few proud commandos here who don't realize how idiotic they look bragging about their elite abilities as a make believe fighter pile-it, when in reality the majority couldn't even squeeze into a fighter cockpit. Ummmm... this kinda sounds like me <=o[

Then again, it may be just the fact that HiTech found a brand new word to diss us with.

grizzly

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Shane on October 22, 2003, 03:58:55 PM

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Originally posted by Grizzly
Then again, it may be just the fact that HiTech found a brand new word to diss us with.

i just *know* that HT really wanted to use "slobberdonkeys" but couldn't...

:D

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Ack-Ack on October 22, 2003, 10:43:35 PM

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Originally posted by F4i
It's funny because hitech told us that we're a bunch of ignorant fools.  

HT didn't call everyone ignorant fools, just those that are too stupid to read instructions that were posted with the beta announcement.  



Ack-Ack

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: aztec on October 23, 2003, 04:30:40 AM

I'm beginning to think your obsession with the term Slobberdonky stems from the fact that you have never been on the business end of one Shane.;)

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Saintaw on October 23, 2003, 05:38:24 AM

lol

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Siaf__csf on October 23, 2003, 06:55:33 AM

Is that why you people call yourselves aDOLTS?

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Twist on October 24, 2003, 12:24:23 AM

I'm so glad you guys cleared this up for me...here I was all this time thinking a dolt was a retarded dweeb.

Thanks again. :D

Title: Is this the final Dolt revolution?
Post by: Arlo on October 24, 2003, 12:27:18 AM

[size=8]DOLT REVOLT! [/size]

Just sounds better.