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Maurice Leakey
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 - posted October 19, 2016 08:57 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Just having watched Peter Sellers play many characters in the 1951 film "Let's Go Crazy" I read up on the Internet Movie Data Base and found one American reviewer who referred to one of the characters as milquetoast.

Having no idea of what the word meant Google gave me the answer as a person who was timid and meek. It derived from a 1924 U.S. comic strip.

Does anybody in America use this word in their daily vocabulary?

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Steve Klare
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 - posted October 19, 2016 09:00 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It is part of our vocabulary, although maybe not daily.

When it comes to insulting words, there are usually so many alternatives!

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Maurice Leakey
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 - posted October 19, 2016 10:19 AM      Profile for Maurice Leakey   Email Maurice Leakey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Thank you, Steve, is it meant to be insulting?

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Steve Klare
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 - posted October 19, 2016 10:28 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Consider the synonyms:

Wimp
Wuss
Nebbish
Namby-Pamby
Milksop
Cream puff

-none have appeared on any résumé I've ever read!

Of course it's an idea that's gotten a lot of people killed (Note 1):

"I don't think we should do that."
"C'mon, don't be such a milquetoast!"

-30 minutes later, the ambulances arrived!

What do you chisel in the first guy's tombstone?

"I TOLD you!"

What do you chisel in the second guy's?

"Yeah,...well, you listened to me! I'm just an idiot, you are an idiot's lackey!"

Notes:

(1) -usually guys...most of the time women seem to be a little bit wiser in these situations!

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Osi Osgood
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 - posted October 19, 2016 11:48 AM      Profile for Osi Osgood   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
This reminds of thosde great T-shirts from the 80's that say on them "I'm With Stupid" with a finger pointing to whoever is standing next to the person wearing the T-shirt.

Of course, there was one of those that said the same thing, and had the finger pointing straight up! [Smile]

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Steve Klare
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 - posted October 19, 2016 11:51 AM      Profile for Steve Klare   Email Steve Klare   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It's something like this:

F-16 Thunderbird Flight

-idiot that I am, I'd do it too!

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Joe Caruso
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 - posted October 20, 2016 11:53 AM      Profile for Joe Caruso     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Call me Casper Milquetoast

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