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# simpleton
is not used in this context, is it? I got it from my grammar book, which refers to this passage in Alice in Wonderland
(I helped save b3ta! notshitashi OMOH, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:10, archived)
# simpleton
means someone who is stupid or foolish
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=simpleton&r=67
its not a very common insult, but i wouldn't go around calling people it in the street. except on the isle of sheppey
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:12, archived)
# ow
i'm sorry no offense meant.


I thought simpleton was a wordplay derived from singleton.
(I helped save b3ta! notshitashi OMOH, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:13, archived)
# no worries
i'll take foolish please.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:14, archived)
# what did you think simpleton meant?
out of interest.
(I helped save b3ta! cow23, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:18, archived)
# i thought it didn't
mean anything, that humpty dumpty just wanted to say something cruel, and the first thing that flashed through his mind was simpleton.


which is of course related to singleton.
(I helped save b3ta! notshitashi OMOH, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:21, archived)
# You're mad you are.
;O
(dawn_syndrome dawn_syndrome, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:36, archived)
# No.
Humpty Dumpty was Playschool.
Valerie Singleton was Blue Peter
(I helped save b3ta! Monkboy, Thu 12 Jun 2003, 12:40, archived)