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Postby tcward » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:31 pm

While I was on the subject of "plot", I decided to search a little on another favorite four-letter word.
ploy
1722, "anything with which one amuses oneself," Scottish and northern England dialect, possibly a shortened form of employ or deploy. Popularized in the sense "move or gambit made to gain advantage" by British humorist Stephen Potter (1900-1969).
Originally, I thought employ and deploy were based off ploy.

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Postby Perry » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:53 pm

Do you play at ploys; or are you a professional plotter?
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Postby gailr » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:16 pm

It warms the cockles and mussels of my heart to think that somewhere an actor has declaimed, "The ploy's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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Postby sluggo » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:48 pm

Do you play at ploys; or are you a professional plotter?
Short-stop double ploy, Perry?
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!


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