Feckless

[Slava]

Recently used in an interview with George Bush. I vote we bring its antonym to life; feckful.

Slava

[Perry]

Dictionary.com

feckless \FEK-lis\, adjective:
1. Ineffective; having no real worth or purpose.
2. Worthless; irresponsible; generally incompetent and ineffectual

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Online Etymology Dictionary

Feckless
1599, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (1470), Scot. shortened form of effect; popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dial. obscurity.

Dare I say it? I am feeling so tired. What I need is some good feck.

[sluggo]

"Just the fecks, ma'am, just the fecks"
(if Joe Friday had been from Chicaaaaago)

[Perry]

Do you think that good cheerleaders succeed iin fecking their team?

[Bailey]

I think there are some who could use some freezer time,

mark going-Polly Bailey

[gailr]

After the debate they repaired to the refecktory for a celebratory lunch. The press were steered clear of defecktors from the party line to avoid infeckting the public with heretical views.

In a prepared statement, the opposing candidate denounced the photo-op as a cheap "coattails effeckt" at wooing votes from the disaffeckted.

-gailr

[sluggo]

"bow your head with great respect and
genufeck, genufeck, genufeck"

- refecktions on Tom Lehrer, Vatican Rag

[gailr]

Perfeckt, sluggo. You beat Stargzer to a Tom Lehrer/Vatican Rag reference, and that ain't easy to do.

-gailr

[Palewriter]

This is becoming too infecktious.

-- PW

[Perry]

Tim, it is time for you to weigh-in in your most feckful manner.

[Bailey]

Hey, this place is getting pretty dull again, even with all the [obvious] feckful 'puns'.
Someone needs to liven up the place, get really funny, so, Perry,Gail, Sluggo here it is .... say something funny already, let's go crazy making fun puns and silly sayings.

I'll pick a topic, ok I got it; animal names of things, like a foxy girl with feckles and a PONY tail...

mark broke-a-piggy-today Bailey
I know this sounds fishy just don't go being slothful...

[Perry]

Hey, this place is getting pretty dull again, even with all the [obvious] feckful 'puns'.
Someone needs to liven up the place, get really funny, so, Perry,Gail, Sluggo here it is .... say something funny already, let's go crazy making fun puns and silly sayings.

I'll pick a topic, ok I got it; animal names of things, like a foxy girl with feckles and a PONY tail...

mark broke-a-piggy-today Bailey
I know this sounds fishy just don't go being slothful...

Actually, you and Gail did very well in the floridthread. I give you a literary reference (and it is one very dear to my heart) and you two out-foxed me.

[gailr]

About that, Perry: I haven't read much Wodehouse, so I'm unfamiliar with skivvying foxes. Is that a British English usage or did he mean chivvying?

-gailr
who now wonders if chivvy is a possible etymology for shiv.

[Perry]

About that, Perry: I haven't read much Wodehouse, so I'm unfamiliar with skivvying foxes. Is that a British English usage or did he mean chivvying?

-gailr
who now wonders if chivvy is a possible etymology for shiv.

I think that I had a brain fart. But it's lucky for you that I did. Chivvying would have provided much less grist for your pun mill.

[sluggo]

I think that I had a brain fart. But it's lucky for you that I did. Chivvying would have provided much less grist for your pun mill.

...Drove my Chivvy to the livery but the pun mill was dry...