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Postby Bailey » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:32 pm

while we're on the subject of henchmen
ca·hoots (k-hts)
pl.n. Informal
Questionable collaboration; secret partnership: an accountant in cahoots with organized crime.

[Perhaps from French cahute, cabin, from Old French, possibly blend of cabane; see cabin, and hutte; see hut.]

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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words AntonymsNoun 1. cahoots - collusion; "in cahoots with"
connivance, collusion - agreement on a secret plot
This just Has to be related somewhere to cohorts.

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hope this isn't too negative, I'm reading murder mysteries, written by a sequepedalian
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Re: cahoots

Postby gailr » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:27 pm

while we're on the subject of henchmen
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hope this isn't too negative, I'm reading murder mysteries, written by a sequepedalian
Fictional espionage and sluething are vaults of tantalizing words, ripe for the picking; keep them coming. Can you drop another clue to the identity of your writer?
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Postby Bailey » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:13 am

Actualy it is a collage of writers I like words and wordy authors appeal to me.

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Isn't' it related too...

Postby eberntson » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:21 pm

Wouldn't cahoots be somehow related to a "cohort" which is a measure of a unit in a Roman legion. You can see where the French would have the "Gaul" to use this as a grouping of bad, bad men.

I don't know, I'm just fouling a ball here.
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Postby Bailey » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:54 pm

That's exactly what I was thinking, and said, weren't the Roman Soldiers all in cahoots with each other to take over the world?

It just seems to me that a group of folks can be in cahoots to plan a, say, Birthday party, not such a bad thing.

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Postby gailr » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:33 pm

I see a legion of bad puns advancing beneath the standard.

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Postby skinem » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:06 pm

I'm sure our cohorts here won't let us down in advancing and unleashing their barbs.

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Postby Perry » Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:45 pm

I just wish I had a copy of Cahoots by The Band.
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Postby Bailey » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:26 pm

I wish I had carhops.

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Postby sluggo » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:05 am

I wish I had carhops.

mark being-oh-so-subtle Bailey
My carhops when I let the clutch out too fast.

Meanwhile, I just love Eberntson's foul ball metaphor above. It strikes me as something out of left field that nevertheless hits home. Can I steal it?
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Postby gailr » Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:04 pm

My carhops when I let the clutch out too fast.
Isn't that standard?
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Postby skinem » Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:57 am

My carhops when I let the clutch out too fast.
Isn't that standard?
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Yeah, I thought it was automatic!

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Postby Bailey » Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:04 pm

I think my 'joke' lost something in the transmission

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Postby Perry » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:01 pm

I wish I had carhops.

mark being-oh-so-subtle Bailey
My carhops when I let the clutch out too fast.

Meanwhile, I just love Eberntson's foul ball metaphor above. It strikes me as something out of left field that nevertheless hits home. Can I steal it?
I liked his:
where the French would have the "Gaul"
comment. He must be one of us (if he wants to survive among our crowd of merry punsters, that is :wink: )
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Postby Perry » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:01 pm

I think my 'joke' lost something in the transmission

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Not at all. You put us in gear with great panache.
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