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Morton's fork ( Mor•tons fork )
noun

a dilemma, especially one in which both choices are equally undesirable.
 
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Actionjick said:
Morton's fork ( Mor•tons fork )
noun

a dilemma, especially one in which both choices are equally undesirable.
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Well it's two words but there you are. It was either that or fleet. Captain Bacchus wanted Fleet but there were too many definitions so Brigadier Bacardi and I outvoted him. It was our own Morton's fork.
 
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Actionjick said:
Morton's fork ( Mor•tons fork )
noun

a dilemma, especially one in which both choices are equally undesirable.
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This sounds to me like a great name for a scenario!
Major Morton is leading a column and comes to a fork in the road. The right fork is through a long stretch of woods. The left one is through a canyon with steep walls on either side. Either choice is ripe for an ambush. Which one to take? 🤔
 
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Actionjick said:
This sounds to me like a great name for a scenario!
Major Morton is leading a column and comes to a fork in the road. The right fork is through a long stretch of woods. The left one is through a canyon with steep walls on either side. Either choice is ripe for an ambush. Which one to take? 🤔
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If Maj. Morton is American, he'll call in 3 modules of 150+ OBA on his chosen route, wait for it to be reduced to rubble or wood sticks, then saunter through, all the while with 3 FB with rockets/bombs circling overhead.

Easy peasy.
 
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If Maj. Morton is American, he'll call in 3 modules of 150+ OBA on his chosen route, wait for it to be reduced to rubble or wood sticks, then saunter through, all the while with 3 FB with rockets/bombs circling overhead.

Easy peasy.
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What if Major Morton is British?🤔
 
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Pip Smith said:
I take the one less travelled ... recieve and unhealthly dose of 36 -5, (-2 FFNAM/FFMO, -2 Ldrm, -2 boresighting). 5KIA result. And yes, Morton is forked.:sneaky:
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Lol it does seem that way! Very nicely demonstrates the consequences.
 
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Neologism ( ne•ol•o•gism )
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a newly coined word or expression.
 
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Neologism ( ne•ol•o•gism )
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a newly coined word or expression.
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Fish's best neologism was definitely jick . It so encapsulates what he meant to say and as it's meaning expanded became even more appropriate.

We were playing one Sunday afternoon and I either rolled some hot dice or screwed him in some other way. The details are hazy and irrelevant. He goes to call me a jackass dick and it came out as jick! I immediately knew what he meant to say and started to LMFAO! Literally rolling on the floor laughing since we almost always played sitting on the floor. ( sitting cross legged on the floor. 25 or 6 to 4 ) He started laughing his ass off and jick entered our lexicon from that moment.
It is such a handy word. So flexible. Noun. Verb. Adjective. Not so much an adverb but I'll work on it.

I became Jick, Actionjick, Bobbyjick and f@#$ing jick. The latter used quite frequently, for some reason.
The uses of jick went beyond gamespeak and entered the real world. Actiondebbie still uses it and I introduce it to co-workers also. Truly a great neologism and one of Fish's many contributions to ASL.
 
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Prolix ( pro•lix )
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( of speech or writing ) using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy.
 
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Behemoth - A huge and monstrous creature.

The young man propositioned a behemouth as the hour was late and soon the bar would be closing.
 
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Tautology ( tau•tol•o•gy)
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the saying of the same thing twice in different words; generally considered to be a fault of style.


Logic
a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of it's logical form.
 
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Prolix ( pro•lix )
adjective

( of speech or writing ) using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy.
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Pleonasm ( ple•o•nasm )
noun

the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning; either as a fault of style or for emphasis.
 
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