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    What is the word?

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    i heard some watches and clocks started working and they had no batterries in them!do you think people would make this up?






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    Re: What is the word?

    gul·li·ble /ˈgʌləbəl/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[guhl-uh-buhl]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
    –adjective easily deceived or cheated.
    Also, gul·la·ble.
    De omnibus dubitandum

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    Re: What is the word?

    i heard some watches and clocks started working and they had no batterries in them!do you think people would make this up?
    Yes.

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    Re: What is the word?

    No, I don't think people make this stuff up deliberately. I think it is more a case of exaggeration and Chinese whispers. I doubt whether anyone could actually track down the specific people, and their clocks, involved.

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    Re: What is the word?

    my dad used to rub dead batteries in his hands and they would work again, for a short while anyway.

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    Re: What is the word?

    Quote Originally Posted by dashwood View Post
    my dad used to rub dead batteries in his hands and they would work again, for a short while anyway.
    Many chemical reactions are enhanced by heat.
    Defendants might as well have said: Beneficent creatures from the 17th dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief and whisk them off to their home world every night to provide help in ways unknown to our science.
    Judge Frank Easterbrook commenting on the Q-Ray bracelet


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