20th November 2006, 10:48 PM
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Funk Master Deluxe
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Australia
Posts: 60
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Dotage... hopefully nothing to do with Dotable ;)
Just saw this today, found it funny 
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Word of the Day for Friday, November 17, 2006
dotage \DOH-tij\, noun:
Feebleness of mind due to old age; senility.
Pointing out that Cicero learned Greek in his seventies and Socrates took up playing the lyre in his dotage, Dad liked to say he would indeed someday consider retiring, when and if he finally got old.
-- James Dodson, Final Rounds
It wasn't a good joke, and, in his dotage, he made it far too often, but when I heard it for the first time I remember laughing and thinking, with pleasure, that I was catching on to the tricks adults played with words.
-- Rob Nixon, Dreambirds
Dotage comes from the verb to dote, "to be weak-minded, silly, or foolish; to have the intellect impaired, especially by old age," from Middle English doten. One who is in his or her dotage is a dotard.
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Lucky you didn't call it dotage.com - i think dotable was a better choice 
(Yes I know it's not really a joke per se, but I found it semi amusing :p) |
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