CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:
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> At 9:50 am -0700 17/6/99, Sally Caves wrote:

> >
> >So what was "feckless"?  :)
snip...
> "Father Ted's" feck, I guess, is a euphemism for 'fuck' & has nothing to do
> with the feckless feck (if you see what I mean  :)
Ray?  Hello... fecking heck, it was a JOKE.  Smiley emoticon after "So
what was feckless?"  I think you've mistaken my wry remark for an
ingenuous request for information.

For someone who prides herself on a working vocabulary that includes
lucubrate and eleemosynary, I have to growl at you for taking me for
some wide-eyed, resourceless, topic/focus-confusing little housewife.
Also, I have a marvelous etymological dictionary.  Nice reminder of
the origin of feck from effect.  Here's a great word: feculent.  "Full
of foul matter, dregs, or sediment; foul, fetid."  Hmmm.  I wonder
if I could use it this way:  "I'm in a feculent mood."  Feck seems
to be in good company with fetid and feces here on my dictionary
page.  Also fecund... I word I have ALWAYS hated.

good natured grrrrrrrrrrr
Sally