l, not -l wrote:


> On 21-Jan-2008, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> > > It's weird that as much as we all think we know the word "gullible"
>> > > it's
>> > > not actually in the dictionaries.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Blinky
>> >
>> > Guess it depends on your ditionary; it's in my hardbound Websters
>> > Unabridged
>> > and the Merriam-Webster online;
>> > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?gullible
>>
>> Maybe he was just fishing to see who was gullible enough to look it up.
>> :-)
>
> That would certainly be a good cover story, should one be caught making
> a bone-headed assertion ;-)

If you Google the phrase "gullible is not in the dictionary" you'll see
about 10,000 hits. That's fishing, pure and simple, as was my own cast.


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