User talk:DAVilla

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Welcome to Wikipedia, DAVilla! I am Rockstone35 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Rockstone  talk to me!   02:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
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Jack-in-the-box
Referring to your note on my talk page and my reply there. I have now found references to its use to describe a device used by safe-breakers BUT it seems that the manufacturers of safes soon developed the technology to counteract it and the latest pertinent use I can find is 1867. The only current place it's used is in a crossword-solving list and this is a definite fail should I try to get it into Wiktionary that hates items that have just been lazily copied from dictionary to dictionary and/or from list to list without evidence of current use. Of course if we can find it in a book still in publication from the early 19th century (such as Dickens or Jane Austen) then it could be included as a obsolete term but failing that it's not worth the effort. Best Wishes S a g a C i t y (talk) 15:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Ignoring message since I don't know which of the 2 White Plains in Alabama he was actually from. DAVilla (talk) 13:48, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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