If stealing a lamb is lambnapped and stealing a goat is kidnapped they how come when they steal people its called kidnapped and not peoplenapped?
Uvah, Uvah, oh Uvah, the answer to that is quite simple... and why you never thought of it before astonishes me.
The term kidnaped began many moons ago and refers to when poor people would extort money from the rich by stealing their kids and holding them up for ransom. Thing is, the term kidnapped took on a broader meaning when the poor people began stealing older and older children. Sometimes the adult children of the rich would be stolen, and the rich people would appeal to the public for the return of their 'kid'. Thus the term kidnapped remained and was used to describe the theft and ransom of all human beings to save having to invent a new word.
See how simple that was? Now if a humble peasant such as I could figure that out, an educated man such as yourself should have picked up on it quicker than a [feline pursued]rat up a drainpipe'
Now here's the question! When illegal organ harvesters steal somebody's kidney we know it as kidneynapped, right? So what happens when these brazen thieves start illegally harvesting other organs, do we refer to the removed organ and call it eyenapped; lungnapped; heartnapped, or do we simply stick with kidneynapped for the entire process to save inventing new words and confusing the issue?
Anyhow, this is doing nothing for my desperate and dateless situation. I joined a dating site, lied about my age, height and weight, posted a pic of me 40 years younger and listed a whole bunch of hobbies and interests in the hope of attracting members of the opposite sex.
Hmmpphh! I got just one reply: "Age, height and weight unimportant; interests and hobbies unimportant I'm willing to learn; not bothered by snoring, farting or burping.... MUST have minimum of 3 inches."
I thought: "Well her sights are set so low that I might've been in with a chance, but there's no way I'm undergoing enhancement surgery to add an inch to my old fella.'
