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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 3181998, member: 1992"] I have no idea if they're spelt with cks or x's, I just knew that those type of questions were called by that name. Now that I've looked it up(wasn't really in internet range, too busy being a train person) it appears I fluked the correct spelling. Below is the Google result. In Australian politics, a Dorothy Dixer is a rehearsed or planted question asked of a government Minister by a backbencher of their own political party during Parliamentary Question Time. Word origin from pen name Dorothy Dix of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether (1870–1951), who wrote a column replying to correspondents' problems. Like I said I had no idea how it was spelt or where it came from. I do now!! [/QUOTE]

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