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| DrWorm |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 14:27:35
Anyone else think it would be cool to have a FB Dictionary? Like all the obscure, not so common words Frank uses in his songs. It could also contain tid bits and trivia as well !
 "Mister, would you please help my pony? / I think it's his lung" |
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| treetime |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 23:56:35
If I had any say I would put Gyaneshwar in there. |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 10/09/2007 : 14:45:42
quote:
Originally posted by Czar
I second Ishist! My life will not know peace of mind until I find a credible description of Ishist!
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From Ishvara. Know your Hindû Dharma.
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| Czar |
Posted - 10/08/2007 : 16:29:17
Anybody thought of using a wiki? I used to be quite active (many bees under my belt) on a local band's forum and they put up an Encyclopedia for both the forum and the band with a wiki. That was pretty cool.
Check out http://peuple.webhop.org/
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| donnapdx |
Posted - 10/08/2007 : 16:10:05
This is great. Many a time I have triumphed in a friendly game of hangman by using words from Frank Black's lyrics. A Blacktionary would be so handy and just all around fabulous. |
| Brank_Flack |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 12:55:04
quote:
Originally posted by Idalgo Clandestino
Great idea, Doctor!
As a (usually) non English speaking fan of Francis i always wondered if his obscure lyrics seemed so obscure to me, because i didn't understand them or if they were intended to be obscure. Or both.
As an example: "a spot of blue in the black of the eye of the Lord" - is this a common English saying or did Frank make it up in his poetic geniality?
Other example: Who are the "people of the corn"?
etc
etc
etc
...
etc
...
i'd like to right a book about that!
bradbury vonnegut robinson
well i interpret that as the following:
billy radcliffe was the first boy born in space, space appeares black, when he sees the earth it would be a spot of blue in the vast blackness of space |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 12:09:39
The Russians used to have a verb for whipping one's serf. I wonder if we'll have one for debating with one's clone.
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| Czar |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 10:26:18
Yeah, but "debating with his clone"??? This drives me crazy. I gotta understand.
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 07:33:04
I took it to mean 'sort of-ist', a contradiction in terms, a vague dogmatic. Exactly the kind of character you'd meet on an odyssey. But it's probably made-up or something else, like from ancient civilisation.
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| Czar |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 05:58:32
I second Ishist! My life will not know peace of mind until I find a credible description of Ishist!
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| Mismatched Sasquatch |
Posted - 10/05/2007 : 19:24:11
Ishist |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 18:21:39
I guess we could start posting the words and the defs to get it started...we can just start a mini dictionary here until we get official approval.
We're all obscure fans.- trobrianders
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| Carl |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 13:26:31
We could call it 'The Scheming Behemoth's Word Search'!!
 "In six months, she'll look like Grandma Moses!" |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 12:05:26
The existing Blactionary entries alongside the songs within the Discopedia are already useful. We could just keep adding. How does it work at present. We send a suggestion then wait for the mods?
For instance Western Star's current entries are extensive but what's freon bingo?
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| coastline |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 11:54:49
The Blacktionary would make a great addition to the Discopedia. Somebody ought to take up the cause and pitch the idea to Dean.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| kfs |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 11:09:26
pelagic
narghile
kampong |
| theonecontender |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 10:00:47
masturbatory
star-spangled
betatron |
| kathryn |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 05:58:49
There was such a thing in the late 90s -- an online database of the more obscure Frank terms and their definitions. I'll pull from my damaged memory banks the specifics and get back to this thread....
Happy hearts fall from my shaking hands
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| Idalgo Clandestino |
Posted - 10/04/2007 : 04:48:04
Great idea, Doctor!
As a (usually) non English speaking fan of Francis i always wondered if his obscure lyrics seemed so obscure to me, because i didn't understand them or if they were intended to be obscure. Or both.
As an example: "a spot of blue in the black of the eye of the Lord" - is this a common English saying or did Frank make it up in his poetic geniality?
Other example: Who are the "people of the corn"?
etc
etc
etc
...
etc
...
i'd like to right a book about that!
bradbury vonnegut robinson |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 19:49:28
unsomnabulist |
| coastline |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 18:24:28
What words are you thinking of, DrWorm?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 16:12:26
that would be really cool!
We're all obscure fans.- trobrianders
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| BLT |
Posted - 10/03/2007 : 15:02:04
Something like the Steely Dan Dictionary: http://www.steelydandictionary.com/
Who do you think you are -- Hippolyte Aucouturier? |
