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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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 Posted - 10/28/2005 : 14:44:10
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Alright, this may have been partially inspired by Stephen Fry, but thats fine: share some fancy words or phrases, its just a bit of fun.
Myaclonic jerk: the feeling you get when you're sleeping like you're falling off a step. No-one really knows why this is done, but its conjectured that it stems from when man slept in trees, basically to stop him falling off.
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 14:55:12
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Sinecure: a job that involves little or no work.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 14:59:14
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Ooh! I have one.
A sinecure that is.
Scordatura: Italian musical term for detuning one's stringed instrument.
I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 15:24:05
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Autonomic system: bodily doodad makes instantaneous adjustments to bloodpressure and heart rate when you do something like stand up to counteract gravity resulting in bloodrush to head.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 17:51:49
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Patina, I've had this word stuck in my head since hearing it on the Antiques Road Show a week or two ago.
A thin greenish layer, usually basic copper sulfate, that forms on copper or copper alloys, such as bronze, as a result of corrosion.
The sheen on any surface, produced by age and use.
A change in appearance produced by long-standing behavior, practice, or use: a face etched with a patina of fine lines and tiny wrinkles.
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 18:03:09
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I first read it in Vonnegut´s Breakfast Of Champions, a patina of moss I think twas.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 18:08:26
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Sorry, not as good as everyone elses I know, but I don't really know any fancy words  .
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2005 : 18:12:28
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apophasis \uh-PAH-fuh-sis\ noun
: the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it
Example sentences:
"And I won't even mention my opponent's dismal record on environmental issues," said the candidate, using apophasis to take a jab at her rival.
"I won't even mention the fact that I slept with LBF's mom last night. I think that goes without saying.." |
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Otherfellers
- FB Fan -
Ireland
87 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2005 : 15:14:02
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It's a good scrabble word
QUINCUNX
Five objects arranged so that four are at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth is at its centre.
Take a look at a dice (a die if you’re American), or the five of a suit of cards. In each case the dots or pips are arranged in this distinctive shape.
nicked from here http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-qui2.htm
which happens to be one of my favourite sites.
They pile, they pile, they pile the salad bar |
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Superabounder
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1041 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2005 : 21:27:01
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quote:
Originally posted by Newo
I first read it in Vonnegut´s Breakfast Of Champions, a patina of moss I think twas.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night.
Ha-on Kilgore Trout's tuxedo? I just read that part this afternoon!
Adiaphorous = neutral
Rhabdoidal = rod shaped
I tend to think of human beings as huge rubbery test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
947 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2005 : 06:50:36
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A very useful one i find is exophagy which is the practice amongst cannibals of not eating one's relatives or members of one's tribe.
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Scarla O'
Friday 4th November 2005
The Metro Club
19-23 Oxford Street, W1
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2005 : 09:38:41
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Bill, I´m doing the write-a-novel-in-November thing at www.nanowrimo.org and I shall find a place for that word, thank you.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
947 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2005 : 00:50:46
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Originally posted by Newo
Bill, I´m doing the write-a-novel-in-November thing at www.nanowrimo.org and I shall find a place for that word, thank you.
Excellent!
Let us know how the nanowrimo-thing goes Owen.
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Scarla O'
Friday 4th November 2005
The Metro Club
19-23 Oxford Street, W1
On stage: 8.30pm |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2005 : 03:25:25
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Will do, praps there´s somewhere I could post it and link to it.
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. Take her to bingo night. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 03:49:53
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"Mmmm, yeeees."
 "I seem to have rejoined the cult of FB.Net!"
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 15:36:21
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quote:
Originally posted by Otherfellers
It's a good scrabble word
QUINCUNX
Five objects arranged so that four are at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth is at its centre.
Take a look at a dice (a die if you’re American), or the five of a suit of cards. In each case the dots or pips are arranged in this distinctive shape.
nicked from here http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-qui2.htm
which happens to be one of my favourite sites.
They pile, they pile, they pile the salad bar
Trinitys paying off ;)
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain |
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