Word of the Day…

[DonShirer]

You show an interest morbid
In elucidating "torpid".
   Let's call a halt
   To this weird fault,
If not, then heaven FORbid!

[ken k]

You show an interest morbid
In elucidating "torpid".
   Let's call a halt
   To this weird fault,
If not, then heaven FORbid!

thwere is another one for the limerick thread.....

Hey that reminds me....

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[scottw]

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/7/09) is:

frangible

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/8/09) is:

kumquat

The Word of the Day is:

flagellum

(Have at it, Freak Jurors! Sorry about not keeping up!)

Beat that breakable fruit!

[ken k]

something's gone out askew on the tredle....

[OldsRecording]

something's gone out askew on the tredle....

I can't understand what you're saying...

[windshieldbug]

something's gone out askew on the tredle....

I can't understand what you're saying...

I don't know! - Mr. Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!

(The door flies open and in come three evil types in red robes.)

Cardinal Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise! ...Surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency! Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... (Reg and Lady Mountback look boredly at these loonies. They have obviously blown any chance at a dramatic entrance.) Amongst our weapons.... Hmf... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surpr.... I'll come in again.

[jhedrick]

How do you keep a tubist busy?
Just quote any Monty Python Line and they'll be at it for hours!

We live in a bloody swamp: we need all the land we can get.

[Tuba Guy]

Or Mel Brooks. Or for a lot of the younger generation-Family Guy or South Park

[windshieldbug]

How do you keep a tubist busy?
Just quote any Monty Python Line and they'll be at it for hours!

We live in a bloody swamp: we need all the land we can get.

Don't like her? What's wrong with her. She's
beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge ... tracts of land.

[Kevin Hendrick]

Sorry, been busy…

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/10/09) is:

obtuse

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/11/09) is:

windbreaker

The Word of the Day is:

permutation

We are semi-randomly-varied permutations of obtuse windbreakers?

[windshieldbug]

obtuse
windbreaker
permutation

and the answer is TUBA!

[OldsRecording]

The Word of the Day is:

sarcasm

Being born and raised in "The South", I don't really understand this word. Could somebody please explain to me what this means?

Yeah, right.

[windshieldbug]

The Word of the Day is:

sarcasm

sar⋅casm

–noun protoplasm, esp. the semifluid content of a protozoan.


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Origin:
1850–55; < F, alter. of Gk sarkdēs fleshy

[Kevin Hendrick]

The word of the day is...

calamistrate

Ah yes, "to friz":

http://bio.parkwestgallery.com/artists/Friz-Freleng

[scottw]

Sorry, been busy…

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/10/09) is:

obtuse

The Word of the Day (retroactively for 7/11/09) is:

windbreaker

The Word of the Day is:

permutation

Not to be obtuse, but is this permutation of a windbreaker any warmer than is the original?

[scottw]

The Word of the Day is:

hegemonistic

Really, Elephant, this hegemonic need of yours to dominate would be better off without the "ist" within it.

[dwaskew]

The Word of the Day is:

unguent

mama always just put butter on the affected area and let the dog lick it off. dog spit=good unguent.

[windshieldbug]

un⋅guent  /ˈʌŋgwənt/

–noun the opposite of guent, which is not having an ointment or salve, usually liquid or semiliquid, for application to wounds, sores, etc.


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Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L unguentum, alter. (prob. by assoc. with the suffixes -men, -mentum) of unguen fat, grease, deriv. of unguere to smear, anoint

Related forms:

un⋅guen⋅tar⋅y  /ˈʌŋgwənˌtɛri/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uhng-gwuhn-ter-ee] Show IPA , adjective

[Kevin Hendrick]

un⋅guent  /ˈʌŋgwənt/

–noun the opposite of guent, which is not having an ointment or salve, usually liquid or semiliquid, for application to wounds, sores, etc.

... and, if such wound -- remaining untreated for lack of unguent -- worsened to the point of requiring amputation of the affected part, that would be bad news (going "from guent to ax") ...

[scottw]

The Word of the Day is:

unguent

How come my Granny never said," an unguent" when describing Bible reading as "a salve for the soul"?