Words or phrases you love (quote)

[Tantalust]

"And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans."

[saucywench]

Lake Pontchartrain

Gunboats

Longboats

Carronade

Garrison

[Tantalust]

unusual units of measurement:

1 parsec= ~19 trillion miles

atto: 1 quintillionth

1 attoparsec= [1.215 inches]

1 fortnight= 14 days

1 microfortnight= 1.2096 seconds

1 attoparsec per microfortnight= one inch/second

1 beard-second= the length an average beard grows in one second: .000000196 inches

[virgode]

“The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.”
~Anne Rice~


"Between what I think I want to say... what I believe I'm saying.... what I say.... what you want to hear.... what you believe you understand... and what you understood.... there are a least nine possibilities for misunderstanding."
~Francois Garagnon~


thespian

hellacious

guacamole

happy hour

[saucywench]

Abracadabra

[Tantalust]

Originally Posted by Tantalust

"And we caught the bloody British near the town of New Orleans."

A thumbs-up only for the great old song. War always stinks.

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Warhol= unit of fame or hype (15 minutes)
1 kiloWarhol= famous for 10.42 days
1 megaWarhol= famous for 28.5 years

furlong per fortnight= ~one cm per minute

furlongs per hogshead=

hectares per fortnight

donkeypower= ~ 1/3 of a horsepower

light-picosecond= ~ length of one chunk of ground pepper

MegaFonzie: unit of measurement of an object's coolness [from Professor Farnsworth in Futurama]

[saucywench]

Make love, not war



The whole enchilada

[virgode]

This ones for saucy.....
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
~Coco Chanel~

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
~Kurt Vonnegut_

"Commit the oldest sins, the newest kind of ways." -~William Shakespeare~

"Don't be so humble, you're not that great". ~Golda Meir~


bon voyage

squishy

the guilded tongue

[Tantalust]

rubber-necking

Kel-bowl-pac

beer goggles

One, two, buckle my shoe . . .

[saucywench]

Something old
Something new
Something borrowed
Something blue