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wannabee · 12-02-2009, 02:09 PM

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx

sarahkate_m · 12-02-2009, 02:57 PM

HOW could I forget? These are my absolute favorite words:

"flora & fauna" - I always have a folder dedicated in any folder place to this theme. - This post reminded me!!! #5

"Russell & Rose" (okay - names not really words. my kids)

So, disregard all those other silly things I said... Although "all mimsy were the borogoves" still counts.

saucywench · 12-02-2009, 03:21 PM

Draconian

wannabee · 12-02-2009, 03:38 PM

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

wannabee · 12-02-2009, 03:42 PM

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Fred314X · 12-02-2009, 05:41 PM

Yclept. That's Medieval English for "called." I first ran across the word in the writings of S.J. Perelman, and I fell in love with it. (If you overdo it, it just sounds pretentious and silly). Here's an example, in context:

A football team from Pittsburgh yclept Steelers.

saucywench · 12-03-2009, 01:49 AM

Tantalust-Henchwench was cool! Had to look it up.

Wannabe-The Kurt Vonnegut quote was funny! If I imagined my high school class running our country...Spicoli would be president, and there would be free beer for everyone! Or how about Cheech & Chong in 2012!

More I like:

Battle axe

Crossing the Rubicon

Dining sub-rosa

Bella Notte!

Tantalust · 12-03-2009, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fred314X

Yclept.

Great!

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besmirch

oodles

balderdash

doo-hickey

betrousered

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." -Robert Frost

wannabee · 12-03-2009, 02:10 PM

Wherewithal

Woebegone

bjh · 12-03-2009, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tantalust

seaside restaurant restroom signs : 'buoys' and 'gulls'

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Restroom signs I saw in Niagara Falls years ago:

"Pointers" and "Setters"

Was at a restaurant once that had the signs: Rome and Venice. Apparently some people found this confusing.

So they had a tie on one door and a bow on the other. Can you guess which was which?