Wordnik.com: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover: Comments

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 4 months ago

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:55:05 +0000

Moro reflex? or Hypnic jerk?

Comment by plethora, 4 months ago

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:49:45 +0000

Transformer.

Comment by chained_bear, 4 months ago

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:26:14 +0000

Kayak.

Comment by gangerh, 7 months ago

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:27:42 +0000

Paradigm shift?

Comment by bilby, 8 months ago

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:01:05 +0000

ejector seat!

Comment by bilby, 8 months ago

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:51:18 +0000

Could one escape from one's lover by pterodactyl?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:11:03 +0000

blimp

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:35:47 +0000

Interdimensional hyperjump

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:03:35 +0000

Ptero, two suggestions:
cigarette boat
hydroplane

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:16:00 +0000

Pro! I LIVE in a farmhouse!! Oh...maybe that explains the buuurping...

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:12:34 +0000

Pro -- Wrong. A burp is that excess or unwanted gas that makes it to the belly (sometimes a little shy of it) and comes right back up -- in almost the exact composition/odor.

A fart is...NOT that! Whoa!

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:01:47 +0000

To me, burping is like farting from a different orifice*.

*Except when Wordies do it. And except for the Wyoming guy.

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:54:06 +0000

Yarb! I'm sooo sorry. Do you have to carry around a stash of barf bags....just in case?

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:46:37 +0000

In that case, dontcry, I stand in awe. You see, I am unable to burp; I have no middle ground between a hiccup and a hork.

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:24:45 +0000

I'm an awesome belcher! I can't drink carbonated beverages in polite company because the bubbles just come right back out! Fortunately for me, I don't spend a lot of time in polite company! (Present company excluded, of course... *snort*).

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:07:13 +0000

Yes, I absolutely could! I adore women who burp; a proclivity for burping is one of the main things I look for in a mate.

Obsessive burping or BUUURPing is a different thing, though; I'd have to think twice about that.

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:00:23 +0000

Burping makes it easier to be left. Could you still love a burper? I mean, a BUUURPER?

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:54:11 +0000

Farmhouse caught up in a tornado.

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:52:49 +0000

Burping? How would that work, then?

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:46:49 +0000

Funny, scoop! That might fit better in this list: 50 ways to leave your body

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:46:36 +0000

Foreign Legion, burping.

Comment by scoop, about 1 year ago

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:30:19 +0000

spontaneous human combustion

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:44:49 +0000

subway, tsunami

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:59:50 +0000

Great list! *favorited*

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:27:52 +0000

Ooh! Barrel! Especially over Viagra Fails.

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:11:13 +0000

paddle steamer, camel train

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:39:29 +0000

beach umbrella in a cyclone

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:15:48 +0000

Unfortunately, I still can't get the pumpkin coach link to work.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:07:05 +0000

c_b:

The original pumpkin coach link was faulty, but I fixed it, so it should be OK now.

With respect to the buttered cat array, I have only two words for you: dork out.

Comment by darqueau, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:59:48 +0000

suicide?
(this may open the door for an entirely new list...unless of course it already exists somewhere)

first entry:
jump off a cliff, Cliff.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:54:45 +0000

There are so many classics on this list. I still love continental drift. Sionnach, I want to hear more about this buttered-cat array, and BTW I couldn't get the pumpkin coach link to work. Wah!

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:10:48 +0000

Ah, I get it now. In fact, I should have gotten it earlier, as I just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, in which a pumpkin coach features prominently.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:56:45 +0000

Pterodactyl: Well, the mystery is part of the magic, innit? I've always understood that propulsion involves a mixture of fairy dust and tiny rodents:

pumpkin coach

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:23:54 +0000

92 entries now ptero ... soon you'll be needing a second lover. Are you up to it?

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:14:10 +0000

Sionnach: How, exactly, does one travel by pumpkin? I would be intrigued to see this happen. Does the pumpkin roll? Or does the pumpkin vine just grow really, really fast?

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:13:48 +0000

Excellent suggestions, my people! Thank you! I'm especially impressed by giant peach -- bilby, it appears that you and I read the same books when we were growing up. :-)

(And self-defenestration is making me laugh even as I type this.)

Comment by dontcry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:54:03 +0000

Ha!

Comment by gangerh, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:57:37 +0000

Self-defenestration?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:58:16 +0000

giant peach, self-immolation, black hole.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:17:27 +0000

pumpkin? buttered-cat array? gondola? broomstick? nautilus? penny-farthing?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:05:03 +0000

trapdoor, alien abduction, hang-glider, avalanche.

Comment by palooka, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:58:32 +0000

jitney, space shuttle, hearse, join the Marines? Great list!

Comment by darqueau, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:57:33 +0000

fixie?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:40:06 +0000

How about catapault for a quick departure?

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:17:26 +0000

Continental drift?! Ha ha hahahaaaa!!! *favorited*

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:54:45 +0000

Up here we might consider a dog sled, depending on the season.

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:45:01 +0000

Yes! Keep 'em coming!

(thinks: Yay! After four months of sitting quiet and unnoticed, this list is finally seeing some action!)

Comment by yarb, about 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:36:56 +0000

Definitely; I'll think about it. Punt? Jalopy? Luge? Ruby slippers?

Comment by frogapplause, about 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:34:42 +0000

Hilarious.

Comment by pterodactyl, about 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:08 +0000

Thanks! It sure was fun putting this list together. My favorite is continental drift.

Any suggestions for further entries?