Adoption agency

ruzuzu Yay! Thanks, yarb. Jan 4, 2013

yarb Thanks, but I already figured i- I mean, yes, well done you passed. Jan 4, 2013

ruzuzu Oh! A test! I love tests. Okay. One way is to go to a word you'd like to list, scroll down to the very end of the "Lists" section, and click on "New list." Another is to just type "http://www.wordnik.com/lists/new" into your browser.

Did I pass?
Jan 4, 2013

yarb Happy to oblige. In return, please tell me how one creates a new list. I haven't forgotten, I'm just testing you. Jan 4, 2013

ruzuzu Brackets around "holographic banana boat," please. Jan 4, 2013

yarb Is that a holographic banana boat in your pocket, or are you etc? Jan 4, 2013

ruzuzu I note that banana boat is now on three other lists, and holographic is on seven other lists. Jan 4, 2013

blafferty I'm going to troll through here for additions to my ever-increasing plans for the weekend list. Fitting words will be stolen away under cover of the deep dark night. Er ... the vague light of the midnight sun, I guess. Jun 14, 2011

sarra The words; I didn't read the comments this time :) Nov 29, 2008

yarb How do you mean, sarra? The words, the comments? Nov 29, 2008

sarra This has become a fascinating story. Nov 29, 2008

bilby Ooh, I did too. Young blueblood's thrilled to be among companions of his nobly chromatic rank. Oct 17, 2008

Prolagus I would love to adopt flicker fusion for my De rerum natura list. Hope he's a nice guy and that he likes nerds. Oct 17, 2008

Prolagus And bilby adopted blueblood. Oct 17, 2008

Prolagus Carnaby could be a good Not edible word. Is she likes it... Oct 17, 2008

yarb Good on you, dharma! And welcome to wordie! Oct 17, 2008

dharma66 Cornflower blue would make an excellent addition to my Colour Me Happy list. I will hold it and love it and treat it with care... Oct 17, 2008

rolig Thanks, yarb! And thanks, chained_bear, for pointing me to the other spelling. I love the idea of a Mythic America list. Please do start one! Aug 27, 2008

yarb Thank you rolig. May Sacajawea serve you well. Also noted: catkisses finds a home for babs. Aug 27, 2008

chained_bear How bizarre. I was thinking about Sacajawea just this morning and musing about starting a Mythic America list. I'll adopt her when I start one--also I would add the currently-more-preferred spelling (I have no authority to say this whatsoever) Sacagawea. Aug 27, 2008

rolig Yarb, I have a good home for Sacajawea on my bywords list. I've already put her there, on a preliminary basis, of course. I think she'll fit right in as a byword for someone who acts as a trustworthy guide. Aug 27, 2008

dontcry Actually, yarb, they're getting bored with each other. Got any more livestock? Jul 22, 2008

yarb Very good, bilby.

Also noted: dontcry has adopted a cow and mare cognitum. Whichbe has taken canned under his(?) wing.

I hope your cow and your mare are bringing you pleasure, dontcry.

Thanks also to whichbe for nuzzling up to nuzzler and finding a use for gömböc. Jul 21, 2008

bilby I think I can provide a home for turkish coffee on my Exotic Tastes list. Yes indeed. Turkish coffee coming right up! Jul 21, 2008

yarb Thank you - or should I say thank moo!

Roll on weekend... Jun 6, 2008

dontcry That's just wrong, yarb. I'll take a cow. It can keep my mare cognitum company. Jun 6, 2008

yarb Okay - someone is orphaning words solely for my benefit, right? Your keys? A cow?!

Who wants to adopt a cow? Jun 6, 2008

yarb Recent adoptions:

alizarin crimson - frindley
pokerface - foxtrot
Nancy - gangerh / chained_bear
ambipresent - reesetee
dentures - treeseed
carnal knowledge - prolagus Jun 6, 2008

yarb Gosh. Things seem to have been ticking over nicely here in my absence. No need to ask my permission from now on; just adopt away to your hearts' content. Jun 6, 2008

whichbe I've abandoned multikulti, you may want to find it a home. This feels like craigslist. Jun 6, 2008

oroboros For more ghosts (that need no approval for adoption) check the tag:'list-less'. May 10, 2008

dontcry sionnach, I promised no looking in the mouth, so bishoping is out. As for feaguing.."Eeeuuuwww!" May 10, 2008

dontcry Deal. No leading, only driving to drink - but absolutely no drinking and then driving. May 10, 2008

bilby 55 bottles of beer on the wall looks like a uselessness prank. And a damn good one at that! May 10, 2008

sionnach If nobody else cares about that slightly pretentious poseur, pseudoinverse, I'd be happy to offer lodging and three squares on my 'statistical terms' list. He'd be much happier billeted with his clone, the generalized inverse, and his cousin, the Moore-Penrose inverse, and would be very useful for many of the statistical frolicking that goes on there. May 10, 2008

sionnach Silly gangerh. People (and horses) are driven, not led, to drink. As is well-known, they can be led to water, but not to drink. May 10, 2008

gangerh And of course no leading it to drinking, dontcry. May 10, 2008

sionnach Well, assuming we get buyin from the Trojans. Also, I assume there will be no attempts to bishop or feague the beast in question. May 10, 2008

dontcry Man, you're strict. Well, I can promise that her mouth will be looked into once a year by an equine vet who will need to float her teeth, of course. Other than that, her mouth only will need to be inspected for suspicious gifts, which I'm assuming will never occur, given her obviously fine bloodline. Do we have a deal? May 10, 2008

sionnach dontcry: If granted custody of mare cognitum, can you promise you will not look her in the mouth? May 10, 2008

dontcry I'd like to apply for mare cognitum please. I have 3.25 acres of well-maintained pasture. I am cognizant - the vast majority of the time. I love horses (I really only beat the dead ones in word-play, honest - I can't even yell at my mare). And, finally, my old girl could use a companion. May 10, 2008

sarra Gicleé is a typo for giclée. I thought it could have been mine but apparently not, as I've not listed the other (until now). I wonder if prep school was mine for some reason. Who knows. Apr 23, 2008

chained_bear Baby daddy deserves no home. It sucks. Apr 23, 2008

bilby Baby daddy has no mummy? Shame. Apr 23, 2008

pterodactyl Chained_bear just brought baby daddy to our attention. Is there a place for him here? Apr 23, 2008

yarb Mistreatments adopted by arcadia. Congratulations madam, I hope he brings you joy. Jan 17, 2008

yarb rt: I wouldn't want to send my urchins to homes where the promised love and cherishment fails to transpire. Besides, we can always use hand in the workhouse, manufacturing blacking.

aracdia: I can't give any guarantees on the provenance or legitimacy of any of these words. If you like the look of cynyc enough to take a punt on her, you go ahead. But it's not up to me to vouch for her "reality".

asativum / colleen: yes, those two are especially fine specimens aren't they? Quality office girls are hard to find these days, and for them to come with carnal knowledge is an added bonus.

mollusque: I've been tagging as misspelling, too. magnanimities of sound and road cat are simply beautiful, thank you! Jan 17, 2008

arcadia OK, OK, I kidnapped mistreatments while nobody was looking. I just didn't want to deal with the paperwork. But it has a home, now. I thank you. Jan 17, 2008

arcadia Well, I have reservations about mistreatments but I am almost CERTAIN that carnal knowledge is a trouble maker.

yarb-- will you make with the definition of "cynyc" so that, if it's good, I can snag it before anyone else does? Jan 17, 2008

mollusque Yarb, I've also been random word trawling for ghosts. I've adopted some and tagged others as misspellings. There are some unruly blighters that I can forward to your agency if you'd like (e.g., magnanimities of sound and road cat). Jan 17, 2008

colleen maybe this place would be less of a tip if I had some quality office girls. Jan 17, 2008

asativum Interesting that no one claims carnal knowledge. Or office girls, for that matter. Jan 17, 2008

arcadia I would TOTALLY take cynyc if I had a place to put 'er. Is it an alternative spelling for "cynic"? If it IS a "real" word, it belongs in a palindrome list, which I'm sure somebody must already have. Jan 17, 2008

reesetee And what's this about returning orphans? Why, you're almost as heartless as uselessness there! Jan 17, 2008

reesetee Word-loins? Word-loins?? By all that is holy, yarb, please!

*yelling from corner* Jan 17, 2008

yarb Arcadia: mistreatments is a handful, it's true. He's a tempestuous little tyke at the best of times. But I think he means well. If he gives you too much gyp, I'll let you bring him back, no strings. How's that?

uselessness: just by random word trawling. Jan 17, 2008

yarb Flavenoids adopted by Julia. Thanks Julia! Jan 17, 2008

uselessness Out of curiosity, yarb, where do you find the words for this list? Jan 17, 2008

arcadia Congrats, Julia. Now the pressure's is on the rest of us to step up and do the right thing by these poor remaining waifs.

I'm eyeballing mistreatments for my "hospital" list, but he looks like a troublemaker who might negatively effect the rest of my words if I take him home. Can he be trusted?

Jan 17, 2008

super-julia i'm so happy!! *sniff* Jan 17, 2008

yarb She's yours, julia. Congratulations on becoming the first to adopt a word. And a fine choice if I may say so. Jan 17, 2008

super-julia flavenoids really must come home with me. i mean, i've already got the crib set up on my -oids list and everything... Jan 17, 2008

uselessness Well, it wasn't that funny. ;-) Jan 17, 2008

yarb Badoom-tish. It's comedy central here, isn't it? I'm like a laughing hyena who's just taken a big suck of laughing gas while being tickled with a ten-foot feather. Jan 17, 2008

uselessness On occasion, but don't tell my wife I call her that! *rimshot*
(Actually I'm not married, but the joke was too good not to say, amirite?) Jan 17, 2008

yarb You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? Jan 17, 2008

uselessness I'm the villain who murdered those words' poor parents in cold blood and left them, orphans, in the street to die. Don't expect any mercy from me. I make orphans for pleasure, and ghosts for fun. Thoroughly despicable, I am. ;-) Jan 17, 2008

yarb Forgive me if I'm wrong uselessness, but judging from the comments it seems to have been you who brought all these bottles into the world of wordie. Rather than lambasting my adoption agency for not providing them all with bespoke care, why not take responsiblity for your own overactive word-loins and give them a nice list of their own?

rt, go and stand in the corner until you repent that dreadful pun. Jan 17, 2008

reesetee Oh, those pour, pour bottles. ;-> Jan 17, 2008

uselessness Yes, that's bizarrely specific choice from a large field of orphans... can't you hear all the others crying, with tears in their puppy-dog eyes, "Pwease adopt us, yarb! We need a mommy and a daddy and a dinner that isn't gruel or cardboard!!" Jan 17, 2008

reesetee Hate to tell you this, yarb, but if you add all of the orphan bottles, you'll have to expand your facilities quite a bit. Ask uselessness. ;-) Jan 17, 2008

jennarenn Why 55 bottles? I think that 54 is feeling a little left out. Jan 17, 2008

vanishedone Never mind work hours: apparently the question of our slender population was raised about '11 hours ago', and where I am it's 11:34am. Jan 15, 2008

jennarenn Sadly, some of us don't have access to wordie during work hours. I find that it severely curtails my ability to get into the thick of things. TSB, do check out slumry's comments. She racked up over 1200 comments in under three months. Amazing. Jan 15, 2008

reesetee This whole page confuses the hell out of me. And yet I'm laughing out loud.

Signed, Not Resetee

P.S. What does "vhooosh!" mean? Jan 15, 2008

chained_bear Yeah, I think there are a few other Wordies around here who comment frequently. Just a few.

I know debbie and warren. I think I saw them on the bathroom walls at Red Lobster once. One of them loves the other, but I can't remember which. Jan 15, 2008

sionnach I think that cumuls refers to a type of clod. Jan 15, 2008

sionnach Who's resetee?

Signed,

The littliest wordie. Jan 15, 2008

skipvia Debbie and Warren are no longer here. They have been...dealt with... Jan 15, 2008

uselessness And I've been functionally gone for like two weeks! Nice to know my reputation wasn't tarnished during my absence... ;-) Jan 15, 2008

yarb Actually, pomegranate, debbie and warren are conjoined twins.

Superiorbeing: there are more wordies than meet the eye. Jan 15, 2008

pomegranate Who're debbie and warren? Must they be adopted together because they are sibs? What if I just want warren? Jan 15, 2008

pomegranate So few of us Wordies. I don't mind there so few of us. It's not so easy to get lost in the sauce. Excuse me for being a cynyc. Jan 15, 2008

thesuperiorbeing I am sad, because there are so little of us Wordies. Mollusque, Yarb, Uselessness, Resetee and myself are the ever-reappearing names and the only ones! At some sites you post a comment and - vhooosh!- it's 8742 comments down the list. But here, You have to wait about 5 minutes for your comment to move down once(!), unless there's a new guy who comments way too much (like me).

And so i bid thee farewell - The Superior Being. Jan 15, 2008

mollusque I've also adopted a few former ghosts. Jan 15, 2008

uselessness Then I shall have to become more stealthy. A lexisharpshooter, if you will, making my mark in only the silentest of manners. Jan 15, 2008

yarb If by taking these poor words under my wing I remove them from your remorseless crosshairs, so much the better. Jan 15, 2008

uselessness This list makes me sad. Do you mean to end my ghosting rampage? Jan 15, 2008

reesetee Clever, yarb! At last, these little words have a home. :-) Jan 12, 2008