Flora and fauna ending in 'x'

chained_bear Perhaps the conversation at Bristol stool scale would interest Yaybob...?

psst... it's not a big deal, but you don't really need to repeat each comment you're replying to! :) Some people use the name to help differentiate though... Just a thought!

Or the ever-fascinating tappen? Wait... sorry... we're talking low-brow, not necessarily scatological... Dec 15, 2008

yaybob skipvia said: Not...not...Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn! *gasp* Is he ready?

You betcha! Dec 15, 2008

skipvia Not...not...Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn! *gasp* Is he ready?

Oh, what the hell... Dec 15, 2008

reesetee Skip, perhaps you should introduce our new friend here to your pal Skinny. Funny thing--I got an e-mail today that included a photo of the Inn sign. Naturally, I thought of you.

I mean...er...because you live nearby.

*leaves the room* Dec 15, 2008

yaybob Prolagus said: "Yaybob, are you good at singing? It's a very important requirement for Wordie."

That can’t be right. I think that you’re thinking of Lyricie.
Dec 13, 2008

bilby Neat intro, Yaybob. Yay! Have fun here as you wont, the goodship Wordie's a resilient old tub.

My brow's so low I use it as a skipping rope. Dec 13, 2008

mollusque C'mon even Weirdnet knows that Helix is a genus of mollusks. Anticlimax is rather more obscure. Dec 13, 2008

skipvia And, don't forget, Pro--you have to like AWESOME WORDS!!!!!! The awesomer, the better. Dec 13, 2008

sionnach Narthex is apparently a term (directly from Ancient Greek but in OED) for a large fennel-like plant.

Omigod! How embarrassing. I thought fbharjo's "giant fennel" definition the other day was a typo for "giant funnel". Dec 13, 2008

Prolagus Yaybob, are you good at singing? It's a very important requirement for Wordie. Dec 13, 2008

skipvia Lowbrow humor? Geez--where should we start, reesetee? How about fernando poo? Dork out might make a good start. Luncheon? It doesn't get much lower than that. Chained_Bear--help us out here. We need to make Yaybob feel more comfortable here... Dec 13, 2008

yaybob chained_bear said: "Yaybob, none of us here are strangers to lowbrow. :) Welcome!"

Thanks chained (or is it bear?).

reesetee said: "Yaybob, you get a gold star just for asking. Thanks for that--and welcome to Wordie. (Great screen name, by the way.)"

And thank you too. As I indicated, I'm still getting oriented, and while I prefer to be myself, as I said, I really didn't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable or lose potential friends before making any. You have all been so civil and witty, which, frankly, has been a pleasant surprise.

In the last two or three years, I've experienced three different Internet communities, in succession, brought together for three different reasons, and they have all been different from each other in important ways, but they were all alike in that there was always at least a whiff of rough play or belligerence (one was political, so you can just imagine), and nobody had better wear their heart on their sleeve in any of them. So, this is a welcome change. Secular and liberal if anyone is interested, but I get along well with most conservative theists

One warning. Please be tolerant. I seem to have some kind of dyslexia equivalent when I compose my posts - a dysgraphia if you will - that results in the submission of some gross grammatical errors, probably as a result of all the surgery I do in the process of generating them. At times, it's been more like Medieval torture than surgery, and some truly tortured sentences have resulted. For some reason, even though I look at them before posting, I frequently fail to pick up the error until I see it published.

Fortunately, Wordie lets me edit after posting, so when I do see the problem, I can clean it up before everybody has seen it. It's embarrassing, but I know that it's going to happen repeatedly. It already has - dropped words, sentences that aren't sentences, etc.. It looks careless and sloppy, even though it's likely the opposite is true. I'll spend an hour on a post at times. I just wanted to explain. I don't think that I can do any better.

And one other thing. My posts are longer than average. I like to think "out loud" and I like to freely associate. Some people have not cared for that in the past. I hope that my episodic typos from hell (I hope that the life of that phrase has not expired yet - I still like it) and my at times unfocused musing (like that) will be received as idiosyncracies and not impositions. Dec 12, 2008

reesetee Yarb, for what it's worth I have an all-purpose "ending in X" list here. Dec 12, 2008

yarb Narthex is apparently a term (directly from Ancient Greek but in OED) for a large fennel-like plant.

Anticlimax and helix I don't know. Mollusque, could you perhaps salve sionnach's skepticism?

Gauls historical and fictional are prohibited; I forgot to mention that. Dec 12, 2008

sionnach Hmmm. What kind of flora or fauna are the helix, the narthex, and the anticlimax?

If the sphinx and the phoenix make it onto this list, does that open up room for Shadowfax, Asterix, Obelix & Ideefix?

Not to mention Vercingetorix, Dora the dominatrix, Ruby the rixatrix, and a host of other characters, dead and alive, actual, mythical and fictional. Dec 12, 2008

reesetee Yaybob, you get a gold star just for asking. Thanks for that--and welcome to Wordie. (Great screen name, by the way.) Dec 12, 2008

chained_bear Yaybob, none of us here are strangers to lowbrow. :) Welcome! Dec 12, 2008

bilby Fauna, yarb, fauna. Dec 12, 2008

yarb Of course, bilby. But is it a plant or animal? Dec 12, 2008

bilby Is bollox a scientific term? Dec 12, 2008

yaybob Thanks for the kind words, Yarb. And to others who have been helpful as I get oriented to just what the hell is going on at this site. Dec 12, 2008

yarb Well, yaybob, you've certainly not offended or annoyed me. It's a pleasure to have you sniffing around my old lists.

Thanks for the contributions, m'lusque.

sionnach: ok. Dec 11, 2008

sionnach dolichonyx?
micromyx? Dec 11, 2008

yaybob A pleasure, Yarb. I wasn't sure about your interest in scientific names.

Mollusque sure went to town.

I suppose "binned" is polite society's way of saying "sh*t-canned." That would no doubt be due to the fact that sphinx moth doesn't count as an "x" word if its last term isn't an "x" word.

In my week or two on Wordie, I've noticed that most of the group has been fairly demure and relatively sophisticated. I have not. I have tended to gravitate toward low-brow humor. I hope that that is not unwelcome. I think that I took the vagina list as evidence that at least some bawdy humor was tolerated. I wish neither to offend or annoy. If there are any special needs or requests in this area, please let me know. Dec 11, 2008

yarb Marvellous contributions from fbharjo and yaybob - thanks both (I've binned sphinx moth though). Dec 11, 2008