Past comments by Chained Bear

  • “A.K.A. Denali.”

    About 19 hours ago, on the word Mount McKinley

  • “Really? My SO has been there.

    Oh dammit, that site starts with some stupid music. So...”

    About 19 hours ago, on the word Winchester Mystery House

  • “Aha! Reesetee! Now it IS Soundie and you CAN give us examples of your bird-squawks!! :)”

    About 19 hours ago, on the word aboiement

  • “lookatthisfreespamrighthereonWordnikfree”

    About 19 hours ago, on jungzing's profile

  • “Either there, or in the greater Boston area.”

    4 days ago, on the word snake

  • “Come to think of it, I don't believe there are any snakes in the greater Boston area, either... *ponders*”

    4 days ago, on the word snake

  • “John, is there a way to search for lists (by title, say) and I'm not seeing it? It annoys me to scroll through my own seventy bazillion lists to fi...”

    5 days ago, on the word features

  • “Video seen here.

    5 days ago, on the word vampire squid

  • "Why Ireland has no snakes," by a zoologist at the ...”

    5 days ago, on the word snake

  • “I thought this article about slang using "Irish" was pretty interesting. Happy S...”

    5 days ago, on the word Irish

  • “Usage on favela.”

    5 days ago, on the word trafficantes

  • “Rio's lawmen are once again confronting favela drug lords; six of the meanest slums have been declared bandit-free, including the infamou...”

    5 days ago, on the word favela

  • “Sometime between 2004 and 2009, he attended two dinners sponsored by the mainstream, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, but he wasn't impressed. H...”

    5 days ago, on the word mansaf

  • “He has softened the Bush-era rhetoric and turned down the volume on what a former CIA chieftain once called 'the Mighty Wurlitzer,' a mythical o...”

    5 days ago, on the word the Mighty Wurlitzer

  • “He has always known that speaking of a 'crusade' and 'Islamofascism' was a good way to make jihadists out of Muslim teenagers..."
    —Evan Thomas...”

    5 days ago, on the word Islamofascism

  • “There was a good chance that the coach would be detained—was sure to be slow, bogged down on the miry roads.

    Speaking of coaches—his heart gave a...”

    5 days ago, on the word porte cochere

  • “She had yet another mask, he saw, this one a stiff thing made of basket withes lined with layers of soft cotton cloth. She fitted this gently to...”

    5 days ago, on the word withes

  • “'Why the devil should this trusdair take your son?' Buccleigh rolled down his window and stuck his head out.... 'And why, for the sake of a...”

    5 days ago, on the word trusdair

  • “Nice list! (and title)”

    5 days ago, on the list Things Your Angry Conservative Grandparents Might Say

  • Another meaning applies here:

    "The little engraver betrayed no particular discomfort under this basilisk stare and went on telling me about the ...”

    5 days ago, on the word blatherskite

  • “Usage on stultiloquy.”

    5 days ago, on the word foistingness

  • “'Ungrateful!' Abram said, his face congested. 'And what should we be grateful for, then? For having soldiers foisted upon us?'

    'Oh, foisted, is...”

    5 days ago, on the word stultiloquy

  • “'I'm afraid your cabin was all ahoo, ma'am,' he said. 'But I picked up what bits was scattered on the floor...'"
    —Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in ...”

    5 days ago, on the word ahoo

  • “Two studies last year in the NEJM {New England Journal of Medicine} showed that vertebroplasty, in which cement is inserted through a nee...”

    5 days ago, on the word vertebroplasty

  • “Toxicology tests showed that he had been dosed with succinylcholine, a paralyzing agent."
    —Michael Isikoff, "Murder in Dubai," Newsweek, ...”

    5 days ago, on the word succinylcholine

  • “Many principals don't even try to weed out the poor performers (or they transfer them to other schools in what's been dubbed the '[dance of the le...”

    5 days ago, on the word dance of the lemons

  • “*titters at whichbe's year-old joke*

    5 days ago, on the word yoghurt

  • “I recall those. They were like riding in big Matchbox™® cars.”

    5 days ago, on the word silver Aries K with red vinyl interior, constant antifreeze smell

  • whirly skirt.”

    5 days ago, on the word traded in tiara for a cloche

  • “No, but that's the closest I came to learning to drive a manual.

    It's hard to get the pages to shift when you want them to, you know? Especially ...”

    5 days ago, on the word yellow Volkswagen Superbeetle upon which I painted green kangaroos

  • “That car sounds friggin' awesome!”

    5 days ago, on the word first cars

  • “Seen here.

    5 days ago, on the word a secretive bird

  • “Oh John. You so sexy. :)”

    5 days ago, on the word first cars

  • “It was semi-automatic. Who knew they even made those?”

    5 days ago, on the word yellow Volkswagen Superbeetle upon which I painted green kangaroos

  • “Shane MacGowan pronounces it "pray-tees" in the song, if that helps (or matters).”

    7 days ago, on the word praties

  • psst... it's Pearl Harbor.

    7 days ago, on the word Pearl Harbour

  • “By Janae."

    Now *there's* a sales pitch! :)”

    10 days ago, on the word Forehead Tittaes

  • “Um... that's the call of the wild chained_bear, below, if that's what you're referring to.”

    10 days ago, on the word nebraksa

  • “I wish there were a way to add the Berenado Vinibobo to this list.

    Wait... is Yemen also called the Yemen? Curious.”

    10 days ago, on the list sometime-definite-article countries

  • “See crappucino. Or crappuccino.”

    10 days ago, on the word crapuccino

  • UAV! Now we know what ptero's REALLY been up to lately...”

    10 days ago, on the word pterodactyl

  • Unmanned aerial vehicle(s). Usage:

    "At least 40 other countries--from Belarus and Georgia to India, Pakistan and Russia--have begun to build, buy,...”

    10 days ago, on the word UAV

  • uav is very different from a UAV, I learned today.”

    10 days ago, on the word uav

  • “Who you callin' fuzzbutt, leather-ears?”

    10 days ago, on the list Australian Derivation ... or, you know, -ism

  • “I never heard these, actually. That might be because when I was there it was a generation ago. I never actually heard anyone saying barbie when I...”

    10 days ago, on the list Australian Derivation ... or, you know, -ism

  • “tee hee!! *excellent* link, Pro... :)”

    11 days ago, on the word helvetica

  • “Oh. *ignores signals as they are not useful*”

    11 days ago, on the list Hottest Guys Names

  • “*loves telofy* Thank you for championing the en-dash! ”

    11 days ago, on feedback's profile

  • “*amusedly watches the preening*”

    11 days ago, on the list Hottest Guys Names

  • “This is the stuff of my nightmares.”

    11 days ago, on the word stewed dog

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