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Comments for sionnach Please sign in or sign up to comment on this profile 13 days ago hernesheir said Here's a crash blossom - State's homebuilders report major shrinkage. 17 days ago PossibleUnderscore said Bwahahaha!! 17 days ago bilby said How do you like my new carpet?! about 1 month ago ruzuzu said "7 minutes ago, on per cagare occorre fare grandi stronzi, bilby said “Sionnach's a dab hand with these poop-dispenser issues.”" 2 months ago bilby said Hola from the Cape! 3 months ago milosrdenstvi said Mine was italic a few days ago but seems to have righted itself. Still can't edit posts, though. :( 3 months ago plethora said I see the italics. 3 months ago bilby said Nup, looks normal from this side of the world. Just a bit upside-down :-/ 3 months ago ruzuzu said It could just be me... but everything below "favorite word" is in italics. 3 months ago PossibleUnderscore said I'm not seeing any changes. ? 3 months ago ruzuzu said Um, I like how you've redecorated your profile. Would you call it italic style? 4 months ago ruzuzu said Comi Vegemite, pero no curo mis ilusiones. Usted es el zorro Santa, ¿no? 4 months ago john said Hi sionnach, the autoexpander should be working for comment editing now. 6 months ago ruzuzu said Sí. Pobrecito. Pero es posible comunicar con él en su lista. 6 months ago sionnach said Dios mio! Que esta pasando con Skippy? Lo habran secuestrado u algo asi, porque no se puede comunicar con el, a pesar de que nos ha dejado algunas huellas, se supone como pruebas de vida. Pobrecito! Espero que los criminales no le corten una oreja. 6 months ago ruzuzu said Thanks, sionnach. 6 months ago sionnach said Grrrrrr!!!! 7 months ago bilby said 7 months ago sionnach said Thanks, John. In other news, the peregrinations of Mr Fox 7 months ago john said Hi Sionnach, the fix is in, again. This time it was balking at phrases containing periods--should be ok now. 7 months ago sionnach said Thanks, John. I really appreciate it! 7 months ago john said hi sionnach, looks like you've already discovered this, but we fixed the issue with your 'critics' list (which i love--comments are delightful). 7 months ago reesetee said hands chained a blue-frosted cupcake and bicycle pump 7 months ago mollusque said Would an aspirator help c_b? 7 months ago dontcry said Babe.... 7 months ago PossibleUnderscore said :D 7 months ago reesetee said I missed all the hubbub! And I didn't even have a chance to offer you a blue-frosted cupcake. hands sionnach a blue-frosted cupcake 7 months ago bilby said They say we're young and we don't know We won't find out until we grow 7 months ago chained_bear said Damn. I'm still deflated. Does anyone have a bicycle pump, or something? 7 months ago ruzuzu said (thank you, santa) 7 months ago sionnach said I take major umbrage at that suggestion, c_b. But, in fact, the comments do show up in my e-mail. Thank you all for your kind remarks. I'm not sure what precipitated yesterday's outburst, but I have resolved to stick around and try to participate more. In fact, it must be time to start a new list. And somebody needs to take a flight down under to give bilby some remedial spelling and grammar lessons. And yes, c_b, I am indeed old. Practically ancient, in fact. Though I have yet to master the steps required to prepare the magical, mystical dublin coddle. Happy Groundhog Day! 7 months ago chained_bear said ... so we can't make fun of him? deflated 7 months ago bilby said If this page is still here the account hasn't been deleted. And if he still has 'Email me...When I get comments on my profile or lists' checked then he'll be notified of each and every comment. He's probably just gone off to commune with cuddlefishes or hunt wild vegemite in the pampas. 7 months ago chained_bear said Interestingly, if sionnach has left, he won't see any of these comments. I move we make fun of him instead, since he's not here to defend himself. ;) 7 months ago PossibleUnderscore said And also very much like cutting spaghetti. 7 months ago Prolagus said Moreover, leaving us like this would definitely qualify as pointing the brie. 7 months ago hernesheir said You haven't reported your experience making dublin coddle yet. You can't leave us like this. 7 months ago Prolagus said Would that help if I told you that this song is about no one but you? 7 months ago dontcry said cries 7 months ago PossibleUnderscore said What?? Is the Santa Fox going? I'm a lot less poetic than ruzuzu and a lot less bilbyish than bilby, so can only settle for a really sincere and genuine: 'We wouldn't bear to see you go! Please stick around!!' :'( Things could only possibly go uphhill from now anyway. : ) 7 months ago ruzuzu said Brackets around bilby feedback page, please. 7 months ago Prolagus said It must be some internal bug, Milos. Let's report it to the bilby feedback page. 7 months ago milosrdenstvi said Did bilby just misuse you're?! aghast 7 months ago bilby said Of course he's old. He was old when Noah put in his requisition chit for an ark welder. 7 months ago chained_bear said ... did you just call sionnach OLD?! sniggering ;) 7 months ago bilby said I have different reasons to ruzuzu but end result is the same: I wish you would stay a while. Like you I don't find the site very usable, and the spam's a pain, and fundamentally the splitting of 'words' into two pages is not working very coherently, etc. etc. etc., but maybe my tether is longer out here in the desert. There's still fun to be had. It'd be funner with you here. You're mature enough to know you're own head so I'm not going to plead. But you certainly can't leave without a sloppy kiss first, oh no! 7 months ago ruzuzu said When the switch first happened, I was very sad. I had just discovered Wordie, and I was completely in love--it didn't matter that some of the comments I was reading were two years old. In fact, that made it even more compelling--stuff I'd just found out about was stuff that you and chained_bear and bilby had been sharing for, well, for years... and then there were things you were joking about that I hadn't learned yet. When The Change came, the main difference for me was not the layout and missing features so much as the missing voices. I continue to read through old comments, and I'm still smitten--even though Wordnik is not the Wordie I fell in love with. But the prospect of losing another voice now, when I've had more time to become keenly aware of how important those voices are, is the part of all of this change that could actually break my heart. I will eventually run out of old comments to read, but I won't run out of the longing to hear what you have to tell us--that would just get worse over time. Please don't go. 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said I have always been fascinated by books about words and language and that list is a dream come true, considering that sad limitations prevent me from collecting my own. 8 months ago ruzuzu said Your list of books is fantastic. I counted only 12 that I could immediately find on my own bookshelves. 8 months ago sionnach said Thanks, john! 8 months ago john said Hi Sionnach, sorry about the long delay, but we finally dug up the list sorting bug. We'll hopefully have a fix out for it mid-week. 8 months ago sionnach said Bounty has competition! 8 months ago dontcry said Gotcha. 8 months ago bilby said If I had to answer you with one of these things in my mouth it would probably come out as ... [ln÷oæÎ£ï]. 8 months ago dontcry said It's dry, then? 8 months ago bilby said I hope OBG one day brings the full brunt of the Dessication Index to bear on tau sa pia. That's if local supply hasn't been deployed to mop up an oil spill or something like that. 8 months ago nickbomb said how cool.........nt. 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said Ummm.........of course it is!!! heh. (Just in case you didn't actually know, or you weren't actually joking, he's the Fox from Super Mario Smash Brothers. I mean, who doesn't like playing that game? Honestly.) 8 months ago bilby said That's from the WANTED poster relating to the Chapel Hill incident, isn't it? 8 months ago PossibleUnderscore said You must be terribly busy Santa Fox, at this time of year, but I have a question to pose: Is this one of you relatives? 9 months ago john said Hi sionnach, the default sort for lists is 'order added', so seeing words from across the alphabet on any page is expected behavior. I just paged through all three pages of the list you mentioned, sorted by alpha and order added, and they look ok to me. Email me if you're seeing something different. Onelook and friends still there, but the location has changed. If you look at the summary page for any word, in the 'Definitions' area, underneath 'WordNet' there's a section called 'Elsewhere on the web.' 9 months ago ruzuzu said Here's an article about how foxes can help save potential Christmas trees from certain death by using the most potent weapon at their disposal. 9 months ago ruzuzu said It's true--I have the sulks. I mean, I know you're busy... this time of year and all... but are there any new celebrity, bull, or cat anecdotes you're willing to share with us? 9 months ago bilby said The end of MOTP will give us all the sulks. Thankfully we have Boris on hand to method-act our grief. 9 months ago sionnach said Oh! No! Poor Sisypuss! 9 months ago bilby said 9 months ago bilby said Are you referring to the use of Si in Indonesian as an honorific? Why yes, Si O'Nnach sounds perfect! 9 months ago ruzuzu said Correlation... is not... causation? But that would mean I've committed a non sequitur fallacy--specifically the fallacy of false Claus. Sniffles, begins to fall into a heap of cognitive dissonance. But wait--it would make sense for Santa to be a statistician. Maybe you're just saying that stuff so people don't find out the secret location of The Workshop. I get it now! I won't tell anyone, I promise, Santa Fox! Ooops. I mean I won't tell anyone, "sionnach." Winks. 9 months ago ruzuzu said I am now convinced for all time that Santa's Workshop is in Gibraltar. 10 months ago PossibleUnderscore said Hah! I don't know about 'specific excrement' specifically but that book looks Cute! 10 months ago sionnach said I don't know, but this book just might be appropriate for anyone who had, say, an interest in specific excrement: 10 months ago Prolagus said Great pronunciations! I recorded some of your Italian idioms - you can see which ones on my profile. 10 months ago gangerh said An stf of yours has been illustrated by frogapplause. Here. 10 months ago Prolagus said Ha! Come on! Rotten is good. () () Except for rotten sugar, a.k.a. alcohol. 10 months ago ruzuzu said Dear Santa Fox, Speaking of lists, and checking them twice.... I wish it were easier to search for list names these days. (I just found your lovely list of capitonyms.) --A. Youngster 10 months ago ruzuzu said I knew it! You're the Santa Fox! For Christmas I would also like a chained_bear. I've been very good.... 10 months ago PossibleUnderscore said We all wish... hang on... are you? 10 months ago ruzuzu said Are... are you Santa? --signed, a Youngster 10 months ago bilby said 10 months ago bilby said Was unable to log in unable to log in unable to log in unable to log in unable to long in unable to log in until today. Just looking at this site hurts my soul so I don't know if I'll be around for long. In the past week I've got used to the unWordie reality of my life. 10 months ago sionnach said My profile is now public again. 11 months ago bilby said Oh my jimmytooters! 11 months ago sionnach said In case anyone has wondered about my relative scarcity on Wordie recently, well, there are exciting things going on: 11 months ago bilby said Are you, sir, familiar with fugazzetta? Tonight I was watching a movie set in BA and this word came up. The little boy wanted to have some and the grandmother, his guardian, said she didn't want to smell like onions. That's all I know. 11 months ago madmouth said thank you, sir. the final -m got the Google back in action, and it's a Dubliners coinage, from the looks of it. 11 months ago madmouth said you'd know, I warrant. I heard a word on a Dubliners track that sounds like 'falooran' or 'felorrin', meaning 'masculine virility' (re: old man a young woman has married out of necessity, "He's got no feloorin" so then she sleeps with this handsome young man). Google, however, is convinced it doesn't exist. you know what this word is? 11 months ago frogapplause said I loved your Empanada Semiotics post. What filling is inside the two round ones? 11 months ago hernesheir said I referred to a Dublin Coddle recipe some months ago wondering if you were the person who posted the recipe under a different "handle" on the (largely) Irish tune site The Session. I inquired because your breadth of knowledge, turn of phrase, but especially your posted wit and sense of humor are virtually identical those to those of that person, who happens to be one of THE primary contributors to that site like you have been to Wordie as long as I've camped out here. You have a doppelganger in the world of Irish musicians, S! Cool! Cheers - Deme en el centro de Buenos Aires una vuelta con una mujer bie'n preciosa y bella , o mejor, un tango con ella! ;>) Ciao - y que se disfrute alla'! 11 months ago ruzuzu said Thank you for adding to my list. I thought von trapp family was especially great. 11 months ago bilby said Vengeance. 12 months ago Telofy said Wow, that’s teh alsome, you’re Over 9000! ;-) 12 months ago sionnach said Is this my 9000th comment? I think it might just be. Nope, apparently not. Wait, yes it is. 12 months ago bilby said Thanks! For the record, it's from Allalu Mo Wauleen: An allalu mo wauleen! No hole, no stitch, no rent in it, ’Twas stuffed from string to sauleen, My half-year’s rent was pent in it. Charming stuff. 12 months ago bilby said Kind sir, would you help me with the two -eens in this? Yourself and I, mo stóreen, At every hour of night and day, Through road and lane and bohreen Without complaint we made our way, Till one sore day a carman In pity took us from the road, And faced us towards Dungarvan Where mortal sin hath firm abode. 12 months ago bilby said Being doing quite a bit of online reading. Got caught with library closed and nothing in the in-basket; don't have a book collection. The Guano Republic? I've never been to Nauru but it's well-known to Australians. At one stage their president preferred to live in Melbourne, ostensibly for the sake of his children's education ... not sure what that said about his country either. Nevertheless, he duly demanded that his activities appear in the Vice-Regal notices in Melbourne papers on a pretty much daily basis. 12 months ago sionnach said What can I say? To survive the mean streets of Santiago, I had to pick up some bad habits. wanna make something of it, bud? 12 months ago plethora said How rude! about 1 year ago sionnach said I am still in San Francisco, but will be leaving for Buenos Aires on Friday. Yippee-i-yay! about 1 year ago bilby said You in Fair Breezes now? about 1 year ago bilby said Kafka feliz! about 1 year ago sionnach said That foxlight is a condescending insult to vulpine intelligence. Those cauliflower-sheep, on the other hand ..... 'Nummy. about 1 year ago bilby said Foxlight. about 1 year ago dontcry said Howl! about 1 year ago bilby said How to get a fox to eat his vegetables. (thanks to frogapplause for finding it). about 1 year ago Telofy said Yeah, pretty pretty, especially since 17 is a prime number. Congratulations!! (two exclamation points to make the line 17 characters long) about 1 year ago sionnach said Ooh! 17K. Finally. Seems like it's taken forever to get from 16K to 17K. Now I guess I'll have to hold off for a few days to admire the nice roundness of that 17,000 figure. about 1 year ago bilby said It takes just as much courage to pull the plug and scoot as it does to hang around. I hope the revised plans work out well for you. about 1 year ago sionnach said Thank you, frogapplause! Best laugh I've had all week. about 1 year ago frogapplause said sionnach: Thanks! about 1 year ago bilby said We can only hope so. Don't spit the dummy-half! about 1 year ago sionnach said Does it involve cannibalizing rugby players? about 1 year ago bilby said Beware of diorama sickness in the Andes, Zorrito! about 1 year ago reesetee said Have a great trip! about 1 year ago bilby said MOTP updates ... yay! about 1 year ago sionnach said Zorrito will be heading to the Southern hemisphere on Saturday for his regular infusion of espanol. I'm sure there will be lists: "un zorro en Santiago de Chile" and "un zorro en Buenos Aires". about 1 year ago treeseed said Thank you so much! It's all coming back to me now.... about 1 year ago treeseed said I have forgotten how to create a new list. Please help me out? about 1 year ago sionnach said Thanks, John. It's a bit of a random thing. In trying to track the phenomenon, I had the impression that it might be a result of having two Firefox windows open simultaneously (which I usually avoid, but sometimes a second window opens up as a popunder ad). This doesn't explain things completely though, but it has been less of an issue to date. I am able to delete duplicate words and comments, but a couple of lists appear twice on my list of lists, which is a minor annoyance. Not to worry, though. I still need my daily fix of Wordie. about 1 year ago john said Ga, Sionnach, I somehow missed your bug report a few weeks ago about all the duplicates. I'll look into that ASAP, which unfortunately probably means this coming weekend. Last thing in the world I want is to diminish Wordie's appeal to you :-) about 1 year ago bilby said I'm sure it would lift the spirits of the prisoner! Can you email me a postal address please? about 1 year ago bilby said Zzzzzz. about 1 year ago bilby said What's up, Imelda? over 1 year ago Prolagus said Well then, see you in Kyoto in summer 2010! over 1 year ago Prolagus said I had a wonderful, wonderful time. Now I'm getting ready for London, next week! My statistician vulpine friend, what are the chances that we eventually meet someday while wandering across the planet? over 1 year ago garyth123 said Define barmy. over 1 year ago sionnach said here's hoping Pro had as much fun in catalonia as I did in Edinburgh. They're downright barmy, these Scots people! But in the best possible way. Tomorrow, it's on to Dublin, to see what Ireland's trendsetters are up to. (Not!) Though I will be catching up with a friend from high school I've not seen in 35 years. Exciting stuff. over and out. foxy over 1 year ago Prolagus said Have a safe trip! I'm going to Catalonia for the weekend. over 1 year ago bilby said Bon voyage! Just as well Scotland has strict laws against dioramas ;-) over 1 year ago sionnach said Ooh, I've got an attack of the tummyfreeze. preparing to leave for Edinburgh and assorted Irish destinations. over 1 year ago bilby said An antidote for firefox! over 1 year ago mark22 said new entry for groddess if you're interested. over 1 year ago bilby said ¡Hola, hideous 10-dollar broadminded pampas bunny! Can you please have a look at my Frank O'Connor citation on skite? Now that madmouth has queried it I have a feeling it's a usage peculiar to Oireland. Perhaps something similar to bender? Worthless Word For The Day notes as one of skite's meanings: orig. and chiefly Scot. a jollification, a spree, a binge; freq. in phrase on the skite. Oh, the zine is out now too! Positive comments already on Marmalade Cat Humiliation. I was at a friend's house last night and he had photocopied the poem and stuck it on the fridge. Occasaionally he'd loook at it and say, "Beer. Maravilla. Beer maravilla." So if you can get me a postal address to identifythewordie@yours.com, 2 copies will be on their way. Plus the book :-) over 1 year ago bilby said giggles over 1 year ago chained_bear said hopes sionnach goes on a hunt for more candy-pooping animals over 1 year ago bilby said Haha! Fox Crescent's about a kilometre (sorry, imperial wimps) from the PO actually. Maybe someone at Google Maps is also plotting against you ... have you been followed recently by a lemur in a check surtout? Just to ensure you now feel a right richard, I can tell you I bought a book to send you in return. It's a much-loved piece by one of my favourite writers, a gent who I think writes with the kind of verve that will keep you well-entertained. So where do I send it, Flash? over 1 year ago bilby said Forgive me for being obtuse, but I thought I had put my hand up and given you a postal address on your blog? Never mind, I'm happy the beasties have found a home. And yes, our friend Flickr. over 1 year ago bilby said You've been letting yourself go in Thpain, haven't you? It's time we had you back in training. over 1 year ago bilby said Thank you and Boris. Blasted be the Cat Humiliators. over 1 year ago bilby said I'd like to use 'Marmalade Cat Humiliation' in my wee poetry zine. Yours will be 2 copies and worldwide glory. Pretty please with sheep on top. over 1 year ago Prolagus said I read it, and I will reply soon. Thank you! over 1 year ago strev said Thank you Sionnach. I was just reading about pillaloo and the song... "Tá an poc ar buile" (The billygoat (puck) is hopping mad!) Big family get together tonight–so I'm going to ask my mum if she knows the song. Lots of funny stuff to read here! over 1 year ago vanishedone said Don't worry about it. I thought you might be taking phony umbrage, but I couldn't tell how serious you were being, and my response ended up somewhat brusque. No hard feelings. over 1 year ago bilby said Opening my Boys' Own Compendium of Bowel-Challenged Beasties, I was immediately struck by the possibilities of a lard-arsed aardvark. Another part of me - don't ask - is fearful that you may have corrupted Donny Q's donkey, or even that your pouch envy may compromise a phascogale on Candy Camera. But on the whole, as we near the climactic moment in what has been a triumph of dioramaturdy dramaturgy, I'm feeling sheepish. over 1 year ago Prolagus said I will upload pictures of my Broadway adventure to Flickr. Next time I'll rent a car in Marble Hill and just drive until the end of all Broadways. I hope there's free Wi-Fi over there. over 1 year ago Prolagus said Of course I like it! You can credit me "less anonymously" than this (my real name, linking to my wordpress blog, or both). As I read on Blipper: Thank you for over 1 year ago bilby said Speaking as Project Outreach Officer of International Diorama Appreciaters (POO-In-Diaper) I can let you know at this point that we are actively lobbying for the resources to continue the project next year. And as Madrid has turned out to be such a wonderful venue for our, ahem, fascinations, it would be a shame not to be able to build on the pioneering achievements there. But we may have to let the fewmets loose, as it were, elsewhere. over 1 year ago bilby said It's coming! And as daylight saving finishes tonight in Australia, it's coming an hour early! over 1 year ago bilby said Predictably I have a stake in the Mare Bilbium and the galaxy's first (think showpiece!) lunar bandicuterie. Our offer includes return of balls over the out-of-bounds markers and vulpine discounts at the 19th Hole (predicated on non-consumption of staff). Please consider. Despite your obvious engagement with the hoi-polloi-ole! at the Thriya in Sevilla. over 1 year ago nettys said Danke, sionnach. Toll, Du sprichst Deutsch. It is a long story. Been in Wales since 2000 - möchte aber umziehen. Vorher oder bald möchte ich nach Irland. Hwyl fawr. over 1 year ago bilby said Zorrito, I'm glad that the growing multimedia empire of MOTP is not distracting you from your core business, i.e. plastic animals in poses of candied crapulence. It's important someone does this right, hence it is reassuring that your international network has been deployed in the area of logistical support. But what is this mysterious xxxxx of which you speak? Tiger? Smurf? Aardv? Nixon? Sheep? Blair? Eagle? Wolof? Bilby??!! P.S. How's Elsie? She's soooo talented. Have you tried feeding her white chocolate for that chequerboard effect? over 1 year ago reesetee said Bilby, do you require a lozenge? over 1 year ago bilby said Moorcock? Gestzumpenflock! It's not even a salvador-dali-iconic-upturned-partie-smock! Sacre medicins sans frontiers outpost do-gooder journal block! Spuckety-blat! Tickety-mboom! Perhaps a hickory dickory sionnachery dok? over 1 year ago reesetee said That photo ain't no moorcock; I can tell you that. ;-) over 1 year ago chained_bear said gigglesnort Excellent pose, sionnach! over 1 year ago bilby said over 1 year ago sionnach said ¡ Wheeeeeeee ! I can fly!!! over 1 year ago bilby said It's going to be a moorcock, isn't it?! over 1 year ago bilby said I could go the Smurf, I really could. over 1 year ago sionnach said Ssshhh! I worry that you may be getting Bilby's hopes up unrealistically. over 1 year ago chained_bear said OH MY GOD!! They have Barack Obama! faints over 1 year ago reesetee said Wait a minute. It just dawned on me--sionnach, would you happen to be in the part of Spain where this is traditional? over 1 year ago chained_bear said Oh foxy boy... Would you happen to have any idea or indication of the date of that suit of armor in the Flickr photo you linked to on solleret? curiouser Also, you may find this intriguing. Note that it is $79.95, but it is also sold out. ?! (Psst... Amazon has them for $24.98.) And this page was obviously MADE for you. over 1 year ago bilby said It's getting closer! May we have a plump hint as to what kind of animal might star as this weekend's Feature Crapper? over 1 year ago bilby said Only 4 more sleeps until you know what. over 1 year ago bilby said I can tell you St Paddy's Day this year is a cracker, begorrah! Here's to the Irish me fine fecal carnageatron compositor! over 1 year ago reesetee said Oh dear. over 1 year ago bilby said The famous four come together! And here I was stuck on the other side of the world with my autograph book lying idle! Sionnach, please, ensure that the Down Under tour dates for the Engelbeart Pooperdump, Ying-Pong-Tiddle-I-Splot, Spoorky the Pig and Happy Shit living statues exhibition are uploaded soon. over 1 year ago sionnach said Things may be getting a little out of hand: over 1 year ago bilby said I left a comment on MOTP. Indeed, it were inspiring! What with Easter eggs back on the shelves, might be time to dust off the penguin costume and practice my waddling. over 1 year ago bilby said From the caterpillar brows of Nixon To the chic first family Obamas I'll entrust a fox (but, pardon, not a vixen) To be my Muse of Dioramas over 1 year ago bilby said Zorrito, it's hard to find a good bandicuterie these days sobs over 1 year ago Prolagus said Tan lindo, zorro. Gracias. over 1 year ago mollusque said When you're done with the cows, how about grading the quiz? over 1 year ago sionnach said I can make no promises. Usually Sunday evening (Madrid time) is a good time to check for diorama updates. But my friend Brad is visiting this week, and we do have a day-trip to Segovia planned for tomorrow. A lot may depend on how interesting the museo de brujería (museum of witchcraft) turns out to be. Then there are today's mad cow photos to upload to Flickr (it was a 19-cow afternoon, so it could take a while). But I will certainly try my best. over 1 year ago bilby said You know you're my go-to man for confectionery dioramas, don't you? Can't we have some kind of countdown clock until the next one appears? over 1 year ago chained_bear said Huzzahs and accolades on 15,000! No other fox in history has done so. I'll bet. over 1 year ago reesetee said Congrats, S! over 1 year ago bilby said ¡Wouldn't it tithle your grumlin-futtocks! over 1 year ago rolig said Congratulations on your sesquidecamillennial* accomplishment! I have no idea if this is a real word, but it seems right. over 1 year ago sionnach said I think I can! I think I can! over 1 year ago sionnach said I've got 15K in my sights. Yes I have. over 1 year ago sionnach said ¿You do? ¡Me too! over 1 year ago bilby said ¡I love inverted palindromic punctuation! over 1 year ago smileyriley said Sionnach, I just read your Wilbur Chronicles. The first one was so hilarious and well written that I couldn't help but continue on to the next chapter and the next... This is both good and bad. Good since I laughed my little noggin off, but bad since I was supposed to be writing a paper on probabilistic modeling techniques, due tomorrow, ack! However, upon discovering that you are a statistician, I put all guilt aside and simply enjoyed the moment: after all, it was technically somewhat, sort of, slightly related, in a Wilbur kind of way :) over 1 year ago bilby said ¡Paciencia, zorrito! It may take some time to summon the requisite landing craft ... all our crocodiles are currently deployed against a nasty outbreak of Swedish sunbathers along the north coast here. Meanwhile, remember the pre-arranged codes. Flower-pot on balcony: we meet in the car park. Calzoncillos on the tv antenna: do not disturb. A man walks past your window sportng a grey overcoat, woollen scarf and groaning umbrella: it's nasty outside, dress warm or stay the hell in. over 1 year ago Prolagus said Aquí en Nueva Amsterdam, el cielo está claro. Quebec, el pasado fin de semana, fue magnífico. ¡Hasta pronto! over 1 year ago bilby said Ah, www.wordie.es! Ole! over 1 year ago Prolagus said sionnach, before you leave, please add at least one contribution to Knuckle tattoos for posterity. over 1 year ago chained_bear said Thee you thoon, I hope. Have fun leaping and gamboling! over 1 year ago bilby said Bring me back a Dali. Please. over 1 year ago Prolagus said Madrid? Two months?! There's a chance I will visit Madrid in April! I'll be looking for red tails. over 1 year ago reesetee said Have a thpectacular time, thionnach! over 1 year ago sionnach said I will be taking a break from Wordie, starting in a couple of days, as I will be spending two months in Madrid, working on my Thpanish. over 1 year ago sionnach said Sionnach enjoys: foreign languages, Gilbert and Sullivan, lemon meringue pie, teasing and being teased by bilby, Wordie and goodreads.com. Sionnach is neutral about: walking on the beach, the Oscars, large chain bookstores. Sionnach actively dislikes: sports metaphors, the Superbowl, rabid right-wing radio hosts, internet hostility. Sionnach is saddened by: the suicide of David Foster Wallace, the overall tendency of internet debate to devolve into crass name-calling, Iceland's bankruptcy. Sionnach is grateful for: Wordie and its many fine Wordizens. (Sionnach doesn't want to offend by singling anyone out, but feels obliged to give a shout-out to a certain wretched antipodean non-placental mammal with large leathery ears). Sionnach is tired of: speaking in the third person. over 1 year ago Prolagus said You've been sucked into the cheese whirlpool! over 1 year ago reesetee said Happiest b-day, s! :-) over 1 year ago Telofy said Thank you. And I've taken the liberty of replying on my Gene Wolfe list. :-) over 1 year ago sionnach said Thanks, Gary. Happy New Year to everyone on Wordie. Two webpages which have provided material for many of my recent postings are: omniglot.com and Speak Finnish like a restless native! over 1 year ago garyth123 said Thanks for the heads up on pusi... whatever it is. My words wot i misspell list is coming into its own (I knew it would). And happy new year to you! over 1 year ago Prolagus said Are you back from Rome, sionnach? over 1 year ago BrainyBabe said I am charmed by your confession of a "chaste intellectual crush"; no one else has ever done so and it has lifted my day. I web-wandered over to your site and found myself reading the whole of the Wilbur chronicles: they deserve wider publication! Very funny (except for the twist in the tail.) over 1 year ago reesetee said All* of our nations' capitals? What a trip! over 1 year ago sionnach said Sionnach will be back on Saturday after his visit to your nation's capital. over 1 year ago reesetee said Yes. It's called "my older sister." ;-> over 1 year ago sionnach said Is there a name for the transparent strategy of buying for somebody else a present that, in fact, one craves for one's own self? over 1 year ago sionnach said �? ǂ ʢ ɬ ɲɟǃǃʎ over 1 year ago plethora said I should've known that, being a Capricorn. over 1 year ago sionnach said Capricorn, actually. over 1 year ago plethora said That one's the sign for Libra, isn't it? over 1 year ago sionnach said No; it was a snowman, silly! ♑ over 1 year ago bilby said I hope that wasn't an emoticon anxious over 1 year ago sionnach said Still testing: ☃ ☄ ★ ☂ ☓ ☣ ☑ ≣ ♈ ☰ ♂ ☹ ũ 頧 © ♣ Ó ȑ over 1 year ago sionnach said Testing: almost 2 years ago sionnach said Watching my back: Atheists in foxholes? almost 2 years ago elgiad007 said Thanks for the welcome, sionnach. I've enjoyed my time here immensely so far. almost 2 years ago Prolagus said Checks again, notices they are not distinct images in the osteology website, realizes sionnach actively looked for them, feels more admiration than ever almost 2 years ago Prolagus said Ha! I didn't notice that every single letter was a different image! Thank you for your nice thought. My dog would be happy. almost 2 years ago bilby said Back, 'nach? almost 2 years ago Prolagus said Sionnach, I see you still use the old Wordie... Don't you think it's time to upgrade? almost 2 years ago Prolagus said (friendly slap on shoulder) almost 2 years ago Prolagus said I'm about to take both GRE and subject test in biology. "Cry for me Brangelina" will soon have new entries. How's life in Platyrrhinia? almost 2 years ago bilby said Leave those marmosets alone. about 2 years ago bilby said Ah, Satan sees Natasha! about 2 years ago chained_bear said Hola, sionnach! How do you do that upside-down exclamation point? Or does it just come out that way for you because you're south of the equator? (are you?) Lucky fox... about 2 years ago chained_bear said Oh of course. Indubitably. about 2 years ago sionnach said Too early to say. All that our linguistico-meteorological investigations have been able to establish with certainty is that "la lluvia en Sevilla es una maravilla". But I think that we all knew this already. about 2 years ago chained_bear said So, does the rain in Argentina fall mainly on the pampas? about 2 years ago sionnach said Thanks, guys! You can, of course, track my progress on the blog. A luego. zorro. about 2 years ago chained_bear said Have a great time! All I want is a nice keychain. about 2 years ago bilby said Bon voyage. Bring me back a puma. Please. about 2 years ago dontcry said Ah, yes....who IS who? Hmmmm. Well, we've got some time to ponder, eh? about 2 years ago she said Yes, who is "who?" Happy getaways, sionnach! about 2 years ago Prolagus said They have DSL in Buenos Aires, sionnach. Unlike California... ;-) Edit: I don't "know-who"... about 2 years ago dontcry said So true! Especially "you-know-who..." about 2 years ago reesetee said Lucky you, sionnach! Safe travels and enjoy! We'll try to behave ourselves. Oh, who am I kidding? We absolutely will not. :-D about 2 years ago dontcry said Ciao! about 2 years ago sionnach said I'm headed for Buenos Aires until the end of September, so will be taking a Wordie holiday. keep up the good work, folks! about 2 years ago gangerh said 11111 words! Cool, sionnach. Are you going to prune (judiciously) and add to keep your count at this? about 2 years ago bilby said one one one one one man went to mow went to mow a meadow one one one one one man and his dog, Spot, went to mow a meadow about 2 years ago sionnach said @Bilby: Maybe I am and maybe I'm not. Why do you ask, pray tell? about 2 years ago bilby said Hi sionnach. Are you wearing a hat today? about 2 years ago sionnach said I've found that, by judicious list-pruning, the excitement of 'crossing the 11K horizon' can be prolonged almost indefinitely. Kind of like backtracking west repeatedly to cross the international date line multiple times on the same day or something. Like that Dalek dude in the opera. about 2 years ago Prolagus said Stop adding words for a minute and enjoy the 11000th word! about 2 years ago sionnach said Youtube is, of course, a volatile environment, but as of today, the most convenient link to episodes of the most awesomely brilliant BBC show, Q.I., is here: entire collection of Q.I. shows to date, including pilot episode and outtakes . I cannot recommend this show highly enough. about 2 years ago plethora said That's brilliant. about 2 years ago bilby said Bon! about 2 years ago sionnach said Found somewhere on the interwebs: During a recent tête-à-tête with one of my protegés, the discussion turned to the raison d’être for the renaissance of French culture. I am far from being a savant, and in my gaucherie made the faux-pas, with typical insouciance, of saying that bilingualism would never be a fait accompli without a complete exposé of the motives of the bourgeoisie. With much elan, my companion accused me of considering myself one of the elite, whereas in fact I was only a nouveau riche bon vivant, having no rapport with the working class. He quickly recovered his sang-froid and termed my cavalier statement a vile canard. He declared that for him this was a cause célébre, and affaire-d’honneur, and then gave me the choice of weapons, time, and place. With the help of my valet, whom I appointed to be my aide, I selected épées, the rendezvous a plateau behind my chalet, and the time immediately after matins. Details of the melee will be found in my memoirs. For now a resume will suffice. It was a complete debacle. Although this was my debut, I quickly rendered the poor boy hors de combat by administering a coup de grace par excellence. To celebrate, I took my entourage to the restaurant in our town’s only hotel, operated by an absentee entrepreneur. As the buffet did not appeal we consulted the maître d’. On the advice of the chef he recommended from the à la carte menu, a deluxe repast of potage du jour, pâtés, crêpes, entrée of doré with légumes, and for dessert choice of soufflé, parfait, tarte à la mode, followed by café au lait. There was an unexpected divertissement during the meal. A clumsy garçon spilled some consomé on the crêpe de chine dress of one of my personnel, an au pair girl named True English (née French). With surprising nonchalance and the help of my masseur she removed the melange with a serviette. A propos of this I heard later that the management sent her a chic negligée, together with sincere regrets. My spirit of largesse having been lubricated by an apéritif, a carafe of vin blanc and a liqueur, I conducted the whole ensemble to my garage and unaccustomed avoirdupois, the noble chariot transported us to a matinée at the local theatre. From our seats in the loges we enjoyed a unique programme presented by our corps de ballet with its limited repertoire. We were treated to an encore consisting of an electrifying routine of legerdemain, performed with considerable finesse by a versatile member of the troupe. En route to our domicile the whole menage proclaimed that their esprit de corps was never better. about 2 years ago oroboros said Hey sionnach: you might be interested to take a look at taxonomy of wordplay. over 2 years ago sionnach said I will be taking a wordie break for a while. See you all in a few weeks. over 2 years ago sionnach said OMG, arcadia, that clip was teh alsome. Thanks!!! over 2 years ago bilby said Ha, cute clip arcadia! I love oozy rat in a sanitary zoo. Story of my life, really. over 2 years ago arcadia said :) over 2 years ago arcadia said I hope this works: over 2 years ago sionnach said God, Astor trots a dog. Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? Was it Eliot's toilet I saw? May a moody baby doom a yam? Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "as is". Murder for a jar of red rum. O Geronimo, no minor ego. Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard. Never odd or even. Bar Arafat, a far Arab. Cain: a monomaniac Drat Saddam, a mad dastard. Draw, O Caesar. Erase a coward. God saw I was dog. Go deliver a dare, vile dog! Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. Don't nod. Dogma: I am God. Don't nod. Do geese see God? over 2 years ago chained_bear said Sionnach, heads up. I'm done reading The Danger Tree. over 2 years ago reesetee said C_b, I'll trade you for a Tony Horwitz. over 2 years ago chained_bear said Okay, well... I'm done already! :) over 2 years ago sionnach said c_b: I just read that Philbrick book a few months ago! And a fine book it is, too. I might just possibly have come up with a book to match your voracious literary foraging - I just started William Gaddis's "The Recognitions". It may just need its very own list. over 2 years ago chained_bear said Sionnach, I'm apologizing in advance for entering lots of words from the book I just finished reading. Heads up! over 2 years ago sionnach said Fennec foxes indeed. With 10% fewer chromosomes than your regular fox! over 2 years ago chained_bear said Oooohh!!! overwhelmed with cuteness Those are fennec foxes, right? over 2 years ago sionnach said over 2 years ago sionnach said over 2 years ago dontcry said for sionnach: my nickname as a child was: Diggle. My father gave it to me. Still, to this day (thank God) he calls me "Digg." over 2 years ago sionnach said Why was Michelle Shocked? Because she saw Gumby giving Mr Potatohead. over 2 years ago sionnach said paulajane: I don't know any palindrome generators on the web. Most of the individual lines are in the book "Word Circus" by Richard Lederer. I just kind of mixed and matched more or less at random. over 2 years ago paulajane said brilliant! you use wordsmith? another generator? love it... over 2 years ago sionnach said Nurse, I spy gypsies, run! Ah, Satan sees Natasha. Won't lovers revolt now? Niagara, O roar again. May a banana nab a yam? Ma is as selfless as I am. A goy did yoga. I prefer pi. If I had a hi-fi. Won't lovers revolt now? A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. Sex at noon taxes. So many dynamos. Niagara, O roar again. Sit on a potato pan Otis! Rise to vote sir! Star comedy by Democrats. Stab nail at ill Italian bats. over 2 years ago bilby said Please be advised that polite requests to Australians take the form: What the bloody hell are you up to? over 2 years ago bilby said From a marketing point of view, if we had 10,000 sionnachs on this site we would have a lotta hits. No, no, no. There's only one sionnach. I am yet to forgive him for googleganger but anyone who lists bandicoot must be essentially okay. over 2 years ago mollusque said Good choice! I already have a candidate for my 10,000th in mind. over 2 years ago reesetee said Me too, bilby. Congrats, s! :-) over 2 years ago bilby said And I thought sionnach was jogging ten kilometres! I was about to ask him how his calf-muscles were feeling. over 2 years ago sionnach said Thanks, mollusque. Banzai was number 10,000. over 2 years ago mollusque said Congratulations on completing your run, sionnach! Was endless number 10,000? over 2 years ago sionnach said OK: Time to start my 10K run. Eat my dust, wordiez! over 2 years ago rolig said S., I sympathize with you, and so, especially, does my feline companion Aglaja, who misses her Gourmet Gold Tuna Paté, which my local supermarket stopped carrying a month or so ago, which is a problem because she and her sister Erazma are both quite selective when it comes to their dinner. I am glad you found my suggestion useful. over 2 years ago Prolagus said And, most important, I miss you here, sionny. over 2 years ago Prolagus said Mr. Sionnach, your wish is an order for us. But you're kindly requested to consider our vezzeggiativo as a form of appreciation and fondness towards you. I could, for example, complain that my name is never written in italic although, being a genus, it should deserve it. All the best, Prolagus sp. Pomel, 1853 (PS I like "pro", it sounds cute) over 2 years ago sionnach said Thanks, rolig. I like the term retail evanescence a lot. Though I'm aware that the notion that I am being selectively targeted by this phenomenon ('it's always the brands I like that are discontinued') is paranoid, I will probably think of it mentally as targeted retail evanescence. In fact, I can manage to get by just fine without the delicious Krispy Kranberry Krunch. But how can I be expected to maintain my impeccable silver sionnach coiffure when they take away my citrus mint shampoo, god damn it! over 2 years ago rolig said Sionnach, I think your cranberry crunch problem is part of the phenomenon we might call the Law of Vanishing Commodities, or more simply, retail evanescence. over 2 years ago bilby said Nobody is stocking crudberry crash cereal in your stupormarket of choice. Why don't you? over 2 years ago bilby said Yes, sion is brutal and abrupt, like a fox with its tail cut off. over 2 years ago sionnach said Nobody is listing Protocol of the Spurned Consumer of Sion. Why don't you? Because I don't like it, that's why. 'Spurned' seems inadequate to capture the wilful malevolence with which the manufacturing sector targets and eliminates the few simple pleasures I manage to eke out in this dystopian vale of tears... {God forgive me for that last sentence. I mean, postmodern irony can be amusing in its own brittle fashion, but that my inability to find cranberry crunch cereal in the supermarket should be considered anything other than a totally first-world non-problem is clearly ludicrous} But I would like to nip this abbreviation of sionnach as sion in the bud, if possible. Please don't make me vanish, only to be reincarnated as madra_rua over 2 years ago bilby said Protocol of the Spurned Consumer of Sion. over 2 years ago Prolagus said Sorry, sion, it was just an example :-) I could have cited Tantalus' torment as well, or the Labors of Hercules... over 2 years ago sionnach said So I have to confess that the relevance of Ondine's curse is lost on me .... over 2 years ago Prolagus said Very interesting. Usually this kind of concept is named after a mythic character who experienced the same situation (the first that comes to my mind is Ondine's curse). I'm thinking. Thank you sion, I won't be able to study for the whole week. over 2 years ago sionnach said I invite all Wordies to come up with an appropriate term for the following specific phenomenon: The near-certainty that, in the rare instance when some particular brand of consumer product (cereal, shampoo, kitty litter, what-have-you..) actually catches my fancy to the extent that I make the effort to remember its name, within a maximum of six weeks it will be discontinued forever by the manufacturer and/or all stores on the West Coast will no longer distribute it. I realise there is an element of paranoia in positing such a phenomenon, but the list of examples is a long one. Thoughts? Suggestions? over 2 years ago ofravens said I think I'll like Master and Margarita a lot more when I'm not ploughing through it for school, to be honest. I am, however, a fan of trying to incorporate "Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus" into conversation as often as possible. over 2 years ago Prolagus said No problem! You know, Sardinia could become a quite saudade-melancholic list, and it could be a good idea to appease it! By the way, thank you for your apologishy message and for the constant netiquette of the whole Wordie community! over 2 years ago ofravens said Hi, sionnach. I wanted to thank you for your "Change One Letter" list, and for your rant on the word page for cremains, because both gave me a good laugh the other day when I needed them. Cheers! over 2 years ago yarb said Ha ha ha. Very good. over 2 years ago sionnach said Elegy for Eliot : The Lovesong of A.G. Spitzer Let us go then, you and I While the evening is spread out against the sky Like the Baghdad skyline behind Wolf Blitzer Or a criminal taken down by A.G. Spitzer In the room the women come and go “I’m called an escort, not a ho.�? The corridors of power are lonely, late at night The bad guys all day long you have to fight You deserve a little reward – maybe a cookie? Nope – even a hero needs some nookie. In the room the women come and go “Plastic works, a cheque, or cash to go.�? Temptation looms – a vision, out of reach. The voice of conscience: “Don’t you eat that peach!�? Too late! Our hero reaches for his cheques. Another politician laid low by the lure of sex. In the room the women come and go “Eliot? Oh yeah, huge ego and libido.�? I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the shores of silent seas. Instead my taste for high-priced whores Has made of me the emperor of sleaze. over 2 years ago reesetee said Wow! Congrats! over 2 years ago yarb said Jubilations are in order! over 2 years ago sionnach said Wheeeeeee! 8888 words. Time for a break. over 2 years ago sionnach said Whether you're a butterfly or a deep-sea diver, The salt of the earth or a scheming conniver, A mythical beast like a werewolf or wyvern, You will amount to nothing unless you can make a nucular bomb out of paper clips just like McGyver. over 2 years ago mollusque said Thank you, Sionnach! To celebrate, I made eleventy my 5555th word. (Is 1111 eleventy-eleven or one thousand eleventy-one?) Congratulations yourself, on passing 8000 words! over 2 years ago treeseed said Thank you, sionnach. I am having fun. I like to see how other people connect with words, too. This is such an interesting site. I have enjoyed your humor from day one. over 2 years ago rolig said thanks for the link to the Slovak idioms. Some of these are hilarious, and all serve as cautionary tales about mistranslation. I don't know Slovak (the language I work with primarily is Slovene, a third or fourth cousin), but I can figure some of these out. For examle "browsing banks" should be "surfing on the shore" ("surfovat" means "surf" or "browse the Internet"; "bank" in the sense of land bordering a body of water), and I think "flight" should be "years" ("let" means "flight", but "leta" means "years"), so you get something like "In years when it's especially hot, people go to the shore to surf." over 2 years ago treeseed said Those last few words, barleychild, ballicatter and the others in that group...SPLENDID! over 2 years ago sionnach said Well, all of my buffalo friends are strictly vegetarian :-) But you're probably right - it doesn't fit the criteria, strictly speaking. Back to the drawing board. over 2 years ago gangerh said Am having challenges with 'vegetarian buffalo'. Am OK with 'buffalo wings' and thanks for the education. Does 'vegatarian buffalo' stand up as an expression in its own right? over 2 years ago gangerh said I'll look to you to enter on the 'sweet tooth fairy' list. Hope that's OK. over 2 years ago gangerh said Re spark plug ugly My challenge was that plug-ugly is one word (hyphenated) and we do have plug uglies but while spark plug uglies is ok it doesn't have the same ring to it. Then I found the following on wiki ... Plug Ugly captains included John English and James Morgan. So that makes it alright then. Also as long as the expressions work as defined then the part of speech matters not. I know I could have just said OK. I record the reasoning for posterity. And I like 'spark plug ugly' a lot. Keep them coming. over 2 years ago gangerh said Sorry, sionnach, but you'll have to run 'vegetable buffalo wings' through me before I can comment. Maybe I'm in the wrong part of the world. over 2 years ago treeseed said I actually had to look up Hedwig and the Angry Inch...this place is very educational. ;) over 2 years ago sionnach said John. I always have the hardest time explaining in writing how words are pronounced, but here's my best shot. sionnach: two syllables, with the stress on the second. It's as if you were going to say Sinead (as in Sinead O' Connor), but replaced 'ead' with 'ach' (rhymes with 'loch'). Clear as mud, right? over 2 years ago john said Sionnach, I've been wondering for a while now: how is your Wordie name pronounced? over 2 years ago sionnach said Gee thanks, arcadia! Mostly my lyrical Irish whimsy is channeled through my male side. I have to admit a certain grudging admiration for mi-vox's hypnotic little scripts. But I have no illusions - spambots, no matter how superficially charming, are not our friends. over 2 years ago arcadia said You, sir (or madame, I haven't been paying attention) are a sardonic genius. But watch out, if he's smart, mi-vox might try to recruit you. I know I would. ^_^ over 2 years ago sionnach said c_b: No worries, thanks! The book in question, by the way, is called "Depraved and Insulting English" by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea. It has joined Mrs Byrne's dictionary and Charles Harrington Elster's "There's a Word for It : a Grandiloquent Guide to Life" on my shelf of favorite word books. over 2 years ago chained_bear said Sionnach, I sincerely hope you do not feel hampered in adding new words by my squeamishness. Hope you're enjoying that book! over 2 years ago reesetee said But it was a magical moment, wasn't it? ;-) over 2 years ago sionnach said Thanks, rt & bilby. Fresh new words coming soon to lists near you. over 2 years ago reesetee said Lovely! Congrats. Although I do hope you'll add more words at some point. They're always great ones, after all. :-) over 2 years ago bilby said Nice number of words! Divide it by 6 and build picket fences for your neighbours, yourself, and even those crinkly dudes across the road. over 2 years ago sionnach said There's something really satisfying about seeing that I have listed 6666 words. It seems like a natural milestone. So much so that I am reluctant to add any more, lest I disturb the fearful symmetry of that delightful 6666. Yes, this post is all about me. What can I say? I'm shallow like that. over 2 years ago oroboros said Foxtrot is six letters in from a and uniform is six letter in from z. We're talkin' symmetry here! ;o) almost 3 years ago sionnach said By the way, I'm officially confused on the foxtrot clue - my answer was obtained by applying the same 13-letter shift along the alpha-bravo-charlie alphabet that takes you from tango to golf, which would map foxtrot to sierra, but apparently that's not what oroboros has in mind. almost 3 years ago sionnach said swollenostrich; I tend to associate defenestrations with Prague, because of the several such events that featured prominently in its history. A google search on the term "defenestration of Prague" should provide further information. It's unclear why the urge to throw people out of windows has apparently proven irresistible to citizens of Prague throughout history - maybe it has happened just as often in other cities, and was just better documented in Prague. almost 3 years ago swollenostrich said Um, no...no I'm not from there. Why? almost 3 years ago bilby said Nar, it's an acronym, TGFW, so the correct answer is Whisky. Thank god for Wordie :-) almost 3 years ago oroboros said Hmmmm. No, but I think you've got the context for the thing. Answer here when you're ready. almost 3 years ago sionnach said tango : golf :: foxtrot : sierra almost 3 years ago oroboros said sionnach: tango : golf :: foxtrot : ? (it's probably too easy for ya, but I like it!) almost 3 years ago reesetee said Sionnach, if that's what it takes, I'm in double the trouble! almost 3 years ago sionnach said Thanks, c_b. Tangible evidence of my misdirected energy. Not to mention incurable geekitude. almost 3 years ago chained_bear said Congrats on your five-thousandth word, sionnach! Whoopeee!! almost 3 years ago sionnach said Thanks, oroboros. almost 3 years ago oroboros said Wonderful website, sionnach! almost 3 years ago mollusque said Hi! You are a coinventor of panvocalic. See my comment there. almost 3 years ago jochenb said thanks for the words! gedankenexperiment is wonderful. how could i have missed this!