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"bestiary has created 6 lists, listed 120 words, written 223 comments, and added 61 tags, 3 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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Are you still alive? Should we have a Wordie wake?
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Er...you need a voucher for that?
Welcome, bestiary, to the world of Wordie addiction. :-) -
I hereby present you with a voucher, valid for Indulgence in Ridiculously Long List Titles anytime soon.
bestiary commented on the word ∞
similarly (and coming to mind thanks to a wedge of cheese down there), there's always:
what do you call cheese that isn't yours?
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nacho cheese! (it's na'cho cheese. is mine.)
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word plantagenets
not to be confused with the planetangents, largely irrelevant cosmic royalty.
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word dollop
what was that infernal jingle?
..hmf-d-hm-hmmn wiith a dollop!--a dollop
you can light up a room with a dollop!
a dollop.. of dais-y
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nipple
handy!
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word abonomible
perhaps it's for those one could take to an out-of-the-way onomantic practician's.
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nipple
(irrelevant? do you mean irreverent?)
oh, chained_bear, might you find it in your heart to forgive me for nipplefruit?
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the list psychedelicatessen
ha, skipvia! i don't know what it is; hippies are so heartwarming—well, the nicer-smelling, less cracked-out ones. (but they're all a little heartwarming.)
..
what's this now? mandatory psychosis? "all persons found to not be tripping balls will be denied admittance to this picnic and forcibly removed/fed the succostash as necessary."
Jul 31, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nair
chained_bear has chins in interesting places!
(good grief, it's strange 'round these parts today. (and i'm not helping. (and i didn't mean to say "parts.")))
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word saclike
better that than "either of two lunglike organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to do things that lungs do. see lung." —i think.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word crispy skin-poppers
ha, understandable! but i had to match it with some food-term (google: crisp skin 4,500,000; crispy skin 223,000. mmm).
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nair
or any nice, optionally wet things that don't dissolve itty-bitty parts of you?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word thizz face
you learn something new every day.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word double-toothed
at times selachostomous!
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word crispy skin-poppers
sissies.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word mach turtle
and shave with a gillette® - the best a turtle can get™ mach turtle razor?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word grasp the nettle
slightly thanatotic childhood, yarb?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word teeth
is that because you've used him to replace one of yours?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word grasp the nettle
i've never so much as brushed the nettle! or gazed upon the nettle! (gladly, though — itching is second only to literal burning on my list of intolerable physical sensations; i was ready to skin myself a week after my first brush with poison ivy.
speaking of: if you like your science slathered in heebie-jeebies, read this.)
bilby: ha, that poor girl!
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the user reesetee
thank you! it's all.. all warm and fuzzy here. but i think that's the words talking.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the user bilby
i've tucked your kind voucher safely away in a corner and am eyeing it with suspicion/interest.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word features
oh, i wouldn't want to see a decline in comments either, rolig! i know exactly what you mean. i saw keeping notes private primarily as a way to draw as clear as possible a distiction between their purpose and that of comments (thus avoiding comments on a word-note being left on someone's list when they'd be more appropriate on the word's respective page, etc.), making them less likely to be seen as commenting replacements. a simple reminder to that effect beside the input box ("notes are private; only you can see them. if you think others might like to see this, you may want to leave a comment") would help as well. — another thought would be to give the option to submit a note and a comment simultaneously (–though i could see that potentially producing spam), or to have a separate "submit and view word" button to take you to the word's page to leave a comment, rather than back to your list, upon submitting a note.
in any case, i think the personal benefits outweigh potential losses, which seem simple enough to mitigate. :)
"aminals" was most certainly intentional! i see you're unfamiliar with enthusiastic metathesis.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word grasp the nettle
tongue-pleasing alternative to 'bite the bullet,' 'bell the cat,' 'take the bull by the horns,' etc.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word gleet
but why does this word sound so happy? :/
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word features
oh, wonderful! :) expect a very enthusiastic reception, here.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word features
i think it would be neat if we could add a note beside each word on our lists (private, i'd think, so not to take the action away from comments) to serve as little reminders, directly on the page, for quick-reference (e.g., definitions or pronunciations you tend to forget, associated quotes, synonyms, "this is a good word to call bob," etc. — without having to put redundant/only personally relevant things in comments or having to click on each individual word). people with unwieldy lists and those with a focus on vocab-building would find this particularly useful! — or, well, i can confirm that one person would. :)
i took a few minutes to see if i could whip up a decent-looking example (wordie's all nice and clean; i wondered what might be a way that wouldn't disturb the flow of things), and came up with this:
drop.io/wordienotes (—the .html file's the example, and the .txt file has the only snippet of html i really messed with. notice the blue-grey of any links to other words within notes! the rest of the text is the same grey as the dividing dotted lines.)
er yes. so there's that. (just trying to be helpful! haha. don't mind me. *twiddles thumbs*)
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word flog
i do enjoy a good flogging.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word wordievolution
iridescent pollywogs..
opaline pilliwigs..
(i never realized pollywog (er, polliwog/polliwig) meant, literally, "wiggling head!")
i think my mind just associated polliwog with polliwhirl and consequently discounted its valid wordhood entirely.
where are your shoes?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word wordievolution
incidentally, bilby misspelled iridescent.
i wish we had more--any?--synonyms for tadpole.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word virgalieu
oo, "a valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor."
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word mirksome
what a great word!
it looks like it's trying to somehow combine "mirth" and "irksome," but the real definition is better.
(i wonder why it wasn't "murksome.")
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word liv
i think mine's been "liv tyler is a cutieface."
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nipplefruit
perhaps listing things that look like gigantic rubber nipples helps us return to safer, simpler times that involved gigantic rubber nipples.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word the rapist's therapists
likely more than he has analrapists.
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word otter
i just wanted to note yesterday's cutest heard sentence —
"these california sea otters roll themselves in kelp to keep from floating away during their morning nap."
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
don't forget to bring
your
juke-
box
money~
hooray, wallabys! uh. wallabies? wallabees?
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the word pidgin english
(ahem! uropygial!)
Jul 29, 2008
bestiary commented on the list this-intriguing-novel-is-a-taut-lyrical-tour-de-force
ha! not five sentences into this article and all i could think of was this list (er, article).
The actor who plays the Joker in a blockbuster 2008 movie is gone. The cartoonist who created the Joker in 1939 is still around. He's Jerry Robinson, and he thinks the late Heath Ledger's acting turn in "The Dark Knight" is "a tour de force."
"A brilliant performance," said Robinson, 86, when E&P reached him by phone at the currently running Comic-Con in San Diego. "Very nuanced."
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word nuit blanche
sleepless night. (last night, for instance!)
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
ooh! are there fabulous prizes?
--O(h)ED, i'm forcing myself to hold off on an online subscription until the fall, when i'm sure i'll be around to use it...the longing!
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word depeach
to dispatch (obs.)
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word vorax
adj: voracious, gluttonous.
(hooray, something to rhyme with lorax!)
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word insitiency
lack of thirst.
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word hirtellous
minutely hirsute (alt: hirsutulous).
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word clem
also, slang: to starve.
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word chrysopoetics
(alchemy) n: the manufacturing of, or transmutation into, gold. (preceded by 'multiplication', later also chrysopee)
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word matryoshka
i thought most people knew this word! that's kind of adorable.
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word mesopygion
CRACK IS WHACK! :D (apologies; reflex.)
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word pov
so, is this the slightly (slightly) grown-up answer to "you so po' you couldn't afford the r?"
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word pomiculture
now i'm imagining all sorts of obscene flowers.
Jul 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word innamorata
dontcry, why, oh why! do you realize what you've done? what's going to be singing in my brain --i'm siiinging in the braaain, just siiinging in the braain~ *clicks heels*-- all night?
(innamorata and innamorato are the italian inamorata and inamorato are derived from, respectively.)
Jul 27, 2008