bilby has looked up 17345 words, created 200 lists, listed 22002 words, written 23308 comments, added 722 tags, and loved 44 words.
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Any thoughts for us about ry's question over on wurly?
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No no. Only we hopping long-ears are designated chocolatiers to outback frontiers. Cheers!
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Thanks, Easter Bilby. Do all marsupials carry chocolate in their pouches?
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happy zombie jesus day, peter gone rabid day to you too BILBY
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Happy Easter everyone! Help yourself!
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meowz
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Good lord, bilby -- hello!
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I noticed a town of Bilby in Jamaica on a topographic map today.
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I'm so glad you finally have a trilby, bilby!
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Trilby's match
What a thrill it must be!
Is it a crowning achievement?
How can you match it?
You are off on the right foot!
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At a yard sale this morning. I bought a trilby. Just thought y'all would be very happy to know that.
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*purrrrrs*
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Bilby, bilby, bill
be. Bilby be. Bilby bee.
Bilby bilby be. -
Hello buddy!
Old civil engineers had to work to master societal motif. Oh me oh my.
Hello nursery!
Hello sultry garlic?
Evil garlic.
Here's Praetor Isisof's dismantling tree...
Hello Praetor Isisof!
Hello exaggerating need...
What a functional seed...
Bye Praetor Isisof - you need an overhearing fee!
Apparently legal secretaries like to say hello to architects.
Hello cowboy!
Hi damned lagoon...
Hi rhythmic bagel.
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Hi bilby, how's it going you fertile mat cutter, you roaming invigorator, you cybernetic theologian of pifflecorn?
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PARKING:
"But Tomsky also gives readers good reasons to be on their best behaviour at hotels. Raise your voice and you may get key bombed. That's where Tomsky, a front desk agent, programs your room key in a way that virtually ensures you will be locked out at some point in your stay."
- AP, How to get the best treatment at hotels, theage.com.au, 14 Jan 2013. -
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Around which pants?
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Around these here parts, they call me Noel Renard.
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Baubles? Trinkets? I knew it! He really is the Santa Fox!
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So, seriously, how was Trieste?
And I am crestfallen at the thought that I might not get a copy of that poetry 'zine. That I was promised. I'm only claiming what is rightfully mine. I suspect you are just holding out for some kind of quid pro quo. Which, fair enough, just say the word and I will be happy to send some kind of Parisian bauble or trinket winging your way.
But I'm damned if I'm gonna post my street address here on Wordnik, and you have the vice of being nowhere else contactable, to my knowledge.
It's an impasse.
Happy Thanksgiving. -
I shall report on the status of fuflunnage in Trieste. Perhaps it was what kept old James Joyce there.
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I hear there are many kinds of coffee in Trieste (though my source claims it's hard to find kopi luwak).
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I am, as they say around these here parts, *desolated*. But I understand that rolig is undoubtedly an infinitely more charming dinner companion than my miserable self. Given my druthers, I'd be dining nightly in Ljubljana and Trieste myself, instead of ...
Well, no, actually. No, I wouldn't....
But, de toute façon, safe travels, o leather-eared one. You do know that the big Swiss chocolate cartels have outlawed chocolate bilbies within Swiss borders, right? -
When will you be coming to Europe? You could have dinner with sionnach in Parigi. I will be having dinner with Son of Groucho week after next -- why not you? I am also trying to convince Prolagus to make the trip north from his Sardine fortress.
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Wassup, bilbykins? Are you coming to Europe, mebbe?
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first words spoken were a palindrome
madam Im adam -
oh hai.
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*goes to war zone*
*scans everbody*
*apoligizes and robs a bakery*
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Why Bologna indeed? Because I want to start a new language in 2013 and when I was in Dublin recently, my cousins there were surprisingly vehement in their insistence that (i) I should choose Italian over Russian and (ii) that the only city worth considering in Italy was Bologna. Given that Michael, who was the most voluble and insistent of the bunch, lived there for 6 months at some point in his career, I am not willing to discount his opinion.
The basic rationale seemed to be that Russia was still basically a country that is run by gangsters, and that all other potential rival cities in Italy, such as Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, Milan, Turin, or Siena, were either too large, too soulless, too overrun by tourists, or some combination of the above.
But I know that some of your leather-eared past was spent in Italy, so I would be very interested in hearing your views on the subject. Needless to say, this is all just in the pipe-dream phase at this point, as it is a long way until spring 2013, and I have one more trip back to Paris to organise for Sept-Nov 2012.
Paris did never pan out in terms of confectionery-dispensing dioramas, alas. But there are other compensations, not least of which is the unexpected charm of Parisians, which delights me on a daily basis.
So, besides having pademelons for lawnmowers, what are you up to down there in chunderland?
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Does anyone know why this comment box is so oddly located?
I am back in the City of Light, wrestling with such conundrums as why baguette bags only cover half the baguette and whether to splurge on the 30-month or 36-month aged Comté (Cheese-France.com tells me it has been produced since the time of Charlemagne, but I'm having a hard time tracking down the really good old stuff).
The next exciting linguistic adventure is supposed to start in Spring 2013 in Bologna. But first I have to polish my little nugget of French to its glistening best, which will take until the end of 2012.
Pademelons, eh? I've often thought that the whole pademelon/paddymelon thing is just the antipodean version of the vegetable lamb of Tartary.
The frogblog continues, but at a much lower rate of publication, I regret to say. And the whole "search phrases by which people were referred to the frogblog" thing became less interesting after 1500 people arrived there around April 1st because they typed "poisson d'Avril" into their search engine. For one brief shining moment, I thought I had become an internet star, only to lapse back into skulking obscurity 48 hours later.
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Hey leather-ears. Wassssssuppppp???
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I came back to give you this.
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Yeh, it's weird that it's smack bang in Anonymousville in the middle the page among comments of mine elsewhere and of other people here.
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But the comment box is hard to find.
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Yes.
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testing. can other users read this comment?
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You cannot escape the charge that you have previously engaged in the amazing pastime that is IDENTIFY THE WORDIE.
You are therefore prime target material for inviting to IDENTIFY THE WORDIENIK.
The whole of the bit of Wordnik that joins in on this would be truly honoured should you participate this time round.
Easily find the right page right now because it is currently the most commented on list shown on the Community page. -
Getting ready for those arduous Paschal responsibilities, oh floppy-eared one?
All the Parisian bells are clearing things with air traffic control in Rome for their flight back with the chocolate. -
So, I get it. You've entered the witness protection program somewhere theredownunda (where women glow and men chunder). But aren't those big floppy leather ears a dead giveaway in the WPP?
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Flesh-fly, eh? I'm watching you, too.
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I'm watching you!
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@bilby Thanks for your guidance, well as you have suggested I'll add my also ons. i hope you keep a track of my site too, lest I go astray. I would have followed you, but I didn't see any follow link here anywhere. I'll live and learn. Thanks again.
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@bilby I guess that's a more civilized way of directing new comers. Thanks and I have adhered to your advise. I hope to keep getting directions from Guides like you. I have removed all my links from also on. I shall put in just one or two but only after I know the rules of the community well. Thanks a lot again for the advise.
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I love fuflunderwear. It's soooooo sooooooft and icing-full.
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*leaves in a huff, taking fuflumbrage along*
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I knew you'd fuflunderstand.
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Umbrage! I haven't been able to say "flings fuflumbrage" yet.
Oh! There I said it!
Okay, fine.
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Shoo, shoo! Off my profile now! I'll already be scraping collateral fuflun damage off the walls for weeks.
bilby commented on the word codware
Hear that, Jethro?
May 20, 2013
bilby commented on the user replysurbhi81
I don't understand why the scoreboard on the community page says this user has listed 9335 words (in the past week) while here it says his/her all-time total is 6726.
May 20, 2013
bilby commented on the user neildyer27
SPAM
May 19, 2013
bilby commented on the word spiff
Seems to be conflation with spiv.
May 18, 2013
bilby commented on the list words-in-which-u-is-pronounced-yu
Duke is fine in my dialect (Australian).
May 17, 2013
bilby commented on the list torture
Accepted with grace.
May 17, 2013
bilby commented on the word in family way
Pregnant. In use in Britain in 1950's. Also in a/the family way.
Apr 28, 2013
bilby commented on the list thresholds
And Dick Cheney stuck in the revolving door.
Apr 10, 2013
bilby commented on the word rock and roll
I say that. Too often, because it doesn't suit me. Maybe if I had a ponytail.
Apr 10, 2013
bilby commented on the word Ion
Not as in Cheney. Haven't heard of the other dude, only his cousin Jim.
Apr 10, 2013
bilby commented on the list zamboni-palin
More!
Apr 9, 2013
bilby commented on the word Ion
My father's name. Which, because of his florid handwriting, people often thought was Zon.
Apr 9, 2013
bilby commented on the word night crawlers
A better bait to use for fishing is frogs. Even if you don't catch anything, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you drowned a carping, wart-ridden hackeysack of pond-slime.
Apr 8, 2013
bilby commented on the word binged
Tweet:
"Binged and couldn't purge it all.."
- hipbonesss
Apr 4, 2013
bilby commented on the word run tell dat
Sounds a bit yahoo-yahoo boys.
Apr 4, 2013
bilby commented on the word breaks
Well, bullshit gets 5 million hits while bulls hit gets 110 million. Hence 'my breaks failed' passes no particular test of legitimacy I can think of courtesy of Googlefight, strict grammarian (or nay) that I am.
Apr 1, 2013
bilby commented on the user bilby
No no. Only we hopping long-ears are designated chocolatiers to outback frontiers. Cheers!
Apr 1, 2013
bilby commented on the word lawka-day
See lackaday.
Mar 31, 2013
bilby commented on the user bilby
Happy Easter everyone! Help yourself!
Mar 31, 2013
bilby commented on the word girl friday
Do we have any lists of -day expressions?
Mar 30, 2013
bilby commented on the list too-pretentious-to-use
Use 'em or lose 'em.
Mar 30, 2013
bilby commented on the word livver
In liver bird - the emblem of Liverpool - it is pronounced lye-ver.
Mar 29, 2013
bilby commented on the word cyberflaneur
"An interesting adaptation of this concept is that of the cyberflaneur, in which this mindset of not being always-purposed is applied to our use of the Internet. Trends indicate that we increasingly use the Internet only functionally. In an article published in the New York Times last February, Evegny Morozov commented that our increasing societal single-mindedness is reflected on the Internet:
Something similar has happened to the Internet. Transcending its original playful identity, it’s no longer a place for strolling — it’s a place for getting things done. Hardly anyone 'surfs' the Web anymore. The popularity of the 'app paradigm', whereby dedicated mobile and tablet applications help us accomplish what we want without ever opening the browser or visiting the rest of the Internet, has made cyberflânerie less likely. That so much of today’s online activity revolves around shopping — for virtual presents, for virtual pets, for virtual presents for virtual pets — hasn’t helped either. Strolling through Groupon isn’t as much fun as strolling through an arcade, online or off.."
- Alex Cantrell, Oh, Flaneur—, mantisandme.com, 4 March 2013
Mar 29, 2013
bilby commented on the word flaneur
A thoughtful discussion of the flaneur, and indeed the cyberflaneur, is to be found here. And a lovely Caillebotte.
Mar 29, 2013
bilby commented on the list derogatory-terms-i-should-use-more-often
lorette
Mar 28, 2013
bilby commented on the word firecrap
Ah, last night's vindaloo is ringing the bells.
Mar 27, 2013
bilby commented on the word rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Is someone lining us up for this to appear in Identify The Wordienik?
Mar 25, 2013
bilby commented on the word rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
There are usually a few mouse droppings in the box that we could use.
Mar 25, 2013
bilby commented on the list inedible-bugs
millenium bug
Mar 25, 2013
bilby commented on the word blet
"Most varieties of quince are too hard, astringent and sour to eat raw unless bletted (softened by frost and subsequent decay)."
- Wikipedia quince page
Mar 25, 2013
bilby commented on the list inedible-bugs
I beg to differ with ry. Pass me the cherry humbugs!
Mar 25, 2013
bilby commented on the word accommodation
Are there really many on (sic) route to the mashantucket pequot stamp? 732,579?
(ref Twitter)
Mar 24, 2013
bilby commented on the user findthesea
I like your list titles, particularly the first two.
Mar 24, 2013
bilby commented on the word jump seat
"Jump seats can also be found in the main cabin of many aircraft, for the use of flight crew. Flight crew sit in the seats for takeoff and landing, and then fold them back to keep emergency exits and aisles clear. By providing jump seats, airlines can ensure that they meet safety requirements for their cabin crew without using space which could be occupied by paying passengers.
...as a general rule, paying passengers are not permitted to fly in jump seats. When cabin crew who are not on duty fly in a jump seat, this is known as jumpseating."
- wisegeek.com
Mar 24, 2013
bilby commented on the word nous
Good to know that behaviour on internet forums is also a problem for Middle Earth.
Mar 23, 2013
bilby commented on the word dirty-allen
See also aulin.
Mar 23, 2013
bilby commented on the word aulin
Hmmm, dirty-allen's a bit nasty.
Mar 23, 2013
bilby commented on the list strangely-exigent-phrases
How about these: Words and phrases I will use to sound awesome.
Mar 22, 2013
bilby commented on the word duffer
Dated, perhaps, but not out of use.
Mar 22, 2013
bilby commented on the list x-up-or-x-down
Let them eat feathers!
Mar 22, 2013
bilby commented on the word buttongrass
Pictures below are spot on.
Mar 22, 2013
bilby commented on the user ttommey
For every 10,000 comments erin mckean sends you a free muffin.
Mar 21, 2013
bilby commented on the list english-words-derived-from-hindi
Not sorbet.
Mar 21, 2013
bilby commented on the word the night is still young
I think you're right.
Mar 21, 2013
bilby commented on the list eth--1
Oh, I thought it would be wordth thtarting with the letter between R and T.
Mar 21, 2013
bilby commented on the word tattoo
"Enjoy that tattooed sunrise over your ass crack, lady, because in 20 years' time it will look like an octopus chasing a starfish."
- Robin Williams.
Mar 20, 2013
bilby commented on the word competitive arousal
It's like a marathon of phony umbrage taking, but with foggier windows.
Mar 20, 2013
bilby commented on the list test-instruments
SPAM
Mar 20, 2013
bilby commented on the list verba-ut-pertineant-ad-absens
AWOL
Mar 20, 2013
bilby commented on the list twitter-favorites
Do you think up is really a favourite word or is this a case of your script responding to something like 'cock up is my new favourite word' and not picking (up) the entire term?
Mar 20, 2013