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Only one list?
Does that make me more nerdy than you? -
Takes one to know one...*chucks you a kumquat*
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We are very sad people
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Another sprout fan here. Yum.
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You have a lovely username. I'm a big fan of the sprout myself.
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Hi BP, don't be confuzzled! Feel free to email if I can help point the way with anything (john-at-wordie.org), or ask around--folks around here are friendly.
You're not alone in finding it a bit odd at first. I keep meaning to write some sort of help/FAQ/intro guide, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
brusselsprouts commented on the word funk
From wikipedia, "Funk Carioca ("Funk from Rio" in Brazilian Portuguese), also known as Brazilian Funk (which also relates to a 1970's musical style), Favela Funk and, elsewhere in the world, Baile Funk, is a type of dance music from Rio de Janeiro, derived from and superficially similar to Miami Bass, with deep rapid beats and aggressive vocals. In Rio it is most often simply known as Funk, although it is very different musically from what Funk means in most other places — including Brazil itself."
Mar 23, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word tropicalia
Type of MPB, made popular by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gill
Mar 23, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word mpb
Musica popular brasileira....musical genre that started in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s (under a dictatorship)
Mar 23, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word choro
Brazilian music genre...melancholic, started in the 19th century before Bossa Nova...from wikipedia, "Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played in choro are the mandolin, clarinet, and saxophone. These melody instruments are backed by a rhythm section composed of guitar, 7-string guitar (playing bass lines) and light percussion, such as a pandeiro. The cavaquinho appears sometimes as a melody instrument, other times as part of the rhythm."
Mar 23, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the user goatboy
Hey stranger...
Went on holiday, got a new job, trying to make some time in my life...how's you?
Mar 18, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word susie
Susie Q, Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling stones did it no?
Feb 13, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word page of innocence
The flamboyant re-telling of a Pages memoirs, set in ye olde times, who receives notes (not unlike sms text messages of today) by his far older and closeted master.
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the user goatboy
Someone wrote a song about you....:)
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list fauxlyrical
Scrubs
As in..
I don't want no scrub
a scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
hanging out the passenger side
of his best friend's ride
trying to holler at me
TLC
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word delay
Something United Airlines just did
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Don't know if this one counts....Linux
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Patent (also patronize)
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Scone (this one drives me nuts...I actually think how Americans say it is acceptable in parts of the UK, just not where I'm from).
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
nuclear (think of Bush saying this)
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
basil, controversy
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
banal
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Tunisia
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Advertisement
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Clerk
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Derby
Feb 5, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word iemanja
Originally a yoruba goddess passed down to Brazilians who celebrate Candomble, Iemanja is the goddess of the sea, celebrated on new years eve.
Jorge Amado wrote his novel, Mar Morto (Sea of Death) about the desperate romantic (?) life of fishermen and their relationship with Iemanja. There are some who argue that the success of his novel made Candomble (and Umbanda, a variation on the same afro-catholic theme) trendy....(I'm not one of them :))
Feb 4, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word carioca
Someone native to Rio
Feb 4, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word lightening kidnapping
hopefully not, of course
Feb 4, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word lightening kidnap
Hopefully not.....of course
Feb 4, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word a thousand splendid buns
The heartwarming story of an Afghan bakery....
Feb 3, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word bel panto
Set in a South American country of anglophile customs, a group of terrorists decide to use pantomimes to further their cause. At the end the government sneaks upon the terrorists (the audience stage whispering "they're behind you") and take down the show...
Feb 3, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list fun-phrases-idioms
Hmm, how about: Bees knees, cats meow, cats pyjamas....
Feb 3, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the user goatboy
I knew you'd like this site....without a doubt it makes you a bigger nerd. But you dress well...so who cares?
*admiring the purple beret*, how very mid 80s.
Jan 31, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list exclamation-words
Gordon Bennett!
Jan 30, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list exclamation-words
Ay caramba!....Spanish expression made famous by Bart Simpson
Jan 30, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Grant (depends where you come from I suppose. )
Jan 29, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list u-s-and-them
Vitamin, Iran, water (every day I repeat myself on this one), Route.
Jan 29, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list hangover
Today....
Jan 29, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list fauxlyrical
I thought Fergie invented "flossy" in her Glamorous song...but it turns out lots of people use it....I just wasn't hip enough. Curse of the queen.
Jan 29, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list fabulous-foreign-phrases
Hmmm...not sure if all of these count.
Fahrvergnügen - as in the Volkswagon ad...
Realpolitik
Cause celebre
bon mot
Bel espirit
deja vu
Au contraire
vis-a-vis
pret-a-porter
Respondez, s'il vous plait (RSVP)
tete-a-tete
savoir faire
pied-a-terre
piece de resitance
Jan 28, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list pigs-on-parade
.....I came across bacon-flavoured mints the other day...talking of which.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list pigs-on-parade
Pippo - Hello Kittys friend.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word malarky
fairly certain there's a Clinton joke I can make...think think think :)
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word aryton senna
= a tenner
denomination of money.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word wanderlust
Up there on my list of favourites....
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word icky thump
Inspired by Fauxlyrical c/o Goatboy...anyone from Preston would tell you it's actually "Ecky thump"...then bastardized by the White Stripes. The song makes up for it tho'.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the list fauxlyrical
fo' shizzle
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word sunga
In Brazilian portuguese it's the name of a skimpy male y-front type bathing suit.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word faffing
My father used to tell me to stop "faffing" about....
Made me giggle everytime. Much to his chagrin.
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word malarky
What's this malarky about anyways?
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word kulturkampf
Description of US politics?
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word horripilation
Completely hideous word for goosebumps.
Goosebumps is so much sweeter. Although now I think about it...a bumping goose? Wtf?
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word triskaidekaphobia
One of the more ludicrous phobias....
Jan 27, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the word rambutan
Least you didn't choose the Durian....
Jan 24, 2008
brusselsprouts commented on the user brusselsprouts
Takes one to know one...*chucks you a kumquat*
Jan 24, 2008