colleen has looked up 62 words, created 59 lists, listed 5436 words, written 267 comments, added 66 tags, and loved 44 words.
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Colleen, we miss your kind spirit here. Please pipe up when moved.
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"Colleen has created 58 lists, listed 5,418 words, written 265 comments, and added 66 tags, 67 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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let your friends know it/
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this is a good site and and I really like it, it a useful resources.
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I'm on celestial mechanics at the moment... I'm going to enjoy pawing through all the lists I've missed!
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good! I look forward to your verbal tricks and treats!
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hi, fbharjo! how's tricks?
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times have been lean without colleen
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life got weird, but I am returned. :))
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Yay!!!
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@bilby, hello to you all!
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Come back and say hello to us all! :-)
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@Prolagus, I never got this comment! otherwise I'd have had some sassy comeback.
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I dreamt of you last night, colleen -- can't remember what the dream was about, though.
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nice words!
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thanks, adrift! you're off to a great start yourself!
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hi colleen,
i've favorited several of your lists, because they are awesome.
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thanks for the hint colleen.
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Thanks, 82! You will find that I make all kinds of hands. ramblehands, gimmehands, explainyhands... although offline they do look rather like the same oblique gesture. Hmm. *musehands*
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i just read you say *ramblehands* and I think that is great.
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Thanks for the return comment; I'm happy to have brought a smile to your face. Sadly, you and I seem to be diametric opposites when it comes to nice. :(
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Welcome to the 2000 club! :-)
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Mrs Thatcher.
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My lady of the horse-milkers! Tony and/or Margaret salutes you.
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thank you! most of the words themselves are pretty innocuous, so I had to fancy it up somehow. :D
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I love your list names!
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Gosh. I didn't think Wordie was a competitive sport!
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I will fight you tooth and nail for that top spot.
:)
colleen commented on the list the-collected-poems-of-w-h-auden
fbharjo and ruzuzu, gentle Wordies of old! hello!
Sep 17, 2012
colleen commented on the list addenda-to-the-1923-printing-of-webster-s-collegiate-dictionary-third-edition-of-the-merriam-series
hey ruzuzu, long time no see! glad you like this one, I remember it took me ages to put all these in back on the old Wordie. :)
Feb 23, 2012
colleen commented on the list the-collected-poems-of-w-h-auden
Hey Madmouth! I am here, just quiet. Real life keeps getting in the way.
Aug 4, 2010
colleen commented on the user colleen
I'm on celestial mechanics at the moment... I'm going to enjoy pawing through all the lists I've missed!
Aug 19, 2009
colleen commented on the user colleen
hi, fbharjo! how's tricks?
Aug 19, 2009
colleen commented on the user colleen
life got weird, but I am returned. :))
Aug 19, 2009
colleen commented on the user colleen
@bilby, hello to you all!
Aug 19, 2009
colleen commented on the user colleen
@Prolagus, I never got this comment! otherwise I'd have had some sassy comeback.
Jan 29, 2009
colleen commented on the word funambule
French: tightrope
Jul 25, 2008
colleen commented on the word mamihlapinatapai
featured on Kottke.org today!
Jul 14, 2008
colleen commented on the list mojo
thanks apepch7, but Hecate isn't traditionally associated with American folk magic, which is the purpose of this particular list.
Jun 12, 2008
colleen commented on the word asshaberdashery
the art of being an asshat.
Apr 20, 2008
colleen commented on the list junk-drawer
mollusque, this is both a general 'things that might be found in one's junk drawer' and a pastiche of all the junk drawers I have loved before.
and by slug I mean both the bullet and the fake quarter. :D
Apr 15, 2008
colleen commented on the list a-little-carrot-over-the-a
HAH. you had me going for a minute. I need more coffee, clearly.
Apr 11, 2008
colleen commented on the list a-little-carrot-over-the-a
a cheerio? really? O.o
Apr 11, 2008
colleen commented on the list a-little-carrot-over-the-a
wiki tells me that hacek = caron! *adds*
Apr 11, 2008
colleen commented on the list a-little-carrot-over-the-a
thank you, Prolagus! a memory from when I was (badly) learning Slovak... :)
Apr 11, 2008
colleen commented on the word dictionary of the khazars
Oh, I love this book, these books, Pavic is possibly my favorite writer in the world.
sionnach, the difference is a paragraph which changes everything. and by lexicon novel, it means that it is written in the form of a dictionary, as the title suggests - although it really more of an encyclopedia, I would say. like an epistolary novel is written in the form of letters, you know?
ahh ahh *flaphands* I just can't tell you how much I love Pavic.
Mar 21, 2008
colleen commented on the list the-worshipful-company-of-haberdashers
frindley, that is the best idea I've heard in forever.
Mar 19, 2008
colleen commented on the word ursinanity
a state of being. a state of mind.
compare: humanity
Mar 1, 2008
colleen commented on the list adoption-agency
maybe this place would be less of a tip if I had some quality office girls.
Jan 17, 2008
colleen commented on the word radar range
aka microwave oven.
Jan 17, 2008
colleen commented on the word spelt
1) past tense of spell
2) dreadful-tasting wheat product
Jan 17, 2008
colleen commented on the word ekphrasis
that's the one!
Jan 17, 2008
colleen commented on the word ekphrasis
reesetee, apparently we get the same newsletter. :)
Jan 17, 2008
colleen commented on the list metaphorical-places
Lower Shebobia is a real place in Nova Scotia... I think. :D One of my colleagues uses it to refer to any place remote, which is (pardon the pun) miles above the usual Bumfuck variations you hear from most folks.
Jan 1, 2008
colleen commented on the list demonyms
in New Orleans, folks from St. Bernard parish, specifically Chalmette, are called chalmations.
Dec 27, 2007
colleen commented on the word guillemets
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Dec 26, 2007
colleen commented on the word pilcrow
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Dec 26, 2007
colleen commented on the list exposure
SUCH a drag, life without Wordie...
Dec 18, 2007
colleen commented on the list the-worshipful-company-of-haberdashers
thanks, bilby! that's a good one!
Dec 18, 2007
colleen commented on the list exposure
Rumors of my death &c &c, bilby! Please feel free to drop suggestions on any of my lists. If I'm going for a specific gestalt in my own mind, I may not take them, but I always appreciate them! :)
Dec 18, 2007
colleen commented on the list exposure
Hey, reesetee! I'm just getting started on it, I've been so busy that I hadn't had time to properly Wordie. Hope to correct that soon...
Dec 18, 2007
colleen commented on the user colleen
thanks, adrift! you're off to a great start yourself!
Dec 3, 2007
colleen commented on the word tragedian
Does it not also refer to actors who perform said tragedies? The singers of goat songs, as it were?
Nov 18, 2007
colleen commented on the user john
oh! and one more thing, re what mollusque mentioned: in Firefox you can also navigate your tabs with ctrl-page up and ctrl-page down -- page up moves you to the left through your open tabs, and page down to the right.
Nov 15, 2007
colleen commented on the user john
reesetee, I don't know when I started saying holy carp but it was probably around the same time I started saying oh my dog.
A bit late on it, but new window/new tab/&c makes no nevermind to me, I have my browser so rigged that links do what I want them to no matter what you code. :D I think this may really a preference issue, not a practicality issue?
Nov 15, 2007
colleen commented on the user john
Holy carp, John, I was away awhile and the layout tweaks you've made in that time are fantastic. I'm off to poke the site with a sharp stick and see what else is new.
Nov 14, 2007
colleen commented on the word booger
My mother is Irish and doesn't say booger, she says bogie; when I was small and picked up this word at school (as an insult) she thought I was calling my brother a bugger instead of a snot, and I got quite a hiding.
Oct 24, 2007
colleen commented on the word ferengi
Well, you COULD spit it at people! To each their own. :D
Oct 18, 2007
colleen commented on the list pastas-i-have-loved
John, I'm thiefing some of these for my maccheroni list. there are so many I missed!
Oct 18, 2007
colleen commented on the word ferengi
Originally it's a Persian name for white people -- feringhee or farangi. It was used in India as a slur for English people up to a point as well.
Oct 18, 2007
colleen commented on the word frau bleucher
I have a couple of those resources in my del.icio.us, uselessness, for the occasions that I can't remember either the html or the ALT code.
Oct 17, 2007
colleen commented on the list frenchois
Being picky about fake French brings me to a new low, so I think it's time for bed. :D
(Bonne liste!)
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the word advertising
Doing the backstroke through your piles of gold!
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the list frenchois
should it not be Jacques Penné avec le lettre c?
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the word frau bleucher
c_b, apparently the uml tag only works on vowels. I was just now trying to make a Spinal Tap joke and it refused to put the umlaut on the n where it belongs. :D
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the word advertising
Is it a time zone issue, perhaps? Do you have to set the default time zone?
Anyway, it looks all right to me. It's not terribly intrusive and I suspect that with a bit of exposure the eye will just wander right by them. :)
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the word frau bleucher
CB:
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without the spaces
Oct 16, 2007
colleen commented on the word nerf herder
Hee. Oh, UD. User-generated content at its finest.
Oct 15, 2007