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You are the answer.
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Hey, welcome back pome!
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Pomegranate, your username is one of the best words there is!
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Haha! Bobolink. Nobody else would understand.
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Do you think it's a pomegranate?
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Is this who I think it is?
pomegranate commented on the list passport-to-upstate-new-york
Prolagus, right you are. I've added them. Are you from Western NY?
Sep 3, 2008
pomegranate commented on the list passport-to-upstate-new-york
Right you are! I'll add it.
Aug 27, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word bhumibol adulyadej
Next time you go to a Thai restaurant, look for a framed picture of a dark-haired, skinny, bespectacled guy with a well-decorated white military uniform. That's Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Yul Brynner became very famous for playing the ROLE of the King of Siam in a very famous Broadway play, The King and I, beginning in 1951. By that time, Bhumibol WAS the King of Siam, the REAL one. In fact, he is the longest-serving head of state in the world, having taken over in June 1946. That's 62 years at this writing. Yul Brynner, if you didn't know, is dead.
Aug 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word john alcock and arthur whitten brown
Who is the first to make a non-stop transatlantic flight? Charles Lindbergh, right? Wrong! These guys did it eight years earlier, flying from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland. "Lucky Lindy" garnered a lot more fame, because he flew from New York to Paris.
Aug 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word lino lacedelli and achille compagnoni
You know Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, right? Of course... the first to summit Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. May 1953. Fourteen months later, these two reached the top of K2 (the highest summit of the Karakoram Range). K2 is the second-highest mountain in the world, only 247 meters shorter than Mt. Everest. Besides that, K2 is widely considered a far more difficult climb than Everest.
Aug 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word michael collins
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: first men on the moon, Apollo 11, July 1969. Michael Collins: orbited the moon in the command module, so the other two would have a ride home.
Aug 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word william dawes and samuel prescott
Even small children know of Paul Revere's midnight ride from Boston to Lexington to warn revolution leaders and people in general of approaching British soldiers. These two men performed the same feat, the three of them taking different routes to warn more people and to increase the odds of the message getting to Lexington without capture. We've never heard of them, because unlike Revere, Dawes and Prescott didn't have poets to tell their stories.
Aug 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word marketer's syndrome
A learning disorder characterized by the inability to spell English words without shortening them ridiculously (e.g. "E-Z," "thru"), a tendency to apply prefixes where they don't belong (e.g. "Perma-grip"), and an obsession with using capital letters in mid-word and/or skipping spaces between words (e.g. "PacifiCorp," "Telcom")
Aug 7, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word favre's syndrome
A pathological inability to remain retired
Aug 7, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word skitsophrenia
A mental disease characteristic of thespians who take their jobs far too seriously
Aug 7, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word algoraphobia
Fear of people who fear global warming
Aug 7, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word 7457
This refers to "Proclamation 7547" by George W. Bush, made on July 25, 2001: ".... Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim July 27, 2001, as National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day...."
Jun 18, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word undershausers
(UND-erz-how-zerz) - underwear
I cannot remember where this word came from, but I have been using it for most of my adult life.
Jun 18, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word shitfire
An expletive to show frustration.
May 22, 2008
pomegranate commented on the list every-college-team-deserves-a-good-nickname-except-duke
Tough to get excited about the nickname "Rockets," even if Slippery Rock does use it. "Mossy Granites" would have been better.
May 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the list on-the-rocks
i.e. no-moss-gathering?
May 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the list every-college-team-deserves-a-good-nickname-except-duke
Who are Rockets?
May 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word fried bologna
C.NY, though I did move to W.PA (Cresson) for a short time after I grew up.
Apr 30, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word virginians
Three: one to put in the new bulb and two to reminisce about the old one.
Apr 9, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word data
plethora, if sionnach loses, I lose as well. "Data" is the plural form of "datum".
Apr 4, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word bohemian rhapsody
Queen: "Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word pancreas
Al Yankovic: "My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word mrs robinson
Simon and Garfunkel: "Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes. Put it in the pantry with your cupcakes."
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word marrakesh express
Crosby, Stills, and Nash: "Take the train to Casablanca going south blowing smoke rings from the corners of my m,m,m,m,mouth"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word you can call me al
Paul Simon: "Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly, get these mutts away from me.... some roly-poly little bat-faced girl.... cattle in the marketplace"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word cows with guns
Dana Lyons: "We will fight for bovine freedom and hold our large heads high"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word everything you know is wrong
Al Yankovic: "They offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go and so I told them send me back to last Thursday night so I could pay my phone bill on time"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word teach your children
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: "Teach your children well; their father's hell did slowly go by...."
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word scarborough fair
Simon and Garfunkel: "Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme"
Mar 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word ananym
You mean "Bob"? "Anna"? "Eve"?
Mar 1, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word cup of tea
yarb, I think we could all get jobs writing Old English gospel hymns if that's the best they can do.
Mar 1, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word macaulay culkin
I beg to differ! The two "Home Alones" were chock full of quotable lines, and most of them were Kevin's.
Feb 26, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word cameltoe
Excuse my idiocy, but which letter did you change?
Feb 26, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word sheetbend
When I first heard the word "sheetbend" spoken, I thought I heard "sheepbend" and assumed that it was a knot that shepherds used for some reason.
Feb 22, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word food crack
I had thought when I first read it that it meant "mouth," as in the crack into which McDonald's food is mindlessly inserted.
Feb 22, 2008
pomegranate commented on the list a-long-strange-trip
You're right, reesetee... great list! :-)
Feb 20, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word bob and leo
"It was an interesting morning... fruitful. But it lacked the intensity that you and I generate together. The sparks that we get one on one."
Feb 15, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word statler and waldorf
The two old guys in the balconey on "The Muppet Show"
Feb 15, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word prozac na+ ion
Very creative, I must say!
Feb 14, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word snot falling on cedars
David Guterson's novel about Godzilla and the challenge of other Japanese Americans in the cold, wet rainforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Feb 13, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word the lion, the ditch, and the wardrobe
Poor little Lucy Pevensie's wardrobe is garish and threadbare, but is that sufficient reason for Aslan and Mr. Tumnus to tread it underfoot and bury it in a long, narrow hole? But perhaps the talking lion and the half-goat have something much better in mind for the small girl - IF they can thwart the devilish plans of the White Witch and that ugly dwarf with the Turkish Delight!
Feb 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word olives twist
In this collaboration by Dickens and Steinbeck, we read the story of a poor young orphan migrant laborer in the orchards of the Sacramento Valley near Chico, California.
Feb 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word the boys of sumter
Roger Kahn recounts the history of baseball at the great South Carolina Civil War fort.
Feb 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word the taming of the screw
Thus in plain terms: i not so very handy
Hath naught dexterity to pound a nail-
And so the screw. Its narrow groove doth mock me.
For am I he am born to tame it, Kate?
And drive it in the wood that it may fasten-
Conformable as other home hardware.
Feb 2, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word of lice and men
Too much "layin' in the hay" gives George and Lennie "a powerful itch" to move on to the next ranch before trouble can follow.
Jan 31, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word primary dolors
Working on the presidential campaign staff of Governor Jack Stanton is not exactly a walk in the park!
Jan 31, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word schindler's last
Amon Goeth discovers Oskar Schindler's deception and picks Schindler off from his porch with a rifle as Schindler at morning muster picks out his next batch of Plaszow laborers.
Jan 31, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word paper loon
Pale, emaciated sportwriter George Plimpton tries out at quarterback for an NFL team and barely lives long enough to write this tome about his experience.
Jan 31, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word the bald beginning
Sunny is sensitive about her hairless pate, a word which here means the billiard-ball-like top of her noggin. In fact, she sharpens her canines on those who tease her, thus developing a talent that will serve the Beaudelaire children well in this first of Lemony Snicket's thirteen part series. I warn you! Don't read it!
Jan 30, 2008
pomegranate commented on the word murder on the orient empress
Agatha Christie's newest whodunnit. Can Anna's death be blamed on the jealous rage of the Thai king's wife or are more sinister forces at work?
Jan 30, 2008