reesetee has looked up 14806 words, created 190 lists, listed 29971 words, written 20885 comments, added 10548 tags, and loved 96 words.
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Holy cow, this profile page is even more confusing than it was when we were segregated.
Yes, yes! Irish Potato Candy! I just saw your comment on the other page. Congratulations on your initiation. They're good, but they'd be better without that nasty coconut, if you ask me. :-)
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Have you ever had any potato-shaped candies? I was asking dontcry about them over on the are-you-from-pennsylvania list.
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As am I. *pops*
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Thanks! You too, and nice to be back, although right now I'm mostly doing pop-ins.
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Ooh, fufluns and tea! How lovely! And hearts too! Well, I certainly heart you back, r. Thanks for the love. :-)
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I heart you.
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Hi!
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Hi everyone. :-)
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You're awesome.
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Hernesheir, I've checked the privacy settings and all seems in order. Apparently, I'm not the only one having such trouble. See ruzuzu's comment about http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik/topics/seeing_other_peoples_lists (and the workaround).
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Thanks, ruzuzu! I have to remind myself to keep checking for glitches on the support site. :-)
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Hi Carmaella and reesetee,
I wandered over to http://support.wordnik.com/wordnik/topics/seeing_other_peoples_lists and saw that there's a ticket for this issue already. In the meantime, one suggestion would be to try adding the word "lists" to the end of the Wordnik user's address--like so: http://www.wordnik.com/users/reesetee/lists
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I don't see your lists either, reesetee. Perhaps your profile privacy settings prevent others from seeing your lists?
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Hi Carmaella. I'm seeing a list of my lists on the right side of my profile page, with the list names in hypertext. That should get you where you want to go. Does that not work on your screen?
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Plinth?
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Plinth.
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Yep. He outpaced me a while ago.
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Have you looked at hernesheir's?
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Well, a little--but in a good way.
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Yeah. Scary, right? ;-)
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Um, 29,587?
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Happy Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day!
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I ran across ha'-bible in Dr. Jamieson's Dictionary:
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I think of you each time I add a Scots bird (nick)name to my Dr. Jamieson's Birds list. Guiltily, I might add - you're the resident "birdlister".
Btw - I see Gambel's quail, mallards, and Canada geese every day. This week I observed 3 fuzzy red-tailed hawk chicks in a nest in a stand of scrubby locust trees, watched chukar partridges hunkering in the lee of some sagebrush during a snowstorm atop a mountain (and hiding from the red fox that was roaming around), and upslope from the partridges flushed a ruffed grouse...I'm in bird-watching heaven lately! -
Thanks, friend!
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I'm guessing the bird--I've seen it in some older birding books. Thanks, h.
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Some pigeonly C-words from Grose's A Provincial Glossary, 1787: cushets - wild pigeons (Yorksh.); culvers - pigeons (Exmoor); cruchet - a wood pigeon (north of Britain).
Of crotch-tail I'm not sure. Grose's definition is "kite", but I've not yet sussed out whether that refers to the toy or the bird. -
Hey, thanks bilby!
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Ah! Thanks! I knew it looked familiar, but couldn't make it say anything, even after waterboarding.
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Okay, I give up. Who is devils mi snort/livid monsters?
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Thanks for noticing, RT! I do miss the place and the old regulars, as well. So it's nice to stop by once in a while. And the word list function is very useful for me. But I think it was easier to make and maintain a word list, especially a non-English one, on Wordie than it is on Wordnik. Maybe that is something I need to bring up with someone (John?).
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Will do--much appreciated, as always.
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See CD and GNU Webster's defs. under whaap for some bird names...
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Thanks, hernesheir!
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A Japanese musical instrument with four strings, resembling a flat mandolin - Cent. Dict., biwa.
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Busted.
That's right, sionnach; all my psittacine friends must weigh in on Wordnik before partaking of their daily birdie chow. I've taught them how to hunt and...er, peck...on the keyboard. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get those seed hulls out of the tiny little spaces between keys.
However, they refuse to speak in public, no matter how many sprigs of millet I offer, no matter how much chattering they do in private. They abhor the paparazzi, you see. -
Reesetee has written 20,259 comments; Wordnik is billions of words, 943,480,593 example sentences, 6,603,031 unique words, 216,253 comments.....
20,259/216,253 = (furrows brow, counts on little foxy paws) = 9.368% of all Wordnik comments.
A contribution which dwarfs my own paltry vulpine 4.58%.
It's the parrots, isn't it? They are forced to enter little psittacine comments before they get their millet*.
Interestingly, Reesetee has entered *no* pronunciations. It's the parrots, isn't it?
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Thanks, everyone! Actually, it's rather belated no matter where you are, but that just makes it last longer. :-)
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Happy Birthday!
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Bonne anniversaire!
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Happiness!
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Why, what a thoughtful gift!
*places it next to comment no. 159*
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This is my comment no. 160, consider it a birthday gift
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Happy birthday!
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Oh, and happy Reach As High As You Can Day, everyone. :-)
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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. -
Oh, nuts. Thanks!
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No, no, I insist on doing Wordnik. Others insist that I do this life thing. Maddening, I tell you.
R: I was offering you some cashews. Nuts?
reesetee commented on the list old-western-slang
I concur!
May 23, 2012
reesetee commented on the list we-re-a-band
Not likely. I'm pretty sure u. is now happily married. :-)
May 23, 2012
reesetee commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Happy World Turtle Day! (Thanks, sionnach.)
May 23, 2012
reesetee commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Thanks to Prolagus for reminding me that it's international compost awareness week. T-shirts and posters available here.
May 7, 2012
reesetee commented on the list bird-wirds-nicknames
Added, thanks!
Apr 18, 2012
reesetee commented on the word luncheon
In the interest of providing comparative images, I humbly present this jewel. More on this fascinating...uh...concoction?...is available here.
I miss Skip.
Mar 22, 2012
reesetee commented on the user reesetee
Holy cow, this profile page is even more confusing than it was when we were segregated.
Yes, yes! Irish Potato Candy! I just saw your comment on the other page. Congratulations on your initiation. They're good, but they'd be better without that nasty coconut, if you ask me. :-)
Mar 21, 2012
reesetee commented on the user dontcry
Facebook is so dull without you. :-)
Mar 21, 2012
reesetee commented on the list are-you-from-pennsylvania
Wait. Neither of you has ever heard of Irish Potato Candy before now? *stunned*
Mar 21, 2012
reesetee commented on the list flights-of-fancy
Why, that's just ducky! And to answer your earlier question: Yes, distelfinks are fictitious. At least I hope they are.
Mar 17, 2012
reesetee commented on the user reesetee
As am I. *pops*
Mar 15, 2012
reesetee commented on the word If Ruzuzu is infinitely powerful, can she also be infinitely good
*offers fufluns in place of purloined umbrage*
Mar 15, 2012
reesetee commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
*alights on nearby branch*
*disappears*
Mar 13, 2012
reesetee commented on the list panel-discussions-at-wordienikon
That'd be great. How old is she now, anyway? *looks for skipvia*
Mar 13, 2012
reesetee commented on the user blafferty
Blaff: Welcome back, from someone who also took time off. (I haven't exactly come blasting back yet....)
Mar 13, 2012
reesetee commented on the word national sleep awareness week
Hmm...I'll take swatch at Pacific Standard Time. And yarb? Brackets for Wee Willie Rip van Winken Bliken and Nod, please.
Now if you'll all excuse me, I need a nap.
Mar 13, 2012
reesetee commented on the word national sleep awareness week
I think it a cruel joke that this week ends in turning back one's clock and losing an hour of sleep. From whom should I take umbrage?
Mar 10, 2012
reesetee commented on the word world kidney day
Happy World Kidney Day to those of you who celebrate.
Mar 8, 2012
reesetee commented on the word luncheon
*returns to this page for a laugh*
*laughs*
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the list •an-arsenal-for-civil-defunse-open-list
Seriously. Fufluns in jars should be prohibited everywhere.
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the word national public sleeping day
After you eat all your pancakes on national pancake day, you can sleep them off on a park bench.
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the word world sword swallower's day
Thanks, Prolagus.
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the word lame duck day
From Mental Floss: "Without a Presidential election preceding it, this is kind of a lame duck holiday. Though the holiday was created to celebrate the introduction of the 20th Amendment in 1933, the amendment was actually ratified in January of that year. Lame duck day is more of a way to honor those who just left office after being rendered totally ineffective for a few months. In other words, it is appropriately lame."
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the word heap
"In some places a heap of limestone was formerly 4¾ cubic yards." -- Century Dictionary (thanks to ruzuzu!)
Mar 5, 2012
reesetee commented on the word National Grammar Day
Happy National Grammar Day!
Mar 4, 2012
reesetee commented on the word sometimey
Fickle, moody, inconsistent. (Regional U.S., esp. South Atlantic.)
Mar 3, 2012
reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings
Thanks!
Mar 1, 2012
reesetee commented on the list it-has-a-name
Thanks, milos! Sorry it took so long to respond to your post. :-)
Mar 1, 2012
reesetee commented on the word rufflers
"Thieving beggars, apprentice uprightmen."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word uprightmen
"Leaders of robber bands."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word anglers
Also called hookers; "thieves who steal through windows with hooks."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word hookers
Also called anglers ("thieves who steal through windows with hooks").
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word rogues
"Rank-and-file vagabonds."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word wild rogues
"Those born of rogues."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word priggers of prancers
"Horse thieves."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word palliards
"Male and female beggars, traveling in pairs."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word fraters
"Sham proctors, pretending to beg for hospitals, etc."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word abrams
"Feined lunatics."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word whipjacks
Also called fresh-water mariners (beggars pretending shipwreck).
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word fresh-water mariners
Also called whipjacks ("beggars pretending shipwreck").
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word dummerers
"Sham deaf-mutes."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word drunken tinkers
"Thieves using the trade as a cover."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word swadders
"Thieves pretending to be peddlars."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word patricoes
Akin to jarkmen.
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word jarkmen
"Forgers of licenses." Also see patricoes ("hedge priests").
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word demanders for glimmer or fire
"Female beggars pretending loss of fire."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word bawdy baskets
"Female peddlars."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word morts
"Prostitutes and thieves."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word autem morts
"Married harlots."
Feb 25, 2012
reesetee commented on the word walking morts
"Unmarried harlots."
Feb 25, 2012