skipvia has looked up 56 words, created 42 lists, listed 1820 words, written 2996 comments, added 2211 tags, and loved 2 words.
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Your name was mentioned over on luncheon. Just sayin'. :-)
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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. -
What's the deal with Wasilla? I hear they're making a salmon-flavored vodka there.
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"Skip Via has added 42 lists containing 1,820 words, 2,211 comments, 2,211 tags, 13 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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:-)
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:-)
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Hello there! Nice to have you back.
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*blushes and then realizes ruzuzu must be thinking about someone else*
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Will not go for the cherry joke was legendary.
Made my day. Hell, made my cake. -
It was nice knowing y'll :-(
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It still looks broken to me...
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Fixed it, Pro. Thanks for the tip.
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Skipvia, your facebook link is broken!
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From a distance she looks like a triumph of marketing over substance. Then again, our brand of conservative politics is much different to yours, so much so that anything the Republicans do makes them look like caricatures of themselves to me.
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But seriously, folks...
With Sarah Palin, what you see is not what you get. Her leadership skills consist mainly of hiring her friends and firing her enemies, defined as anyone who disagrees with her or who doesn't believe that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time. There's a reason that McCain limits access to her. She's perfectly capable of looking you directly in the eye and lying to you. (In that regard she's a pretty good match for McCain.)
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Yes--and her name is Sarah Palin.
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Hi Skipvia. Alaska is much in the news these days. I was wondering, as our resident northern light, do you have any inside dope for us?
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At-choo!
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And thank heavens for that. :-)
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I like to think he does. :)
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Hee hee. Not this time, Pro, but I try.
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Do you appear as soon as someones calls your name, like Bob in the Bottle?
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A myrtle is a nice plant. I like crepe myrtles. Their bark is lovely in winter. And then there is Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I grew up with myrtles, and I knew women named Myrtle. To me, Myrtle is a solid old-fashioned name, and I am surprised we have not seen a resurgence in its popularity
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Whahaha! Biff!
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I have the same issue with that Biff! list. I've learned to live with it.
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Interesting, bilby. I didn't favorite any of the lists above It Has a Name?, nor did I favorite whippersnapper. I'm going to speak to John about this. Reverentially, of course.
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But technically you don't have time to scratch yourself?
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Hi Skipvia. My family and I went on our Alaskan cruise two weeks ago, and while we were onship I thought of the comment you left me. I saw disappointingly few ravens on the trip, but I did see a black bear, a whale, a porcupine, and some very, very distant mountain goats. :)
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Spikvia, we need your help now. Please turn Pandora off and open her box.
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Hey Skip...
Do you know about the Music Genome Project? That ongoing project resulted in Pandora.com. It is a pretty cool online radio project where you can essentially program your own musical tastes...but anyway...they have some pretty kick-ass obscure garage bands on there...I thought I knew the genre well...ha!
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Hi skipvia! I'm really sorry I didn't reply to your comment (on that fabulous firmament-clogging list, which still amuses me endlessly, because -- godless and rock-shivering blast! Oh my) earlier, particularly because it was the first to be directed to me on this site. :) Thank you for your compliment on my username; ravens and I have a funny relationship that I'm still trying to condense into an articulate explanation.
Where in Alaska do you live? My family and I are going on an Alaskan cruise a few months from now, and as cliche (and as unlikely, in June) as this might sound, all I'm really hoping for right now is to see the northern lights. -
What? And bring a halt to my trip down memory lane?
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I caught that, Treeseed, and immediately deleted my entry. I was getting kind of carried away with musicians. Perhaps I had better stop...
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Hey skipvia, I guess great minds think alike...I think we both entered Paul and Paula at the exact same second.
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Oh, I'm sure. Bird nicknames, obsolete words--all the good things in life. :->
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Whatever you do, don't stop contributing. I am learning so much...
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Aww...do I have to?
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Well, I can't let that slack bastard get ahead of me. Thank you, reesetee. Only ten thousand more and I'll be in your ballpark, assuming you stop contributing immediately.
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Hey, skipvia, congrats to you too on reaching 1,000 words! (You're tied with John.)
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Thanks so much for that classic toy article. Loved it!
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Thanks, treeseed. You were the inspiration for the list. I enjoy following the internal logic of your posts.
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Skipvia, I love your new list of free associations. I hope lots of people play.
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'artificial intelligence test'
Nice one, skipvia, I really like that.
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That's haXorific! Now I'm all paranoid about people vandalizing my precious, precious profile.
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Well, that does it. I'm locking the back door to my profile. This used to be such a nice neighborhood....
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Wait...if it wasn't me and it wasn't you, who was it?
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Wow -- wasn't me! Someone has found a back door! Not sure who, but I'm pretty sure I know what they did. My compliments, back-door person, whoever you are! And thank you for using your powers for good, rather than evil.
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I'd like to claim credit for that, folks, but it was not I who did the deed. I suspect our über-guru John had a hand it in.
It sure wasn't mi-vox. -
He's a technology guru, is our skipvia. :)
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
Brang and brung are pretty much interchangeable, as in "It was brung up yesterday" and "It was brang up yesterday." No diffyraunce.
Feb 28, 2011
skipvia commented on the word aboiement
In sibling strife when Joy meant
to cause bro' Kent annoyment,
did she, for her enjoyment,
place into her employment
oinks and grunts, a ploy meant
to tease that little boy Kent
through ceaseless loud aboiement.
To be corrected by Laurent--
It's really pronounced aboiement.
Mar 21, 2010
skipvia commented on the word aboiment
In sibling strife when Joy meant
to cause bro' Kent annoyment,
did she, for her enjoyment,
place into her employment
oinks and grunts, a ploy meant
to tease that little boy Kent
through ceaseless loud aboiement.
To be corrected by Laurent--
It's really pronounced aboiment.
Mar 21, 2010
skipvia commented on the list skipvia-s-words
*blushes even more* Yoink, plunder, and pillage all you want. My pleasure, as usual.
Mar 20, 2010
skipvia commented on the user skipvia
*blushes and then realizes ruzuzu must be thinking about someone else*
Mar 20, 2010
skipvia commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
They're just words. Have at it, gangerh!
Nov 4, 2009
skipvia commented on the word e-solated
The state of being cut off socially, economically, or culturally due to the lack of an Internet connection. Seen here. Interesting article.
Oct 30, 2009
skipvia commented on the word ethnomasochism
Sorry, bilby. I was having my quiet time...
So--this guy walks in to his doctor's office and says "I'm feeling very depressed. This morning I looked in the mirror and all I could see was gray hair, an enlarging bald spot, bags under my eyes, wrinkles under my chin, yellowing teeth, and splotchy skin."
The doctor replied, "Well, at least your eyesight is still good."
*rimshot*
Oct 29, 2009
skipvia commented on the word whack job diva
I returned this from my constitutional in the woods this morning with a song in my heart. I think it was the rutabagas.
Whack Job Diva
(sung to the tune of Pinball Wizard)
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I thought she'd left the scene when she didn't get the job
No national TV coverage, no chances to hobnob.
But she's engulfed us all, like the finale from The Blob
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure is a real whack job.
She's a Whack Job Diva, she's coming back for more
A Whack Job Diva, a bald-faced media whore
Why do you think she does it?
(I don't know)
What stokes her ego?
She don't read no books or papers, just listens to Limbaugh
Don't need no facts or figures, she ain't no liberal snob
She counts on her charisma to make right wing members throb
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure is a real whack job
I always thought we were finally rid of her
But now she's back and reality becomes a blur...
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Oct 20, 2009
skipvia commented on the word glof
"All the Himalayan glaciers are melting, an average of 10-20m a year," he says.
One of the most obvious changes, he adds, is the growth of what are known as glacial lake outburst floods (glofs).
"A glof happens when a glacial lake is created by a melting glacier and it then bursts. Imja lake is the most dramatic example of a potential one. It is growing 74m a year. When it bursts its banks, we will have a mountain tsunami. Billions of gallons of water will be released and it could wipe out about 70% of the trekking trail to Everest base camp. Not only will that destroy our homes and potentially kill people, but it will wipe out the jewel in the crown of Nepal's tourism industry," he says.
-Guardian.co.uk
Oct 13, 2009
skipvia commented on the word thought-terminating clichés
"How do you respond to “Islam is the solution�? or “Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior�?? How do you converse with someone who justifies the war in Iraq—as Christopher Hitchens does—with the tautology that we have to “kill them over there so they do not kill us over here�?? Those who speak in these thought-terminating clichés banish rational discussion. Their minds are shut. They sputter and rant like a demented Othello. The paucity of public discourse in our culture, even among those deemed to be public intellectuals, is matched by the paucity of public discourse in the Arab world."
- Truthdig: The War on Language (an excellent read)
Oct 2, 2009
skipvia commented on the word spotted dick
Or is it "Spotted Richard?"
-TheRegister.com
Oct 1, 2009
skipvia commented on the word high altitude flatus expulsion
98.6 is a pretty consistent temperature. Maybe mountaineers with hypothermia experience it differently.
Sep 19, 2009
skipvia commented on the word high altitude flatus expulsion
Sheer poetry.
Sep 18, 2009
skipvia commented on the word fig
My sister-in-law in Los Alamos makes fig ice cream. It's not as good as you might hope...
Sep 18, 2009
skipvia commented on the word cheese grits
Head cheese?
Sep 16, 2009
skipvia commented on the word south carolina
"Too small to be a country, to large to be an insane asylum."
-James L. Pettigrew, 1863 (Reference)
The more things change...
Sep 14, 2009
skipvia commented on the word the audacity of dope
HAR!
Sep 14, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnik
Speak for yourself, reesetee... :-)
Sep 14, 2009
skipvia commented on the word havercrafte man pore m�?rm�?hi ast!
Is there a Farsi phase for "my nipples explode with delight?"
Sep 12, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnikie suggestion box
So--here's what I love about Wordie. I love that the joyfully organized chaos of conversations and comments takes a preeminent spot in the interface. I love that we can list whole madeupical phrases, play with book titles with one letter changed, make lists like My Little Phonies, Sweet Tooth Fairy, and Firmament-Clogging Rotteness, and apply the Wordie Treatment as necessary--or whenever we just feel like it. I love sionnach, chained_bear, plethora, reesetee, prolagus, uselessness (miss him...), treeseed (ditto), bilby, pterodactyl, dontcry, rolig, frogapplause, yarb, whichbe, mollusque, gangerh, seanahan, fbharjo, jennaren, brookdale_chick (still laughing), trivet, vanquishedone, and all the other Wordies that I've forgotten to mention--and, of course, our own slack bastard John. I love the black and white (and blue) pages with no pictures except when sionnach gets the urge or when the occasional emo kid appears. I love panvocalics, specific excrement, and random words. And I love being goaded.
I'm not necessarily making suggestions for Wordnik. I don't find much of this there, though. I've joined, and I'll give it a fighting chance, but I'll sure miss Wordie.
Sep 12, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnikie suggestion box
I feel so...goaded.
Sep 11, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnik
I dibs being the Special Correspondent on Sarah Palin.
Sep 11, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnik
What if they don't allow fart jokes?
Sep 9, 2009
skipvia commented on the word wordnik
So...couldn't we assimilate them? Then Prolagus and I wouldn't have to grow up. :-)
Sep 9, 2009
skipvia commented on the word zymergy
I had to look it up, c_b...
Aug 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word zymergy
Welcome to the spelling hall of shame, hern--an organization that I founded and still rain rein reign (choose the proper spelling) over as its most prolific contributor.
Aug 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the list the-bucolic-abattoir
For some reason, I woke up this morning with the overwhelming urge to change the name of this list from "Sounds One Way, Means Another" to "The Bucolic Abattoir." I think it was the pizza.
Aug 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word death panel
At least she's not our governor anymore...
Aug 14, 2009
skipvia commented on the word halfrican american
You know, I'm quite sure I have never heard "yes siree." I've always encountered it as an emphatic "no." I wonder if it's regional.
Who is Bob, anyway?
Aug 10, 2009
skipvia commented on the word no siree
Not just no...hell, no. Often said to Bob, for reasons unknown.
My grandfather used to say "No siree, bobtail catbird."
Aug 8, 2009
skipvia commented on the word halfrican american
We're not race-baiting. No siree, not Rush Limbaugh.
And, apparently, no one has listed no siree, a phrase I hear all the time.
Aug 8, 2009
skipvia commented on the word desultory
Nobody defines it better than Paul Simon. Or here, if you want the audio.
I suspect this is the only use of desultory in a song title.
Aug 8, 2009
skipvia commented on the word lord adonis
It kind of makes you wonder what sort of career his parents envisioned for him.
Reminds me of Rhythm Belcher...
Aug 6, 2009
skipvia commented on the word palindrone
Har! Our (finally!) ex-governor is famous for those.
Aug 4, 2009
skipvia commented on the list the-penis-game
I don't know if you accept images, pleth, but this one rang a bell, so to speak.
Aug 1, 2009
skipvia commented on the word preamble
The Bhagavad Gita, yes.
I don't get to use my religion major very often...
Aug 1, 2009
skipvia commented on the word preamble
pree AM ble, the way God intended it be said.
Jul 31, 2009
skipvia commented on the word white culture
More white culture artifacts:
"Nation, as you know, I don’t see race," Colbert said. "People tell me I’m white and I believe them because my fridge is full of drinkable yogurt.�?
-The Raw Story
Jul 31, 2009
skipvia commented on the word white culture
And also by where it's parked, at least in that photo.
So--are Irish "white people?" How about Germans? Or is "white culture" limited to Americans?
*having an identity crisis*
Jul 30, 2009
skipvia commented on the word white culture
"Glenn Beck said this today on Fox News: "This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture."
-TPM; Obama-haters Becoming Increasingly Racial in Their Rhetoric
I wonder what the artifacts and beliefs of white culture are? Commercials? Country clubs? Sunbathing?
Jul 29, 2009
skipvia commented on the word go sarah go
She also made it to the most trusted news show on TV, The Daily Show, only this time it was the obverse: "You Go Girl" with "Please" in fine print.
I'm so proud of her. (My wife, that is--not, you know, the one who quit.)
Jul 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word go sarah go
C-B, I haven't laughed that loudly in some time. What a hoot. It actually kind of makes sense when Shatner says it.
Jul 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word go sarah go
She got on TV! Well, at least her sign made it. Too bad you couldn't read the small print.
If you want to know the true definition of narcissism, listen to Palin's speech.
Jul 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word go sarah go
The sign that my wife held at Sarah Palin's resignation event yesterday (the iQuitarod). Less visible at the bottom of the sign was the word "Please."
Jul 28, 2009
skipvia commented on the word stacked
Brickhouse!
Jul 27, 2009
skipvia commented on the word broccoli
That would be aitch dubya. In 1990, dubya was probably too wasted to give a statement that coherent. Although, I guess he never reached that level even when he sobered up.
Jul 25, 2009
skipvia commented on the word lunar module
I always thought LEM was an acronym for "lunar exploration module." But I guess we're probably talking about the same thing.
Jul 24, 2009
skipvia commented on the word unknown
I think the opening lines of this song say it all.
Jul 24, 2009
skipvia commented on the word nuttery
That does sound like a place I'd like to pass some time. Especially these days, with all the...ummm...nuts.
Jul 24, 2009