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  • What yarb said. We have an extraordinarily annoying and overplayed radio thingie about staycations that stalks my sanity. Gah!

    August 1, 2008

  • I like crackers. What can I say?

    August 1, 2008

  • Always thought it was Elvira.

    August 1, 2008

  • The only thing I will dunk is a graham cracker into some Sunny D. *ducks head in shame*

    August 1, 2008

  • I'm decidedly antidunk. Soggy food is an abomination.

    August 1, 2008

  • Interesting - cold or room temperature butter/bread/strange British filling combinations freak me out, but raspberry jam on hot buttered toast is a symphony of deliciousness.

    August 1, 2008

  • C_b, do you like butter and jam on toast?

    August 1, 2008

  • Tons of fun!

    July 31, 2008

  • Thanks, yarb. This is what we have around here.

    July 30, 2008

  • I find it rather intimidating.

    July 30, 2008

  • What the bear said. But I do like a nice anemic piece of celery for ants on a log.

    July 30, 2008

  • One of our local high school teams got in trouble for dancing the haka before their football games last year. I think they decided to take their 15 yard penalty and keep dancing.

    July 30, 2008

  • I knew a girl named Ashole once.

    July 29, 2008

  • ps - weirdnet.

    July 29, 2008

  • Who knew? Target holds all our wordie needs...

    July 28, 2008

  • Mmmmmmm...

    July 28, 2008

  • As seen here.

    July 26, 2008

  • Basking shark?

    July 25, 2008

  • See here.

    July 23, 2008

  • *awards sionnach a gold star*

    July 22, 2008

  • Oh, no! You see, the sandwich gods brought them together for the sole purpose of redistributing previously mis-matched sandwich fixings (with some lettuce they found along the way...) Voila! Two new sandwiches were born: peanut butter and jam (raspberry only, thank-you-very-much) and cheese, lettuce and mayonnaise. *angels singing*

    July 22, 2008

  • Bilby, the peanut butter and pickle combination has a certain je ne sais quoi. But then, my parents are odd about sandwiches.

    My mother was sent to school every day with a cheddar cheese and jam sandwich in her Dale Evans lunch box. My father's contained peanut butter and mayonnaise.

    July 22, 2008

  • And delicious (if you eat cow)...

    July 22, 2008

  • The graphjam does have a variety of stuffie-esque graphs.

    July 22, 2008

  • My father's favorite is peanut butter and pickle. That's not to sweet for you, bilby, is it?

    July 22, 2008

  • *favorited*! I especially enjoy the skulking prawns and owls.

    July 22, 2008

  • Good book, though.

    July 19, 2008

  • pps: I enjoy the new and improved This week on Wordie sidebar. Thanks, John!

    July 19, 2008

  • I like that the order of your words isn't editable outside of an alpha sort (which is very handy, ps).

    July 19, 2008

  • The only pooka I know is a llama.

    July 18, 2008

  • Or see here.

    July 18, 2008

  • Oo ee, oo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang...

    July 16, 2008

  • Huzzah!

    July 16, 2008

  • What about the wombat?

    July 16, 2008

  • Inspired by she's mulligrubs...

    July 11, 2008

  • She, you know such lovely words for the grumbly mumblies.

    July 11, 2008

  • ooooh! *yoink*

    July 11, 2008

  • Chained_bear, I think you may have started something. See phlegmon.

    July 10, 2008

  • I so prefer gyrrwr disg galed to boring old hard disk driver - it almost makes a computer problem exciting!

    July 10, 2008

  • According to the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis, the Duffers, along with a magician, Coriakin, inhabited a small island near the edge of the world of Narnia in the middle of the ocean. They were discovered by the explorers on the Dawn Treader after they landed on the island to rest. The travelers gave the Duffers oars and instructed them to jump on the water as lightly as possible and row themselves about on their single, large foot. Before leaving, the name Monopods is given to them, however, the unintelligent Duffers soon mixed up the name, saying " 'Moneypuds, Pomonods, Poddymons.' " Eventually, they settled with the name Dufflepuds.

    In their monopod form, their one leg is usually three feet long, and ends in a large canoe-like foot. When they sleep, each lies on his back with his foot acting as a kind of umbrella over them. According to Brian Sibley's book The Land of Narnia, Lewis may have based their appearance on drawings from the Hereford Mappa Mundi.

    July 10, 2008

  • Maybe they're dufflepuds...

    July 10, 2008

  • *whimper*

    July 9, 2008

  • *favorited!*

    July 7, 2008

  • See also here.

    July 7, 2008

  • In this instance, I think he's more like a small child who gets so riled up that he pukes.

    If I don't get to it in time, he just eats it again anyway.

    July 4, 2008

  • Oh, I am all too familiar with the snarf-n-barf. It seems to happen with both wild-caught and store-bought food, though.

    July 4, 2008

  • My cat is rather hork-prone.

    July 4, 2008

  • Is hákarl the sound you make when you dig it back up again?

    July 4, 2008

  • eeeew! I love how this conversation went from lighthearted pickle-and-asparagus banter to a veritable gallery of regrettable food...

    July 3, 2008

  • The pickling makes the okra almost tolerable. Almost as good as frying it.

    July 3, 2008

  • What about pickled asparagus? mmmmm...

    July 2, 2008

  • *chortle*

    July 1, 2008

  • I weep for the future.

    On a possibly bright side, I used to teach science in Louisiana. For the first two years, I taught out of the same text I had used in middle school - it was 20+ years old by the time they replaced it. Perhaps by the time parishes get around to adopting new texts, this nonsense will be forgotten.

    July 1, 2008

  • No‽

    July 1, 2008

  • The roadhouse where I used to catch the Green Tortoise bus.

    June 27, 2008

  • I'm a fan of the napping. You just can't sleep too long.

    June 26, 2008

  • *bows*

    Why, thank you! I think.

    June 26, 2008

  • Here.

    Bizarro, June 25, 2008.

    June 25, 2008

  • And now it will be stuck in my head for a week. Thanks, p.

    June 25, 2008

  • oooooh!

    3 - buzzard?

    16 - Wally? (if I remember my grandmother's arias correctly...)

    yay.

    June 25, 2008

  • All of the above (below?). We can't all have desks that belong on

    June 20, 2008

  • Only a small one. But quite friendly.

    June 20, 2008

  • And then there is the finger of NO! - a cousin of the fistshake...

    June 20, 2008

  • German science words are the best.

    zugunruhe. wissenschaft. zwitterion.

    hee-hee-hee.

    June 20, 2008

  • *favorited*

    I think I like beluga the best.

    June 20, 2008

  • Upon closer inspection, the mysterious feathers in the pen can I inherited are actually some sort of pseudo-quill contraptions. Someone took apart a ballpoint pen, taped the ink/ballpoint part to the feather shaft, and then laboriously wrapped it all in white duct tape. I'm impressed.

    June 19, 2008

  • Me, too!

    June 19, 2008

  • The Galactic Gumshoe

    June 19, 2008

  • I remember listening to Ruby serials on the radio as a family.

    June 19, 2008

  • They move into your oven if you use too much tapioca to thicken an apple pie.

    June 19, 2008

  • They make the bread rise...

    June 19, 2008

  • They put the steam in your soup...

    June 19, 2008

  • Now that's something you don't want to encounter on a first date!

    June 12, 2008

  • Ick. Head cheese? Butter fingers? What are you counting as a condiment?

    June 12, 2008

  • Like giving dap?

    June 11, 2008

  • What about the cult of the snowmen?

    June 10, 2008

  • A pergola is a garden feature forming a shaded walk or passageway of pillars that support cross beams and a sturdy open lattice, upon which woody vines are trained. As a type of gazebo, it may also be part of a building, as protection for an open terrace. The origin of the word is the Late Latin pergula, referring to a projecting eave. The term was borrowed for English from Italian, mentioned in an Italian context in 1645 and used in an English context in 1675.

    June 9, 2008

  • Heh-heh-heh.

    June 3, 2008

  • Blech. Not me. Oysters are todally disgusting.

    May 24, 2008

  • Even though I know the sans-culottes actually wore pants, I do love the mental image of a bunch of het-up parisians milling around in their skivvies.

    May 23, 2008

  • Best. Article. Ever.

    ...I watched Sivuqaq, a 2,200-pound adult male, roll toward me like a gelatinous, mustachioed boulder and head straight for my solar plexus.

    May 21, 2008

  • On a PC, I see a lovely fleur-de-lis...

    May 21, 2008

  • WEIRDnet!

    May 21, 2008

  • *whimpers*

    May 17, 2008

  • Oh, no - my family believed in fair turns and the like, so there was a regular rotation. Except for the littlest, who always got to ride up front. I swear, that child could puke on command.

    May 15, 2008

  • I'm with you, c_b. That may be the best explanation for Nicolas Cage ever.

    May 15, 2008

  • I spent many hours in the way back as a child - playing animal cribbage and getting dizzy from exhaust fumes when the window was open. Good times.

    May 15, 2008

  • Pacifists are sneaky.

    May 14, 2008

  • Parking strip.

    May 8, 2008

  • I don't want a pickle

    Just want to ride on my motorsickle

    And I don't want a tickle

    'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

    And I don't want to die

    Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle.

    -Arlo Guthrie

    May 6, 2008

  • Random surprised noises also work quite well, I've found.

    May 3, 2008

  • When I was growing up, our address was box 2AA. To avoid our mail ending up in box 288, my mother always gave the address as "box 2AA, as in two alcoholics anonymous"

    May 3, 2008

  • *snort*

    10 gold stars, gangerh!

    May 3, 2008

  • Today! Here.

    April 29, 2008

  • I think frosting is thicker, with more of a home-made feel than icing.

    It is much harder for me envision a fox with frosting on his whiskers than a bear with icing on her nose. Maybe that's why you can't get any cupcake love, sionnach.

    April 29, 2008

  • Sweet onions from Walla Walla, WA.

    April 28, 2008

  • Before I knew about Popeye the sailor man, my mother made Popeye salad - spinach, olive oil, apples and Walla-Walla sweet-sweets (plus some vinegar, salt and pepper).

    See free association.

    April 28, 2008

  • Ten-year old girls love special clubs and secret languages. It often starts with Pig Latin and then moves on to sign language or ubbi dubbi. Boys seem more interested in written codes and symbols (in my experience, at least).

    April 24, 2008

  • John - The public service ads are much more soothing than the regular google ads.

    April 23, 2008

  • It is a good dad joke.

    April 23, 2008

  • In Oregon, where I grew up, people had yard and garage sales, but churches and schools had rummages.

    April 22, 2008

  • *favorited*

    April 22, 2008

  • The Muddleheaded Wombat is my favorite and my best. Although Paddington runs a close second. And Pooh, of course. Who doesn't love a bumbling bear (or marsupial)?

    April 20, 2008

  • They make a lovely garnish.

    April 18, 2008

  • Sideways, on a diagonal, cattywampus...

    Come and get it, reesetee.

    April 17, 2008

  • I never liked dickies - especially the weird turtleneck ones that would slide around slaunchwise. A camisole is more versatile and has a nicer name, although undershirts and tank tops are just as effective.

    April 16, 2008

  • Habdabs is nice. Like a nervous hobnob. *added*

    April 15, 2008

  • Okay, weirdnet...

    April 15, 2008

  • oooh!

    April 14, 2008

  • Thanks! (Sionnach, I left out some of your more disturbing career suggestions, but the others were quite intriguing. If I go back to school, perhaps I can get a dual degree in hamertiology and labeorphily...)

    I'll open up the list, as long as you cite your obscure careers.

    April 14, 2008

  • A beggar whose parents were beggars.

    Possibly with nasty sores.

    April 14, 2008

  • The collection of beer bottle labels.

    April 14, 2008

  • Hamartiology (Greek: αμα�?τια, hamartia, "missing the mark," "sin," + λογια, logia, "sayings" or "discourse") is the branch of Christian theology, more specifically, systematic theology, which is the study of sin with a view to articulating a doctrine of it.

    April 14, 2008

  • The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

    April 14, 2008

  • The art of taking rubbings from ornamental brasses.

    April 14, 2008

  • Wiki:

    Noology derives from the Greek words "noos" or "nous" and "logos". Noo-logy thus outlines a systematic study and (attempt at) organization of everything dealing with knowing and knowledge, i.e.: cognitive neuroscience. It is also used to describe the science of intellectual phenomena. It is the study of images of thought, their emergence, their genealogy, and their creation.

    April 14, 2008

  • I remember seeing a German television commerical that had a chorus singing "Meister Proper, Meister Proper" to the tune of the Hallelujah chorus...

    April 14, 2008

  • I didn't say I didn't like these words - I guess it will be a list of cringeworthy, but interesting words.

    April 11, 2008

  • Eeeew!

    I think I'm going to have to make a list of things people like chained_bear have posted on wordie that make me say Eeeew!

    April 10, 2008

  • I'm not a fan of the endless prairie - give my drippy coastal rainforest or the smell of a hot Ponderosa pine any day.

    Didja know that homsteaders proving land claims on the plains planted trees to break the wind, but in the northwest you usually had to clear trees?

    April 10, 2008

  • Which is remarkably full of demons of stupidity, all things considered.

    April 10, 2008

  • Me, I love the wide open spaces (all too often, from the comfort of a city). But I grew up in the Pacific northwest, where I'm always relieved to return after a sojourn in the east.

    April 10, 2008

  • Heard recently:

    A dyslexic walks into a bra...

    April 10, 2008

  • p.p.s. Eeeew!

    April 10, 2008

  • From Wiki:

    A whitesmith is a person who works with "white" or light-colored metals such as tin and pewter. While blacksmiths work mostly with hot metal, whitesmiths do the majority of their work on cold metal (although they might use a forge to shape their raw materials).

    The term is also applied to metalworkers who do only finishing work - such as filing or polishing - on iron and other "black" metals.

    April 9, 2008

  • False eye manufacturer.

    They have a website.

    April 9, 2008

  • A peddler of devotional literature.

    April 9, 2008

  • The house I grew up in was full of free range splinters lurking where one least expected. Do they have a special name, too? Or are they just plain old pre-skelf splinters?

    April 9, 2008

  • I thought it was gummit.

    April 8, 2008

  • What about the sound you make when you're looking for a physical thing?

    Aside from the muttered mantra (keys, keys, keys)...

    April 8, 2008

  • And now I'll be singing Christmas carols all day...

    April 8, 2008

  • oooh! *added*

    April 4, 2008

  • Heh-heh-heh.

    April 3, 2008

  • See also whoresone zed.

    From King Lear, Act II, Scene II.

    The Earl of Kent to Oswald:

    Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. Spare my grey beard, you wagtail?

    April 3, 2008

  • Whoops! Got a little overzealous with ye olde English. I'll fix it.

    See whoreson zed.

    April 3, 2008

  • huzzah! *favorited*

    April 2, 2008

  • I certainly won't be sad to see it go.

    Don't forget

    April 2, 2008

  • From wiki:

    Graupel (also called snow pellets) refers to precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake, forming a 2–5 mm ball of rime ice; the snowflake acts as a nucleus of condensation in this process. The term is derived from German Graupel meaning the same. Graupel does not include other frozen precipitation such as snow or diamond dust. The METAR code for graupel is GS.

    April 1, 2008

  • Hear, hear!

    April 1, 2008

  • That's just wrong.

    April 1, 2008

  • Eeeeep!

    March 31, 2008

  • I was once a fruit bat for Halloween myself.

    March 29, 2008

  • Your plastic bags have stripes?

    March 27, 2008

  • As seen here.

    March 27, 2008

  • Nah. I like actual teenagers. Pop Culture and its accessories are the real annoyance. Ooooh!

    March 27, 2008

  • They made it into a film? I think I'm slightly appalled.

    As far as I am concerned, Peter and the Wolf is best experienced sitting cross-legged on the floor of my childhood living room, listening to the record with the red tricycle with a wolf's tail hanging from the handlebars on the cover. All other versions have failed to measure up.

    March 27, 2008

  • Yeah, really. If only ring tone, cell phone, and Hannah Montana were one word...

    March 27, 2008

  • Hmmmm...Quebracho. And, because I always have to double-check the magic 8-ball, cancel.

    Guess I'm back to square one.

    March 27, 2008

  • From Wiki:

    For the left-wing Argentine group, see Quebracho (group).

    Quebracho is one of the common names, in Spanish, of at least three similar species of trees that grow in the Gran Chaco region of South America.

    Maybe I should start learning Spanish... (see Iroquois).

    March 27, 2008

  • Well, I'm vaguely looking for stable employment...

    March 27, 2008

  • Gesundheit!

    March 25, 2008

  • Thanks, all. I'm limiting myself to one-word greetings, though.

    March 24, 2008

  • John, two questions:

    Is the list sorting now on auto-alpha instead of chronological?

    Could the "most wordied" list go back to a top ten instead of the 50(?) that it is now?

    Thanks,

    t

    March 21, 2008

  • Since they're fans of all things precarious and impracticable, yeah.

    March 21, 2008

  • Huh. One of my cats' favorite places to lurk is in the 6 inches between the top of the kitchen cupboards and the ceiling.

    March 21, 2008

  • Shepherds do this, too (with lambs instead of camels.) I don't know if it has a name.

    March 20, 2008

  • Oh - no worries, c_b. Tropical diseases are just so extreme. All those fevers and worms that crawl around under your skin... *shudder*

    March 19, 2008

  • Eeeew.

    March 19, 2008

  • The Vet's Wife's Refrigerator

    By Baxter Black, DVM

    A scream from the kitchen. The thud of a faint.

    She sighs and arises and walks with restraint.

    Her neighbor lays peaceful, eyes fixed in a stare

    She’s passed out in front of the new Frigidaire.

    She looks at the rack with eggs in its keep

    Winking up at her’s the eye of a sheep.

    There’s a bottle of PenStrep near the Swanson’s Pot Pies

    And down in the crisper’s a bagful of flies.

    The butter tray’s filled with test tubes of blood

    Marked, “E.I.A. samples, from Tucker’s old stud.�?

    High on the shelf near a platter of cheese

    Is a knotted, but leaking, obscene plastic sleeve.

    Fecal containers are stacked, side by side,

    With yesterday’s piece of chicken, home fried.

    The freezer’s a dither of guts, lungs and spleens

    Scattered amongst the Bird's-Eye green beans.

    Her home’s a museum of animal parts.

    Lymphomatous lymph nodes, selenium hearts.

    Enough tissue samples to hold up a bridge

    But why do they always end up in the fridge?

    But she doesn’t worry or turn up her nose,

    She’s the wife of a vet, it’s the life that she chose.

    But maybe he’d worry at lunch if he knew

    He might just be dining on Whirl-Pack stew!

    March 19, 2008

  • We used to keep colostrum in the freezer for bummer lambs and calves.

    March 19, 2008

  • Thanks, Texas - added!

    March 19, 2008

  • Colostrum!

    March 18, 2008

  • What about "Don't have a cow, man"?

    March 18, 2008

  • My new favorite insult.

    March 16, 2008

  • Hmmmmm - tempting as it may be, I think I might stay home and watch a squideo instead...

    March 14, 2008

  • Heh-heh. I'm going to try and slip whoreson asshat into conversation at some point today.

    March 14, 2008

  • Aaaw, you beat me to it, mollusque!

    March 14, 2008

  • Odd - I saw this squeep in a store window today...

    March 13, 2008

  • Some of these names made it into this article in the NY Times today.

    March 12, 2008

  • Mmmm - I like couscous - fun to say and eat.

    March 7, 2008

  • Pacific NW, too. And Louisiana, I think...

    March 6, 2008

  • I thought it was pratincole. Cause the name makes me giggle.

    March 5, 2008

  • One of my favorite birds!

    February 29, 2008

  • Thumbs up! This is fun.

    February 28, 2008

  • Not a body metaphor, but my personal favorite is couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag...

    February 28, 2008

  • This may be my new favorite word!

    February 26, 2008

  • Such a good book...

    February 26, 2008

  • There's a magazine for everything.

    February 23, 2008

  • Driver's back, then, please!

    February 22, 2008

  • Not for me - the art lady when I was in kindergarten would yell at you for going outside the lines, not coloring darkly enough and using the "wrong" color (purple Christmas bells were not allowed).

    Coloring makes me nervous.

    February 22, 2008

  • Ten gold stars!

    February 21, 2008

  • Hear, hear! The 'reply all' button should be so much harder to use.

    February 21, 2008

  • A car game. Driver's side vs. passenger side. Animals are worth different point values. First team to reach 100 wins. No points for humans and most birds.

    1 pt - cows, sheep

    5 pts - pigs, goats, horses, squirrels

    10 pts - dogs, llamas

    20 points - cats, emu/ostriches

    25 points - wild ungulates (deer, elk, etc), opossum, dog in the window

    50 points - cat in the window, other wild animals (raccoon, bear, etc)

    100 points - Bald Eagle

    February 21, 2008

  • Mollusque, your game is much grimmer than the animal cribbage my family always played in the car. Sounds fun, though!

    February 21, 2008

  • Your office windows roll down, yarb?

    February 21, 2008

  • Me, too!

    What is it about cars that inspires random outbursts - animal noises, reading of signs, etc?

    February 21, 2008

  • What a wonderful word!

    edit: Which has inspired a list

    February 16, 2008

  • Why? How? Where?

    February 15, 2008

  • HA HA HA! You made my day, sionnach!

    February 15, 2008

  • Te-hee!

    I don't mean to be a clinchpoop, but more pears are grown in the Rogue valley and along the Columbia. The Willamette valley has more grass seed, hops, filberts and grapes.

    February 15, 2008

  • I knew some of Tolkien's toadstabbers would make it here eventually...

    February 13, 2008

  • Marshmallows are only good in Rice Krispie treats, roasted slowly over a campfire and eaten in layers, or in a s'more (no microwave involved!) every five years or so. Otherwise, blech.

    February 13, 2008

  • And a tasty, tasty fruit!

    February 12, 2008

  • Form of locomotion freely associated with ungulates.

    February 12, 2008

  • Sometimes I think you just make some of these things up :P

    February 12, 2008

  • neat!

    February 12, 2008

  • Well, I remember playing bloody knuckles on the playground, and the WBKA was the first site to pop up when I googled for a citation. But thank you!

    February 12, 2008

  • Like the hand-slapping game, only with fists and punching.

    The World Bloody Knuckles Association has rules and tournaments and such...

    February 12, 2008

  • Sword of Julius Caesar.

    February 11, 2008

  • I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

    And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

    Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

    And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

    And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

    Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

    There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

    And evening full of the linnet's wings.

    I will arise and go now, for always night and day

    I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

    While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

    I hear it in the deep heart's core.

    -W.B. Yeats

    February 11, 2008

  • My chemistry textbook in college had a picture of a shipwreck on the cover. I had played hide and seek through the bones of that ship as a child on a family vacation, thousands of miles away. The two have since been irrevocably linked in my mind.

    February 8, 2008

  • I don't know, but I'm quite enamored of the phrase.

    *scurries of to sneak up on some gouda*

    February 6, 2008

  • Go ahead, gangerh - the 'a' is optional.

    February 5, 2008

  • However happy he may be...

    February 4, 2008

  • How happy are you?

    February 4, 2008

  • Fantastic, bilby!

    February 4, 2008

  • Sionnach, I think I love you! But what about walrusine?

    February 4, 2008

  • Whoops! I missed the TV. Sorry skipvia.

    February 2, 2008

  • To quote the wiki:

    Alexander the Great's horse and arguably the most famous horse of antiquity.

    February 1, 2008

  • You can always kick back with a Rogue Ale...

    January 31, 2008

  • Sword of Peter Pevensie.

    January 31, 2008

  • Hah!

    January 30, 2008

  • *whimper*

    January 28, 2008

  • See tasseography.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Roland.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Fergus mac Róich.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Siegfried.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Charlemagne.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Bilbo Baggins.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Rhydderch Hael.

    And Gwydion in the Prydain Chronicles.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Gawain.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of El Cid.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Lancelot.

    January 27, 2008

  • Sword of Beowulf

    January 27, 2008

  • Are you a sympathetic puker, reesetee?

    January 24, 2008

  • I used to work in a vertebrate collections. Lots of boxes of bones and feathers and eggs and things hung out on my desk.

    January 23, 2008

  • This Christmas, I was given a Mr. Potato Head-style edible paperweight made out of a pear, dried apricots, raisins, marshmallows and a lot of toothpicks.

    January 23, 2008

  • I like your desk, reesetee.

    January 23, 2008

  • Aaah - I couldn't remember which prion went where.

    4 - Panjandrum?

    13 - blue?

    January 23, 2008

  • ooooh!

    8 - intaglio?

    9 - kuru/cjd

    16 - tara

    January 22, 2008

  • In jars, I hope.

    January 22, 2008

  • eeesh.

    January 21, 2008

  • GO and catch a falling star,

    Get with child a mandrake root,

    Tell me where all past years are,

    Or who cleft the Devil's foot;

    Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

    Or to keep off envy's stinging,

    And find

    What wind

    Serves to advance an honest mind.

    If thou be'st born to strange sights,

    Things invisible to see,

    Ride ten thousand days and nights

    Till Age snow white hairs on thee;

    Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me

    All strange wonders that befell thee,

    And swear

    No where

    Lives a woman true and fair.

    If thou find'st one, let me know;

    Such a pilgrimage were sweet.

    Yet do not; I would not go,

    Though at next door we might meet.

    Though she were true when you met her,

    And last till you write your letter,

    Yet she

    Will be

    False, ere I come, to two or three.

    -John Donne

    January 21, 2008

  • What the bear said.

    January 21, 2008

  • If you like Ukulele Lady

    Ukulele Lady like a'you

    If you like to linger where it's shady

    Ukulele Lady linger too

    If you kiss Ukulele Lady

    While you promise ever to be true

    And she sees another Ukulele

    Lady foolin' 'round with you

    Maybe she'll sigh (an awful lot)

    Maybe she'll cry (and maybe not)

    Maybe she'll find somebody else

    By and by

    To sing to when it's cool and shady

    Where the tricky wicky wacky woo

    If you like Ukulele Lady

    Ukulele Lady like a'you

    January 18, 2008

  • Huzzah!

    January 18, 2008

  • It is the kind of word that brings out one's insufferable side.

    January 18, 2008

  • Mmmmmm, tasty loaf products!

    *may never eat again*

    January 17, 2008

  • Thanks, y'all!

    January 17, 2008

  • Scrimmage is one of my favorite words. How did I miss this when you first made it?

    January 17, 2008

  • Eeeeeeeeew - thanks, sionnach!

    January 17, 2008

  • heehee.

    January 17, 2008

  • oooh, thank you! I'm glad I learned about the right to carry things where one will!

    January 17, 2008

  • TFD:

    1. A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.

    2. A tax on wares sold by the last.

    3. The lading of a ship; also, ballast.

    4. Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

    January 17, 2008

  • Love!

    I'd like to favorite it, but wordie is being snippy this morning.

    January 16, 2008

  • Nice! but missing some of Bart Simpson's prank calls...

    January 15, 2008

  • This is very interesting (albeit disturbing) list, rfb. Thank you.

    January 15, 2008

  • Yarb and kewpid, you todally made my day!

    C_b, they're cute and friendly up close, too. For the most part.

    January 12, 2008

  • pbbbttt?

    January 11, 2008

  • The ball or the cookie?

    January 5, 2008

  • Too many coconuts for me.

    January 5, 2008

  • Nuß-ecken are triangles of nutty goodness with their corners dipped in chocolate.

    C is a very good letter. Without it, there would be neither chocolate or cookies.

    January 5, 2008

  • Me, I'm anti-redhot and pro Lebkuchen. At least the kind my Gran made. No walnuts or firey sugar, just a glazy icing and if you were extra lucky, one of those silver balls...

    January 5, 2008

  • Oooh! I'd forgotten how fancy wordie has gotten. My first shared list!

    January 4, 2008

  • C_b, this list rules!

    January 4, 2008

  • My auntie makes Nuß-Ecken, which are nutty German triangles with their corners dipped in chocolatey goodness. Mmmmm!

    January 4, 2008

  • There's always this...

    December 23, 2007

  • skipvia - see here.

    December 19, 2007

  • I don't believe I missed this! For the dregs:

    4. - R

    10. - C

    12. - H

    15. - F

    December 18, 2007

  • I don't know. I had a rather incautious sipping incident yesterday.

    My favorite are the stick men illustrations.

    December 15, 2007

  • Oh, you know, work and stuff.

    They kind of are Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, aren't they? Still, I think Natasha wore the pants in that relationship...

    Not that either of them wore pants, really. Maybe that was their problem.

    December 15, 2007

  • I love warning labels!

    December 15, 2007

  • errr... Is #30 curious?

    December 15, 2007

  • I thought Boris was Natasha's sidekick, no?

    December 15, 2007

  • For 25 - Siegel, then?

    December 11, 2007

  • Hmmmm....

    2-if not what rolig said, Bolero?

    5-THRUSH?

    19-Marfan

    25-harrah????

    December 10, 2007

  • More naugas can be found here. And here.

    December 7, 2007

  • Does it count that my family calls all jays Gus and all Canada geese Rupert?

    December 7, 2007

  • I'd forgotten these!

    December 7, 2007

  • Thanks, I think I'll pass on those two. Cause I can.

    December 7, 2007

  • From OE:

    tip (v.2)

    "give a small present of money to," 1610, "to give, hand, pass," originally thieves' cant, perhaps from tip (v.3) "to tap." The meaning "give a gratuity to" is first attested 1706. The noun in this sense is from 1755; the meaning "piece of confidential information" is from 1845; the verb in this sense is from 1883; tipster first recorded 1862.

    December 7, 2007

  • OE sez:

    1918, of uncertain origin; no evidence for the common derivation from an acronym of port outward, starboard home, supposedly the shipboard accommodations of wealthy British traveling to India on the P & O Lines (to keep their cabins out of the sun); see objections outlined in G. Chowdharay-Best, "Mariner's Mirror," Jan. 1971.

    More likely from slang posh "a dandy" (1890), from thieves' slang meaning "money" (1830), originally "coin of small value, halfpenny," possibly from Romany posh "half."

    December 7, 2007

  • From Wiki:

    The Israeli Army diet was a fad diet that was popular in the 1970s. It was promoted as being based on the diet used by the Israel Defence Forces for new recruits but had no connection with the Israeli Army.

    The diet lasted for eight days with the dieter only eating one type of food for two days each:

    Days 1-2: Apples

    Days 3-4: Cheese

    Days 5-6: Chicken

    Days 7-8: Salad

    (black tea/coffee allowed on all days)

    December 7, 2007

  • Thanks, bilby - and what a "diet" it is...

    December 7, 2007

  • Nice list - what about Issaquah, Enumclaw and Snoqualmie?

    December 5, 2007

  • Pseudotsuga!

    December 5, 2007

  • Weirdnet strikes again!

    December 2, 2007

  • ß?

    December 1, 2007

  • Haribo macht Kinder froh - und Erwachsene ebenso!

    December 1, 2007

  • Steer, gelding, barrow, wether...

    December 1, 2007

  • More here.

    December 1, 2007

  • I like the cut of this list's jib, reesetee!

    December 1, 2007

  • It could be inKy black...

    November 30, 2007

  • Hey - I like pasketti! My mom made the best, even when she snuck in eggplant cubar...

    November 29, 2007

  • See here.

    November 28, 2007

  • Mmmmm, rhubarb!

    November 27, 2007

  • Crackers!

    more here

    November 27, 2007

  • Flexitarianism is a term used in the United States to describe the practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons.

    November 27, 2007

  • "It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.�? -Nirvana

    November 27, 2007

  • Most town ducks, like mallards, tend to be dabbling vegetarians, though few vegetarian animals will turn down free protein. See pika discussion.

    Opportunistic minnovores, perhaps.

    November 27, 2007

  • Depends on the duck - some are vegetarian, but others, like the merganser, are fishing ducks.

    November 27, 2007

  • Me, too!

    November 26, 2007

  • Happy Birthday, wordie!

    November 26, 2007

  • Just stay away from the subtraction stew:)

    November 22, 2007

  • I've heard -tucky used as a derogatory portmantesque suffix.

    November 22, 2007

  • Aw, shucks!

    November 22, 2007

  • What is it with the Tollbooth these days, u?

    November 22, 2007

  • see here

    November 22, 2007

  • 1. A knob, knot, or other small protuberance.

    2. One of a series of small ridges or grooves on the surface or edge of a metal object, such as a thumbscrew, to aid in gripping.

    November 22, 2007

  • I always thought it was the sound a hunting horn makes.

    November 22, 2007

  • Bah, humbug!

    Also, facade, hokum.

    November 22, 2007

  • The past and the present and the future.

    Faith and Hope and Charity,

    The heart and the brain and the body

    Give you three as a magic number.

    (Blind Melon, Schoolhouse Rock)

    Also -

    Coulda, shoulda, woulda / Hammer, anvil, stirrup?

    ps - this list is todally alsome!

    pps - three men in a tub: butcher, baker, candlestick-maker

    November 21, 2007

  • The Awful DYNNE!

    November 21, 2007

  • Gesundheit!

    November 21, 2007

  • Road trip!

    November 21, 2007

  • 45:farewell?

    I don't know if my brain stops at the same stations as yours, sionnach.

    November 21, 2007

  • It reminds me of Thanksgiving at my cousins' house. My uncle was German and he would fuss at the kids' table - "Fress nicht! Keine Schweinerei!" Good times.

    November 20, 2007

  • Hoover dam!

    November 20, 2007

  • I'll betcha that a baby rhino is a nuzzler.

    November 17, 2007

  • I'd second all of the below lists, plus Specific Excrement and minced oaths.

    November 17, 2007

  • Llamas nuzzle.

    November 17, 2007

  • ew, eew, EEEEW!

    An oyster is a most unappetizing blob of glup.

    You and Gollum are welcome all of my share, yarb.

    November 17, 2007

  • Fun! How 'bout Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?

    November 17, 2007

  • We always called slowing through a stop sign without actually stopping a California stop.

    November 16, 2007

  • I do love nouns of assemblage!

    How about a romp of (river) otters / raft of (sea) otters?

    November 16, 2007

  • Tabs, please. And I second colleen's piscatory exclamation. I like the shiny new features.

    November 15, 2007

  • That's nobody's business but the Turks.

    November 13, 2007

  • A submarine‽ Pshaw.

    November 13, 2007

  • What a lovely word! Ten points for the nautilus.

    November 13, 2007

  • Rumpleteazer: Fortitude!

    um...

    mad: Lear

    omicron: omega

    fox:box?

    November 13, 2007

  • mercenaries: gallowglasses

    Napoleon: Marengo

    Butler: Edward ??

    November 13, 2007

  • Wow! I had no idea that pikas would scavenge. I remember them bustling about and making hay. Skipvia, thanks (I think) for that information. Next time I'm in the mountains, I won't take a nap.

    November 9, 2007

  • But if he did open the biscuits, he would whop them good and the can would split open with a pleasant wumpf.

    November 9, 2007

  • Wouldn't the fell beast just eat the biscuits, can and all? I'm thinking the kitchen is not his forte.

    November 9, 2007

  • Whoops! Try this one, then.

    November 9, 2007

  • Nope, I come from a long line of whoppers. My mother used to call biscuits in a can whop biscuits because you had to whop 'em good to get them open.

    November 9, 2007

  • What about when you whop someone upside the head?

    November 9, 2007

  • I like this list! Glassmaking is so exciting, I think. The year I taught across the hall from the art teacher, she had glassmakers come in and show the kids how to make glass. There was all sorts of excitement with torches and molten glass. I made a shiny glass bead!

    November 9, 2007

  • Seriously‽

    I didn't know there were so many weird food days out there.

    November 9, 2007

  • -osity is a most useful suffix...

    November 8, 2007

  • Oh, but a stirrup serves a purpose - it keeps you on the horse and lets you stand up and wield your mace.

    The stirrup pant lacks such utility. It keeps your ankles warm at the expense of an itchy instep.

    November 8, 2007

  • A most hideous invention. See here.

    Rather usefull for things like dance and baseball, but otherwise a crime against nature.

    November 8, 2007

  • Glad to see you have my favorite unit of measurement, the scruple! Did you make a list like this once before, reesetee?

    November 7, 2007

  • Not to be confused with attar...

    November 7, 2007

  • oooooh! 7-12 is Friends-themed

    7 - Rachel

    8 - Monica (monniker?)

    9 - Phoebe

    10 - Chandler

    11 - Joey

    12 - Ross

    November 6, 2007

  • And a Native American tribe/people.

    November 6, 2007

  • What a lovely word! And quite the mental image...

    November 1, 2007

  • *whimper*

    October 31, 2007

  • Ooooh! Don't forget lead pen (pencil), pencil colors (colored pencils), and colors (crayons/markers).

    October 31, 2007

  • Heh-heh. In the town where I grew up, goat-roper was a pejorative term for denizens of the next town over.

    October 31, 2007

  • Hemoglobin! (Or, just for today, hemogoblin...)

    October 31, 2007

  • I can't decide if I like the mad cow or the mange better, myself.

    October 31, 2007

  • I love those little germs!

    October 30, 2007

  • I wasn't nervous... Maybe I was a little bit concerned but it's not the same thing.

    October 29, 2007

  • Yes, but founder is such a triksy word...

    You've got the builders and entrepreneurs, the failures and sinkages, plus the nasty foot condition...

    October 29, 2007

  • Yeah, this list is todally awesome!

    October 29, 2007

  • This is how my mother usually describes her grandmother.

    October 29, 2007

  • Or flounder is to flail about and founder is to sink?

    October 29, 2007

  • Not so much French literature as coffee...

    Is there a Spanish cognate of amble/ramble? Cause that's my guess for #10.

    You can keep your Carthaginian beauty, sionnach, I'm done. I wouldn't mind another quiz, though, 'specially if I'm not late next time.

    October 29, 2007

  • Very popular with 12-year-olds on field trips...

    October 28, 2007

  • When I lived in Louisiana, places that served boiled crawfish or shrimp would have the raw ingredients for such a sauce out on the table so that everyone could make up his/her own version. Good times.

    October 28, 2007

  • The liver is what makes it so delicously earthy.

    October 28, 2007

  • Rimbaud?

    October 28, 2007

  • hee, hee!

    October 27, 2007

  • Awww, I'm late.

    I'd second a tenative Dido for #7. And for #8, errr...Sambo?

    I don't know anything about obscure raincoats.

    October 27, 2007

  • 8. to smooth (as plaster or cement) with a float

    For horses, see here

    October 27, 2007

  • If you have horses, though, sometimes you need to float their teeth to grind down sharp edges.

    October 27, 2007

  • Excellent career choice, npydyuan!

    October 27, 2007

  • In the US, they're little disks of sugar that come in packs about the size of a tootsie roll. Like these.

    October 27, 2007

  • Nice!

    October 25, 2007

  • Yup! Heard first at a raptor rehab center, but also out in the world of bird nerds.

    October 25, 2007

  • 'S okay, R, I do love to commentate.

    Hey, C_b - do you have mutes on your special poo list? I think they're specific to birds of prey. Also, whitewash.

    October 25, 2007

  • Or bats.

    October 25, 2007

  • What the bear said. *snicker*

    October 25, 2007

  • Eew, eew, EEW!

    Yet somehow oddly appropriate...

    October 25, 2007

  • evil?

    October 25, 2007

  • You can't really drink a gel, can you?

    More of a slurpy gulp.

    eeew.

    October 25, 2007

  • I hate the bubbles! They ricochet out of the straw and punch you in the roof of your mouth. Pearls, my ass. *twitch*

    October 25, 2007

  • Usually Hawaiian, occasionally message tees, these can be purchased in the Dad School gift shop.

    October 24, 2007

  • You know you love it - suspenders, bow ties, funny hats, loud shirts - one of the core elements of Dad School.

    October 24, 2007

  • See here.

    October 24, 2007

  • Does it wear spats?

    October 24, 2007

  • Mmmm...horse doovers.

    October 24, 2007

  • excellent! *yoink*

    October 24, 2007

  • What about pheasants?

    October 24, 2007

  • Sionnach, you rock out loud on cinnamon toast.

    Though I join reesetee in defending the birdies.

    October 24, 2007

  • Apartment, vitamin B?

    October 24, 2007

  • Witching hour? False dawn?

    October 24, 2007

  • I don't mind the occasional image/video, but I would mind if there were many more than there are now.

    I like the monochromatic look.

    And I wouldn't use messaging.

    That's my two cents for the day.

    October 24, 2007

  • I thought you were a skulker?

    October 23, 2007

  • Or, instead of making lists of conversation, you could use a conversation tag?

    October 23, 2007

  • When I was little the replica of this ship came to visit, complete with costumes and tours and history lessons. It was sooooo cool!

    October 23, 2007

  • My conscience definitely wears spats. And has a twirly cane.

    NOT a cricket, though.

    I only have one word for boot slippers: uggly!

    October 23, 2007

  • How about tail?

    October 23, 2007

  • What if the cricket is your conscience?

    October 23, 2007

  • Spats are cool, dammit!

    October 22, 2007

  • d'oh!

    October 22, 2007

  • I like the citation v. miscellaneous idea much better than categories and voting. One of the (many) reasons I like this site is that the only rating system you have is the number of people who have listed / commented / favorited a word. I dislike stars and precentages and the like.

    PS - my favorite new thing is seeing what other lists a word is on - good for finding new and interesting lists and wordtuplets.

    October 22, 2007

  • Thanks, O!

    October 22, 2007

  • Did you know that if you're playing Cranium and you have to hum the tune of Love Shack, that if someone guesses this song, it is nigh impossible to hum anything else?

    October 22, 2007

  • I prefer the white elephant when it comes to enforced workplace cheer...

    October 22, 2007

  • Good for making curtains that will roll right down...

    October 21, 2007

  • thanks!

    October 20, 2007

  • Boots with a smoking jacket? How gauche!

    October 20, 2007

  • What about the vergerhade dreams?

    October 20, 2007

  • I agree - run out?

    October 19, 2007

  • You've got to watch out for the crackling fireplace - it spits out twinkly little embers that land in your slipper, leading to the dance of the singed ankle...

    October 19, 2007

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