“Moby single words: cinematographer = megachiropteran” Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
Both megachiropteran and iroquoisy are whales in worddom?
Megachiropteran is like a chopped palindrome ( there is a uncertain compote-ness to it) whereas iroquoisy has quasi-causal flow (as in Erie Canal) to it.
And besides, fruit batty is eerie whereas iroquoisy is Erie!
Ah, yes... maybe we'll just forget that last bit then, right?
(Except that mass and withdrawal lead back to Catholicism, which would of course lead us to Kateri Tekakwitha, who is beginning to seem like the patron saint of Iroquoisiness. Iroquoisyness? Iroquoisyocity? Um....)
Sorry--I even skipped the part about how P-waves, which I'd only associated with earthquakes, are also associated with electrocardiograms.... When I started looking up waves in that sort of medical context, I came across a very interesting meaning for wave motion and mass activity which has to do with sperm motility. Fine, sure, how does that relate to cruft? It doesn't. But lower down on strev's favorites is sperm bank withdrawl (which should probably be withdrawal, btw).
I had gotten P-wave as a random word, and I was surprised that I hadn't listed it already. Then strev made a comment about it, so I found myself looking at strev's profile, where the top favorited word was drunk mouse syndrome (first listed by sionnach). There was no definition here, so I found myself on answers dot com, where the drunk mouse syndrome entry mentioned what happens when a mouse accumulates cruft. It made me wonder whether cruft was one of the words sionnach mentioned when I was lost for word and trying to find a specific name for the stuff that builds up on mousepads and mice. Then, a few hours later, I was reading something on Twitter about temporal lobe seizures as a ridiculously easy explanation for any and all "supernatural" phenomena. The source was a ForteanTimes article, and I couldn't remember whether they were reliable or bonkers (or both). I was looking them up and came across something about UFOs, which led to foo fighters, then to FUBAR, which, of course, led to foobar--about which I learned that it is an important hackerism--along with kludge and, you guessed it, cruft.
adj. referring to a bizarre coincidence, especially when the same unusual word is heard in two different, unrelated conversations in a short time. See iroquois and fruit bat*.
adj. referring to a bizarre coincidence, especially when the same unusual word is heard in two different, unrelated conversations in a short time. See iroquois and fruit bat.
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Oh, man. Okay. Kerchief again. Also Galen again (I just made a galen list!), and confectio Damocritis, obviously, again.
March 25, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word iroquoisy
“Moby single words: cinematographer = megachiropteran”
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
Both megachiropteran and iroquoisy are whales in worddom?
Megachiropteran is like a chopped palindrome ( there is a uncertain compote-ness to it) whereas iroquoisy has quasi-causal flow (as in Erie Canal) to it.
And besides, fruit batty is eerie whereas iroquoisy is Erie!
October 15, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Does anyone know why we settled on iroquoisy rather than fruit batty? I've been thinking a lot about bats lately.
October 15, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Ha--cabinet again.
Edit: Also lout.
May 3, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
cabinet
March 9, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Ah, yes... maybe we'll just forget that last bit then, right?
(Except that mass and withdrawal lead back to Catholicism, which would of course lead us to Kateri Tekakwitha, who is beginning to seem like the patron saint of Iroquoisiness. Iroquoisyness? Iroquoisyocity? Um....)
February 7, 2011
reesetee commented on the word iroquoisy
No need to apologize! I just meant that its level of iroquoisyness is a tad scary. :-)
February 7, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Sorry--I even skipped the part about how P-waves, which I'd only associated with earthquakes, are also associated with electrocardiograms.... When I started looking up waves in that sort of medical context, I came across a very interesting meaning for wave motion and mass activity which has to do with sperm motility. Fine, sure, how does that relate to cruft? It doesn't. But lower down on strev's favorites is sperm bank withdrawl (which should probably be withdrawal, btw).
February 7, 2011
reesetee commented on the word iroquoisy
That's a little frightening.
February 7, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
cruft
I had gotten P-wave as a random word, and I was surprised that I hadn't listed it already. Then strev made a comment about it, so I found myself looking at strev's profile, where the top favorited word was drunk mouse syndrome (first listed by sionnach). There was no definition here, so I found myself on answers dot com, where the drunk mouse syndrome entry mentioned what happens when a mouse accumulates cruft. It made me wonder whether cruft was one of the words sionnach mentioned when I was lost for word and trying to find a specific name for the stuff that builds up on mousepads and mice. Then, a few hours later, I was reading something on Twitter about temporal lobe seizures as a ridiculously easy explanation for any and all "supernatural" phenomena. The source was a ForteanTimes article, and I couldn't remember whether they were reliable or bonkers (or both). I was looking them up and came across something about UFOs, which led to foo fighters, then to FUBAR, which, of course, led to foobar--about which I learned that it is an important hackerism--along with kludge and, you guessed it, cruft.
February 7, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word iroquoisy
Moton Museum. Seriously.
February 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
confectio Damocritis
January 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Kateri Tekakwitha
January 28, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word iroquoisy
Bering Strait and totally al(l)gon(e)quiany, too.It is all relative! All unmissedconceptions!
January 27, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
tramontana
January 27, 2011
reesetee commented on the word iroquoisy
Aw, nuts. And I was so enjoying gingerol....
January 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Reesetee just added a citation to gingerol, then I happened to see the word feague in the comments on chained_bear's horse list.
January 18, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
And Wikipedia's "List of common misconceptions."
January 10, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
Can we bring in outside conversations for iroquoisy connections? In that case, I should add galactagogue, kerchief, Antares, and Galen.
January 6, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
bugwort
January 4, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word iroquoisy
Believe it or not... ronks. Which I first saw (today) here.
May 13, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
pessary
May 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
Reesetee's profile (comment on "The Birds").
March 14, 2010
dontcry commented on the word iroquoisy
We should be seeing them soon...
February 24, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word iroquoisy
hyacinth
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
ardent.
February 19, 2010
dontcry commented on the word iroquoisy
Aren't I? Aren't I?
January 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
You're SO vain.
January 31, 2010
dontcry commented on the word iroquoisy
It's TOTALLY about me.
January 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
You probably think this song is about you.
January 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
adj. referring to a bizarre coincidence, especially when the same unusual word is heard in two different, unrelated conversations in a short time. See iroquois and fruit bat*.
(I almost forgot to say it's a madeupical term.)
*(On Wordie, until the Final Assimilation.)
October 17, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
Thomas Crapper.
October 5, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
Cannoli.
September 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word iroquoisy
Soutane. Dogsbody.
June 18, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And tralatition.
May 30, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And awooga.
April 16, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And Schadenfreude for chained_bear.
February 11, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And homesick, that I got the day before leaving Sardinia.
January 20, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word iroquoisy
*likes this page*
January 15, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And Heiligenschein.
December 25, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
And coccyx.
December 11, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
adj. referring to a bizarre coincidence, especially when the same unusual word is heard in two different, unrelated conversations in a short time. See iroquois and fruit bat.
April 24, 2008