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- Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:24 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times at the Alpha Agora
- Replies: 13
- Views: 31822
Re: Pun Times at the Alpha Agora
Mother Goose does not appear in this series. Looks like Mother Goose to me! Gandhi was not very well off. He couldn't afford shoes, so he walked everywhere in his bare feet. He couldn't eat much, either, and what he could find cursed him with perpetual bad breath. I guess you could call him a "...
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:05 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: CATASTROPHE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8618
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:00 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Mensa's Word Contest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16571
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: mumpsimus
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29299
KatyBr , I make no claims to know everything. I just reject ideas that are damaging to individual and social advancement and freedom. As for the ending, I understand the Latin connotations of the suffix [-mus], but when used in English as a verb, I tend to apply the appropriate Latin plural noun en...
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:11 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Mensa's Word Contest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16571
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:51 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Mensa's Word Contest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16571
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: mumpsimus
- Replies: 13
- Views: 29299
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:29 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Take My Privacy, Please !
- Replies: 33
- Views: 60932
I absolutely love the way this topic changed direction! Lovely! I especially don't like having financial transactions monitored. I use cash whenever I can help it. [Of course they're legitimate, shame on you!] As for temperature, we've been over the mid 80s F, and very humid for the past few weeks. ...
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:15 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Mensa's Word Contest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16571
Mensa's Word Contest
Apparently, Mensa International sponsors a contest each year that involves changing a dictionary word by adding, ommitting, or changing a letter, and then giving it a new definition. I got this list of 2005 winners from a friend, so I don't know their original publication [Perhaps the Washington Pos...
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:20 am
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: I see no brine...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21643
I see no brine...
So why are we in a pickle again? Did the term really originate from the process of brining foodstuffs? Or is it related to the metallurgy term meaning [to the best of my knowledge] "to remove or clean a certain type of metal from a soldered or welded product?" [Or the chemical used for doi...
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:16 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Edward Gorey...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12342
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:02 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNOG
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8721
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:55 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Edward Gorey...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12342
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:52 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Some thing WICKED this way comes!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 225433
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:50 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Edward Gorey...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12342
Edward Gorey...
I'm surprised that nobody has brought up this gentleman's work. Admittedly, it is dark humour, but his methods of writing are delightful, at least to me, in the manner in which they cavort on the tongue. As for vocabulary, I would recommend his piece, "The Nursery Freize," which is a serie...