Search found 291 matches
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:54 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Romantic songs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24688
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:39 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Romantic songs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24688
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Pratal
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16402
OHNO no retroactive birthcontrol, I meant that people are the reason for the expanding shopping extravaganzas. mark the-child Bailey PW hasn't chimed in for a bit. Let's blame it on advertising, so that he will have to react in some way or other. 8) Oh...I didn't know you wanted my ADVERTISING pers...
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Pratal
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16402
people should quit having kids. Then we could quit building houses, quit building shopping centers, quit expecting food to tolerate long distance travel and the rest of us could eat real food, not engineered stuff, enjoy flowers and not have huge tracts of McMansions. mark enough-already Bailey How...
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:24 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SCRUMP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6004
Excellent word. As one who scrumped apples as a child, I can certainly attest to the fact that scrumped fruit is more delicious than bought. But the tastiest apples of all are surely to be found in scrumpy.
-- PW
-- PW
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:36 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: just out of curiosity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 19186
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: henchman
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11860
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TABERNACLE
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17611
you mean I can't rely on my vast knowledge of Indiana Jones? mark this-IS-a-bad-day Bailey Since you have this vast knowledge, explain the eyeball soup served in monkey skulls. well maybe it's just half-vast knowledge. mark was-referring-to-the-aotC-movie Some cultures like eyeballs, Philipinos for...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:54 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264896
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:16 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: I've found another sign!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32418
- Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: LACKADAISICAL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10686
Nope, just not the same..."Shee's dead, deceast, shee's dead...what the heck!
Brings to mind the classic Monty Python dead parrot scetch.
-- PW (who though busy and therefore rather quiet lately) is still very much alive
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:59 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 947544
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:54 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: eke
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11977
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:53 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 947544
You can tell the natives here by the Starbuck's cup permanently attached to the hand not holding the cell phone... A man walks into a coffee shop for a venti. When he tries to drink, he discovers it contains a pair of Dockers. He complains to the counter staff, but gets nowhere. So he calls the man...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:48 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264896
As someone else commented, slang is not only generational, it's also geographical. The slang test pegged me as 60s, but I was a child in the 60s, and a teen in the 70s. However, I live in Australia, and slang moved much more slowly across cultures then than it does now. Azh (still wrestling with th...