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Postby PKMKII on Wed May 30, 2012 1:32 pm

crèche
-noun
1. a small or large modeled representation or tableau of Mary, Joseph, and others around the crib of Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem, as is displayed in homes or erected for exhibition in a community at Christmas season.
2. a home for foundlings.
3. British. a day-care center; day nursery.
4. Animal Behavior. an assemblage of dependent young that are cared for communally.

Roland Deschain wrote:What's wrong with the Cocteau Twins? They have lovely voices, the music isn't bad, and it's a little different, too.


Ask the Scotsman, he's the one that called it art snob music.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Roy Hunter on Wed May 30, 2012 3:43 pm

PKMKII wrote:
Roland Deschain wrote:What's wrong with the Cocteau Twins? They have lovely voices, the music isn't bad, and it's a little different, too.
Ask the Scotsman, he's the one that called it art snob music.
I didn't say anything of the sort. I just said that pished-up art students who accost you in Bar Brel in Ashton Lane to talk about Cocteau, Sartre and so on just because you play jazz double bass (not very well, I should add) are always trying to make out that they are cleverer than you are.

creche
-noun
what happens when a Range Rover collides with a Jaguar in Sloane Square, SW1.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby PKMKII on Thu May 31, 2012 11:46 am

scofflaw
-noun
1. a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
2. a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

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Re: Word of the Day

Postby pieces o'nine on Thu May 31, 2012 12:21 pm

SCAflaw
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1. an unfortunate renaissance costume malfunction.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby PKMKII on Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:15 am

scolex
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the anterior, headlike segment of a tapeworm, having suckers, hooks, or the like, for attachment.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Roy Hunter on Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:42 pm

skrillex
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Music that sounds like someone having a tapeworm removed through their bottom, possibly a tapeworm covered in Tabasco.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby DavidH on Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:44 pm

grillex
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A tasty kebab of grilled tapeworm,covered in Tabasco.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Ravi Oli on Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:39 pm

FedEx [n]
feeling that you're hungry again an hour after eating a ^ tapeworm kebab.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby PKMKII on Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:39 am

mignon
-adjective
small and pretty; delicately pretty.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Ravi Oli on Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:36 pm

minion [n]

what every despicable villian should have.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby pieces o'nine on Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:10 am

chignon
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A knot or coil of hair arranged on the back of ones head.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Roy Hunter on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:14 am

mingin'
-adj. (Scots colloq.)
1. foul smelling or tasting (cf Katie Price perfumes, Tennent's Lager).
2. descriptive of an act or idea which is not socially acceptable: "Ye gie'd hum a ride 'cause he gied ye a bottle o' Buckie an' a puddin' supper? That's pure mingin', by the way." (Trans: "You engaged in an act of sexual congress with him because he purchased for you a bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine and a deep-fried battered black pudding with chips? I find that idea socially unacceptable".)
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks.
"To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine.
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"If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby PKMKII on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:53 pm

pardi
-adverb, interjection
verily; indeed.
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby Mad Willyum Bonney on Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:03 pm

PARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRdi : soime as aboves ,ultnit spillin .
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Remembering Auntie DeeDee
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Re: Word of the Day

Postby PKMKII on Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:01 pm

calabash
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1. any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.
2. a tropical American tree, Crescentia cujete, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit.
3. any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit.
4. the fruit of any of these plants.
5. the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

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