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.
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.
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*
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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).
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)?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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).
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
"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.
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."
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:
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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...
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trivet commented on the word staycation
What yarb said. We have an extraordinarily annoying and overplayed radio thingie about staycations that stalks my sanity. Gah!
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word teeth
I like crackers. What can I say?
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word elmira gulch
Always thought it was Elvira.
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word teeth
The only thing I will dunk is a graham cracker into some Sunny D. *ducks head in shame*
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word teeth
I'm decidedly antidunk. Soggy food is an abomination.
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word teeth
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
trivet commented on the word teeth
C_b, do you like butter and jam on toast?
August 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word george and martha
Tons of fun!
July 31, 2008
trivet commented on the word haka
Thanks, yarb. This is what we have around here.
July 30, 2008
trivet commented on the word haka
I find it rather intimidating.
July 30, 2008
trivet commented on the word zelena zelena
What the bear said. But I do like a nice anemic piece of celery for ants on a log.
July 30, 2008
trivet commented on the word haka
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
trivet commented on the word ash-hole
I knew a girl named Ashole once.
July 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word rainwater
ps - weirdnet.
July 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word french vocabulary shower curtain
Who knew? Target holds all our wordie needs...
July 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word death by oreos
Mmmmmmm...
July 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word buttered-cat array
As seen here.
July 26, 2008
trivet commented on the list sharks
Basking shark?
July 25, 2008
trivet commented on the word cookie monster
See here.
July 23, 2008
trivet commented on the word skimble-skamble
*awards sionnach a gold star*
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word marmite
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
trivet commented on the word marmite
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
trivet commented on the word cow pooling
And delicious (if you eat cow)...
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word don't
The graphjam does have a variety of stuffie-esque graphs.
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word marmite
My father's favorite is peanut butter and pickle. That's not to sweet for you, bilby, is it?
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the list lets-get-back-to-our-enraged-sheep-grandmas-in-the-nettles-again
*favorited*! I especially enjoy the skulking prawns and owls.
July 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word plastic surgeon
Good book, though.
July 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word features
pps: I enjoy the new and improved This week on Wordie sidebar. Thanks, John!
July 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word features
I like that the order of your words isn't editable outside of an alpha sort (which is very handy, ps).
July 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word crumpet
The only pooka I know is a llama.
July 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word pancakes
Or see here.
July 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word fish doctor
Oo ee, oo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang...
July 16, 2008
trivet commented on the word comments
Huzzah!
July 16, 2008
trivet commented on the word punctuation
What about the wombat?
July 16, 2008
trivet commented on the list mellon-collie-and-the-infinite-sadness
Inspired by she's mulligrubs...
July 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word mulligrubs
She, you know such lovely words for the grumbly mumblies.
July 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word jijzelf
ooooh! *yoink*
July 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word blennorrhea
Chained_bear, I think you may have started something. See phlegmon.
July 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word gyrrwr
I so prefer gyrrwr disg galed to boring old hard disk driver - it almost makes a computer problem exciting!
July 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word dufflepuds
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
trivet commented on the word sciapodous
Maybe they're dufflepuds...
July 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word nebraksa
*whimper*
July 9, 2008
trivet commented on the word pooking-fork
*favorited!*
July 7, 2008
trivet commented on the list places-johnny-cash-has-been
See also here.
July 7, 2008
trivet commented on the word horkish
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
trivet commented on the word horkish
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
trivet commented on the word horkish
My cat is rather hork-prone.
July 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word hákarl
Is hákarl the sound you make when you dig it back up again?
July 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word every time i eat asparagus...
eeeew! I love how this conversation went from lighthearted pickle-and-asparagus banter to a veritable gallery of regrettable food...
July 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word every time i eat asparagus...
The pickling makes the okra almost tolerable. Almost as good as frying it.
July 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word every time i eat asparagus...
What about pickled asparagus? mmmmm...
July 2, 2008
trivet commented on the word mythbusters
*chortle*
July 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word antievolution
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
trivet commented on the word jam-free paper
No‽
July 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word tom tom
The roadhouse where I used to catch the Green Tortoise bus.
June 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word insomnia
I'm a fan of the napping. You just can't sleep too long.
June 26, 2008
trivet commented on the word fortune cookie monster
*bows*
Why, thank you! I think.
June 26, 2008
trivet commented on the word fortune cookie monster
Here.
Bizarro, June 25, 2008.
June 25, 2008
trivet commented on the word pop pop fizz fizz
And now it will be stuck in my head for a week. Thanks, p.
June 25, 2008
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-6
oooooh!
3 - buzzard?
16 - Wally? (if I remember my grandmother's arias correctly...)
yay.
June 25, 2008
trivet commented on the word walrus mosaic
All of the above (below?). We can't all have desks that belong on
June 20, 2008
trivet commented on the word walrus mosaic
Only a small one. But quite friendly.
June 20, 2008
trivet commented on the word finger of disapproval
And then there is the finger of NO! - a cousin of the fistshake...
June 20, 2008
trivet commented on the word zitterbewegung
German science words are the best.
zugunruhe. wissenschaft. zwitterion.
hee-hee-hee.
June 20, 2008
trivet commented on the list behr-paint-colors
*favorited*
I think I like beluga the best.
June 20, 2008
trivet commented on the word feathers
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
trivet commented on the word plastic ringtail possum figurine
Me, too!
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word ruby
The Galactic Gumshoe
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word electric sheep
I remember listening to Ruby serials on the radio as a family.
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word pie newts
They move into your oven if you use too much tapioca to thicken an apple pie.
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word yeastie beasties
They make the bread rise...
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word soup dragons
They put the steam in your soup...
June 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word sisterhood of pretty ponies and asteroid defense
Now that's something you don't want to encounter on a first date!
June 12, 2008
trivet commented on the list condiments-found-on-body-parts
Ick. Head cheese? Butter fingers? What are you counting as a condiment?
June 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word knuckle bump
Like giving dap?
June 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word three plastic animals rule
What about the cult of the snowmen?
June 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word pergola
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
trivet commented on the word megafirkin
Heh-heh-heh.
June 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word ostreophagous
Blech. Not me. Oysters are todally disgusting.
May 24, 2008
trivet commented on the word sansculotte
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
trivet commented on the word vibrissae
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
trivet commented on the word 
On a PC, I see a lovely fleur-de-lis...
May 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word eyes
WEIRDnet!
May 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word flogo
*whimpers*
May 17, 2008
trivet commented on the word popcorn
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
trivet commented on the word slake
I'm with you, c_b. That may be the best explanation for Nicolas Cage ever.
May 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word popcorn
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
trivet commented on the word lysistrataphobia
Pacifists are sneaky.
May 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word sidewalk
Parking strip.
May 8, 2008
trivet commented on the list pickle-and-such
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
trivet commented on the list lost-for-word
Random surprised noises also work quite well, I've found.
May 3, 2008
trivet commented on the list the-i-de-facto-i-phonetic-alphabet
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
trivet commented on the word why do you hate freedom
*snort*
10 gold stars, gangerh!
May 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word free cone day
Today! Here.
April 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word chainishness
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
trivet commented on the word walla-walla sweet-sweets
Sweet onions from Walla Walla, WA.
April 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word salad
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
trivet commented on the list dale-counting-sheep
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
trivet commented on the word features
John - The public service ads are much more soothing than the regular google ads.
April 23, 2008
trivet commented on the word vertigo
It is a good dad joke.
April 23, 2008
trivet commented on the word rummage sale
In Oregon, where I grew up, people had yard and garage sales, but churches and schools had rummages.
April 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word maledicta balloon
*favorited*
April 22, 2008
trivet commented on the list muddleheaded-wombat
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
trivet commented on the word chained bear banana banshee
They make a lovely garnish.
April 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word slaunchwise
Sideways, on a diagonal, cattywampus...
Come and get it, reesetee.
April 17, 2008
trivet commented on the word winkee
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
trivet commented on the word abdabs
Habdabs is nice. Like a nervous hobnob. *added*
April 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word thimble
Okay, weirdnet...
April 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word abdabs
oooh!
April 14, 2008
trivet commented on the list career-advisor
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
trivet commented on the word clapperdudgeon
A beggar whose parents were beggars.
Possibly with nasty sores.
April 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word labeorphily
The collection of beer bottle labels.
April 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word hamartiology
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
trivet commented on the word chalcography
The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.
April 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word chalcotriptics
The art of taking rubbings from ornamental brasses.
April 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word noology
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
trivet commented on the word meister proper
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
trivet commented on the word colopexy
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
trivet commented on the word colopexy
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
trivet commented on the word outback
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
trivet commented on the word demons of stupidity
Which is remarkably full of demons of stupidity, all things considered.
April 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word outback
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
trivet commented on the list a-_____-walks-into-a-bar
Heard recently:
A dyslexic walks into a bra...
April 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word wet gripes
p.p.s. Eeeew!
April 10, 2008
trivet commented on the word whitesmith
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
trivet commented on the word ocularist
False eye manufacturer.
They have a website.
April 9, 2008
trivet commented on the word colporteur
A peddler of devotional literature.
April 9, 2008
trivet commented on the list it-has-a-name
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
trivet commented on the word gubmint
I thought it was gummit.
April 8, 2008
trivet commented on the list sounds-often-heard-during-a-search-for-a-hard-to-find-word
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
trivet commented on the word piece of string
And now I'll be singing Christmas carols all day...
April 8, 2008
trivet commented on the word raconteuse
oooh! *added*
April 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word blandness
Heh-heh-heh.
April 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word whoreson zed
See also whoresone zed.
From King Lear, Act II, Scene II.
The Earl of Kent to Oswald:
April 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word whoresone zed
Whoops! Got a little overzealous with ye olde English. I'll fix it.
See whoreson zed.
April 3, 2008
trivet commented on the list knaves-rogues-and-stewed-prunes
huzzah! *favorited*
April 2, 2008
trivet commented on the word features
I certainly won't be sad to see it go.
Don't forget
April 2, 2008
trivet commented on the word graupel
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
trivet commented on the word bibliobituary
Hear, hear!
April 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word practise
That's just wrong.
April 1, 2008
trivet commented on the word prolagus
Eeeeep!
March 31, 2008
trivet commented on the word fruit bat
I was once a fruit bat for Halloween myself.
March 29, 2008
trivet commented on the word plastic bag
Your plastic bags have stripes?
March 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word successories
As seen here.
March 27, 2008
trivet commented on the list •-little-pains-in-my-butt
Nah. I like actual teenagers. Pop Culture and its accessories are the real annoyance. Ooooh!
March 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word prokofiev
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
trivet commented on the list •-little-pains-in-my-butt
Yeah, really. If only ring tone, cell phone, and Hannah Montana were one word...
March 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word iroquois
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
trivet commented on the word quebracho
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
trivet commented on the word iroquois
Well, I'm vaguely looking for stable employment...
March 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word zwetschenwasser
Gesundheit!
March 25, 2008
trivet commented on the list greetings-salutations
Thanks, all. I'm limiting myself to one-word greetings, though.
March 24, 2008
trivet commented on the word bugs
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
trivet commented on the word catmalison
Since they're fans of all things precarious and impracticable, yeah.
March 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word catmalison
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
trivet commented on the word u maqaarsaar
Shepherds do this, too (with lambs instead of camels.) I don't know if it has a name.
March 20, 2008
trivet commented on the word black vomit
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
trivet commented on the word black vomit
Eeeew.
March 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word veterinarian
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
trivet commented on the word beestings
We used to keep colostrum in the freezer for bummer lambs and calves.
March 19, 2008
trivet commented on the list consarn-it
Thanks, Texas - added!
March 19, 2008
trivet commented on the word beestings
Colostrum!
March 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word vescere bracis meis!
What about "Don't have a cow, man"?
March 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word curse your scaly hide
My new favorite insult.
March 16, 2008
trivet commented on the word squaida
Hmmmmm - tempting as it may be, I think I might stay home and watch a squideo instead...
March 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word pinchfart
Heh-heh. I'm going to try and slip whoreson asshat into conversation at some point today.
March 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word squid row
Aaaw, you beat me to it, mollusque!
March 14, 2008
trivet commented on the word squarf
Odd - I saw this squeep in a store window today...
March 13, 2008
trivet commented on the list moon-unit-diva-thin-muffin-and-fifi-trixibelle
Some of these names made it into this article in the NY Times today.
March 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word couscous
Mmmm - I like couscous - fun to say and eat.
March 7, 2008
trivet commented on the word getting on my last nerve
Pacific NW, too. And Louisiana, I think...
March 6, 2008
trivet commented on the word pranticole
I thought it was pratincole. Cause the name makes me giggle.
March 5, 2008
trivet commented on the word chough
One of my favorite birds!
February 29, 2008
trivet commented on the list public-list-body-metaphors
Thumbs up! This is fun.
February 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground
Not a body metaphor, but my personal favorite is couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag...
February 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word gruntling
This may be my new favorite word!
February 26, 2008
trivet commented on the word a bad case of stripes
Such a good book...
February 26, 2008
trivet commented on the word zymurgy
There's a magazine for everything.
February 23, 2008
trivet commented on the word bovilexia
Driver's back, then, please!
February 22, 2008
trivet commented on the word coloring book clubs
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
trivet commented on the word twisted sister chromatid
Ten gold stars!
February 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word friend spam
Hear, hear! The 'reply all' button should be so much harder to use.
February 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word animal cribbage
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
trivet commented on the word bovilexia
Mollusque, your game is much grimmer than the animal cribbage my family always played in the car. Sounds fun, though!
February 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word bovilexia
Your office windows roll down, yarb?
February 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word bovilexia
Me, too!
What is it about cars that inspires random outbursts - animal noises, reading of signs, etc?
February 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word wheeple
What a wonderful word!
edit: Which has inspired a list
February 16, 2008
trivet commented on the word kamalayka
Why? How? Where?
February 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word the tao of poop
HA HA HA! You made my day, sionnach!
February 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word the princess and the pear
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
trivet commented on the list vorpal-swords
I knew some of Tolkien's toadstabbers would make it here eventually...
February 13, 2008
trivet commented on the word s’mores
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
trivet commented on the word clementine
And a tasty, tasty fruit!
February 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word pronk!
Form of locomotion freely associated with ungulates.
February 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word accinge
Sometimes I think you just make some of these things up :P
February 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word images
neat!
February 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word bloody knuckles
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
trivet commented on the word bloody knuckles
Like the hand-slapping game, only with fists and punching.
The World Bloody Knuckles Association has rules and tournaments and such...
February 12, 2008
trivet commented on the word crocea mors
Sword of Julius Caesar.
February 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word deep heart's core
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
trivet commented on the word chemistry
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
trivet commented on the word go shout at some cheese
I don't know, but I'm quite enamored of the phrase.
*scurries of to sneak up on some gouda*
February 6, 2008
trivet commented on the list as-happy-as-a
Go ahead, gangerh - the 'a' is optional.
February 5, 2008
trivet commented on the word larry
However happy he may be...
February 4, 2008
trivet commented on the list as-happy-as-a
How happy are you?
February 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word uzzle
Fantastic, bilby!
February 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word trichechine
Sionnach, I think I love you! But what about walrusine?
February 4, 2008
trivet commented on the list public-list-a-horse-is-a-horse
Whoops! I missed the TV. Sorry skipvia.
February 2, 2008
trivet commented on the word bucephalus
To quote the wiki:
Alexander the Great's horse and arguably the most famous horse of antiquity.
February 1, 2008
trivet commented on the list public-list-rogues-gallery
You can always kick back with a Rogue Ale...
January 31, 2008
trivet commented on the word rhindon
Sword of Peter Pevensie.
January 31, 2008
trivet commented on the word guns, germs, and steel magnolias
Hah!
January 30, 2008
trivet commented on the word shah
*whimper*
January 28, 2008
trivet commented on the word tassology
See tasseography.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word durendal
Sword of Roland.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word caladbolg
Sword of Fergus mac Róich.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word nothung
Sword of Siegfried.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word joyeuse
Sword of Charlemagne.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word sting
Sword of Bilbo Baggins.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word dyrnwyn
Sword of Rhydderch Hael.
And Gwydion in the Prydain Chronicles.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word galatine
Sword of Gawain.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word tizona
Sword of El Cid.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word arondight
Sword of Lancelot.
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word hruntling
Sword of Beowulf
January 27, 2008
trivet commented on the word puke bowl
Are you a sympathetic puker, reesetee?
January 24, 2008
trivet commented on the word bones
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
trivet commented on the word mr. pear head
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
trivet commented on the list •open-list-what-s-on-em-your-em-work-desk
I like your desk, reesetee.
January 23, 2008
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-5
Aaah - I couldn't remember which prion went where.
4 - Panjandrum?
13 - blue?
January 23, 2008
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-5
ooooh!
8 - intaglio?
9 - kuru/cjd
16 - tara
January 22, 2008
trivet commented on the list from-the-estate-of-the-brothers-collyer
In jars, I hope.
January 22, 2008
trivet commented on the list from-the-estate-of-the-brothers-collyer
eeesh.
January 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word catch a falling star
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
trivet commented on the word haberdasher of asshattery
What the bear said.
January 21, 2008
trivet commented on the word ukulele
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
trivet commented on the user trivet
Huzzah!
January 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word antidisestablishmentarianism
It is the kind of word that brings out one's insufferable side.
January 18, 2008
trivet commented on the word silver star’s blue ribbon dutch loaf
Mmmmmm, tasty loaf products!
*may never eat again*
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the list wordage
Thanks, y'all!
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the list xx-age
Scrimmage is one of my favorite words. How did I miss this when you first made it?
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the word gavage
Eeeeeeeeew - thanks, sionnach!
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the word global parfait
heehee.
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the list wordage
oooh, thank you! I'm glad I learned about the right to carry things where one will!
January 17, 2008
trivet commented on the word lastage
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
trivet commented on the word in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
Love!
I'd like to favorite it, but wordie is being snippy this morning.
January 16, 2008
trivet commented on the list dewey-cheatham-and-howe
Nice! but missing some of Bart Simpson's prank calls...
January 15, 2008
trivet commented on the list unwort-des-jahres-1991-2007
This is very interesting (albeit disturbing) list, rfb. Thank you.
January 15, 2008
trivet commented on the word emocow
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
trivet commented on the word vog
pbbbttt?
January 11, 2008
trivet commented on the word lebkuchen
The ball or the cookie?
January 5, 2008
trivet commented on the word thin mint
Too many coconuts for me.
January 5, 2008
trivet commented on the word nuß-ecken
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
trivet commented on the word lebkuchen
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
trivet commented on the list cookie-monster
Oooh! I'd forgotten how fancy wordie has gotten. My first shared list!
January 4, 2008
trivet commented on the list that-is-not-a-christmas-word
C_b, this list rules!
January 4, 2008
trivet commented on the list cookie-monster
My auntie makes Nuß-Ecken, which are nutty German triangles with their corners dipped in chocolatey goodness. Mmmmm!
January 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word partridge in a pear tree
There's always this...
December 23, 2007
trivet commented on the list public-list-haiku-together
skipvia - see here.
December 19, 2007
trivet commented on the list contest-match-the-onomatopoeia
I don't believe I missed this! For the dregs:
4. - R
10. - C
12. - H
15. - F
December 18, 2007
trivet commented on the word danger: avoid death
I don't know. I had a rather incautious sipping incident yesterday.
My favorite are the stick men illustrations.
December 15, 2007
trivet commented on the word natasha fatale
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
trivet commented on the word danger: avoid death
I love warning labels!
December 15, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-4
errr... Is #30 curious?
December 15, 2007
trivet commented on the word natasha fatale
I thought Boris was Natasha's sidekick, no?
December 15, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-4
For 25 - Siegel, then?
December 11, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-4
Hmmmm....
2-if not what rolig said, Bolero?
5-THRUSH?
19-Marfan
25-harrah????
December 10, 2007
trivet commented on the word naugahyde
More naugas can be found here. And here.
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the list bird-wirds-nicknames
Does it count that my family calls all jays Gus and all Canada geese Rupert?
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the word goatsucker
I'd forgotten these!
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the list anacronyms
Thanks, I think I'll pass on those two. Cause I can.
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the word tips
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
trivet commented on the word posh
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
trivet commented on the word israeli army
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:
(black tea/coffee allowed on all days)December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the list no-thanks-i-m-on-a-diet
Thanks, bilby - and what a "diet" it is...
December 7, 2007
trivet commented on the list washington-state-gazetteer
Nice list - what about Issaquah, Enumclaw and Snoqualmie?
December 5, 2007
trivet commented on the word douglas-fir
Pseudotsuga!
December 5, 2007
trivet commented on the word turtle
Weirdnet strikes again!
December 2, 2007
trivet commented on the list letters
ß?
December 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word haribo
Haribo macht Kinder froh - und Erwachsene ebenso!
December 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word hob
Steer, gelding, barrow, wether...
December 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word berliner
More here.
December 1, 2007
trivet commented on the list three-sheets-to-the-wind
I like the cut of this list's jib, reesetee!
December 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word loty07 most likely to be found staring at the grass off in left field
I'm partial to words that sound somewhat like "elephant".
November 30, 2007
trivet commented on the word cmyk
It could be inKy black...
November 30, 2007
trivet commented on the word psketti
Hey - I like pasketti! My mom made the best, even when she snuck in eggplant cubar...
November 29, 2007
trivet commented on the word faggot
See here.
November 28, 2007
trivet commented on the word croissant
Mmmmm, rhubarb!
November 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word graham
Crackers!
more here
November 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word flexitarian
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
trivet commented on the word pescetarian
"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.�? -Nirvana
November 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word minnow
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
trivet commented on the word minnow
Depends on the duck - some are vegetarian, but others, like the merganser, are fishing ducks.
November 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word thanks
Me, too!
November 26, 2007
trivet commented on the word birthday
Happy Birthday, wordie!
November 26, 2007
trivet commented on the word inner thesaurus
Just stay away from the subtraction stew:)
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word tennessucky
I've heard -tucky used as a derogatory portmantesque suffix.
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the list magpie-s-delight
Aw, shucks!
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word inner thesaurus
What is it with the Tollbooth these days, u?
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word tigerente
see here
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word knurl
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
trivet commented on the word tantivy
I always thought it was the sound a hunting horn makes.
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the list not-quite-the-real-thang
Bah, humbug!
Also, facade, hokum.
November 22, 2007
trivet commented on the list triads
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
trivet commented on the list your-number-s-up
The Awful DYNNE!
November 21, 2007
trivet commented on the word pshchtskrekhlkhdmkhrt
Gesundheit!
November 21, 2007
trivet commented on the word loty07
Road trip!
November 21, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-3
45:farewell?
I don't know if my brain stops at the same stations as yours, sionnach.
November 21, 2007
trivet commented on the word fressen
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
trivet commented on the list bizarre-exclamations
Hoover dam!
November 20, 2007
trivet commented on the word nuzzling ungulate
I'll betcha that a baby rhino is a nuzzler.
November 17, 2007
trivet commented on the word loty07
I'd second all of the below lists, plus Specific Excrement and minced oaths.
November 17, 2007
trivet commented on the word nuzzle
Llamas nuzzle.
November 17, 2007
trivet commented on the word religion
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
trivet commented on the list triads
Fun! How 'bout Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?
November 17, 2007
trivet commented on the list state-of-the-union
We always called slowing through a stop sign without actually stopping a California stop.
November 16, 2007
trivet commented on the list obstinate-buffaloes
I do love nouns of assemblage!
How about a romp of (river) otters / raft of (sea) otters?
November 16, 2007
trivet commented on the list stuffie-and-the-green-grass-grows-all-around
thin air, the mouths of babes?
November 15, 2007
trivet commented on the user john
Tabs, please. And I second colleen's piscatory exclamation. I like the shiny new features.
November 15, 2007
trivet commented on the word hooverville
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
November 13, 2007
trivet commented on the word nautilus
A submarine‽ Pshaw.
November 13, 2007
trivet commented on the word siphuncular
What a lovely word! Ten points for the nautilus.
November 13, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-3
Rumpleteazer: Fortitude!
um...
mad: Lear
omicron: omega
fox:box?
November 13, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-3
mercenaries: gallowglasses
Napoleon: Marengo
Butler: Edward ??
November 13, 2007
trivet commented on the list oregon-towns-that-you-d-find-in-the-dictionary
Burns, antelope, sandy, bonanza, seaside?
November 12, 2007
trivet commented on the word pika
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
trivet commented on the word whopping
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
trivet commented on the word whopping
Wouldn't the fell beast just eat the biscuits, can and all? I'm thinking the kitchen is not his forte.
November 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word lehr
Whoops! Try this one, then.
November 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word whopping
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
trivet commented on the word whopping
What about when you whop someone upside the head?
November 9, 2007
trivet commented on the list 2300af
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
trivet commented on the list more-reasons-to-eat-refined-sugars
Seriously‽
I didn't know there were so many weird food days out there.
November 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word hideosity
-osity is a most useful suffix...
November 8, 2007
trivet commented on the word stirrup
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
trivet commented on the word stirrup
A most hideous invention. See here.
Rather usefull for things like dance and baseball, but otherwise a crime against nature.
November 8, 2007
trivet commented on the list the-measure-of-man
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
trivet commented on the word atter
Not to be confused with attar...
November 7, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time-2
oooooh! 7-12 is Friends-themed
7 - Rachel
8 - Monica (monniker?)
9 - Phoebe
10 - Chandler
11 - Joey
12 - Ross
November 6, 2007
trivet commented on the word modoc
And a Native American tribe/people.
November 6, 2007
trivet commented on the word flap dragon
What a lovely word! And quite the mental image...
November 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word competitive differentiators
*whimper*
October 31, 2007
trivet commented on the word ink pen
Ooooh! Don't forget lead pen (pencil), pencil colors (colored pencils), and colors (crayons/markers).
October 31, 2007
trivet commented on the word goat rodeo
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
trivet commented on the list blood-line
Hemoglobin! (Or, just for today, hemogoblin...)
October 31, 2007
trivet commented on the word ostentiferous
I can't decide if I like the mad cow or the mange better, myself.
October 31, 2007
trivet commented on the word ostentiferous
I love those little germs!
October 30, 2007
trivet commented on the word pleasure cruise
I wasn't nervous... Maybe I was a little bit concerned but it's not the same thing.
October 29, 2007
trivet commented on the list nautical-words
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
trivet commented on the list a-return-of-cloathing-provisions-and-stores-taken-in-the-towns-of-york-gloucester-the-19th-day-of-october-1781
Yeah, this list is todally awesome!
October 29, 2007
trivet commented on the word ship of the line
This is how my mother usually describes her grandmother.
October 29, 2007
trivet commented on the list nautical-words
Or flounder is to flail about and founder is to sink?
October 29, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time
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
trivet commented on the word graveyard
Very popular with 12-year-olds on field trips...
October 28, 2007
trivet commented on the word comeback sauce
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
trivet commented on the word dirty rice
The liver is what makes it so delicously earthy.
October 28, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time
Rimbaud?
October 28, 2007
trivet commented on the word humgruffin
hee, hee!
October 27, 2007
trivet commented on the list quiz-time
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
trivet commented on the word float
8. to smooth (as plaster or cement) with a float
For horses, see here
October 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word bishop
If you have horses, though, sometimes you need to float their teeth to grind down sharp edges.
October 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word raccoonnookkeeper
Excellent career choice, npydyuan!
October 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word smartie
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
trivet commented on the word necessarium
Nice!
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word poop
Yup! Heard first at a raptor rehab center, but also out in the world of bird nerds.
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word poop
'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
trivet commented on the word poop
Or bats.
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word spelling
What the bear said. *snicker*
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word pus jewel
Eew, eew, EEW!
Yet somehow oddly appropriate...
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the list adjectives-applicable-to-bubble-tea
evil?
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word orbitz
You can't really drink a gel, can you?
More of a slurpy gulp.
eeew.
October 25, 2007
trivet commented on the word bubble tea
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
trivet commented on the word loud shirt
Usually Hawaiian, occasionally message tees, these can be purchased in the Dad School gift shop.
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word embarrassing flair
You know you love it - suspenders, bow ties, funny hats, loud shirts - one of the core elements of Dad School.
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word voice of binky
See here.
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word booger
Does it wear spats?
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word crudite
Mmmm...horse doovers.
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word assmarmot
excellent! *yoink*
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word peristeronic lingua franca
What about pheasants?
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word pigeonpygian
Sionnach, you rock out loud on cinnamon toast.
Though I join reesetee in defending the birdies.
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the list complicated-complexes
Apartment, vitamin B?
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the list all-day-and-all-of-the-night
Witching hour? False dawn?
October 24, 2007
trivet commented on the word features
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
trivet commented on the word s-word
I thought you were a skulker?
October 23, 2007
trivet commented on the word features
Or, instead of making lists of conversation, you could use a conversation tag?
October 23, 2007
trivet commented on the word golden hind
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
trivet commented on the word jeez
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
trivet commented on the word vestigial
How about tail?
October 23, 2007
trivet commented on the word jeez
What if the cricket is your conscience?
October 23, 2007
trivet commented on the word jeez
Spats are cool, dammit!
October 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word early morning rain
d'oh!
October 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word features
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
trivet commented on the list whomp
Thanks, O!
October 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word cucaracha
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
trivet commented on the word secret santa
I prefer the white elephant when it comes to enforced workplace cheer...
October 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word isinglass
Good for making curtains that will roll right down...
October 21, 2007
trivet commented on the list anacronyms
thanks!
October 20, 2007
trivet commented on the word league of extrawordy gentlemen
Boots with a smoking jacket? How gauche!
October 20, 2007
trivet commented on the list the-several-stages-of-wordie-addiction
What about the vergerhade dreams?
October 20, 2007
trivet commented on the list out-with-the-verbs
I agree - run out?
October 19, 2007
trivet commented on the word league of extrawordy gentlemen
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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