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reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
Pteeeeeerodactyl on the rise.
*humming*
May 6, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Oh! Excellent! I get it now!
(In my mind, I was trying to sing "There's a pterodactyl on the rise", which doesn't scan. Thanks, reesetee, for demonstrating just how awesome this particular substitution is!)
May 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Help, a pterodactyl's taken my wife!
May 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Yes, I admit it was a stretch, ptero. But that's what happens when a person doesn't get enough sleep. ;->
Bilby: Life, not wife!
May 7, 2008
gangerh commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Oh! A ptypo. I wondered what he meant.
May 7, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
A stretch? Heavens, no! I call it bang on target.
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Thanks, pt.
Gangerh, maybe it was a ptdeliberate. ;-)
May 7, 2008
gangerh commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Yes, ptrobably right. I've just comprehended that I've always had a challenge with the word 'wife'. I just don't really like it. To me it just doesn't say what I want it to. So I avoid it. I refer to my Gianetta as my 'bride'. And we're 18 this year. A word so much more pleasing to me. And to most everyone else from the responses I get. Once a bride, always a bride. So much more evocative. 'spose I'm just a hopeless romantic. Can I say all this on Wordie?
May 7, 2008
palooka commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I don't know gangerh, "bride" sounds so temporary. She's a bride for a few hours then with luck a wife for life. How about spouse?
May 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Spouse makes me think of some woeful bird that's being hunted to extinction on the moors by ruddy men dressed like Basil Rathbone.
May 7, 2008
dontcry commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I agree, bilby. Spouse is a little bird that one of my blacksnakes will eat while I'm asleep. My beloved (of 25 years) is "mylove." Better, eh?
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
There's never the perfect word for someone who's that important to you, is there? :-)
May 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Mind you, I find the current trend towards partner really uninspiring.
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Yes, and unfortunately some of us feel forced to use it more than we care to.
May 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
*takes opportunity to plug her list of wifely words.*
I think wife is a nice word. So is husband. Spouse is like saying maternal unit instead of mother. Though I've been known to say spousal unit from time to time.
*wrenching topic back* DON'T GO ROUND TONIGHT, IT'S BOUND TO TAKE YOUR LIFE...!!!
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I must agree with c_b, gangerh. I don't mind "wife" and "husband." Maybe it's partly one's perspective. :-)
Spouse, however, I could do without. (The word, not an actual being.)
May 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I'll tell you what spouse is good for. When someone's making flyers that say "Professors and their wives are welcome"? That's what the word SPOUSE is for. It's for non-gender-specificity, so that you don't automatically exclude, and thereby offend, half the population. So, I don't mind the word so much.
Besides, if you say it with an explosive SP, and a sort of low-voiced growl of an OU, it's pretty funny.
May 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I thought the lyric was "Don't go out tonight". Which, given that I have just concluded that reesetee has both a husband and a wife, seems like sound advice.
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
Nope, I've never seen it written as "Don't go out tonight."
Now, if I do have a husband and a wife, bilby, why would I bother anyone else? *smiling innocently*
May 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word pterodactyl on the rise
I just misheard the lyric, which exhaustive checking now concludes must be:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesethreesome's kind of vice.
May 7, 2008