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BrainyBabe commented on the word wordie polar challenge
James Mann Wordie led an expedition to the Arctic in 1934. The Wordie Ice Shelf in Antarctica is dramatically retreating. What would be the three most important words you would take with you on a polar expedition? (Nouns, adjectives, whimsey, all welcome.)
December 25, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word wordie polar challenge
Hot water bottle, huskie, brr
December 25, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word wordie polar challenge
intrepid, zeppelin, sos
December 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word wordie polar challenge
Since there doesn't seem to be anything particularly untoward going on near the pole that I'll be visiting*, should I be concerned? If I thought that problems were going to crop up then the most useful three words would be "Shackleton's cell number".
*: Sorry, my streak of juvenile smart-alackiness is so deeply ingrained I can't help myself. Think of what my family has to put up with.
merry christmas to all.
December 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word wordie polar challenge
God, help, me
December 27, 2008
whichbe commented on the word wordie polar challenge
speargun, walking bag, vigilance
December 27, 2008
yarb commented on the word wordie polar challenge
I could be self-sufficient with hakapik, kendal mint cake and rhodorhinorangifericide.
December 27, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word wordie polar challenge
What's a walking bag? And if you took a -cide with you, wouldn't that indicate a penance, like a pilgrimage with peas in one's boots? (For those Wordies too young to realise, that's a pebble-like dried legume, not mushy peas!)
December 27, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word wordie polar challenge
Homeothermy, GPS, teleport.
December 27, 2008
whichbe commented on the word wordie polar challenge
A walking bag is also called a walking sleeping bag, it's a ridiculously warm, puffy sleeping bag with individuated legs. Google search it.
December 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word wordie polar challenge
See also Wordie ice shelf.
December 29, 2008