Words that are nice to hear?

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: alison
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 02:13 AM

"Here's a cup of tea, you just stay in bed and I'll sort the kids out"

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 11:41 AM

"It's benign"

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Song Dog
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 10:34 PM

Did you bring your guitar?

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 10:41 PM

Well, I am fond of the sound of "alluvial", "pentangle", "luminous and numinous", and "velleities", myself. I also like the sound of "cascade", "trilogy", "wanderlust" and "woebegone", "triumverate" and "lupine". And I always get a little kick out of "palimpsest".

A

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Matt_R
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 10:55 PM

When your paper is all used up....palimpsest, palimpsest, palimpsest!

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 11:42 PM

Ah yes, palimps, palimpser, palimpsest.

I like "chimes," "gracious," "notary sojac."

All the best.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 01:46 AM

I like that notary sojac one, too. Seems like I've heard or read it before. Can't find it in my dictionary. What does it mean?

Carol

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Melani
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 01:59 AM

What can I do to help?

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 11:57 PM

From an online dictionary of bizarre terms:

(from def. and history of "foo")

For, it seems, the word `foo' itself had an immediate prewar history in comic strips and cartoons. The earliest documented uses were in the "Smokey Stover" comic strip popular in the 1930s, which frequently included the word "foo". Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other nonsense phrases such as "Notary Sojac" and "1506 nix nix". According to the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion Holman claimed to have found the word "foo" on the bottom of a Chinese figurine. This is plausible; Chinese statuettes often have apotropaic inscriptions, and this may have been the Chinese word `fu' (sometimes transliterated `foo'), which can mean "happiness" when spoken with the proper tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called "fu dogs"). English speakers' reception of Holman's `foo' nonsense word was undoubtedly influenced by Yiddish `feh' and English `fooey' and `fool'.

Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode on two wheels. The comic strip was tremendously popular in the late 1930s, and legend has it that a manufacturer in Indiana even produced an operable version of Holman's Foomobile. According to the Encyclopedia of American Comics, `Foo' fever swept the U.S., finding its way into popular songs and generating over 500 `Foo Clubs.' The fad left `foo' references embedded in popular culture (including a couple of appearances in Warner Brothers cartoons of 1938-39) but with their origins rapidly forgotten.

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:50 PM

Gosh!

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: bflat
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 10:09 PM

You've got mail!

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 10:30 PM

aw crap, this one made me cry. The best are still
"I love you, mom" and "I love you" but there are some good ones above.......

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: GUEST,Hamarite
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 07:15 AM

    " You may have extra pocket money "
    " You can stay up till midnight "

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: GUEST,Hamarite's mum
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 07:18 AM

Dream on kid.......

Kris

Subject: RE: Words that are nice to hear?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 07:42 AM

There's a warming trend and by this time tomorrow we should see double digit temperatures again,

Spaw