BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: sixtieschick
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:17 PM

Espionage has a ring to it--much prettier than its meaning.
Layah , a mangelwurzel is an heirloom beet.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Layah
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:12 PM

hemidemisemiquaver. For all you Americans out there, I've just learned this means sixty fourth note. I don't like trying to play sixty fourth notes, my fingers aren't fast enough, but I would like them much better if it afforded me the chance to say hemidemisemiquaver.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Layah
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:08 PM

Artichoke sounds pretty awful but is very yummy. That is the inverse of this thread though. Mesopotamia is one of my favorite words, but I don't think I can make a case for it being nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:03 PM

"Lethargy" has a nice relaxing sound. In fact I think I'll take a well-deserved nap.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Crystal
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:56 AM

Root Beer and sasparilla both sound nice, yet they are evil and disgusting!

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Layah
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:56 PM

What's wrong with cunnilingus?

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:43 PM

There have been a few british comedies that have slipped cunnilingus into things.
Both TW^3 (That was the week that was), and Not the Nine O'clock news, I think. the latter finished an episode with a song, using the refraine
'kinda lingers'. Slurred slightly....

Bunnahabhain

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Layah
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:14 PM

mangelwurzel. I don't know if they're nasty because I've never had one. Some kind of root vegetable, so very suspicious.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: pdq
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 08:12 PM

'lugubrious' sound much more positive than it should

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Weasel Books
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:51 PM

The word Putrescine has a vile sound to it.

Cunnilingus sounds pleasent and innocous (what Brit comedy was it that they slipped in the phrase 'his cunnilingus on and on?).
Unhygienix has an appeal because of that Little Armorican Village.
Sanguine.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: CStrong
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:05 PM

Hey, Martin

This is a word game thread. Attacking a nicer-guy-than-you is uncalled-for, and you should apologize. Right damn NOW.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM

Chrysotile
Actinolite
Amosite
Anthophyllite
Crocidolite (invariably referred to by Geol. students as "crocodileite")

These are the posh names for various minerals used to manufacture commercial asbestos.

Chrysotile is a form of the mineral "serpentine", the rest are amphiboles. Chrysotile was (and still is) the most widely used variety but is decomposed by acid, so Amosite and Crocidolite were also widely used, and are the most dangerous carcinogens of all of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Peg
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 11:34 PM

coprophilia.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Teresa
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 09:32 PM

honey pot, honey dipper, etc.: anything to do with collecting feces.

teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 09:28 PM

But those aren't nasty, Jim, unless you inhale them. Of course, if you do inhale them you'll die from silicosis which does have a nice ring to it.


I don't know about people's names though. McGrath mentioned "Osama" which is a lovely sounding name that has had the misfortune of becoming synonymous with one very nasty individual. But all the Osamas in the world aren't evil. Most of them are probably very nice people.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Once Famous
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 09:15 PM

Fart Theme

Long forgotten on Lincoln Avenue.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Jim Tailor
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:18 PM

Jeez. You (of all people) hafta ask?!

Amorphous silica.

...and if you happen to be afflicted with great glaze formula/no raw material, these extinct chemicals sound loverly...

Gerstly Borate
Cornwall Stone
Albany Slip

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,Art Thieme again
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:15 PM

as Peter and Lou Berryman said in a song once:

the Belvidere Oasis--- "A lovely name for such a terrible place to go."
(It is an overpass on the toll road going N.W. out of Chicago.---Mainly has overpriced meals and unclean restrooms.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:09 PM

Martin Gibson --- both good guitars

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:56 PM

Micca, "Here are 4 that sound like they might be quite nice things," - IN WHAT UNIVERSE??!!.

"Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus" - some things just roll off the tongue. This sounds like a nice Irish 'scat'.

Oh, it was in the month of May
ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus
It was in the month of May
Aedes egypti and all
It was in the month of may,
When to the swamp I made my way
Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus, Aedes egypti and all

And I was a carefree lass
Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus
And I was a carefree lass
Aedes egypti and all
Oh, I was a carefree lass
'Till a big mosquito bit...
enough already (I honestly can't help it.)

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:20 PM

Pure Finding - collecting dogshit

Victorian trade defuct by the 30's though John Lee (Crediton Folk Festival) reckoned the tannery inClyton had a shit pit in the 50's.

Kind of thing some people write songs about - oh what a giveawy.........

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: jimmyt
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:27 PM

MIcca!!! Good Organic references! Hadn't thought of Putrecine or Cadaverine for many years. How about Caproic acid? sort of goat like, wouldn't you think?

As an aside, we used to have a Chesnut tree that smelled like semen when it bloomed (I'm told) One time my friend came out in my back yard, promptly turned up his nose and said,"oh yuck, that smells like semen," Before I could agree as to the unnpleasent aroma, his wife walked out and said, "oh, what a lovely fragrance." "You are one lucky man," I told him.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:16 PM

The Ventures did a great version of "Chlamydia." Or was it "Perfidia"? I forget.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Com Seangan
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:19 PM

Mike Hunt

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Raedwulf
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:16 PM

Nothing nasty about sweetbreads. Very nice. Mind you, they are offal, so if you don't like offal (& there's a nasty (awful? ;-) word for a number of things usually very nice)...

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: pdq
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:13 PM

Jeri: thanks for the 'tick poem'.

By the way, isn't Serratia marcescens a French cabaret singer?

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: dwditty
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:48 PM

or is it Sweetbreads?

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: dwditty
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:47 PM

Sweet Breads

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Micca
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 01:46 PM

Here are 4 that sound like they might be quite nice things, from the "Chemicals with Silly names" site
Putrescine, Cadaverine, Spermine and Spermidine
Putrescine originates in putrefying and rotting flesh, and is quite literally, the smell of death. It is one of the breakdown products of some of the amino-acids found in animals, including humans. Although the molecule is a poisonous solid, as flesh decays the vapour pressure of the putrescine it contains becomes sufficiently large to allow its disgusting odour to be detected. It is usually accompanied by cadaverine (named after the cadavers that give rise to it), a poisonous syrupy liquid with an equally disgusting smell. Putrescine and cadaverine also contribute towards the smells of some living processes. Since they are both poisonous, the body normally excretes them in whatever way is quickest and most convenient. For example, the odour of bad breath and urine are 'enriched' by the presence of these molecules, as is the smell of semen, which also contains the related molecules spermine and spermidine.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM

Shania

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: jimmyt
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 10:05 AM

Peroni
Priapism

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: number 6
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 09:59 AM

abattoire   .....   now there's a place with a pleasant ambiance

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM

Seppuku sounds like a Japanese dish.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,Flamenco ted
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 06:48 AM

Northumbrian Smallpipes.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,Splott Man without a cookie
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 06:44 AM

There's a nasty food bug called B. Cereus (say it loud)

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: number 6
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 11:56 PM

Human Resources .....   I prefer the nicer (one) word personnel.

forget heroin ..... crank is a lot nastier !

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 11:48 PM

zephyr

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:33 PM

kamikaze and harikari have a plesant enough sound.

And Osama is a name with a pleasant ring to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Chris Green
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:30 PM

"Latrine". If I ever have a daughter, that's what she'll be called!

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:05 PM

"Coitus Interruptus" is one of the spells taught at Hogwarts.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 05:04 PM

GUEST of 1:55 p.m.:

You said you hate cates. But only if you're talking about felines does that nice-sounding word fit in this thread.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Peace
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:52 PM

Coitus interruptus

"Uh, yes, as we were strolling down memory lane, a vision of coitus interruptus popped into my mind. It was lovely."

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:49 PM

"Boondoggle is a really jolly sounding word." LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 04:45 PM

Yersinia pestis: the active ingredient in Bubonic Plague.
Variola major: the major cause of smallpox.
Mycobacterium leprae: Hanson's Disease, earlier known as leprosy.
Tabin: Nerve Gas, a/k/a VX.
Sarin: Nerve Gas first used by the Nazis, a/k/a GB.

And Necrotizing Fasciitis sound to me like a gentle, creeping, flowering ground cover. (It's also known as flesh-eating bacteria and very, very nasty indeed.)

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: *Laura*
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 03:52 PM

chlamydia - sounds like some sort of underwater plant. :-s

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 03:43 PM

I think Alaska Mike might have meant "heroin". But it's understandable that heroin should be a pleasant sounding word. For a brief time heroin was a legally obtainable "cure" for morphine addiction. Easier to sell if it has a nice marketable name.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 03:24 PM

What's wrong with "heroine", Alaska?

Boondoggle is a really jolly sounding word.

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Raedwulf
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 03:13 PM

Sarbox doesn't sound nice at all. To me it sounds like a bloody nerve agent. But if management dumping Operations responsibility for the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in my lap (we're quoted in the US & have to comply) means I get my next contract renewal, it's a *beautiful* word! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 02:49 PM

How about "heroine"

Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 02:46 PM

Cloaca
Chelazia

Onchocerciasis
Trypanosomiasis, passed by bloodsucking Reduviidae

Borrelia burgdorferi
Nor for you, nor for I,
Leads to a very bad time
And makes you quite sick
When Ixodes - a tick
Bites you, and passes on Lyme

(I used to love saying "Borrelia burgdorferi.") Thanks...all the public health stuff is coming back now. Remember Tony Orlando and Dawn singing "Candida?"