BS: Fun with words

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 05:06 PM

Words ending in "pet" ;
         
       Whippet -----Dog abuse

Limpet ----Impotent canine stud

   Snippet----Reason for above

Carpet------Peripatetic pussy

Parapet----Airborne parrot

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 05:01 PM

Some words ending in "mic"--

Academic----a clever Irishman

    Polemic ----Padraig Ziolkowski

   Seismic----A well-hung Paddy

    Systemic----A methodical Irishman

       Balsamic----A builder of very lightweight boats (from Cork)

      Endemic-----Irish funeral

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 07:33 AM

Nice one, DeG.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: MartinRyan
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 09:11 AM

A rather dated one that comes back to me....

Illegiterate (n) A bastard who can't read.
Computer illegiterate (n) A bastard who can't read BASIC.

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 08:53 AM

Britney Spears = Presbyterian!!

[Spelt it wrong, above]

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: bubblyrat
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 08:52 AM

Consternation ; A mass inability to defecate

Canopies : A tin of Petits Pois

   Pas de Deux ; Father of two

Cloche : Weapon used by Police to subdue rioting gardeners

   Polygamy ; Crowds of small people

   This is fun !!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: bubblyrat
Date: 07 Mar 10 - 08:41 AM

Roses are Red,
And Violets are Purple ;
Sugar is sweet,
And so's Maple Syrple !
                           ( R Miller).

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Paul Burke
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 04:49 PM

If you know Anglesey, there's Wylfa.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Eiseley
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 04:14 PM

They say there is no rhyme for "orange." Hah! Try saying this three times fast:

The singed and cringing moor hen was poised by the orange door hinge awaiting a scorched but now torpid dingy porringer from which it would binge on provender.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM

Soooo...

chilver is a female lamb

I can't find a definition of "filver" except as "silver" misspelled (or with a long s) nor for "hilver".

If you like words, read anything by Willard Espy.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 11:52 AM

Sorry - No cigar M:-( You should watch more QI!

From WikiAnswers -

Despite the myth that nothing rhymes with purple, month, orange or silver, each does have at least one rhyme. Silver rhymes with several words, including: chilver, filver, and hilver. (Wilber at a pinch

I am pretty sure you could stretch any phrase ending 'so' to rhyme with banjo as well.

Dave played upon his banjo
MtheGM did not like it an' so...


:D

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 10:58 AM

Jim and John
Can play the banjo.
So can Fred.
But, tell me, can Joe?

Simples ~ you didn't specify a sngle word rhyme, now, did you, Leady?!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 10 - 07:04 AM

Best anagram I heard lately, Britney Spears = Presbytarian!!

'owzat for incongruity!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 08:44 PM

Oh. Words. I thought it said "Fun with swords."

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 08:20 PM

Silver and Banjo are two words for which there is NO Rhyme

Now work out why I know that !!

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Eiseley
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 08:11 PM

Here is a sentence you can play on the piano:

"Dad fed cabbage [to the] babe."

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 07:49 PM

This is good for many laughs!

Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the Person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.


The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has
gained.

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with yiddishisms

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n . An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: s&r
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:38 PM

H is B natural. Bb is just B

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 03:41 PM

Cabbaged and fabaceae, each eight letters long, are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument. Seven letter words with this property include acceded, baggage, bedface, cabbage, defaced, and effaced.

If one uses the German system of alphabetical note-naming, there's also H, which is Bb. So there would be more and probably longer words with this characteristic.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 11:10 AM

I should have mentioned the musical connection!

Cabbaged and fabaceae, each eight letters long, are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument. Seven letter words with this property include acceded, baggage, bedface, cabbage, defaced, and effaced.

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words
From: theleveller
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 11:08 AM

Yes, I enjoyed it too.

Subject: BS: Fun with words
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 10:51 AM

Check out this site if you like knowing daft things about words.

I enjoyed it. But then again...

:D