BS: The Bulbous Thread

Subject: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 11:43 PM

I'm starting this thread because there has never been a Mudcat thread with the word "bulbous" in its title. How could this be? Thousands and thousands of useless, meaningless, inane threads, and nobody bothered to use the word "bulbous" in the title of a single one of them!

What's wrong with you people? Do I have to right all the wrongs around here? Do I look like friggin' Batman to you?

Yeah, I know what you're going to say: "But Beezer, we managed to use 'encroach' in a thread title. That's gotta count for something. And anyway, 'bulbous' is a rather nasty and unappealing sounding word."

Hah! If you can use "Scunthorpe" in a thread title you can surely use "bulbous". On a scale of one to five, with five being the least appealing, "Scunthorpe" gets a six.

Okay, here's what we're gonna do. I'll give you all a chance to atone for your oversight by letting you find other words that haven't been used in thread titles. I would suggest restricting your search to "regular" English words. No specialized jargon, no foreign words, no place-names or other proper nouns.

Whoever finds the most words will some sort of worthless prize. Maybe.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 11:52 PM

By the way, just in case you don't know how to find whether or not a word has ever appeared in a thread title, just type the word into the FILTER box on the Forum Home page, set the age to "ALL", and click the "Refresh" button. It will list all thread titles in which that word has ever appeared.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:11 AM

Well, clever me...the first 6 I tried were winners...so here they are in a sentence.
Deciduous vacillation irrevocably enhances mellifluous transcendentalism.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:47 AM

I dunno about "enhances", Bill. Perhaps we should restrict our searches to the uninflected forms of verbs. "Enhance" has appeared six times.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:02 AM

Conflagration?

Aardvark?

Pussy, tits and fat balls? Oh no, I did that one....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:40 AM

Well of course when you mentioned bulbous, I immediately thought of tumescent - as you do.

Then there's efficacious, somnolent, exfoliate, serrated, loquacious, pasquinade, sophistry, and antediluvian. Gimme some time and I might try putting some of them together.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:55 AM

This one should get the solipsists going too....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:37 AM

Thought this was going to be a gardening thread.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: saulgoldie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:43 AM

Bulbous bouffant, muk-luk, galoshes, macademia...

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: saulgoldie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:45 AM

Check it out, here:

http://www.ferin.com/words.mp3/

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 09:16 AM

How about a thread on the efficacious exfoliation of deciduous flora with a serrated edge rasp? Or would that be a pasquinade?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 09:35 AM

Sure. Here's a whole list, in no particular order, of words that I know that I've used in conversation during the last week and which a filter search does not turn up:

dotage
dottle
magma
calderon
syringa
fleche
exsanguinate
slickrock
cistern
riposte
defoliate
fir
abacus

Gonna be one doozy of a sentence....

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:22 PM

Loquacious sophistry? Seems to me we've had that a time or two.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:27 PM

a bulbous thread would be hard to thread through a needle. Just thought I'd point that out.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:30 PM

You could start at the other end, though.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 12:36 PM

Wasn't there something in the Bible about passing a bulbous thread through the eye of a needle?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:23 PM

I have a bulbous spatula.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:43 PM

The MV Caribou
and her sister ship, MV Joeseph and Clara Smallwod have bulbous bows.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:43 PM

Oops.... Smallwood.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Severn
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:54 PM

I thought this was giong to become an Epic Action Gardining Thread:



TERRACE BULBOUS!


I have a bulbous turkey baster, but no such spatula.



So.....

How many Mudcatters DOES it take to screw up a light Bulbous thread?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM

Just the one.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:17 PM

A search for "taco" turns up TACOma guitars and penTACOstals, but nothing concerning just plain tacos.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM

Oddly enough, in a music forum, there are no threads concerning euphoniums.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 03:10 PM

There was a letter to "Dear Abby" the other day from a woman who played flugelhorn, a word which has also been conspicuously absent, just like "piobrach".

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM

Bulbous -- first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean via the new world.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:00 PM

John, I belive he was most accurately described as "Rotund," not "Bulbous." Rotund, as you might guess, does not appear in a title.

SRS

Subject: Bulbous kumquats, wombats, fudgecicles, & cowries
From: Genie
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:29 PM

I think we should wait till we have at least a hunnert o' these words that have escaped the Mudcat filter and then have a song challenge where you have to use all of them in the same song -- and, ideally, the song will make some sort of sense.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:33 PM

Oh darn. I was waiting for The Pendulous Thread. Pendulosity-- that I can relate to.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 05:50 PM

I KNOW we have talked about Abdul, the Bulbous Emir!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 06:09 PM

Thus far Jupiter has been ignored. Boy, is he pissed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 06:21 PM

but he can be placated...

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 06:25 PM

So...

what she's doing to him is called "placating"?

Obviously "placating" is done semi-clothed? Funny, but it sounds more like something you'd go to a dentist to have done. Well, actually, she is touching his mouth. My dentist does't dress the same as Jupiter's.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 07:36 PM

Vulcanize.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 07:54 PM

...as in...

Spock was the Star Trek character who saw everything through vulcanize.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:40 PM

Damn... I thought that picture of me had been destroyed.. I paid enough for the bloody prints!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 09:17 PM

Another serious omission on a music forum: threnody.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 09:58 PM

Yes, well, serotinous is missing, as are probably a whole bunch of other words a naturalist would use in a week's worth of nature walks...

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:42 PM

We've had "gelatin", but not "gelatinous"

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:49 PM

Neither viscous or viscosity have graced these pages. Turgid hasn't made it here yet (though I think Jupiter might be the reason I'm thinking along these lines. . .)

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:53 PM

"Gelignite" is also missing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:58 PM

If I spelled "lugubrious" right, it hasn't shown up yet.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 10:59 PM

I'd try "Lamborghini" but I'm not sure of the spelling.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:52 AM

No food threads concerning "endives", "Salsify" or "orange roughy"
As a matter of fact, nothing about oranges, either. Orange in song titles, the color, but not the fruit itself.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:24 AM

A friend once joked about Muddy Waters' son, TurbidWater.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 10:27 AM

"Uranium" has several entries AND a song, but poor old "radium" doesn't make it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 11:42 AM

And astonishingly, there's nothing about Uranus, either.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

"... there's nothing about Uranus, either."

That's one of those threads that fell off the bottom.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 01:28 PM

There was nothing about ligaments until today.

And there's been no mention of toejam in a thread title, though I know it's been mentioned in the bodies of a few threads.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM

Nothing about Radium, huh? I'll go out on a limb and without checking say that there are no threads about vanadium, argon, manganese, zinc, and most of the elements.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:24 PM

Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and helium are all represented. I didn't check on thorium and einsteinium, but I think polonium is.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:27 PM

I thought this was about the film Taras Bulbous, with Yul Bryner and Tony Curtis.

Giok

PS What about floccinaucinihilipilification, is that on the list?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:31 PM

Bigotry is rampant here. No threads concerning folksong traditions of Bukhovinia or Thrace. Also, the Tlingit and Kwakiutl tribes are woefully unrepresented. Nothing about Scythia. Ditto for Baluchistan, Tristan de Cunha, Nauru, Yap Island, Tierra del Fuego, Frisia....

Stop it, Steve. We get the point.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:05 PM

Good God, neither is the Duchy of Grand Fenwick!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:26 PM

Hmmmppf! In titles, maybe...but *I* have personally done both Yap Island money and Grand Fenwick in posts.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM

Quetzlcoatl?

Overcoatl?

Pretzelcoatl?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: polaitaly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:52 AM

Lamborghini. The spelling it's ok. But if we can use non-english words, why not maxillofacciale?
Tarantolato?
Iperglicemia?
paola

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: polaitaly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:55 AM

Transeunte?
paola

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 05:01 AM

porco miseria?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 05:36 AM

Over 50 posts and nobody mentioned Captain Beefheart?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: polaitaly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 07:11 AM

Captain Beefheart was eminently bulbous?
(but, what's more, "eminently" is a real english word or I made it up now?)
paola

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 07:36 AM

From Trout Mask Replica...

Dialogue:
Don Van Vliet: (laughter)
taped DVV: "Fast and bulbous"
The Mascara Snake: "Fast and bulbous" DVV: "That's er . . . " (more laughter) Frank Zappa: "Okay, do it again, then you've won."
DVV: "I love it, it's one of those words."
MS: "Fast and bulbous"
DVV: "That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous."
MS: "Bulbous also tapered"
DVV: "Yeah, but yer gotta wait until I say, 'Also, a tin teardrop' "
MS: (laughing) "Huh. . . christ"
FZ: "Again, beginning"
MS: "Fast and bulbous"
DVV: "That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous. Also a tin teardrop."
MS: "Bulbous also tapered"
DVV: "That's right"

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:06 AM

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous."

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 08:49 AM

"squid eating dough". What kind of dough eats squid?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:03 AM

Bulbous -- A muzzle-loading firearm. The predicessor to the shotgun.

Shotgun -- A mini-series from the '80s starring Richard Chamberlain, based loosely on the historical beginnings of the Ginsu knife.

Chamberlain -- somewhat archaic term for a housemaid.

Housemaid -- a somewhat archaic term for something made in the home (as opposed to commercially produced).

Archaic -- the zoological family that includes spiders and crabs.

Zoological -- the way animals think.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:24 AM

scatological - saying what you're thinking as you chase off the cat that just shit in your flower bed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:55 AM

I thought "scatological" had to do with finding really fresh bear droppings in the woods.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:42 PM

scatological -- how he thinks.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:59 PM

dermatological.... how skin thinks.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:07 PM

undermatological -- where young boys hide their Playboy Magazines, and think that nobody will find them.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:16 PM

Biological: thinking about it twice.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:24 PM

Twice -- a pair of mouses.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:40 PM

"Trigonometry" - The science of precisely measuring Willie Nelson's guitar.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:51 PM

L.R.R.H.: "My, what a bulbous one you have!!"

Wolf: Yes, the better to hold my pick with!

Red again: No need for a rubber edge. And it'll sure never get lost inside either!!

(unsigned)

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM

Willie Nelson -- Wrestling hold executed by disabling the opponent's willie. The Full Willie Nelson is illegal.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:00 PM

Isn't bulbas Yiddish for potatoes??!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:42 PM

No, bulbas are what tulips come from. If you're not careful they can blow away, because they are light bulbas.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:02 PM

Mr. Potatohead had two lips. They could be placed anywhere on his head.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 06:12 PM

A half Willie Nelson is legal. But which half? That is the question!

Ah, nuts! I'll never figure it out. . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: RangerSteve
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 06:20 PM

Somce we've descended into bad puns, here's a couple of subjects to explore: Bulbonic plague; Bulbo Baggins. Feel free to elaborate.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 11:21 PM

No, no -- that Dildo Baggins. Bubo Baggins was Dildo's half cousin twice removed on his Aunt Chloe's best friend's second husband's first wife's third cousin's side. Bubo went on a Quest to destroy the Ring That Turned Fingers Green with Sandwich and Grandgulp the Gay. Dildo met up with Gallon, who had lifted the ring from Serutan, who had gotten it from an itinerant ring salesman. It's quite a long, and mostly boring, story of daring-do, flatulence, overeating, and hangovers of epic proportions.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 12:35 AM

But Dildo Baggins did have a shiny protuberant nose that could be described as bulbous. Proboscis glabra sp. bulbosa was the medical term, I believe.

Had a heckuva time getting this one to clear the spellcheck!