BS: Words that are fun to say

Subject: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:03 PM

Obsidian. Ubiquitous. Onomatopoeia.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:05 PM

I always liked that Greek Dance - Kalamatianos. I tried to use it as a password once but it's a bugger to type.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: MMario
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:10 PM

Most of the words that are fun to say I can't spell!!!!

Oenaematapea? (something like that)

Transubstantiation

Articulated

and BROMIDE

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:10 PM

Kallikanzaroi, if you like Zelazny. For that matter, Zelazny, whether you like kallikanzaroi or not! And you beat me to Onomotopoeia!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:13 PM

Onomotopoeia is the best. I don't think I spelt it right though.

Discombobulated

Absquatulated

Bodacious

Squeejawed

Cattywompus

Fiddlesticks

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:17 PM

Onomatopoeia is spelled properly in the first post of the thread. I looked it up.

Obsequious
Absconded
Miscegenation
Apoplexy
Gallipoli

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:19 PM

Poppycock.

A friend of mine was telling me she'd been accused of sexual harrassment by her male boss, and I told her she should have answered:
Poppycock! I didn't want one INCH of your Poppycock!

Zounds, egad, and all those.

Scrumptious.
Free-for-all, which is also how we pronounced on of our college dorms, really called Freefer Hall (the initial F kept disappearing from the walls, too).

Splurge. Splurge. Splurge.

Spelunk. As in Calvin and Hobbes, that is, where it's the sport of throwing large rocks *spelunk!* into the pool...

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:21 PM

1. solipsism - great fun to say, specially because hardly anyone knows what it means.

2. "subliminable" - thanks to George W. Bush for this one.

3. "humungous" - not a real word, but what the hell, it sounds good!

4. "bodacious" - as above (in my opinion).

5. "hellacious" - ditto.

6. perpendicular - describes the lovemaking technique of giraffes, who really have no choice about the matter.

7. democracy - a semi-mythical means of governing a people...works on the principle of giving them the impression that they have some control over the process, a dubious notion at best. It's still better than dictatorsip, however, unless the dictator is a person of very advanced moral responsibility and very humane character, with the genuine interests of all his/her people in mind...(which can hardly be guaranteed, of course). :-)

Say it when you're feeling down..."Democracy, Democracy, DEMOCRACY!!!"

See? You're feeling better already, aren't you?

8. "Santa Claus" - Even better. Sort of works the way democracy does...promises much, leaves a few crumbs on the floor. Say it when you feel in need of more goodies.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Zebedee
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:23 PM

Acquiescence Impingement

or maybe:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:40 PM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:41 PM

and especially when you can mix a couple or 3 and make it sound like you are saying something...I do this all the time.

recapitulative prognostications

ante-diluvian, reprehensible velocipedes

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:41 PM

Just saying the name Slartibartfast, always makes me laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:45 PM

Premature ejaculation. Fun to say, but not so much fun to experience...

Credibility gap.

Gap, period. (refers to space between ears of person buying clothing)

Doh! Duh! Dawk! All great fun to say.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:51 PM

Just remembered, we had a Conservation politician in Canada for some time (until the Conservatives were turfed out of office), a cabinet minister, whose surname was...are you ready... HNATYSHIN

It sounds like a sneeze. You pronounce it "Na-TISH-in". Very funny.

Come to think of it "Strom Thurmond" sounds pretty funny too, not to mention "Spiro Agnew". Remember him?

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:52 PM

Defenstration

garrotting

hehehehehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:57 PM

amorphous vascular adulation

(and not a DURN thing funny about Strom Thurmond except the name!) Spiro was kinda funny anyway, because HE used big words..("nattering nabobs of negativitism")

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:57 PM

Yes please, mine's a pint would be up there in my top ten: I also like old fashioned words like frock, flibertigibbert and perambulator.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:58 PM

allegory

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 02:58 PM

Guelph.

It's a town in souther Ontario. Sounds like "elf".

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Peter T.
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:05 PM

Actually it was more like HNAT-ishen. You could hear the H.

Blithe. Blithe is a nice word.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:11 PM

porrage

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: R!
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:19 PM

Balderdash! Especially effective if you draw yourself up to full size before uttering in response to some knuckleheaded remark. I think Lady Bracknell would say this.

Persnickity (a favorite in my circle of friends).

Cutie patootie.

Rowana

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Night Owl
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:22 PM

Bill...Spiro was also expert at shooting his OWN self in the foot as I remember. Fun thread! Is "Slartibartfast" what Spaw does after ingesting vegemite??? And what is "flibertigibbert"?? Makings of a great song challenge in here. Adding "specificity" to the list.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:29 PM

a flibertigibbert is a young lady of loose morals and a lightweight disposition, one about whom my mother might purse her lips and pronounce, " No better than she ought to be", which is also a delightful phrase.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:33 PM

Petunia

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:39 PM

Bodacious was a slang term even back during the Civil War.

Splendid is another word I like.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:39 PM

ohhh...you brought up memories of my crusty old English Lit. prof in college!

When we were reading Milton, the conversation turned to various names given to Satan and other devils...and Dr. Mood said, "Oh, by the way, did you realize that the name of one devil was the same as we now use to refer to sorority girls?"

when he got blank stares, he said.."You mean you've never heard of the Foul Fiend Flibbertigibbet?"

then he got baleful stares

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:50 PM

and here is the answer!..

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:54 PM

yes, that little dash IS the link ..I didn't put in a word like this (turns out Flibbertigibbet was mentioned in King Lear)

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 03:56 PM

Codswallop. The sound of the word that is, not any of the above posts.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:15 PM

copacetic, and a lot of words other people already listed...

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Night Owl
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:19 PM

did the "bodacious flibertigibbert slartibartfast her codswallop"...or did the "flibertigibbert bodaciously codswallop her slartibartfast"??

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: NightWing
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:31 PM

Hullaballoo

Brouhaha

Both words for lots of noise, which does tend to be the case whenever I'm around *L*

"What's all this brouhaha?"

"Brouhaha? Ha ha ha!"

"Ha ha"

"Hahahahaha"

- Firesign Theater - How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?, "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye"

And, rather like Morticia, some of my favorite words are "Here, this round's on me" *LOL*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: JedMarum
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:32 PM

just emphasize the Ns and repeat:

"too many men run in and out"

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:35 PM

Jed, that's a lot like:

If you jiggle it a little, it'll open.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: kendall
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:38 PM

cellar door I always liked the way it just rolls off the tongue.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: nutty
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 04:54 PM

They have a special name for cleaning out the drains over here which I think is wonderful

It's called GULLEY SUCKING

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:02 PM

Doesn't that sound wonderfully perverted?......No? You mean it's just me......again? Oh bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Robo
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:02 PM

Legerdermain, as in feats of

Nonchalant

Hosni Mubarek

Rob-o

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:10 PM

Oooh! Boutros Boutros-Gali (or however it's spelt). What a wonderful name!

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: nutty
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 05:38 PM

no Morticia -- I'm with you - it conjures up all kind of images

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:01 PM

I couldn't possibly list even a small fraction of the ones I'm fond of...some random picks:

idiotry
oomphalaskepsis
pachycephalic
steatocephalic
abominable
peripheral neuropathy (which is more fun to say than to have)
tatterdemalion
crepitation

.....I like words.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:06 PM

Fuckoff

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:09 PM

In four hours, THAT was the best you could come up with Spaw. You must be ill or something.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:17 PM

Fuckoff Bert.

See? It is fun to say!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Bert
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:21 PM

Mmmmm, lemee try. - Fuckoff Spaw!
Yup, yer right. Sure is fun to say.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,rabbitrunning
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:26 PM

Bulbous Bouffant

Yes, the whole skit by the Vestibules. It's on the Dr. Demento 30th anniversary collection if you've never heard it.

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: bec
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:39 PM

Jabberwocky.

Don't know why, just is

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: Night Owl
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 06:59 PM

"fruminous bandersnatch"

Subject: RE: BS: Words that are fun to say
From: GUEST,steve
Date: 13 Dec 00 - 07:37 PM

Laporoscopic colocystectomy rolls off the tongue so beautifully, it has to be added to any list of favorites.