'Arctophile' -- Who knew?

Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
From: Lox
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 10:54 AM

I had always imagined that the quality of being concise was "conciseness".

I was right, but when I corrected a friend for using the word "concision" I was proved wrong.

So if you say something in a concise way, you say it with concision.

Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 03:35 PM

Would a pedoarctophile be someone who attempts to lure children with teddy bears?

Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 07:27 PM

No, I think it's a lover 0f bear cubs... Yours would be arctipedophile.

Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 07:31 PM

Mine? I have NEVER ****** a teddybear. I prefer large black bears.

Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 11:20 PM

Paul Burke - And "ecdysichorist" gives Classical tone to strippers.

I've seen this word used for strippers, but Google couldn't find it

found it - ecdysiast in Wikipedia's article about Gypsy Rose Lee.

Trying to describe what Gypsy was (a "high-class" stripper), H. L. Mencken coined the term ecdysiast. Her style of intellectual recitation while stripping was spoofed in the number "Zip!" from Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, a play in which her sister June appeared. Gypsy can be seen performing an abbreviated version of her act (intellectual recitation and all) in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen.

sandra (Arctophile & teddy bear maker)