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22 Jun 07 - 11:43 PM (#2084581) Subject: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell 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. |
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22 Jun 07 - 11:52 PM (#2084586) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell 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. |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:11 AM (#2084592) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bill D Well, clever me...the first 6 I tried were winners...so here they are in a sentence. Deciduous vacillation irrevocably enhances mellifluous transcendentalism. |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:47 AM (#2084602) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell I dunno about "enhances", Bill. Perhaps we should restrict our searches to the uninflected forms of verbs. "Enhance" has appeared six times. |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:02 AM (#2084620) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Liz the Squeak Conflagration? Aardvark? Pussy, tits and fat balls? Oh no, I did that one.... LTS |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:40 AM (#2084636) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: JennyO 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. |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:55 AM (#2084639) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Liz the Squeak This one should get the solipsists going too.... LTS |
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23 Jun 07 - 08:37 AM (#2084784) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Dave Hanson Thought this was going to be a gardening thread. eric |
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23 Jun 07 - 08:43 AM (#2084787) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: saulgoldie Bulbous bouffant, muk-luk, galoshes, macademia... |
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23 Jun 07 - 08:45 AM (#2084788) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: saulgoldie Check it out, here: http://www.ferin.com/words.mp3/ |
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23 Jun 07 - 09:16 AM (#2084799) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: JennyO How about a thread on the efficacious exfoliation of deciduous flora with a serrated edge rasp? Or would that be a pasquinade? |
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23 Jun 07 - 09:35 AM (#2084809) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee 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.... |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:22 PM (#2084894) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Ebbie Loquacious sophistry? Seems to me we've had that a time or two. |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:27 PM (#2084898) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly a bulbous thread would be hard to thread through a needle. Just thought I'd point that out. |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:30 PM (#2084902) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee You could start at the other end, though. |
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23 Jun 07 - 12:36 PM (#2084907) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell Wasn't there something in the Bible about passing a bulbous thread through the eye of a needle? |
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23 Jun 07 - 01:23 PM (#2084930) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage I have a bulbous spatula. |
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23 Jun 07 - 01:43 PM (#2084948) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: gnu The MV Caribou and her sister ship, MV Joeseph and Clara Smallwod have bulbous bows. |
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23 Jun 07 - 01:43 PM (#2084949) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: gnu Oops.... Smallwood. |
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23 Jun 07 - 01:54 PM (#2084960) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Severn 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? |
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23 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM (#2084966) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: gnu Just the one. |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:17 PM (#2084978) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve A search for "taco" turns up TACOma guitars and penTACOstals, but nothing concerning just plain tacos. |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM (#2084980) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve Oddly enough, in a music forum, there are no threads concerning euphoniums. |
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23 Jun 07 - 03:10 PM (#2085020) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee 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". |
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23 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM (#2085044) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly Bulbous -- first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean via the new world. |
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23 Jun 07 - 05:00 PM (#2085089) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage John, I belive he was most accurately described as "Rotund," not "Bulbous." Rotund, as you might guess, does not appear in a title. SRS |
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23 Jun 07 - 05:29 PM (#2085111) Subject: Bulbous kumquats, wombats, fudgecicles, & cowries From: Genie 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 |
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23 Jun 07 - 05:33 PM (#2085116) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: wysiwyg Oh darn. I was waiting for The Pendulous Thread. Pendulosity-- that I can relate to. ~S~ |
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23 Jun 07 - 05:50 PM (#2085129) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bill D I KNOW we have talked about Abdul, the Bulbous Emir! |
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23 Jun 07 - 06:09 PM (#2085136) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly Thus far Jupiter has been ignored. Boy, is he pissed. |
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23 Jun 07 - 06:21 PM (#2085145) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bill D but he can be placated... |
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23 Jun 07 - 06:25 PM (#2085146) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly 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. |
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23 Jun 07 - 07:36 PM (#2085172) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee Vulcanize. |
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23 Jun 07 - 07:54 PM (#2085180) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly ...as in... Spock was the Star Trek character who saw everything through vulcanize. |
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23 Jun 07 - 08:40 PM (#2085212) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Liz the Squeak Damn... I thought that picture of me had been destroyed.. I paid enough for the bloody prints! LTS |
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23 Jun 07 - 09:17 PM (#2085238) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve Another serious omission on a music forum: threnody. |
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23 Jun 07 - 09:58 PM (#2085261) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: ranger1 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... |
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23 Jun 07 - 10:42 PM (#2085296) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: frogprince We've had "gelatin", but not "gelatinous" |
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23 Jun 07 - 10:49 PM (#2085303) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage 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. . .) |
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23 Jun 07 - 10:53 PM (#2085305) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee "Gelignite" is also missing. |
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23 Jun 07 - 10:58 PM (#2085307) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: frogprince If I spelled "lugubrious" right, it hasn't shown up yet. |
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23 Jun 07 - 10:59 PM (#2085309) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee I'd try "Lamborghini" but I'm not sure of the spelling. |
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24 Jun 07 - 08:52 AM (#2085506) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve 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. |
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24 Jun 07 - 10:24 AM (#2085549) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: wysiwyg A friend once joked about Muddy Waters' son, TurbidWater. ~S~ |
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24 Jun 07 - 10:27 AM (#2085554) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee "Uranium" has several entries AND a song, but poor old "radium" doesn't make it. |
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24 Jun 07 - 11:42 AM (#2085601) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage And astonishingly, there's nothing about Uranus, either. |
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24 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM (#2085624) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bill D "... there's nothing about Uranus, either." That's one of those threads that fell off the bottom. |
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24 Jun 07 - 01:28 PM (#2085690) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell 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. |
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24 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM (#2085741) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve 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. |
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24 Jun 07 - 02:24 PM (#2085747) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and helium are all represented. I didn't check on thorium and einsteinium, but I think polonium is. |
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24 Jun 07 - 02:27 PM (#2085751) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John MacKenzie 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? |
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24 Jun 07 - 02:31 PM (#2085755) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve 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. |
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24 Jun 07 - 03:05 PM (#2085776) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee Good God, neither is the Duchy of Grand Fenwick! |
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24 Jun 07 - 03:26 PM (#2085791) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bill D Hmmmppf! In titles, maybe...but *I* have personally done both Yap Island money and Grand Fenwick in posts. |
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24 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM (#2085915) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Liz the Squeak Quetzlcoatl? Overcoatl? Pretzelcoatl? LTS |
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25 Jun 07 - 04:52 AM (#2086188) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: polaitaly Lamborghini. The spelling it's ok. But if we can use non-english words, why not maxillofacciale? Tarantolato? Iperglicemia? paola |
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25 Jun 07 - 04:55 AM (#2086190) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: polaitaly Transeunte? paola |
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25 Jun 07 - 05:01 AM (#2086193) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John MacKenzie porco miseria? |
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25 Jun 07 - 05:36 AM (#2086208) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: GUEST,PMB Over 50 posts and nobody mentioned Captain Beefheart? |
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25 Jun 07 - 07:11 AM (#2086260) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: polaitaly Captain Beefheart was eminently bulbous? (but, what's more, "eminently" is a real english word or I made it up now?) paola |
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25 Jun 07 - 07:36 AM (#2086276) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: GUEST,PMB 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" |
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25 Jun 07 - 08:06 AM (#2086301) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous." |
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25 Jun 07 - 08:49 AM (#2086333) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve "squid eating dough". What kind of dough eats squid? |
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25 Jun 07 - 09:03 AM (#2086346) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly 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. |
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25 Jun 07 - 11:24 AM (#2086482) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage scatological - saying what you're thinking as you chase off the cat that just shit in your flower bed. |
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25 Jun 07 - 11:55 AM (#2086504) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee I thought "scatological" had to do with finding really fresh bear droppings in the woods. |
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25 Jun 07 - 12:42 PM (#2086559) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly scatological -- how he thinks. |
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25 Jun 07 - 12:59 PM (#2086582) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Liz the Squeak dermatological.... how skin thinks. LTS |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:07 PM (#2086596) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly undermatological -- where young boys hide their Playboy Magazines, and think that nobody will find them. |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:16 PM (#2086603) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee Biological: thinking about it twice. |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:24 PM (#2086617) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly Twice -- a pair of mouses. |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:40 PM (#2086629) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Bee-dubya-ell "Trigonometry" - The science of precisely measuring Willie Nelson's guitar. |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:51 PM (#2086638) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: GUEST,Art Thieme 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) |
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25 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM (#2086643) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly Willie Nelson -- Wrestling hold executed by disabling the opponent's willie. The Full Willie Nelson is illegal. |
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25 Jun 07 - 02:00 PM (#2086649) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: GUEST,Art Thieme Isn't bulbas Yiddish for potatoes??! |
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25 Jun 07 - 03:42 PM (#2086739) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee No, bulbas are what tulips come from. If you're not careful they can blow away, because they are light bulbas. |
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25 Jun 07 - 04:02 PM (#2086760) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: John Hardly Mr. Potatohead had two lips. They could be placed anywhere on his head. |
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25 Jun 07 - 06:12 PM (#2086883) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage A half Willie Nelson is legal. But which half? That is the question! Ah, nuts! I'll never figure it out. . . |
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25 Jun 07 - 06:20 PM (#2086888) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: RangerSteve Somce we've descended into bad puns, here's a couple of subjects to explore: Bulbonic plague; Bulbo Baggins. Feel free to elaborate. |
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25 Jun 07 - 11:21 PM (#2087016) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Rapparee 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. |
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26 Jun 07 - 12:35 AM (#2087038) Subject: RE: BS: The Bulbous Thread From: Stilly River Sage 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! |
