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05 Mar 10 - 10:51 AM (#2856807) Subject: BS: Fun with words From: Dave the Gnome Check out this site if you like knowing daft things about words. I enjoyed it. But then again... :D |
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05 Mar 10 - 11:08 AM (#2856818) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: theleveller Yes, I enjoyed it too. |
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05 Mar 10 - 11:10 AM (#2856821) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Dave the Gnome 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. |
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05 Mar 10 - 03:41 PM (#2857008) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
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05 Mar 10 - 06:38 PM (#2857132) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: s&r H is B natural. Bb is just B Stu |
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05 Mar 10 - 07:49 PM (#2857185) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Dorothy Parshall 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. |
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05 Mar 10 - 08:11 PM (#2857208) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Eiseley Here is a sentence you can play on the piano: "Dad fed cabbage [to the] babe." |
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05 Mar 10 - 08:20 PM (#2857214) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Leadfingers Silver and Banjo are two words for which there is NO Rhyme Now work out why I know that !! |
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05 Mar 10 - 08:44 PM (#2857225) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Rapparee Oh. Words. I thought it said "Fun with swords." |
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06 Mar 10 - 07:04 AM (#2857446) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Mr Happy Best anagram I heard lately, Britney Spears = Presbytarian!! 'owzat for incongruity! |
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06 Mar 10 - 10:58 AM (#2857570) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: MGM·Lion 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?! |
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06 Mar 10 - 11:52 AM (#2857602) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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06 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM (#2857813) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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06 Mar 10 - 04:14 PM (#2857816) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Eiseley 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. |
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06 Mar 10 - 04:49 PM (#2857839) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Paul Burke If you know Anglesey, there's Wylfa. |
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07 Mar 10 - 08:41 AM (#2858274) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: bubblyrat Roses are Red, And Violets are Purple ; Sugar is sweet, And so's Maple Syrple ! ( R Miller). |
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07 Mar 10 - 08:52 AM (#2858278) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: bubblyrat 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 !! |
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07 Mar 10 - 08:53 AM (#2858281) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Mr Happy Britney Spears = Presbyterian!! [Spelt it wrong, above] |
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07 Mar 10 - 09:11 AM (#2858286) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: MartinRyan 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 |
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08 Mar 10 - 07:33 AM (#2859038) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: Bryn Pugh Nice one, DeG. |
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08 Mar 10 - 05:01 PM (#2859514) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: bubblyrat 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 |
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08 Mar 10 - 05:06 PM (#2859520) Subject: RE: BS: Fun with words From: bubblyrat Words ending in "pet" ; Whippet -----Dog abuse Limpet ----Impotent canine stud Snippet----Reason for above Carpet------Peripatetic pussy Parapet----Airborne parrot |