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06 Feb 05 - 12:55 PM (#1400759) Subject: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Bee-dubya-ell No, I don't have too much time on my hands. I've just been doing a lot of the type of dull, repetitive manual labor that leaves one's mind free to wonder about weird stuff. Specifically, I've been sawing up and burning trees that Hurricane Ivan knocked down back in September. So, it has occurred to me that, though hurricanes are one of my very least favorite things, the actual word "hurricane" is quite lovely. It has intrinsic beauty. If it didn't already mean what it does, it would make a very nice name for a flower. And "hurricane" isn't the only beautiful name for a natural disaster. "Tornado" and "tsunami" are beautiful words as well. Most nasty things seem to usually have either nasty short little clippy names or long unpronouncable things that require too much effort. "Cancer" is just an ugly word. And who could possibly ever think "infarction" is beautiful? But there are exceptions. And, since I'm not feeling quite 100% this morning, the words "nausea" and "vertigo" have popped into mind and I've found that they resonate quite nicely if one can disassociate their sounds from their meanings. Any other candidates? How about "fistula"? |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:11 PM (#1400773) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Com Seangan The President of America for George W. Bush. |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:14 PM (#1400775) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Rapparee Yersinia pestis. Such a lovely name, sound like a beautiful sort of tree or flowering shrub ("Yes, my yard is hedged with Yersinia Pestis -- isn't it lovely this Spring?". Variola major sounds like someone in charge of the variolas in a band, perhaps like a pipe major. Mycobacterium leprae sounds like something that changes grape juice into a truly great wine. And Tabin and Sarin sound like artificial sweeteners. |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:19 PM (#1400780) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Linda Kelly rubella and hemlock lovely words but.... |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:21 PM (#1400783) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Ebbie "And may I introduce my daughters, Diarrhea and Pestilence? |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:52 PM (#1400812) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: dianavan Bacteria |
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06 Feb 05 - 01:55 PM (#1400817) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST pussy I detest cats |
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06 Feb 05 - 02:00 PM (#1400821) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: open mike Yersinia pestis. Variola major Mycobacterium leprae Tabin Sarin so, Rap., what are they all? the agent taht causes leprosy? is sarin the gas that terrorists use in subways? |
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06 Feb 05 - 02:15 PM (#1400832) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Bee-dubya-ell "Ebola" has a nice ring to it. And "influenza" is nice, though the abbreviated version "flu" sounds about as appealing as "grippe" or "gout". |
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06 Feb 05 - 02:46 PM (#1400857) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Jeri Cloaca Chelazia Onchocerciasis Trypanosomiasis, passed by bloodsucking Reduviidae Borrelia burgdorferi Nor for you, nor for I, Leads to a very bad time And makes you quite sick When Ixodes - a tick Bites you, and passes on Lyme (I used to love saying "Borrelia burgdorferi.") Thanks...all the public health stuff is coming back now. Remember Tony Orlando and Dawn singing "Candida?" |
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06 Feb 05 - 02:49 PM (#1400859) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Alaska Mike How about "heroine" |
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06 Feb 05 - 03:13 PM (#1400884) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Raedwulf Sarbox doesn't sound nice at all. To me it sounds like a bloody nerve agent. But if management dumping Operations responsibility for the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in my lap (we're quoted in the US & have to comply) means I get my next contract renewal, it's a *beautiful* word! ;-) |
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06 Feb 05 - 03:24 PM (#1400892) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: McGrath of Harlow What's wrong with "heroine", Alaska? Boondoggle is a really jolly sounding word. |
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06 Feb 05 - 03:43 PM (#1400912) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Bee-dubya-ell I think Alaska Mike might have meant "heroin". But it's understandable that heroin should be a pleasant sounding word. For a brief time heroin was a legally obtainable "cure" for morphine addiction. Easier to sell if it has a nice marketable name. |
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06 Feb 05 - 03:52 PM (#1400922) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: *Laura* chlamydia - sounds like some sort of underwater plant. :-s |
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06 Feb 05 - 04:45 PM (#1400974) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Rapparee Yersinia pestis: the active ingredient in Bubonic Plague. Variola major: the major cause of smallpox. Mycobacterium leprae: Hanson's Disease, earlier known as leprosy. Tabin: Nerve Gas, a/k/a VX. Sarin: Nerve Gas first used by the Nazis, a/k/a GB. And Necrotizing Fasciitis sound to me like a gentle, creeping, flowering ground cover. (It's also known as flesh-eating bacteria and very, very nasty indeed.) |
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06 Feb 05 - 04:49 PM (#1400981) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Ebbie "Boondoggle is a really jolly sounding word." LOL |
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06 Feb 05 - 04:52 PM (#1400985) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Peace Coitus interruptus "Uh, yes, as we were strolling down memory lane, a vision of coitus interruptus popped into my mind. It was lovely." |
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06 Feb 05 - 05:04 PM (#1401003) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Uncle_DaveO GUEST of 1:55 p.m.: You said you hate cates. But only if you're talking about felines does that nice-sounding word fit in this thread. Dave Oesterreich |
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06 Feb 05 - 05:05 PM (#1401005) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Rapparee "Coitus Interruptus" is one of the spells taught at Hogwarts. |
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06 Feb 05 - 05:30 PM (#1401031) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Chris Green "Latrine". If I ever have a daughter, that's what she'll be called! |
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06 Feb 05 - 05:33 PM (#1401034) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: McGrath of Harlow kamikaze and harikari have a plesant enough sound. And Osama is a name with a pleasant ring to it. |
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06 Feb 05 - 11:48 PM (#1401308) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,heric zephyr |
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06 Feb 05 - 11:56 PM (#1401313) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: number 6 Human Resources ..... I prefer the nicer (one) word personnel. forget heroin ..... crank is a lot nastier ! sIx |
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07 Feb 05 - 06:44 AM (#1401441) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,Splott Man without a cookie There's a nasty food bug called B. Cereus (say it loud) |
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07 Feb 05 - 06:48 AM (#1401443) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,Flamenco ted Northumbrian Smallpipes. |
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07 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM (#1401460) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,Rapaire Seppuku sounds like a Japanese dish. |
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07 Feb 05 - 09:59 AM (#1401482) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: number 6 abattoire ..... now there's a place with a pleasant ambiance |
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07 Feb 05 - 10:05 AM (#1401487) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: jimmyt Peroni Priapism |
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07 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM (#1401631) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: TheBigPinkLad Shania |
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07 Feb 05 - 01:46 PM (#1401702) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Micca Here are 4 that sound like they might be quite nice things, from the "Chemicals with Silly names" site Putrescine, Cadaverine, Spermine and Spermidine Putrescine originates in putrefying and rotting flesh, and is quite literally, the smell of death. It is one of the breakdown products of some of the amino-acids found in animals, including humans. Although the molecule is a poisonous solid, as flesh decays the vapour pressure of the putrescine it contains becomes sufficiently large to allow its disgusting odour to be detected. It is usually accompanied by cadaverine (named after the cadavers that give rise to it), a poisonous syrupy liquid with an equally disgusting smell. Putrescine and cadaverine also contribute towards the smells of some living processes. Since they are both poisonous, the body normally excretes them in whatever way is quickest and most convenient. For example, the odour of bad breath and urine are 'enriched' by the presence of these molecules, as is the smell of semen, which also contains the related molecules spermine and spermidine. |
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07 Feb 05 - 01:47 PM (#1401703) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: dwditty Sweet Breads |
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07 Feb 05 - 01:48 PM (#1401704) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: dwditty or is it Sweetbreads? |
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07 Feb 05 - 02:13 PM (#1401725) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: pdq Jeri: thanks for the 'tick poem'. By the way, isn't Serratia marcescens a French cabaret singer? |
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07 Feb 05 - 02:16 PM (#1401730) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Raedwulf Nothing nasty about sweetbreads. Very nice. Mind you, they are offal, so if you don't like offal (& there's a nasty (awful? ;-) word for a number of things usually very nice)... |
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07 Feb 05 - 02:19 PM (#1401734) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Com Seangan Mike Hunt |
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07 Feb 05 - 03:16 PM (#1401796) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Cool Beans The Ventures did a great version of "Chlamydia." Or was it "Perfidia"? I forget. |
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07 Feb 05 - 03:27 PM (#1401803) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: jimmyt MIcca!!! Good Organic references! Hadn't thought of Putrecine or Cadaverine for many years. How about Caproic acid? sort of goat like, wouldn't you think? As an aside, we used to have a Chesnut tree that smelled like semen when it bloomed (I'm told) One time my friend came out in my back yard, promptly turned up his nose and said,"oh yuck, that smells like semen," Before I could agree as to the unnpleasent aroma, his wife walked out and said, "oh, what a lovely fragrance." "You are one lucky man," I told him. |
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07 Feb 05 - 04:20 PM (#1401857) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Mr Red Pure Finding - collecting dogshit Victorian trade defuct by the 30's though John Lee (Crediton Folk Festival) reckoned the tannery inClyton had a shit pit in the 50's. Kind of thing some people write songs about - oh what a giveawy......... |
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07 Feb 05 - 04:56 PM (#1401886) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Jeri Micca, "Here are 4 that sound like they might be quite nice things," - IN WHAT UNIVERSE??!!. "Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus" - some things just roll off the tongue. This sounds like a nice Irish 'scat'. Oh, it was in the month of May ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus It was in the month of May Aedes egypti and all It was in the month of may, When to the swamp I made my way Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus, Aedes egypti and all And I was a carefree lass Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus And I was a carefree lass Aedes egypti and all Oh, I was a carefree lass 'Till a big mosquito bit... enough already (I honestly can't help it.) |
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07 Feb 05 - 08:09 PM (#1402068) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,Art Thieme Martin Gibson --- both good guitars |
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07 Feb 05 - 08:15 PM (#1402072) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: GUEST,Art Thieme again as Peter and Lou Berryman said in a song once: the Belvidere Oasis--- "A lovely name for such a terrible place to go." (It is an overpass on the toll road going N.W. out of Chicago.---Mainly has overpriced meals and unclean restrooms. Art Thieme |
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07 Feb 05 - 08:18 PM (#1402073) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Jim Tailor Jeez. You (of all people) hafta ask?! Amorphous silica. ...and if you happen to be afflicted with great glaze formula/no raw material, these extinct chemicals sound loverly... Gerstly Borate Cornwall Stone Albany Slip |
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07 Feb 05 - 09:15 PM (#1402105) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Once Famous Fart Theme Long forgotten on Lincoln Avenue. |
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07 Feb 05 - 09:28 PM (#1402115) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Bee-dubya-ell But those aren't nasty, Jim, unless you inhale them. Of course, if you do inhale them you'll die from silicosis which does have a nice ring to it. I don't know about people's names though. McGrath mentioned "Osama" which is a lovely sounding name that has had the misfortune of becoming synonymous with one very nasty individual. But all the Osamas in the world aren't evil. Most of them are probably very nice people. |
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07 Feb 05 - 09:32 PM (#1402119) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Teresa honey pot, honey dipper, etc.: anything to do with collecting feces. teresa |
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07 Feb 05 - 11:34 PM (#1402175) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Peg coprophilia. |
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08 Feb 05 - 08:56 AM (#1402437) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: HuwG Chrysotile Actinolite Amosite Anthophyllite Crocidolite (invariably referred to by Geol. students as "crocodileite") These are the posh names for various minerals used to manufacture commercial asbestos. Chrysotile is a form of the mineral "serpentine", the rest are amphiboles. Chrysotile was (and still is) the most widely used variety but is decomposed by acid, so Amosite and Crocidolite were also widely used, and are the most dangerous carcinogens of all of them. |
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08 Feb 05 - 07:05 PM (#1403114) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: CStrong Hey, Martin This is a word game thread. Attacking a nicer-guy-than-you is uncalled-for, and you should apologize. Right damn NOW. |
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08 Feb 05 - 07:51 PM (#1403191) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Weasel Books The word Putrescine has a vile sound to it. Cunnilingus sounds pleasent and innocous (what Brit comedy was it that they slipped in the phrase 'his cunnilingus on and on?). Unhygienix has an appeal because of that Little Armorican Village. Sanguine. |
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08 Feb 05 - 08:12 PM (#1403203) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: pdq 'lugubrious' sound much more positive than it should |
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08 Feb 05 - 09:14 PM (#1403246) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Layah mangelwurzel. I don't know if they're nasty because I've never had one. Some kind of root vegetable, so very suspicious. |
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09 Feb 05 - 04:43 PM (#1403739) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Bunnahabhain There have been a few british comedies that have slipped cunnilingus into things. Both TW^3 (That was the week that was), and Not the Nine O'clock news, I think. the latter finished an episode with a song, using the refraine 'kinda lingers'. Slurred slightly.... Bunnahabhain |
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09 Feb 05 - 04:56 PM (#1403750) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Layah What's wrong with cunnilingus? |
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10 Feb 05 - 05:56 AM (#1404277) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Crystal Root Beer and sasparilla both sound nice, yet they are evil and disgusting! |
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10 Feb 05 - 12:03 PM (#1404693) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Charley Noble "Lethargy" has a nice relaxing sound. In fact I think I'll take a well-deserved nap. Charley Noble |
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10 Feb 05 - 12:08 PM (#1404703) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Layah Artichoke sounds pretty awful but is very yummy. That is the inverse of this thread though. Mesopotamia is one of my favorite words, but I don't think I can make a case for it being nasty. |
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10 Feb 05 - 12:12 PM (#1404709) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: Layah hemidemisemiquaver. For all you Americans out there, I've just learned this means sixty fourth note. I don't like trying to play sixty fourth notes, my fingers aren't fast enough, but I would like them much better if it afforded me the chance to say hemidemisemiquaver. |
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10 Feb 05 - 12:17 PM (#1404722) Subject: RE: BS: Beautiful Names for Nasty Things From: sixtieschick Espionage has a ring to it--much prettier than its meaning. Layah , a mangelwurzel is an heirloom beet. |