Simple pleasures
A C Bowden
04/25/24 12:42 AM
A dullard who lived in Dundee Watched quizzes and games on TV. He found it too boring To follow the scoring – He just liked the clapping, you see.
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PHYTOPHOBIA - dislike of plants
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:30 PM
PHOTOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772. ___________________________
PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed
PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"
PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record
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MACROSMATIC - a major attack of wheezing
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:24 PM
MACROSMOTICPRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik) MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890. ___________________________________ MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length) MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed
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POP-RIO-CEPTION - Carnivàl party in Argentina
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:09 PM
PROPRIOCEPTION
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (one’s own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906. _______________________
PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts
PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast
PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne
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Re: Clerihews
A C Bowden
04/22/24 03:02 PM
Israel's prime minister, Whom his opponents think sinister, Was told by Biden: "Here's some more cash, But please don't do anything rash".
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Viennese delights
A C Bowden
04/20/24 02:09 PM
In Austria's capital city, The woods and the lanes are so pretty. You can feast on cream cakes And caramel bakes, But they cost quite a lot, more's the pity.
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SUBLIMATE
A C Bowden
04/20/24 01:56 PM
SUBLINEATE - to underline.
S'BLIMEY MATE (contraction of "May Jesus blame me") - oath used in parts of 19th-century London.
DUBLINATE (adj) - pertaining to the style of James Joyce and his imitators.
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CRYPTOPENIC - not enough vaults in the cemetery
wofahulicodoc
04/19/24 09:33 PM
CRYPTOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (krip-tuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Of unknown origin or cause.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek crypto- (secret, hidden) + -genic (producing, produced by). Earliest documented use: 1873. _______________________________
CRYPTOGENIE - Robin Williams blue cartoon character role in Aladdin at its most obscure
CRY "PETOGENIC" - claim loudly that something is the origin of domesticated animals
CRAPTOGENIC - describing the source of all b******t
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ZOOM: A TRY - first attempt at video-conferencing
wofahulicodoc
04/19/24 02:03 AM
ZOOLATRY
PRONUNCIATION: (zo-OL-uh-tree)
MEANING: noun: 1. The worship of animals. 2. Extreme devotion to animals, for example, to one’s pets.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zoo- (animal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1784. ___________________________
AZO-OLATRY - worship of nitrogen
BOOLATRY - worship of simple logical concepts ( and, or, not, both )
ZOO, LARRY? - Curly and Moe are thinking of visiting the captive animals on display
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