What they really sing: O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. But Buffalo sings this real text I remember.
Fortuna- Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain, and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled ; you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. (pretty gloomy)
Huh? seems like I lost a post here. Gee.. I answered doc_comfort:
Yes, this is not about numbers, but just like Victor Borge does.( good show, zed )( see zed's little up- link ) Numbers hidden in words. In this case up front of the word. So tsuwm's 3ting and Jackie's 2ting count, but the others are not exactly right. Then I asked: But pray, doc-comfort, what is fivorite?
Maybe I forgot to submit it. I've got a snowy brain these days.
You got me stumped, Bran. What the heck is threeting?
error,error, error . It's not a barrel of trouble; I just made a tiny bit of a mistake. I have never heard favorite pronounced as fivorite, but if it exists then 5orite is fine with me. Sixorite however is really not possible. (just a silly game allright, but what )
tsuwms word threaping (3ping )is a real decent word: 2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns. [1913 Webster]
thre·ose Pronunciation: 'thrE-"Os Function: noun : a syrupy synthetic sugar C4H8O4 that is the epimer oferythrose and that occurs as two optical isomers
Threne (?), n. [L. threnus, Gr. . Cf. Drone.] Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak.
The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.
Besides, there are 4 Os in C4H8O4. Are we up to 6 yet? 6ten Sparre, the anit-hero of Elvira Madigan. Or, if you don't like proper names, there's always that regular column in Verbatim, 66ic!
twosleepy Well, the stressed syllables may be a little off, but it works for me: misevents
Yeh, you have to stretch it cause you do not pronounce it mis-évents , you pronounce this mis-evénts, so you never really hear the seven. mi7ts. 7of9 I mean we's up to nine.
abbreviation of standard nine Yes, you hardly can go wrong with this one. I looked it up, thought it was something like amphetamine or some other drug,
Yes, great, snow still hanging on and ice and hazardous bike rides. People who are buried in snow every year can't imagine how boring a winter without snow is. People look more alive.
No, it sounds like neenevay or ninnevay. But to complete coffeebean's animalfarm : ca9 , falco9, hye9, halco9, leo9. Could we hit the finale: 10 ? There's lots and lots of them.
BranShea remarked parenthetically, "Hog seems to have passed away."
I would happily offer up one of many obscure words that I have at hand; but the last time we had a game of hogwash® here there were only five(5!) players, and 8 the time before that. this cuts into the fun, and is discouraging to the hogmaster, no doubt. (Jackie?)
just for reference, here's a link to a favorite round from the past: cilli (14 entries)
edit: speaking of "all tolled", which I used pointedly in that link (and it's not that often that I expand/expound on my quirky comments); I seem to remember another post from the distant past where someone asked about the use of "all tolled" versus the more usual idiom "all told". the answer he was given (and I'm sure he's long gone and there's little chance he'll ever see this), as I recall, was that he should LIU in an eggcorn data base. while arguably a correct answer, this would have been a more helpful and more interesting one: all told
That's what I meant. The Hogmaster 's still there but the Hog seems to be gone. Yes, I think they were great, the old ones ( washes) when the minds were young.
Hey, doc, that's cheating! And very clever cheating, at that!
is discouraging to the hogmaster, no doubt. (Jackie?) Nah--I just figured it wasn't the time to have a round. However, I've not run one since! But all poled, I'll go along, sure.
He woke up and shook his head. "Where am I?" he asked the space around him. Memories swiftly came flooding back, and he realised he had died. "That still doesn't answer the question", he mused. Then, he recognised the familiar refrain of his favourite song and screamed out in happiness, right in the middle of the chorus...
It was an itsy bitsy THIS IS 17ie weenie yellow polka dot bikini.
He woke up and shook his head. "Where am I?" he asked the space around him. Memories swiftly came flooding back, and he realised he had died. "That still doesn't answer the question", he mused. Then, he recognised the familiar refrain of his favourite song and screamed out in happiness, right in the middle of the chorus...
It was an itsy bitsy THIS IS 17ie weenie yellow polka dot bikini.
Sweetly performed by the all girly group "The Eighteen 19gales".
Back in the 50s Alfred Bester wrote a very fine science fiction novel titled The Demolished Man, about a community with telepathic members (but only some). He wrote with an extended-yet-compressed alphabet: "1/4maine" for Quartermaine, "@kins" for Atkins. That was only presented in the serialized version (Galaxy Science Fiction, AIR) and was expanded later in the novelized publication. Too subtle for the general public, was always my interpretation.
That I definately did. Wouldn't dare attempt an rc without a good swig o the cerid. I do not find coasters 3ling at all. Set my head reeling. (Threeling is the way they pronounce it up in coaster land. My pronunciation is poifect.)
So Jane settled for thirty20 sized bra and used the occasion to practice pranayam (Yogic breathing). (Branny don't catch me on this one. I stopped making sense quite sometime back)
)is a real decent word:
