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Topic Options #134096 - 10/14/04 08:37 AM obstreperous jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California obstreperous :- "1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant. 2. Aggressively boisterous." AHD "Obstreperous best describes those people who, filled with the distending wind of discord, blow out all manner of ill-sounding and evil-meaning blather, nattering on in their cups, before falling unconcious into their cous-cous with rancid butter. The word is from the Ancient Ligurian and means in its various parts: obs 'the goddess of good and plenty' + trepe 'a thin kind of linguini, larger than spaghetti, but smaller than tagliarini' + erous 'dwarfish, macropygous god of lust and blind desires'." Melanceph Physce, Scraps from the Divine Feast. Top #134097 - 10/14/04 08:38 AM Re: obspastarous Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont crazy etymology! linguini? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #134098 - 10/14/04 08:49 AM Re: obspastarous jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California linguini Do you not know van Schlijkokk's theory of the linguini-shaped universe? Vibrating strands of pasta asciutta are at the heart of our reality (realty?). Top #134099 - 10/14/04 08:49 AM Re: pastiche AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York All I can say is I'm glad I don't have a mouth full of coffee right now, Linguini Boy! Top #134100 - 10/14/04 08:53 AM Re: carbonara... Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont are you stringing me along? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #134101 - 10/14/04 09:02 AM Re: obspastarous tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass this is the latest in string-theory. Top #134102 - 10/14/04 09:07 AM Re: carbonara... jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California Don't get me started with super-, hyper-, and superduper-linguini theory ... Top #134103 - 10/14/04 05:04 PM Re: carbonara... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Enough olive oil, enough appetite...I'll show you some hyperlinguini, and it ain't theoretical. Top #134104 - 10/14/04 05:16 PM Re: carbonara... jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California I'll show you some hyperlinguini, and it ain't theoretical I hear ya, dewd. What they callpasta in this country is a cryin shame: "egg noodles with ketchup." My dear ole grandma used eat her linguini with olive oil, a little pepper, and some raw crushed garlic. Yum. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13691 Topics 210110 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 26 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 98 endymion6 71 wofahulicodoc 71 jenny jenny 66 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 18 Faldage 14 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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