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#143668 06/07/05 11:35 AM
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Today's buzzwhack buzzword is "oranging up", which buzzwhack defines as

A sign that the weather is getting warmer. It’s when the USA Today weather map
turns from cool blues and greens to warm yellows, oranges and reds.

http://www.buzzwhack.com

Silly me. When I started reading the definition, I immediately completed it as

A sign that the weather is getting warmer. It’s when all the orange barrels and cones pop up on the roads as we seque directly from winter into construction season.

or

A sign that the weather is getting warmer. It’s when all the beach bunny wanna-bes slather themselves with artificial tanner.



#143669 06/07/05 12:03 PM
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Well, you exhausted all the possibilites, didn't you, Sparteye.

Since I moved to the North I have learned there are two seasons here: winter and road repair.


#143670 06/07/05 12:20 PM
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No, I didn't ... I'm sure there are more coming from this creative group.

Here's one, to be appreciated by the denizens of Syracuse:

Oranging up: When the university fans paint themselves in preparation for the night's game.


#143671 06/07/05 12:58 PM
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oranging up : making the color of (part of) a post nearly unreadable in an obvious attempt to be cute.

-ron o.

or,
oranging up : messing up the scansion of a poem in a futile attempt to make a clever rhyme; to wit:
to make a rhyme of sil-
ver or other rhymeless rhyme
requires only will,
verbosity, and time



#143672 06/07/05 01:07 PM
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heh. I'd do it thusly:

to make a rhyme of silver
or other rhymeless rhyme
requires only will, ver-
bosity, and time.




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#143673 06/07/05 01:08 PM
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"or other rhymeless rhyme" of which the most famous in the English language is, perhaps, orange.


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#143675 06/07/05 03:33 PM
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tsuwm ~ is orange font hard for you to read? It is easily visible on my computer. Gee, I hope you don't have jaundice.

Oranging up: When the kids drink the entire bottle of Sunny D in one day.


#143676 06/07/05 05:27 PM
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Etaoin and Elizabeth get today's Ron Obvious awards.

[/ducking out a la orange]


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[/ducking out a la orange] Groan-nn-nn!



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