Mensopause: A nerd acting like a stud for effect.

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#209910 - 03/05/13 02:30 PM Re: Oh no, it's Tuezzaday. [Re: LukeJavan8]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg sprezzatura PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh) MEANING: noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance. ETYMOLOGY: From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957. _____________________________ one Z to E SPREEZATURA - a peccadillo indulged but with sang-froid
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#209915 - 03/05/13 06:51 PM Re: Oh no, it's Tuezzaday. [Re: jenny jenny]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1016 Loc: Lancaster, UK	esprezzatura - nonchantly drinkin very stron coffee. _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#209925 - 03/06/13 01:51 PM Re: Yea! It [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg polylemma PRONUNCIATION:(pol-ee-LEM-uh) MEANING: noun: A choice involving multiple undesirable options. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + dilemma, from lemma (proposition). Earliest documented use: 1856. Also see trilemma, Hobson's choice, and Buridan's ass. ___________________________________ Minus one L POLYEMMA- Polylemma's decisive but simple-minded little sister Polyemma; not the happy one, that would be, Pollyanna.
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#209927 - 03/06/13 05:22 PM last one in is a rotten egg [Re: jenny jenny]
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3774 Loc: Worcester, MA	POOLYLEMMA - the choice to go into the cold water one toe at a time or to jump in with a big splash and get it over with all at once...
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#209933 - 03/07/13 08:47 AM Today is hump day for a seven day week [Re: wofahulicodoc]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	Mar 7, 2013 A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg schadenfreude PRONUNCIATION: (SHAAD-n-froi-duh) MEANING: noun: Pleasure derived from another's misfortune. ETYMOLOGY: From German Schadenfreude, from Schaden (damage, harm) + Freude (joy). Earliest documented use: 1852. __________________________________________________ drop E schadenfreud- to undergo psychoanalysis to sublimate one's schadenfreude
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#209934 - 03/07/13 10:57 AM Re: Today is hump day for a seven day week [Re: jenny jenny]
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3774 Loc: Worcester, MA	SHADE'N'FREUDE - joy at hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the lawn at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshires on a balmy summer afternoon
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#209935 - 03/07/13 12:43 PM Re: Today is hump day for a seven day week [Re: wofahulicodoc]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	Nicely done Wolf It'd take a high hatter in the Queen's box to top that.
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#209938 - 03/08/13 02:50 AM Thank Friars it's Friday [Re: jenny jenny]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg palimpsest PRONUNCIATION: (PAL-imp-sest) MEANING: noun: 1. A writing surface such as a parchment that has been reused after partially or completely erasing the original text. 2. Something reused but still showing traces of its earlier form. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek palimpsestos, from palin (again) + psestos + (scraped). Earliest documented use: 1661 Also see pentimento. ________________________________________________ minus one s PALIMPEST - a friend who sometimes acts like a monkey
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#209941 - 03/08/13 11:43 AM Re: Thank Friars it's Friday [Re: jenny jenny]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5268 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	PALIMSEXT A sex-text sent to one person that goes viral. Edited by LukeJavan8 (03/08/13 11:43 AM) _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209976 - 03/11/13 08:39 PM Become the Tiger [Re: LukeJavan8]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 611 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	nineteenth hole PRONUNCIATION:(NYN-TEENTH hol) MEANING: noun: The clubhouse or another place, such as a bar or a restaurant, where golfers gather after playing a round. ETYMOLOGY: A standard round of golf has eighteen holes, so the next stop after the game, a bar or a restaurant, is called the nineteenth hole. A similar term is the fifth quarter in (American) football. Earliest documented use: 1901. ___________________________________________________ Minus an E NINETENTH HOLE- the walk to the tenth tee where it is considered cricket to slug whiskey as a brace for the second nine.
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