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#74831 07/06/02 10:21 PM
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Isn't it? Thanks, mg. Now, stales me boy, find some more and set your mind free!!!


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horse trade hotelman - a stable keeper.

galligaskins game - strip poker.

Cornish corps - the handful of folks who still keep the Cornish tongue alive by speaking it.

basil bastardly - illegitimate herb.

farkleberry fashion - I think I'll just let that one be what it is!

all Webster's Collegiate


Hmmm...I think I like this...but that's enuff for an awkward ice-breaking!


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horse trade / hotelman - a stable keeper

Closer to truth than you know. A place of public accomodation has to have a license to operate. In old days it was an Hostelry license. If any place still operates under an hostelry license they must take care of any animals you bring with you .... as the Waldorf Astoria found out when Tom Mix the movie cowboy arrived (1930s) with his horse "Tony" and they had to accommodate the horse too! The WA turned it into a publicity gimmick by stabling the famous animal in the lobby!

hypothrombinemia/hypophalangism = cold,limp handshake. Hi Bill

duplation/dysmetria = unable to see more than one thing at a distance.

Q-clearance/quaggy - the sinking feeling you get trying to keep who-knows-what straight when too many people tell you too many secrets secrets.


endocrine/enigma Why men and women are different. (Viva!)

The New York Time Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words. Hereafter the 3Mw


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Concise OED
heckelphone heckler

Someone who interrupts your oration in a deep voice



outsight outsider

The ability of a non-group-member to be aware of what is about to hit your group!

even evening
a quiet night at home.

searching season
Spring


#74835 07/07/02 07:41 PM
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assignee assurance - A last will and testament.

conditional confarreation - We're getting married only if it's a bumper wheat crop this year.

daycoach deadfall - Having your sleeper car hide-a-bed close and lock while your still in it.

fumulus funk - That odor which causes everyone over 6 foot tall to leave the room.

hiemal high fidelity - Listening to all your old records because it's too frickin' cold outside to do anything else.

moonrise moratorium - Neverending nights of only starlight.

security seed - A spermbank investment.

turnsole tutelary - Relying on your sunflower patch to watch your kids.

whoopee widgeon - Feeling really ducky.

(F+W 1971)


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irrefragable isinglass
The bladder of a fish that has consumed waaaaaay too many minerals

Don't believe a word of it, folks. I never touched anything other than WO'N's basil bastardly (and then I didn't inhale, honest).

live roach
oops, "loach"


#74837 07/08/02 01:31 PM
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patter pay -- money earned by performing "reading hour for preschoolers"

power pragmatics-- Duh, everyone here!

glum gnomon --part of a sundial, that has been mispositioned in total shade

echelon economy -- a curious phenomom, as soon as you get a raise, everything seem to cost more!

el cheapo electroencephalograph a medical proceedure provide by an HMO.


#74838 07/08/02 09:36 PM
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so if you are a Savoy Say so, then would it be fair to say that you were Savoy savvy?!

...and would that be Savoy fair, meaning knowing how to behave at all times? which is of course where "savvy" actually comes from. I think.


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redux:

farkleberry fashion: the latest in Shire attire!


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In'nards Insectivora: shrew haggis; mole haggis; hedgehog haggis; anteater haggis

Opiate Optimist: a stoned idealist

Abscond Accountability: Arthur Andersens' business motto; or the 5th Amendment for ENRON executives.

Bacchus Bath: bathing in wine! (what else!?)

--The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce



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