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#142645 05/05/2005 3:48 PM
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'Mouth watering' was used descriptively in an article
I was reading today. I found myself trying to think of
other adjectives that begin with a part of the body:

'Mind-numbing'
'Heart-wrenching'

Others?



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toe tapping
finger lickin'
eye-popping
(and in ny its more likely to be gut wrenching)
mind boggling!)


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knee-jerking
head-banging



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brow beating
back stabbing
groin kicking


#142649 05/05/2005 6:35 PM
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toe-curling
knee-trembling
heart-stopping



#142650 05/05/2005 7:06 PM
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lip-smackin'

(Prolly an adverb, as in "lip-smackin' good.")

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cock of the walk

oh, maybe not....


hahahahahaha



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gut-busting
hand-wringing
heart-lifting
tongue-curling (for bitterness)
lung-filling
earsplitting


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spine-tingling
nail-biting


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cock of the walk

oh, maybe not....


Oh, I am sooo not going there....


#142655 05/06/2005 1:44 PM
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Anna,

Oh, go on...you know you want to. ;-)




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You teasing me, Saranita?


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It's what I live for.


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I'm sure that all ASP really wants to say, but is too kindly to mention, is that "cock of the walk" isn't an adjective ...


#142659 05/06/2005 9:56 PM
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What about "cockey," then. [/traipsing for cover]


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Or "cocky", even. Getting pretty ballsy, aren't you, Insel?


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balls

O, hairy, my predicament


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lol! Watch out insel, that ASp'll bite you if you keep on rolling in the gutter :)


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back breaking
ball busting
toe crushing
ear worming



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>>bite you

Mercy on me fate unbidden, I so long in tooth


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knuckle-busting
tongue-twisting
ass-kicking



#142666 05/09/2005 4:46 AM
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The General de-livers spleen underarms lik tongues of fire
For soldiers are stiff-necked peckers


#142667 05/18/2005 11:14 AM
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In all seriousness (or at least as much as can be mustered), "balls to the wall" is a legitimate addition to this thread.

Also, head strong and head-long.


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"Balls!", said the Queen, "if I had them I would be King."
(attributed to Rudyard Kipling)


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And the King laughed, not because he had to, but because …


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No, no, noo: "The King laughed, not because he wanted to, but because..."


#142672 05/19/2005 6:51 AM
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begin with a part of the body:

'Mind-numbing'


No dualist has raised protest on this board so far


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No dualist has raised protest

We don' fight no duals on this here board. We argufies with insult an' insinnuendo like civlized folk.


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We argufies with insult an' insinnuendo like civlized folk.
yup - all killing is limited to character assassination....


#142675 05/19/2005 12:04 PM
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Well that's very interesting. Thanks for the info on "balls to the wall."


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"sinister"

(right?)


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"sinister"

(right?)

A shot in the arm to you, insel.


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A shot in the arm

That's pretty gauche, if you ask me.


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A shot in the arm

That's pretty gauche, if you ask me.

But dextrously done.


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>But dextrously done.

It seemed a little maladroit to me. Certainly, in connection with this thread, something is queer, da?


#142681 05/21/2005 12:57 PM
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>>I don't think so [pilots]<<

interesting

Only Polly Anna would have missed the double entendre, though -- I think it belongs.


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Polly Anna

How bout someone who didn't miss the double entendre but still thinks it doesn't belong?


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let's not get testy.

shirley they was thinking it.



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#142684 05/23/2005 8:06 PM
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>>still thinks it doesn't belong

That person and I, I think, would respectfully differ.

"Polly Anna," btw, was meant to refer to a species of pilot that surely never existed, and to nothing and no one else.

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>>Testy

Heh.(R) ;)



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