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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread obstreperous #134096 10/14/2004 12:37 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: obspastarous #134097 10/14/2004 12:38 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont crazy etymology! linguini? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: obspastarous #134098 10/14/2004 12:49 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 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?). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: pastiche #134099 10/14/2004 12:49 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: carbonara... #134100 10/14/2004 12:53 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont are you stringing me along? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: obspastarous #134101 10/14/2004 1:02 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass this is the latest in string-theory. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: carbonara... #134102 10/14/2004 1:07 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Don't get me started with super-, hyper-, and superduper-linguini theory ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: carbonara... #134103 10/14/2004 9:04 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Enough olive oil, enough appetite...I'll show you some hyperlinguini, and it ain't theoretical. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: carbonara... #134104 10/14/2004 9:16 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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