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librocubicularist ferroequinologist
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> ferroequinologist
an expert on steam engines?
formerly known as etaoin...
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pyrethrin
malathion
esfenvalerate
ROTFL! 
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pyrethrin
malathion
esfenvalerate
Sounds like the first half of a sports cheer ("pyrethrin! malathion! esfenvalerate!..."), one which offers many opportunities for a ribald conclusion.
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> sports cheer
or a possible double dactyl, one.
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epicaricacy. The concept that schadenfreude is not just a German phenomenon. 
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> ferroequinologist
an expert on steam engines?
Precisely!
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Ha! It makes sense to me now, after having thought about the guy who makes horseshoes (smithy? farrier?). Steam train = iron horse. Good one, E2. Thanks. 
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smiths (smithy's) can make horse shoes, but fitting them to the horse, and shoeing a horse is usually a farrier job. (SUNY, and a school in Virgina) still offer programs (non degree) to train to be a farrier.
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gibbous
(and I once met a farrier who specialized in remedial and corrective shoes for horses who were pigeon toed or had other orthopedic deformities.)
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