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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 109 1 2 3 … 108 109 Go to page... Mensopause III #215386 05/07/14 05:50 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA ...restarting because our alphabetical spammer has posted in Mensopause II, and Moderatrix can't delete if the post has been replied to... ______________________________________________________ SAMSON PRONUNCIATION: (SAM-suhn) MEANING: noun: A man of extraordinary physical strength. ETYMOLOGY: After Samson, a judge in the Old Testament, known for his great strength. From Hebrew Simson (man of sun). Earliest documented use: 1565 ----------------------------------- SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Mensopause III wofahulicodoc #215390 05/07/14 08:09 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi SANSOON - a snide comment (usually whispered) to express the opinion that you think someone will be soon be sent to a loony-bin. Etymology: a combine of san a pejorative term for a insane asylum and soon indicating...uh...soon. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter SAMSON wofahulicodoc #215393 05/07/14 11:58 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Quote: SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen Hey, Wofa, that's TWO changes. You can't do that, it's against the Roooz ! Oops, you're right. I take it back. Try again: SALMSON - red caviar, hatched and grown-up Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: SAMSON one 'mo time wofahulicodoc #215396 05/08/14 02:47 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi INDIAN GIVER! RAMSON - a ransom paid in wild garlic (Old World tradition) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Where's that Yoda when you need him? jenny jenny #216650 05/08/14 03:26 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA JEREMIAD PRONUNCIATION: (jer-uh-MY-uhd) MEANING: noun: A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom. ETYMOLOGY: After Jeremiah, a Hebrew prophet during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, who prophesied the fall of the kingdom of Judah and whose writings are collected in Lamentations in the Old Testament. Earliest documented use: 1780. Also see jeremiah. ---------------------------- JEDEMIAD - A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom, regarding the return of the Empire for three more episodes...with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, plus younger versions of same Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Wofa....Yoda is not real. He was made up by a hack wofahulicodoc #216651 05/08/14 04:53 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi VEREMIAD- what the people will be after they spend trillions to keep the sea from rising and it falls instead. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Ah, that Methuselah! He was wise beyond his years. jenny jenny #216655 05/09/14 04:58 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Methuselah PRONUNCIATION: (meh-THOO-zuh-luh) MEANING: noun: 1. An extremely old person. 2. An oversized wine bottle holding approximately six liters. ETYMOLOGY: After the biblical figure Methuselah, who is said to have lived 969 years. Earliest documented use: 1390. ----------------------------------------------------- METHUSER-AH - ah, O Saki, it is said that the meth user will be dead within 969 days. That, O Saki, is a lie. A meth user is dead on the first day. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 'Atsa toughie jenny jenny #216658 05/10/14 01:56 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Well, there's METH/USE/LAW, but you used that idea already. Or METH/SELAH - best you pause and think soberly about using that stuff I think I'll go with METHOUSELAH - the sixth note of an opera singer's scale (MET HOUSE "LAH") Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 'Atsa toughie wofahulicodoc #216659 05/10/14 04:21 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc I think I'll go with METHOUSELAH - the sixth note of an opera singer's scale (MET HOUSE "LAH") Hey, not bad, Codoc. To my many self-described highbrow friends I will begin describing my many pothead friends as being... "...higher than a MET House Lah". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Monday's Word: Two for one. jenny jenny #216665 05/12/14 05:06 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi lazaretto PRONUNCIATION: (laz-uh-RET-o) MEANING: noun: 1. A medical facility for people with infectious diseases. 2. A building or ship used for quarantine. 3. On a ship, a space between decks used as storage. ETYMOLOGY: From Italian lazzaretto, a blend of lazzaro + Nazareto. Lazzaro is the Italian version of the name Lazarus, the name of a beggar covered in sores as described in the New Testament (Luke 16:20). Nazareto was the nickname of a hospital, after Santa Maria di Nazareth, the name of the Church on the island where it was located. Earliest documented use: 1549. USAGE: "The Council House was a frame building, away from the rest, that had been built in the old, wilder days as a lazaretto for surly drunks." Kurt Vonnegut; Player Piano; Charles Scribner's Sons; 1952. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. -Katharine Hepburn, an actress who had fun for 96 years (1907-2003) ________________________________________________________ LAZYRETTO - a mental hospital for purposeless people who don't know that just being alive is fun. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 109 1 2 3 … 108 109 Go to page... 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. 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