"Lobscouse" is Norwegian slang for the troll like creature who hangs out at the entrance to recycling plants and rummages through new refuse looking for meat and potatoes. Its name comes from combining the word for its home (the garbage scow) and rumors of the frontal lobotomy operation it received in the late 1940's.

caponier

The caponier is a foul fowl that runs around like a chicken with its head chopped off, all the while screaming (with her head tucked underneath her arm), "Don't drop it in the soup"!

congou

Like the Capon the Lamprey was a rich delicate dish up to the 18th century. This one is not advisable for table use, but does well in monster collections.

Bran's reply is in-congou-ous.

Right. It's cephalaspidomorphic.
And Oh! Congou.. The caponier not a female creature.

An organism that invades the brain and changes its form, giving it eight pseudopods that extrude from various aperatures in the skull, drilling the two extra needed for the last two pseudopods.

Oh no! Lamprey gets one way ticket to Lobscouse.
The menue wil be sweet potatoes and chestnut sauce.
I'll never mention this monster again.

The congou is an amorphous mass that undulatingly attacks conga lines.

glisk

(trying to get the game back on track)

At first I too thought the game had gotten off track, but on further scrutiny I discovered that Bran's post was actually a very clever and subtle cryptogram, in which letters are assigned a numerical value based on their ordinal place in the alphabet (A=1, B=2 ... Z=26) multiplied by the corresponding digit in the decimal train of e (2.7182818...), mod(26) and divided by pi. In this manner Bran suggested the word rabiator, whose description I was typing when you suggested glisk and which I offer below.

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The rabiator (Lepus caerbannogus) was a prehistoric ancestor of the hare that arose during the Mesozoic Era, and was one of the very few species that survived into the Cenozoic Era, during which it thrived. It is widely speculated that this was due to the rabiator's long, subterranean hibernation period, which allowed sufficient numbers to survive the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Rabiator's were known to be especially ruthless and cunning predators, and were able to bring down much larger prey. They are thought to be chiefly responsible for the extinction of the wooly mammoth.

During the middle Cenozoic Era, the rabiator diverged into two distinct species, Lepus vorpalis and Lepus americanus troglodytes. The former survived through the 5th Century but its numbers dwindled owing to a loss of habitat and a tendency towards excessive consumption of alcohol in the form of fermented carrot juice. According to Mallory, the last surviving Lepus vorpalis was killed by King Arthur with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

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glisk

The Scottish spiritual equivalent of the leprechaun, the glisk is said to be the one that awakes you from your dreams just as you get a glimpse of that dream's *treasure, begin to realize a long forgotten memory, or will wake you just as a long departed loved one is about reveal secrets from the past. It is also responsible for all the supposed sightings of the Loch Ness monster, as the glisk can evoke fleeting images from out of the subconscious into the mind's eye. Yes, they do wear underpants under kilts, but the glisk will endeavor to make you see something else.

vilipend

The vilipend is unusual, in having 543 legs but only one eye. Vilipendi are very small, and nearly impossible to see, but their legs are felt as little itchy prickles when they walk on you. They like to crawl around on your limbs just as your are dozing off to sleep.


resorb

The resorb is not a monster in itself but the appendage which differentiates human teachers from those of alien origin. It is an independantly mobile pedicle arising from the occiput and surmounted by a single large eye.

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