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#134096 - 10/14/04 12:37 PM obstreperous
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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.
#134097 - 10/14/04 12:38 PM Re: obspastarous
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Vermont crazy etymology! linguini?
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#134098 - 10/14/04 12:49 PM Re: obspastarous
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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?).
#134099 - 10/14/04 12:49 PM Re: pastiche
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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!
#134100 - 10/14/04 12:53 PM Re: carbonara...
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Vermont are you stringing me along?
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#134101 - 10/14/04 01:02 PM Re: obspastarous
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this too shall pass this is the latest in string-theory.
#134102 - 10/14/04 01:07 PM Re: carbonara...
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California Don't get me started with super-, hyper-, and superduper-linguini theory ...
#134103 - 10/14/04 09:04 PM Re: carbonara...
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Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Enough olive oil, enough appetite...I'll show you some hyperlinguini, and it ain't theoretical.
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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.
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