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#156519 03/08/06 02:22 AM
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in these cases I almost always expiscate some legimate looking online evidence.

expsicate = a person formerly an American Anglican bishop

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Isn't a googly (plural googlies) a method of throwing the ball in cricket?


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googleizing(sp?). Oh! If you can biblieographize, can you then also googlies? Ick--no, you can't: it looks like goo-glees. Darn.




Bingley's got it on googlies. And tsuwm was right to question his spelling googleize. It's googlize.

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Who's the most important man this country ever knew?
Do you know what politician I have reference to?
Well, it isn't Mr. Bryan, and it isn't Mr. Hughes.
I've got a hunch that to that bunch I'm going to introduce:
(Again you're wrong and to this throng I'm going to Introduce:)
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes .
Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes eyes.

Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes .
Barney Google had a wife three times his size
She stood Barney for divorce
Now he's living with his horse


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Have you seen this link? It looks like it might have some things you're interested in.
Neologisms and English Around the World

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Jackie thank you for that link

the: The polybarb is surely a rosebush


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the: The polybarb is surely a rosebush





Dale: Great! And as such a polybard might be the excessive ornamentation of a word horse.


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grotendous - a blend of grotesque and horrendous?

That was so grotendous! ~

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or horresque...


formerly known as etaoin...
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No, no, horresque is the style of clothing "worn" by women in music videos.
edit - which can also be grotendous

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