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>Doesn't that sound ridiculous, if you repeat it a few times?!!
Tell me a word that doesn't sound ridiculous if you repeat it a few times!
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Doesn't that sound ridiculous, if you repeat it a few times?!!Yup--just think of one of those cartoon characters getting bashed somehow, then sitting up, shaking their head rapidly back and forth, while we hear, "Yobbity yobbity yobbity". Great minds think alike, eh, Auntie?  Come to think of it that's what I do after reading some of these posts! 
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I'd say that most Americans who don't know what an obelisk is call them "miniature Washington Monuments".
or "pointy thingies."
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Forgive me, but how many words can we think of that end in
"....lisk" ? The only one I can think of at the moment is
"basilisk"
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so i am wondering-- What would you call "cleopatria's needle*" or "Nelson's pillar"?
Based purely on shape, how about calling them monuments to the tax payer?
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Tell me a word that doesn't sound ridiculous if you repeat it a few times!Just how ridiculous varies according to your emotional state, anatomical position, and level of self-medication.
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-lyskos, as it is used to form basilisk and obelisk, is a Greek dimnuitive. Hence the following constructions may be accomplished:
hypnolisk = a very short person who can put you to sleep
romantilisk = someone who engages in brief love affairs
misogynlisk = a person who detests little women.
philanthrolisk = the maker of small contributions to charitable causes
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My modest circumstances make me a philanthrolisk.
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My modest circumstances make me a philanthrolisk.
This makes you a penurlisk.
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Still,that's better than a penislisk.
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