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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 52 of 100 1 2 … 50 51 52 53 54 … 99 100 Go to page... Re: Thrust home! [Re: wofahulicodoc] #212228 08/21/13 04:36 PM 08/21/13 04:36 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA Hoist by my own petard, again! According to Wikip., Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it. Cyrano was as real - and as fictionalized - as was Casanova ! Re: Thrust home! [Re: wofahulicodoc] #212230 08/21/13 05:23 PM 08/21/13 05:23 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Eek, eek! My brain reels. Reality melts away. You and Anu conspire to keep me wrong. Please excuse me while I go plot. (as I end the refrain) [Re: jenny jenny] #212231 08/21/13 05:45 PM 08/21/13 05:45 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA You're not wrong; you were right. I was the one wrong. Twice, even! SIREN [Re: wofahulicodoc] #212233 08/21/13 08:43 PM 08/21/13 08:43 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi siren PRONUNCIATION: (SY-ruhn) MEANING: noun: 1. A beautiful and seductive woman, especially one leading others into disaster. 2. Something attractive that is potentially disastrous. 3. A device that makes loud sounds, used for warning signals. ETYMOLOGY: After Siren, one of a group of sea nymphs, whose enchanting singing lured sailors to shipwreck on the rocks around their island. Also see femme fatale. Earliest documented use: 1340. ________________________________________________ add t SIRENT: 1. a silent siren 2. a siren for rent Re: SIREN [Re: jenny jenny] #212235 08/22/13 12:13 AM 08/22/13 12:13 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska biren A person who attracts people of either gender with seductive poetry. Re: SIREN [Re: Tromboniator] #212243 08/22/13 10:51 AM 08/22/13 10:51 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA Mmm. That's elegant ! Re: SIREN [Re: wofahulicodoc] #212244 08/22/13 11:04 AM 08/22/13 11:04 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska Thank you. cross-wording to Tuesday [Re: Tromboniator] #212250 08/22/13 04:11 PM 08/22/13 04:11 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA GORGON PRONUNCIATION: (GOR-guhn) MEANING: noun: An ugly, repulsive, or terrifying woman. ETYMOLOGY: After Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes. From Greek gorgos (dreadful). Earliest documented use: 1398. ---------------------------------------- GOREGON -- Freddy Kreuger went to Portland (or Edward Scissorhands, or whoever) Tomorrow has better be Frankenstein [Re: wofahulicodoc] #212251 08/22/13 05:48 PM 08/22/13 05:48 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny OP veteran jenny jenny   OP veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi >O to E < GORGEN 1. a small gorge 2. a big feast I suppose it could be Jekyll or Hyde... [Re: jenny jenny] #212254 08/23/13 12:17 AM 08/23/13 12:17 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,971 Worcester, MA Getting ready to attack the day: (see how much confidence I have in you?!) DRANKENSTEIN - what they did in the Hofbräuhaus when all the glasses were dirty Runner-up: FRANKENSTAIN - mustard Page 52 of 100 1 2 … 50 51 52 53 54 … 99 100 Go to page... 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