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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 88 of 100 1 2 … 86 87 88 89 90 … 99 100 Go to page... right on schedule [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214164 02/09/14 09:05 PM 02/09/14 09:05 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA CANKER PRONUNCIATION: (KANG-kuhr) MEANING: noun: 1. A source of corruption or decay. 2. Ulcerous sores in the mouth; also any of various diseases affecting animals and plants. verb tr., intr.: 1. To corrupt or to become corrupted. 2. To infect with or be infected with canker. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English cancer (crab, tumor). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kar-/ker- (hard), which also gave us standard, cancer, and hard. Earliest documented use: 1384. _____________________________________ CANYER - an Australian request, as in "Canyer bring me a beer ? Re: right on schedule [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214166 02/09/14 09:53 PM 02/09/14 09:53 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 YANKER (1)the guy who pulls the pitcher when the pitcher can't pitch. (2) a Yanker Diddlely Dandy. a blast from the past [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214167 02/09/14 10:10 PM 02/09/14 10:10 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc ... I don't recall seeing an AWAD entry on the weekend in a dog's age, if ever... (...or at least not since the second week in October, 2000. YCLIU.) - - - - [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214168 02/09/14 10:35 PM 02/09/14 10:35 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,157 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,157 Land of the Flat Water Click to reveal.. wanker Brit slang ----please, draw me a sheep---- Re: - - - - [Re: LukeJavan8] #214174 02/10/14 02:17 PM 02/10/14 02:17 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA GROK PRONUNCIATION: (grok) MEANING: verb tr.: To understand deeply and intuitively. ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Earliest documented use: 1961. NOTES: In Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein describes grok as a Martian word meaning "to drink". That's the literal meaning, however, figuratively it means to understand something in a profound way. To grok something is to be one with it in a way that the observer and the observed become merged. ___________________________________ GWOK - to dwink in, to understand deeply and intuitively, provided you are Martian with a lisp THE PEOPLE AT MICROSOLF ARE NOT PEOPLE [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214178 02/10/14 06:57 PM 02/10/14 06:57 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 GROKE (grok-ee ) - one who groks his in-group's self-serving mantra and so loses all connection with objective reality. Last edited by jenny jenny; 02/10/14 07:15 PM. Where's Waldo ? [Re: jenny jenny] #214179 02/11/14 09:21 PM 02/11/14 09:21 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA WALDO PRONUNCIATION: (WAL-doh) MEANING: noun: A device for manipulating objects by remote control, for example, a remotely-operated arm. ETYMOLOGY: After Waldo F. Jones, an inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein. Earliest documented use: 1942. NOTES: Modern applications of waldo as a remote manipulator are in surgery, space, and in working in hazardous conditions, such as those involving radiation. (That's two-for-two for Heinlein...) ___________________________________________ WARDO - unconscionable profits made by the munitions industry during a conflict Just a guess [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214180 02/11/14 11:55 PM 02/11/14 11:55 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,964 Worcester, MA I wonder if he'll invoke ROBOT - from Karel Capek's play (in Checkoslovakian) R.U.R, which stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots." It's where Isaac Asimov got the word. Certainly it fits the description! from TheFreeDictionary.com: robot itself comes from Czech robota,..."servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave..." Go see a WALDO in Walmart [Re: wofahulicodoc] #214184 02/12/14 11:46 PM 02/12/14 11:46 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 WALDOC - a non-intrusive examination robot to be set up in all Walmart stores designed to compete with the Doc-in-a-Box market with the base rate set at $9.98 per visit. Organ transplants are slightly higher. My cubicle is my TARDIS [Re: jenny jenny] #214186 02/13/14 03:20 AM 02/13/14 03:20 AM 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 tardis PRONUNCIATION: (TAR-dis) MEANING: 1. A time machine. 2. Something that is much bigger than it appears from the outside. ETYMOLOGY: From TARDIS, a time machine in the British science-fiction TV series, Doctor Who. 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