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"...It will not do I'm sorry for you You very imperfect ablutioner...."
(Of course that's three words, not one...)
For sophisticated insults, Ernest Bramah's early Kai Lung works are a sparkling fountain. Sometimes it takes three readings before you realize you haven't been complimented after all.
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Ha! We are back to the Tromboniator of Titipu Town Band!
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I think I've lost you, Rhub, and I've seen the reference once before: Titipu Town Band???
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It's all from The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu).
Also in the Mikado are references in song to "pestilential" and, now that I think of it, even to "Sorrow" (who posted the original question!).
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Unkempt and dishevelled though they don't necessarily convey the unhygienic state (unsanitary), I rather like un'soap'histicated even though it's a fabricated word. I am still ecstatic to have just stumbled across this site of like-minded word nerds!
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It's all from The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu).
Also in the Mikado are references in song to "pestilential" and, now that I think of it, even to "Sorrow" (who posted the original question!).
thanks, makes more sense now. sometimes it takes me awhile having been raised in total isolation, under a tower miles north of Bree in Middle Earth decades before men came to meet Elves.
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 05/20/13 10:27 PM.
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Unkempt and dishevelled though they don't necessarily convey the unhygienic state (unsanitary), I rather like un'soap'histicated even though it's a fabricated word. I am still ecstatic to have just stumbled across this site of like-minded word nerds! WELCOME TEEPEE
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I love "unsoaphisticated"!
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