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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 94 of 109 1 2 … 92 93 94 95 96 … 108 109 Go to page... Re: - - - -not the tribes of the Steppes of Asia LukeJavan8 #223311 01/13/16 01:59 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 TORTOR -raw steak "row steak," maybe? or even more precisely, "row steok"? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter bees in my bonnet today wofahulicodoc #223312 01/13/16 02:05 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA WELTER PRONUNCIATION: (WEL-tuhr) MEANING: noun: 1. A confused mass; a jumble. 2. A state of upheaval. verb intr.: 1. To roll, writhe, or toss. 2. To lie soaked in something, such as blood. ETYMOLOGY: From Middle Dutch welteren or Middle Low German weltern (to roll). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wel- (to turn or roll), which also gave us waltz, revolve, valley, walk, vault, volume, wallet, helix, devolve, and voluble. Earliest documented use: 1400. ____________________________________ BELTER - 1. an inhabitant of Ceres (or any other asteroid) 2. Ethel Merman BWELTER - someone trying to portray a loud, evil laugh (BWA-ha-ha-ha...) WEBTER - the best dictionary to use if you have a speech impediment Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bees in my bonnet today wofahulicodoc #223316 01/13/16 10:35 PM Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 M May addict May addict M Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 How wood! Welper- someone who says welp a lot. "Welp, what are you going to do." -\_(°_°)_/- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter time marches on May #223319 01/14/16 01:31 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Originally Posted By: May -\_(°_°)_/- ASCII art - a vanishing practice, more's the pity Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter making an S of myself again wofahulicodoc #223320 01/14/16 01:39 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA INVECTIVE PRONUNCIATION: (in-VEK-tiv) MEANING: noun: An insulting or abusive criticism or expression. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin invehi (to attack with words), from invehere (to carry in). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wegh- (to go or to transport in a vehicle), which also gave us deviate, way, weight, wagon, vogue, vehicle, vector, envoy, trivial, and inveigh. Earliest documented use: 1430. _________________________________ INVESTIVE - 1. pertaining to the ascension to a new position of power, reponsibility, and respect 2. placing assets where they will grow INSECTIVE - encouraging the spread of arthropods SINVECTIVE - dramatic exhortation against evil and transgression Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter blow your own trumpet - not wofahulicodoc #223327 01/15/16 02:37 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA RETICENCE PRONUNCIATION: (RE-tuh-sens) MEANING: - noun: A reluctance to express one’s thoughts and feelings. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reticere (to be silent), from re- (again, back), from tacere (to be silent). Earliest documented use: 1603. _____________________________ RELICENCE - obtain a new permit RETICENSE - make a new macrame holder for the aroma-spreader in church ARETICENCE - awareness of the purity and the virtue and the goodness of the ideal world Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: time marches on wofahulicodoc #223329 01/15/16 04:57 PM Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 M May addict May addict M Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc Originally Posted By: May -\_(°_°)_/- ASCII art - a vanishing practice, more's the pity Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: time marches on May #223331 01/15/16 05:11 PM Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 M May addict May addict M Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 Rétifence- An opening in a fence Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Reti fence May #223336 01/16/16 05:43 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,358 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Reti? Wasn't he a chess player? Who would want to peddle stuff they stole from him? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Reti fence wofahulicodoc #223337 01/17/16 03:07 AM Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 M May addict May addict M Joined: May 2014 Posts: 514 Apparently he was a chess player. I have no idea, in answer to your question. I don't play, nor do I follow chess. I just combined The Reti Opening with Gabriel Oaks poor luck at the beginning of Far From The Madding Crowd. Coincidence I watched the movie on Thursday or Friday (HBO) and thought it went well with the quote by Sir Alan Bates. Fact checking, I just now noticed that he, too, died of cancer at age 69. 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