David Myer wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:37 am

If I burst into tears (as I do) at the first scene of sentimentality in a movie, does that make me thigmotropic? I am certainly moved by touching things.

I read a description once that a nihilist will look on passively while the world collapses around him, but move his food dish two inches and he'll cry bloody murder.

Never heard this one before, at least I don't think so.

A few years ago I had a coworker, a temp actually, who everyone called Percy. I assumed his name was Percival. Not exactly a caconym but quite unusual these days. Our manager "outed" him when she came around asking, "Has anyone seen Pericles?"

Learned a new word! :) Some time ago, going through my Dad's music as I used to do from time to time :mrgreen: I found a Grover Washington Jr. album with a song called "Shivaree Ride." I had no idea what a shivaree was, but now I know it probably referred to the sounds of cans and such attached to a...

The q-u-y letter combo looks odd, probably because it's uncommon in English.

Whenever I see the word rinky-dink it brings to mind an old Dave "Baby" Cortez instrumental. Not "Rinky-Dink," strangely enough, but "The Happy Organ": https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpel ... ture=share

I can relate to the bedroom usurpation. My living room (and television, and refrigerator) have been usurped. Good word, though!

I commented awhile back about Johnny Carson's reporting on an argument at a political gathering in the 80s, calling it a "raucous Dukakis caucus fracas."

Julep also reminds me of "One Mint Julep," a great instrumental by Ray Charles.

Wasn't that one of the names Linus Van Pelt used to call his sister Lucy in the Peanuts comic strip?

I seem to recall some interaction in school where someone commented on a teacher's use of the word betroth, and made a joke about someone pledging their trough.

Was this the original source or inspiration for the word coalition?

A wordy but now-retired coworker used to refer to emergencies as "emergent situations." (He once told me I should use my leave time so as to give myself a "restorative break." He could have left out the last four syllables. )

As a child I was a voracious reader, always leaving the library with as many books as I could safely carry.