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by Bailey
Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:51 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: configure
Replies: 6
Views: 29524

I guess that's why they are doing this today.

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by Bailey
Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:06 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: configure
Replies: 6
Views: 29524

configure

con·fig·ure (kn-fgyr) tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: a military vehicle that was configured for rough terrain; configured the computer by setting the system's parameters. [Middle English configuren,...
by Bailey
Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Mocha
Replies: 25
Views: 38356

Bubba is a nickname, sometimes used affectionately and sometimes used derisively, and often associated with someone from the Southern United States. As the Wikipedia article shows there are a number of different meanings, often only picked up in how it's used. Bailey's Bubba is good-hearted but a g...
by Bailey
Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:22 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Results
Replies: 7
Views: 15414

I liked this one Vowing revenge on his English teacher for making him memorize Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," Warren decided to pour sugar in her gas tank, but he inadvertently grabbed a sugar substitute so it was actually Splenda in the gas. I think we'll be seeing it under Sk...
by Bailey
Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:56 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Mocha
Replies: 25
Views: 38356

"Do you want to know hell, it's depths; hell is the company of the ignorant." My translation for a verse by Omar Al-Khayyam.
you know Bubba?

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by Bailey
Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:59 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Mocha
Replies: 25
Views: 38356

Mexican friends say it sounds like booger in Spanish. Sort of brain related.

mark not-in-my-nose Bailey
by Bailey
Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:43 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Simulacrum
Replies: 1
Views: 4856

Simulacrum

sim·u·la·crum (smy-lkrm, -lkrm) n. pl. sim·u·la·cra (-lkr, -lkr) 1. An image or representation. 2. An unreal or vague semblance. [Latin simulcrum (from simulre, to simulate; see simulate) + -crum, n. suff.] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by...
by Bailey
Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:41 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Smarmy
Replies: 19
Views: 35130

My first suspect would have been Wally, who finally snapped after years of sublimating his anger towards Eddie... yes, I wondered why he kept ignoring an obviously insane Haskell, yet we are talking about the less-than-sophisticated Penultimate 50's show. It is surprising though- you would think a ...
by Bailey
Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:26 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: disparate
Replies: 2
Views: 5976

disparate

dis·pa·rate (dspr-t, d-sprt) adj. 1. Fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar: "This mixture of apparently disparate materialsscandal and spiritualism, current events and eternal recurrencesis not promising on the face of it" Gary Wills. 2. Containing or composed o...
by Bailey
Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:12 am
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Tagline Graveyard
Replies: 155
Views: 831008

I retired the Jefferson line about big government being big enough to give you all you want can take all you have.

I feel this is closeer to today's realities.

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by Bailey
Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:06 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: win/winner
Replies: 8
Views: 15663


- and yet overween is still around.
They that overween,
And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen.
- Milton.
I've usually heard it o'erween. Hubris; the Word of the century
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by Bailey
Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:23 pm
Forum: Etymology
Topic: Euphemism and blasphemy
Replies: 13
Views: 45150

no pics of Easy on the net, that I could find.

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by Bailey
Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:20 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: win/winner
Replies: 8
Views: 15663

a good word, it also contains in it the opposite, if one is a winner, someone else loses, particularily in a contest. B. The opposite of some Winners is Whiners . Better than "oh good job"; For the most banal and universally acheived, minor acomplishments. mark too-many-atta-persons-given...
by Bailey
Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:13 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Pun Times
Replies: 287
Views: 827449

Re: Saturday


Ok thanks LBJ.
"LBJ"?
Isn't that Bill Clinton's name in Spanish?

Wailcome back Belly :wink:
I believe so. But spelled differently:wink:
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by Bailey
Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:57 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Match up the idioms with their meanings
Replies: 10
Views: 22551

You learn something new everyday. Although I meant that they weren't shot from cannons, which (if we are to believe old advertisements) would have made them "puffed babies".
my mother worked at a puffed rice factory, thast is exactly how they puff them.

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