I guess that's why they are doing this today.
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- Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:51 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: configure
- Replies: 6
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- Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: configure
- Replies: 6
- Views: 33339
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,...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mocha
- Replies: 25
- Views: 39283
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...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:22 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Results
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15633
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mocha
- Replies: 25
- Views: 39283
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:59 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Mocha
- Replies: 25
- Views: 39283
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Simulacrum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4961
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...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:41 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Smarmy
- Replies: 19
- Views: 37102
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 ...
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: disparate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6071
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...
- Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:12 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Tagline Graveyard
- Replies: 155
- Views: 1235879
- Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: win/winner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15948
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- 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
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:23 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Euphemism and blasphemy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 45761
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: win/winner
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15948
- Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:13 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Pun Times
- Replies: 287
- Views: 943412
Re: Saturday
I believe so. But spelled differently"LBJ"?
Ok thanks LBJ.
Isn't that Bill Clinton's name in Spanish?
Wailcome back Belly
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- Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:57 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Match up the idioms with their meanings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23111
my mother worked at a puffed rice factory, thast is exactly how they puff them.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".
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