Favorite Words/Stupid Post

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MANWITHPEZ

Monday, March 28, 2005 8:10 PM

Below is a list of some of my favorite words...In keeping with some of the other posts going around, I thought I would ask some of my fellow browncoats what some of their favorite words were too...

Megalomaniacal
Imbroglio
Angelic
Pfefferminze (whoops...i mean PEZ)
Apparition
Nougat
Sadomasichistic
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Schmuck
Mesoamerican
Whim
Vanglorious
Mystery
Passport (in deference to one of my favorite movies Sneakers)
Maw
Methylethylisothiazolinone
Pulp
and, in a new entry Serenity.

And, many, many others too numerous to name!

Before I go, I have to say, I love my Browncoats! Everyday I come to this site, and I can't believe what's been done for us, and by us. Thank you all!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

BADGERSHAT

Monday, March 28, 2005 8:14 PM

This could possibly be the oddest post I've seen on this site, ever, bar none...

That being said, I've always liked "Cryptography" despite having later learned that it has nothing to do with the Undead...

--Jefé The Hat

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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)

"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Monday, March 28, 2005 9:19 PM

I'm a big fan of 'Quixotic'.
I also like 'Alas'.

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through another world)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, March 28, 2005 10:20 PM

I've always liked 'vim'...it's just a fun little word.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

MALICIOUS

Monday, March 28, 2005 10:20 PM

My favorite word has always been "Sinister."

I don't think it strange at all to have a favorite word. Wonder what that says about me? Don't answer that either!

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

MIKEYMO

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:52 AM

Perfunctory
Juxtaposition
Smock (shout out to the Calvin&Hobbes fans)
Mensch

"Be ashamed to die before you have scored some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

SALTYGOODNESS

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:26 AM

What a fun little thread!

I like:
calamity
nestle (not the chocolate/food company!)
celestial
peep

DISLIKE Nougat! And recently am annoyed by "canoodling"

EMBERS

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:37 AM

my all time favorite is velleity

Ogden Nash even wrote a poem
(unfortunately I can't find the whole poem...)

Quote:

Seated one day at the dictionary I was pretty weary and also pretty ill at ease,
Because a word I had always liked turned out not to be a word at all, and suddenly I found myself among the v's.
And suddenly among the v's I came across a new word which was a word called velleity,
So the new word I found was better than the old word I lost, for which I thank my tutelary deity.

(from—I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1938)

MONTANAGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:47 AM

I like dyspnea. (Not the meaning, just the word.)

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

CALLMEATH

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:21 AM

Omphaloskepsis-the spelling may be off, I learned it in 11th grade english, 9 years ago. Means the act of studying one's bellybutton. No, I didn't make it up.

alacrity-just saying fast is so boring

antidisestablishmentarianism-the only good thing about the movie "SLC Punk" was this word, painted on their van. Weren't even any good punk bands.

anon

forte-pronounced "FORT". "Fort-a" is italian for loud. "Fort" is french for strength. I'll fight this one to my grave.

philology-just a coincedence

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:

I've always liked 'vim'...it's just a fun little word.

And my favorite text editor

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BadgersHat:

That being said, I've always liked "Cryptography" despite having later learned that it has nothing to do with the Undead...

No offense, but being a computer type, you made me LOL. Again, no disrespect intended and thanks for the giggle

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:33 AM

Oh, yes. I like schism. And as an added bonus, it's an awesome Tool track as well

EDIT: Yah Calvin & Hobbes!!!
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

BEATLE

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:56 AM

I've always been partial to Pinochle.
And Whittle.
Also Spondulicks.

AMALTHEA1

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:51 AM

I've always been partial to "perspicacity". You know you're a nerd when one of your favorite words get used on a Star Trek episode, and you get a giant giggle out of it.

AND, also, for those Heinlein fans out there:
floccinaucinihilipilificator

(yes, it's a real word, I've looked it up in the OED back in my college days).

SOUPCATCHER

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:48 AM

Fun thread . Hmmmm. It's hard to come up with these out of the blue. That said...

dude
misanthrope
sluggard
squiggly
copacetic
cool
platypus
leporine (actually, pretty much any of the equine, ovine, leonine, bovine, etc. type of words)
anthropomorphic
eh

And a bunch more that aren't jumping into my cranial orb.

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:29 PM

Wow! What inspired choices! I can't believe I didn't put copacetic, alacrity, or smock! Smock, Smock, Smock! Of course, thatweirdgirl had to choose one that hasn't been used in conversation since the 20s, but hey, most of the ones I picked don't end up in conversations at all.
And, people are picking ones based on how they sound, and not what they mean. Well, I advise everyone to look up the word Smegma before adding it to the list.

Hey...here are some more: Dystopian, Dander, Melanin, Equus, Grievious, Italiano (that's for Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda"), Halloween, Baboon, Cycle (as a verb), Disingenuous, Malefactor, Viscous, Pizazz, Effluency, etc...
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say words are good!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:59 PM

Apothecary to me these collection of letters epitomises the very meaning of the word. A perfect blend of letters and meaning.

Also a little self centred here but Somnambulist - I just love latin words incorporated into English. It allows you to make up words like : Footsplattambulat - meaning to walk :)

Old words rarely used are very appealing too:

Sciomancy, Necromancer, Hugger Mugger and Soothsayer.

And I always loved the delicate sound ofWraiths

Cheers
The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com
For Pictures:
http://www.cirqus.com/lightfantastic.html

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Wow! What inspired choices! I can't believe I didn't put copacetic, alacrity, or smock! Smock, Smock, Smock! Of course, thatweirdgirl had to choose one that hasn't been used in conversation since the 20s, but hey, most of the ones I picked don't end up in conversations at all.

sure, pick me out of the long list of word smiths....I only had one word. At least my word means the same happy thing as it looks to mean....unlike smegma, ick.

I also like 'jeepers', 'golly', 'gnarly'.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

And, people are picking ones based on how they sound, and not what they mean. Well, I advise everyone to look up the word Smegma before adding it to the list.

Hey buddy, we didn't chastise you for your word choice, so I (we) would thank you not to do it to us.

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:27 PM

Hey buddy...I wasn't chastising anyone...just making a joke about the meaning of the word Smegma...and to go along with what thatweirdgirl said...ick.

I once dated a girl who thought that the word Diarrhea sounded pretty...I just couldn't get behind it though...

(Heh heh...diarrhea...behind...HA!)

So, I understand picking words because of how they sound and not what they mean...I wasn't trying to get under your skin, and I apologize if I did...

So, before thatweirdgirl picks anything more dated than 23 Skidoo, I'm out

Deuces!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:37 PM

wha? huh? how did i become the measure?

and what's wrong with verve?

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

NIKNAK

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Quote:
Originally posted by BadgersHat:

That being said, I've always liked "Cryptography" despite having later learned that it has nothing to do with the Undead...

No offense, but being a computer type, you made me LOL. Again, no disrespect intended and thanks for the giggle

I remember a documentary about Bletchly Park where they said that they hired a cryptozoologist thinking he must know something about cryptography. Actually a cryptozoologist is more interested in animals whos' existence is questionable. But he was a clever chap so they kept him anyway.

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:46 PM

Oh, measure nothing Weirdess...I was just making a joke...sheesh...buncha sensitive browncoats around here...

Oh, and you forgot to add Moxie to your list

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Oh, measure nothing Weirdess...I was just making a joke...sheesh...buncha sensitive browncoats around here...

Oh, and you forgot to add Moxie to your list

oooh! moxie, how could i forget that one? thanks much!

and i'm not sensitive, i'm just kinda impressed that i've managed almost as much thread space as Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

NIKNAK

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:58 PM

Snowy Owl - I know its two words but I've had the phrase "Snowy owl love-killer" from Wonderfalls in my head all day.
Woo
Flummoxed
Jiffy
Hexaflexagon

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:24 PM

I'm back from lunch so...More words!

Triskadelaphobia
Dodecahedron
Google (The number, not the website)
Oxymoron
Onomonopiea
Krakatoa
Herpetologist (But, I really, really hate snakes)
Tact
Toothsome
Benign
Academic
Circumspect
Pebble
Phosphorous
Thud
Egyptology

And other, stupider words. Be a hell of a sentence of someone could use all those words in it.

I think I just broke my brain.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

XENOCIDE

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:04 PM

OOOH Words:

Lackadaisical
Fullerene and/or buckyball
dodecahedron
sestina
artichoke (yummy food with gagging in the name?)
parsimonious
persimmon
sanctimonious
errant
infallible
Shiny

and now some nonwords:

melty (mine today about a crooked fruit popsicle)
Spaceshippy (how the teacher wanted us to make the stage look)

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
http://www.bcpl.net/~wilsonr/farpoint.html

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:

...Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

Are you absolutely sure?

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Are you absolutely sure?

No...seeing's how she IS in this thread and has NOT done that...I could be wrong.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:22 PM

So, you're not sure that you are or are not Malicious? Are you sure that you're not sure, or not sure that you aren't?

Actually, I'm not sure of much anymore.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:28 PM

I'm only sure that I'm usually me.

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Triskadelaphobia

do you mean Triskaidekaphobia? I had a teacher...7th grade I think...that would insist we celebrate Friday the 13th. She would have us decorate the hallways and hang signs predicting doom. She left ‘Triskaidekaphobia’ written in the upper right hand corner of her chalkboard all year long.

other fun words:
curmudgeon
zealous
pizzicato
disheveled
pithy
and.....snarky

this is the absolute ultimate!

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:32 PM

Yes, that's exactly the word I was going for...and I had it spelled similiar to yours, but I changed it...I mean, it still wasn't right, but yeah...that's the one...

I'm going to sit in the corner and play with my dunce cap now. Bye bye.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

CORNCOBB

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:34 PM

Ruttin',
Omniarchy,
Epiphany,
Insipid,
Revolutionary,
Pissant,
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,
F**k

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

XENOCIDE

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:45 PM

Snarky! How could I forget snarky..
Also, manky (sp?) as an adjective for rotten fruit.
Crotchety.
mescal, mescaline, temescal. Must be careful lest I slide into spanish...so many pretty words in spanish.

Oh! "lest."

tempest
tempestuous!
shrew

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
http://www.bcpl.net/~wilsonr/farpoint.html

OPTIMUS1998

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:09 PM

so many great words!

antepenultimate
acetylsalicylic acid
more to come when my brain's not missing...

...May have been the losing side, Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:11 PM

Lest is good.

Then there's palaver, first discovered through Firefly (and didn't even notice it until I heard the commentary of Shindig), and then it kept being used in the Dark Tower series.

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through another world)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

OLDENGLANDDRY

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:57 PM

Some old-fashioned words I like:

Runcible
Flibbadijibbit
Jackanapes
Moustaschios

And some from my local dialect:

Wopse (meaning wasp)
Dumbledore (meaning Bumblebee. No, J.K. Rowling didnt make it up)
Adle-pated (meaning crazy)

And, of course, my all time favourite word:

Sausauges.

MELEAUX

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:32 PM

My top 3
1) Serendipity
2) Simultaneously
3) Sanguine- means cheerful, confident, optimistic and bloody?
Hey anybody intereseted in anagrams? My nome is an anagram for In a nearby elm . How cool is that? A gold star to the person who can figure out what my name is.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:46 PM

Whata strange thread...

Dystopic (but somnabulist already covered that one)
Juxtapose
Dichotomy
Omega
Chie-ee' chu (Klingon, not a sneeze)

Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:04 PM

Annabel-myri is it?
If so, a singular and beautiful name.
If not,
well... I'm a visual person, not a word person (he said defensively)

Chrisisall

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:52 PM

Not to be pedantic or anything, but I think this is interesting so I’m going to explain how the rather perplexing definition of sanguine emerged.

The term sanguine comes from the Latin word sanguineous, which means ‘bloody.’

In Late Medieval Europe, a philosophy emerged that sought to describe a person’s disposition as a mixture of four internal fluids: blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy. Each fluid was thought to cause a certain personality characteristic, and blood was thought to be a vehicle for cheerfulness. So a person who was very cheerful, hopeful or brave was thought to have an abundance of blood and was therefore referred to as “bloody.” But since this was a scholarly philosophy, they preferred to refer to these terms in Latin. As such certain Latin terms have made it into English as a result of this philosophy. Sanguine is only one of them. Here are a few more that you might be surprised to see:

Temperament. Guess what Latin word this comes from. “Mixture.” (temperare : “to mix”)

Humor: In Latin, Humorus means “fluid” or “moisture.”

This philosophy of the temperaments of humor is quite similar to Chinese and Indian philosophies which are sometimes referred to as “Eastern Medicine.” There is a whole philosophy of “Western Medicine,” as it were, that has, to a large extent, vanished and left us with these odd definitions.

CALLMEATH

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:57 PM

I'm guessing Emily. Don't know 'bout your last name, though. Branan? Barnan? Branna? Hey, your name could be Breanna! I always liked that one.

MALICIOUS

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
...i'm just kinda impressed that i've managed almost as much thread space as Malicious would if she were in this thread...course she would have hijacked it by now and had at least seven more posts...but not bad considering i'm not her.

I've been TRYING to be a good non-thread-hijacking girl! Typical. No props for the Mal-Meister.

Mal-licious

I think I will add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

AX

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:07 AM

Great thread. I love words.

Palimpsest: Describes a piece of paper that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased.

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:28 AM

antidisestablishmentarinism

but did I spell it correctly...?

Chrisisall

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:08 AM

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleu
cylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcyste
inylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglu
taminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminyl
valyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylg
lycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolyl
leucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparagi
nylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreony
lthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalan
ylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparagi
nylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthre
onylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylala
nylserine

Actual chemical name of a type of virus. Thought to be the longest word to have every appeared in print.

MONTANAGIRL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:24 AM

Wow, and I thought German was bad about compounding words.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:47 AM

Given the size of some proteins and the way in which organic chemical names are derived, in theory one could have chemical names with literally millions of letters. At some point the rigid specificity of science is pitted against the astronomical complexity of nature, and one of them is going to lose.

MANWITHPEZ

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:44 PM

I think some guy named Alan made that word up just to sneak his name in as many times as possible.

I remember reading this word, or something like it in a book...the word itself took up like 25 pages...

Nice compact words are good too...like

Boo!

I like that one. I like to stand in the doorway to say it.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

XENOCIDE

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:19 PM

FINN My hero!

I forgot Phlegmatic:
1. Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
2. Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.

and
chol·er·ic adj.
1. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
2. Showing or expressing anger.

and melancholy

n.
1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom: “There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass” (Charles Kuralt).
2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.

3. Archaic.
Black bile.
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from black bile.

adj.
1.Affected with or marked by depression of the spirits; sad. See Synonyms at sad.
2. Tending to promote sadness or gloom: a letter with some melancholy news.
3. Pensive; thoughtful.

And melancholic (of or relating to melancholy)

Dictionary.com rocks!

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
http://www.bcpl.net/~wilsonr/farpoint.html

MELEAUX

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 5:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Annabel-myri is it?
If so, a singular and beautiful name.
If not,
well... I'm a visual person, not a word person (he said defensively)

Chrisisall

Wow that is beautiful. Wish that was my name. My first name is Melanie and for the sake of anonimity I'll let you figure out what my last name is. By the way, I am reminded of the guy who always wanted a personalized liscence plate so he changed his name to JFZ36HQ.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:40 PM

I was so off! The hint was in your screen name!
Well, Melanie is beautiful too.

Thanks for gettin' back to me.
Hey, most of us Browncoats were'nt in the theatres for Star Wars first time around due to a severe lack of age, however I just made it (and it was awesome), and I tell ya Serenity's gonna blow that experience away, I'll wager!!

Now if I could just fold time a little bit...

Chrisisall

YT

Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:59 AM

truth
justice
honour
duty
joy
love
passion

It is true that I love words more for their meaning than their sound, but these sound beautiful to me.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Robert Johnson & the Family Band, "Peekaboo", from "Live from Bonnaroo 2002"

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:26 AM

Dwell (a time/angle mesurement used to tune up old "points" style automotive distributers)

Gusset (used to strengthen a structure)

Pinion (a gear used in automotive differentials)

Carburetor (cooler sounding than "fuel injection", which gives
me a mental image of a syringe )

Zerk fitting (also known as a grease nipple)

Yep, I love automotive termanology, hence the college courses to get my ASE certification.

A pretty starship machanic said: "I'm pretty good at fixing things..., they just kinda speak to me."
I'm the same way. (my damn Ford never shuts up)

---------------------------------------------
The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes

GLOWYRM

Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:16 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
and what's wrong with verve?

there is nothing WRONG with verve, the vereve or the verve pipe, the word and both bands are great, and fyi being the measure can be a good thing, it means someone out there is paying attention to you!

my fave words are.... ok little story for all the nerdling gimps out there, in yeat 11 i was dared to read the oxford consice pocket dictionary... that was almost ten years ago and i still remember it tooki over a week for me to read it cover to cover. (more time than it took me to real the lord of the rings excluding the appendices)

i love:
fave : as in favourite
ghoti: it spells "fish"... ask and ye shall find knowledge!
concise
inadvertant, viscosity, alacrity, pugnatious, irrepressable, contagious, paradidgm, precotious, and of course qatar. (the only "q" word i have ever used in a scrabble game that does not require the use of the letter u.
and my oldest daughter HATES the word...
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" pronounced ab-ka-def-gee-jeck-ol-mo-nocris-too-vrick-sys. big bird has a lot to answer for folks.

" glowyrm needs a man to share her progeny's abundance of effervesscant personality... and to warm her bunk."

laugh people, its a joke!

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Triskadelaphobia
Dodecahedron
Google (The number, not the website)
Oxymoron
Onomonopiea
Krakatoa
Herpetologist (But, I really, really hate snakes)
Tact
Toothsome
Benign
Academic
Circumspect
Pebble
Phosphorous
Thud
Egyptology
Be a hell of a sentence of someone could use all those words in it.

You asked for it...try not to criticize my grammar, this was hard to do...........

The toothsome herpetologist, always circumspect owing in large part to years of bites, a novice in his benign academic forays into Egyptology and ancient natural disasters, jumped when he heard a thud echo from the dodecahedron pod from Krakatoa, tactful and mindful of others he shouted (not Crap!), “Onomatopoeia,” then opened the triskaidekaphobia friendly container filled with a googol of phosphorous pebbles.

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YT

Friday, April 1, 2005 12:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
container filled with a googol of phosphorous pebbles.

If each "pebble" was just one atom of phosphorus (you didn't specify which phosphorous compound, but I reckon there's @least a chance the original poster meant phosphorus; besides, a molecule of any phosphorous compound will mass more than one atom of phosphorus), the contents of the container would mass 10 to the 50th power times the Earth. And it would have to be covered with water, lest it spontaneously burst into flame. But there isn't that much water in the Milky Way (and notwithstanding ambiguity as to whether Firefly takes place within one planetary system, or many, nor some ham-fisted dialogue in one of the eps, it is obvious that Firefly takes place within a small region of the Orion arm of the Milky Way), so some of the pebbles will be exposed. But the burning wouldn't last long, 'cause a fraction about 10 to the minus 53rd power of the stuff would use up all the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. Make that Earth-That-Was.

I would've gone for something like a google of academic tact, which might just be measurable.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Hendrix, "Who Knows", from "Live @Fillmore East"

ULIAH

Friday, April 1, 2005 1:17 AM

Computer hiccup bad multipost.

Sorry.

ULIAH

Friday, April 1, 2005 1:17 AM

ULIAH

Friday, April 1, 2005 1:17 AM

multipass

"kurofune" (black ship)
It's Japanese, but I've hijacked its meaning into something of my own silly creation (much to the amusement of my Japanese classmates).

A lot like Mal's line in Serenity, where he mentions something like "that changes the landscape." It's an expletive uttered when a new situation arises that brings potential complications or difficulties.

Kind of like Perry's black ships back in the 19th century.

No... this must be what going mad feels like.

EMBERS

Sunday, April 3, 2005 2:31 AM

I found the poem about my favorite word:
by Ogden Nash

WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S VELLEITY

Seated one day at the dictionary I was pretty weary
and also pretty ill at ease,
Because a word I had always liked turned out not to
be a word at all, and suddenly I found myself among the v’s,
And suddenly among the v’s I came across a new word
which was a word called velleity,
So the new word I found was better than the old word
I lost, for which I thank my tutelary deity,
Because velleity is a word which gives me great satisfaction,

Because do you know what it means, it means low degree
of volition not prompting to action,
And I always knew I had something holding me back
but I didn’t know what,
And it’s quite a relief to know it isn’t a conspiracy,
it’s only velleity that I’ve got,
Because to be wonderful at everything has always been my ambition,
Yes indeed, I am simply teeming with volition,
So why I never was wonderful at anything was
something I couldn’t see
While all the time, of course, my volition was merely
volition of a low degree,
Which is the kind of volition that you are better off without it,
Because it puts an idea in you head but doesn’t prompt
you to do anything about it.

So you think it would be nice to be a great pianist but
why bother with practicing for hours at the keyboard,
Or you would like to be the romantic captain of a romantic ship
but can’t find time to study navigation or
charts of the ocean or the seaboard;
You want a lot of money but you are not prepared to work for it,
Or a book to read in bed but you do not care to go
into the nocturnal cold and murk for it;
And now if you have any such symptoms you can
identify your malady with accurate spontaneity;
It’s velleity,
So don’t forget to remember that you’re velleitous,
and if anybody says you’re just lazy,
Why they’re crazy.

HARDWARE

Sunday, April 3, 2005 2:27 PM

I don't think these have appeared elsewhere in this thread. Some of my favorite words;

Ghoul
Treachery
Quisling
Exsanguinate
Middling - as in the response to "How you doing?" "Fair to middling."
Physic - not in the Newtonian sense of the word.
Precess - orbital physics in the Newtonian sense.
Defenestrate

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

BARNEYT

Monday, April 4, 2005 12:41 PM

My favourite word of all time is 'tactile', I like how it sounds and I like what it means.

another fun word is 'visceral' - which people tend to use to mean highly emotional, but actually comes from the word viscera, which means your intestines

Hey, who'd've thought that Joss Whedon fans would love words

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STARPILOTGRAINGER

Monday, April 4, 2005 1:57 PM

And, since I've read Lovecraft:

Squamous
Gibbous
and
Batrachian

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through another world)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

MANWITHPEZ

Monday, April 4, 2005 2:46 PM

A new week, a new list!

Diaphonous
Oblong
Catatonic
Ethereal
Humanistic
Triangulate
Bite
Progeny
Passionate
Telephonic
Anonym
Biased
Turgid
Slip
Serendipity

Enjoy!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, April 4, 2005 3:40 PM

Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm

Drives folks batty.

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BARNEYT

Monday, April 4, 2005 3:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm

Drives folks batty.

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And the corresponding word, from the opposite direction as it were...

sequoia (shortest word with all the vowels)

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MALICIOUS

Monday, April 4, 2005 7:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm

Drives folks batty.

TWG!!

I have always had great luck with "oxygen."

Mal-licious

I think I will add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

MONTANAGIRL

Monday, April 4, 2005 8:29 PM

This thread is so much fun!

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
And the corresponding word, from the opposite direction as it were...

sequoia (shortest word with all the vowels)

A stupid fact that will now be stuck in my brain forever. Thanks!

Another great word (that I learned in Mary Poppins):
indubitably

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

CONNORFLYNN

Monday, April 4, 2005 8:35 PM

One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.

SERENITYVALLEY

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:54 AM

Ladle -- and all thanks to Alan Tudyk.

http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm

CASIVONA

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:11 AM

"SHPIDOENKEL!"

LORA

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:54 AM

'Hoodspa' -- I can't spell it, it's Yiddish for hubris or arrogance but with an air of poking-fun or making light. I think it starts with a 'ch' like the older/correct spelling of Hannukah.

Liberty

Sass -- not so good for hangman...

Phenom

Omniscient

Cosmos

Quanta

Lieutenant -- it just has a rhythm to it...

And, speaking of rhythm: Rhumba. (Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three, half the crew has seen her plus the portmaster and me...if you hear a rhumba beat, don't pass the mess-room door...you just might see a tangerine come rolling down the floor!)

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Lora:
'Hoodspa' -- I can't spell it, it's Yiddish for hubris or arrogance but with an air of poking-fun or making light. I think it starts with a 'ch' like the older/correct spelling of Hannukah.

You mean chuptza? It's spelled with a 'ch', but it actually starts with one of those phlegm-y sounds from deep down in the gullet.

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 5:23 AM

One of those words from calc:

integrable

I still have troubles saying it.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 10:08 AM

Daffy Duck always ends up saying at some stage:
"Thuffering Thuckatath!!"......

What the hey is Thuckatash!? Anyone know?....

Whatever I kinda like the word :?

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CAPNRAHN

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:02 PM

Thuckatash = Succatash

As Thufferin' = Suffering

Thus : Suffering Succatash in Daffy's cleft-palated
(another good word - palate}
patois
{again another good'n}
is mangled
{yet another!}
and transmorgified
Again a great term!
into "Thufferin' Thuccatash!

Do I now duck?

Or would that actually be Tash's job ...

"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CapnRahn:
Thuckatash = Succatash

As Thufferin' = Suffering

Thus : Suffering Succatash in Daffy's cleft-palated
(another good word - palate}
patois
{again another good'n}
is mangled
{yet another!}
and transmorgified
Again a great term!
into "Thufferin' Thuccatash!

......Just found out succatash is a Stew made with lima beans n' thtuff!.

Even funnier now.

The
Somnambulist

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MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:25 PM

Succatash is literally, a mixture of corn and lima beans, or any combination recipe therein.

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.

Here's a new one:

Prestidigitation
Pheasant
Emergent
Incumbent
Lame
Haunted
Poltergeist
Cabal
Centrifugal
Aviary
Buxom
Zeitgeist
Dualistic
Transfix (What the Reavers had to do to that ship in Serenity to get it to run)
Far
Neverending

You get the gist (hey, another one!)

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

BARNEYT

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.

Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?

cumulative... don't know why but it's a word I can never say correctly the first time, no matter how hard I try!

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BARNEYT

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.

Hey, does Succatash still come around? I remember him from when I first joined, but then I went away, and now that I'm back he doesn't ever seem to be about. Good to know he hasn't gone for good!

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"I think the right place to start is to say, fair is fair. This is who we are. These are our numbers." Mr Willis of Ohio - The West Wing

BARNEYT

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:26 PM

Thinking of words (and I promise I'll shut up in a minute!) can anyone remember the line from Star Trek VI that Spock says about when they're going to have to pretend to be Klingons?

I know it has the phrase 'linguistic leger-de-main' in there somewhere, does anyone know the full line?

thanks heaps for anyone who can put me out of my misery!

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.

Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?

Me neither.... Couldn't find anything under the old Roget's Thesaurus.....

The
Somnambulist

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CONNORFLYNN

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:

Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?

Quote:
Originally posted by Somnambulist :
Me neither.... Couldn't find anything under the old Roget's Thesaurus.....

The
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Hehehe. I too have looked for it. I've considered writing a Redneck Lingo book. I have heard it now on both the West coast (Oregon) and the East Coast(NY) of America.

Hoogerbobbin : To ride an innertube, that is tied to the back of a pickup truck, down a dirt road or two-track (ruts created by a tractor or farm equipment) near or around rural country.

To make a long story short, I dated a girl in Portland, Oregon (pretty young thing) who had bruises all over her butt after a weekend at her family's farm. I asked her what they were all about and she said "I went Hoogerbobbin this weekend" and proceeded to explain herself and what Hoogerbobbin actually was. Needless to say I was baffled at the entertainment value one could gain from such actions.

I eventually parted ways with her and returned to my native habitat, NY. One night while enjoying a few pints with some friends about the ole campfire (AKA Field Party), much to my great disbelief, I heard the term used once again as a bunch of knuckleheads proceeded to tie a tractor innertube to the back of a pickup truck with some chains and tear off into the night, hooting and hollering. I chose not to partake in such activities, because I placed GREAT value on the condition of me bum.

Since then I have heard the term used 2 or 3 times, usually at a rural gathering of some type and usually after the consumption of several cold alcoholic beverages.

I have heard it called other things as well, just not nearly as colorful.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
Hehehe. I too have looked for it. I have heard it now on both the West coast (Oregon) and the East Coast(NY) of America.

Hoogerbobbin : To ride an innertube, that is tied to the back of a pickup truck, down a dirt road or two-track (ruts created by a tractor or farm equipment) near or around rural country.

...That's high-larious!!! To ride an inner tube...Hmmm.

Thanks for that :) Connorflynn

Y'know I live in the country - never heard or seen the activity in these parts(S/E UK). Weird. Cool word though.

Mind you, we do have duck racing in the next village from where I live so guess I can't poke fun....

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MANWITHPEZ

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.

Hey, does Succatash still come around? I remember him from when I first joined, but then I went away, and now that I'm back he doesn't ever seem to be about. Good to know he hasn't gone for good!

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From what I can see, its been quite awhile since he's been around. He still ambling around the official movie board though.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:59 PM

i think a few of us may have upset him one day....I miss Tash.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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HISKINDOFSTUPID

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 8:35 PM

Sesquipedalian. And Logomaniac.

I am both.

TWG, I am particulary fond of "vim and vigor", but it does make me think of a strong drink...

WHISPER

Friday, April 8, 2005 7:39 AM

Trichobezoar

Is it a demon straight from Joss's imagination? No, it's the official, medical term for... a hairball! Hee hee. I love that word.

www.whispergraphics.net

PARAKLETE

Friday, May 13, 2005 8:48 PM

Personaly, I have been fond of phantasmagorical for a long time.

CHANI

Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:53 AM

Belly
Strabismus (a squint)
Disdiadokokenesis (which means the inability to make rapid alternating movements due to cerebellar lesions)
Cachexia (extreme tissue wasting of chronic disease)
Shindig
Bellatrix (a female warrior)
Coconut
Inshallah (God willing in Arabic and the answer to every deadline request in the Gulf region....)
Rhonci (a wheeze)
Homonymous (the same on both sides)
Bumble
Wierd-ass
Silly
Declofenac, Ramoxifen, Sulfasalzine and many other drug names which bear no resemblence to what the damn things do and just sound really cool.

The list could go on..

Banter is rapidly escalating up my list. People around me say they are going somewhere "just for the banter" or "just for the crack" which is an Irish word I believe meaning fun. Banter is also used in replacement for "chat".
Using "twigged" to mean that you totally just understood something "then I twigged that was what he meant" which is a great word and from the Gaelic!

New balls please....

MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:49 PM

I can't be stopped!

Civility
Manila
Ceramic
Chitinous
Convention
Dyspepsia
Alligator
Chew
Reincorporated
Animation
Zen
Clitoris
Pushpin
Highlight
Extemperaneous

There's some for now. What do you want? It's been FOREVER!!!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

http://manwithpez.livejournal.com

RIVERFLAN

Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

I once dated a girl who thought that the word Diarrhea sounded pretty...I just couldn't get behind it though...

A friend of mine actually knew someone who named their daughter Clamidia (sp?) because she thought it sounded pretty.

I'm not reading through the entire thread, so if I'm repeating, I apoligize.

Swirligigs! is my all-time fav, but others I like are
Abydos
Falcon
Gryphon
Fire

they just have a certain poetry feeling. I'm not really one for single words- I like taking in a bunch of words as a whole, like a in a sentence or a paragraph.

MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:24 PM

That's not what's important. It's only important that the word is important to you.

Repetition is one of my favorite words!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

http://manwithpez.livejournal.com

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Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:26 PM

Verbose

Gargantuan

Illusion/Illusory/Illusive

Shrift/Shrived

Incommunicado

Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 5:56 AM

Bibbledy.

SIMONWHO

Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:19 AM

Inferno
Conflagration
Incendiary
Molotov Cocktail (cocktail is a splendid word in its own right)

Can you tell London is burning?

TRAVELER

Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:30 AM

Old post never die and apparently they don't fade away either.

metaphor
oxymoron

They seem to just slide off the tongue.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

ASARIAN

Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:33 AM

There's not many words I find standing out in a positive way, but a lot I dislike. I'll save those for another thread. :)

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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