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Thread: Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

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    Quincunx: a word which, if mispronounced while shouting it out with glee upon rolling double fives, could result in the nearest feminist performing unsanctioned alterations to one's wrinkly bits.

    Dodecatheon:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Dodecagon: A polygon with 12 sides and 12 faces like a standard jury, a politician, or a Televangelist with weird hair

    Polymorph:
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Polymorph: Dyslexic for Poor Lymph; what caterpillars do; parrots molting

    dyslexia:
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Dyslexia: common misspelling of Lysdexia.

    A parrot molting = polymorph...tailor, I can't be held accountable for my actions...

    keelhauling:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Keelhauling: A way sailors like to administer a butt kicking when an average butt kicking is not good enough.

    Butt Kicking:

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    Buttkicking: What I must content myself with when keelhauling tailor for making that "Polly morph" joke isn't an option.

    Judas cradle (I'm looking at you, tailor):
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Judas cradle: Receiving 30 pieces of silver for doing the yo-yo trick "rock the cradle" as remuneration from an audience. Side note: The National Yo-Yo museum is now in a city I worked and/or lived in for a short time: '86-'89... Chico, CA

    Remuneration:
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    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Remuneration: a salary that is supposed to cover your needs.

    Grasshopper:
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Grasshopper: What all half-Chinese/half-American disciples of the kung fu temple are called before graduation, at which point they begin an epic journey across the Old West whose only real purpose is gratuitous fighting and the smashing up of saloons.

    Pear of Anguish:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Pear of Anguish: Famous knight of the 5th Century (when "peer" still was spelled "pear") who founded the House of Anguish. His descendants were numerous.

    Hall of Fame:
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    Hall of Fame: An edifice not for the most-of-us; a place where accolades are strewn among perceived or real heroes

    hero:
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
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    7-8-2015

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    hero:see p. xxx of the dicionary. In revised version a Heron reduced to hero.

    Humbug:
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    Humbug: A bug who hums because it doesn't know the words

    Words:
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    words:units of sounds and letters humans use to block comunication.

    comunication:
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    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Words: Something bad for an apple, good for a garden. <cleans Mr. McGoo glasses>

    Foyer:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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