solicitor One who can make you wish the telephone had never been invented :ack2:
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solicitor One who can make you wish the telephone had never been invented :ack2:
Courtroom
A Comedy Playhouse, where the wigs are all white.
meditation
Meditation: I'll have to think about that one.
scheme.
A method of hurtling down a snowy hill, precariously balanced on two planks of wood, known as Schee. Hence, to scheed, meaning to slide.
omnibus
omnibus: one of those words - like pundit and halcyon - that middle-aged men with a grammar school education hope will crop up in conversation so that they can casually demonstrate that they're aware of the etymology and this is exactly the kind of thing that kids today will miss out on now they've stopped teaching Classics in state schools, which is a great pity not only for the kids but for the general future well-being of our society I blame Thatcher and Tebbit and their narrow-minded anti-intellectual utilitarian attitude to education and Blair was just as bad frankly.
petunia
Petunia. A British pop-singer, born 1932, surnamed Clark, who has produced a massive collection of records, and an omnibus. This is from the Latin word.........zzzzzz
councillor
councillor A person who gets paid to pretend that they care and act like they know more about your life than you do
Madness
Madness; The quality of not knowing a hawk from a handsaw.
Malicious.
The opposite of Delicious.
glide
glide Term of movement usually reserved for Ice Skaters, Dancers, and Ghosts. Gives the impression that the feet aren't quite on the floor...
Showstopper
A form of stove-pipe hat worn by male dancers in Busby Berkeley numbers.
pacemaker
pacemaker Lead dog in dog sled racing, who sets the pace for the other dogs
ugly
A word applied to any person whose character/work you can't fault, largely because you don't know enough about it, but you're in a bad mood and just feel like being a miserable ratbag.
sunflower
sunflower Another word for "Solar Flares"
Poor
Hollywood Slang. Down to your last butler.
Butler
Fiddler - one who plays fiddles
Butler - one who plays butts
starch
One of those things you really don't want in your boxer shorts.
halitosis
halitosis - a scented perfume, widely popular in France.
seductive -
To make oneself attractive to aquatic ornithopters, to whit, the duck.
cryogenics
cryogenics The insane idea that one can cheat death by freezing ones balls off
Telephone
Telephone; A device for sorting out misunderstandings resulting from internet communications.
quality.
A word used to describe anything mediocre, and to be taken as on a par with "good food" advertised outside grotty pubs, and "Executive travel" on tatty coaches. Executives tend to know the meaning of the word "quality" and avoid it like the plague, one of the reasons why you never see executives in grotty pubs or on coach tours, regardless of the quality.
curmudgeon
Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
A disaffected adolescent, grown up.
Archaeology.
Archaeology. The art of looking at a sherd of pottery, determining what the entire piece looked like, what it was used for, where it was made, who owned it and exactly what sort of house he lived in, thus what sort of town, his status in that town and thus what sort of a civilisation.
pirate
pi-rate - a system of rating the popularity of CDs and DVDs by judging how many copies were made of it.
cordial
A very old-fashioned method of using a telephone.
military
A place for storing dead soldiers
Partridge
Partridge Strange avian that exists only to hide in pear trees on December 25th. I am reliably informed that they make great gifts
Gun Control
Trigger finger.
Capitalist
Gun Control - not unlike bladder control, actually. Everyone who has a bladder thinks that they have perfect personal control over it, until they day that they find themselves arrested for deliberately or accidentally letting it off all over the mall, at which point they start saying that it wasn't their fault, it was just that something snapped and they weren't responsible for their actions and the next thing you know the disciples of Charlton Heston are out there protesting that it's not a bladder issue it's a people issue and everyone else should have the inalienable right to carry a full bladder with them at all times in case the Muslims invade.
Oh, alright - I'll do trigger finger too.
Trigger Finger - the crime Roy Rogers was arrested for but the conviction was hushed up by the studio.
Wait - that was a definition, not the next thing.
Capitalist...er....look carry on without me.
Pathos
The fifth Musketeer, a tiny, almost hopeless figure who hadn't got the strength to draw his sword.
Territorial
Territorial Part of the house grounds overlooked by the family Terrier, whose main job is to bark and wake up the family Doberman
Liar
Liar - The home of a dishonest dyslexic.
Miscreant -
Miscreant A person whom according to popular theory has severe mental problems from a youth spent in torment by his parents
Doctor
A person who heals his patient upto a certain extent and extracts even more when the patient returns. (Hope I won't become like this)
SOLDIER
A man who is hated by civilians when nobody is making threats, real or imagined, but loved by the populace when there is a threat. That is, until somebody has to foot the bill. See "Tommy Atkins"
fodder
fodder: more fod
twins
Twins. A reason to buy more aspirin/paracetemol/co-codamol/ibuprofen. A fiendish plot by the drugs industry.
robot
robot Mechanical replacement for honest, hard-working people in the auto industry
Unemployment
To be fair to robots, they're completely unjudgemental. They'll happily replace dishonest, lazy people too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon