Devils Tower: An igneous intrusion in Wyoming where the softer surface long ago has eroded away leaving the igneous stuff to take its sweet time.
Intrusion:
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Devils Tower: An igneous intrusion in Wyoming where the softer surface long ago has eroded away leaving the igneous stuff to take its sweet time.
Intrusion:
The summer after Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out, I, as a fourteen-year-old devotee of the film, was on a trip out west and out of my mind to see and visit Devil's Tower, which I did, 'cause it had been used as the UFO landing site in the climactic final scene of the movie. Now, I should tell you, a UFO didn't actually land there. It was all just pretend.
Intrusion: OK, since joining this site, in view of its high-brow nature, I have been extraordinarily restrained, and I shall continue to do so, since I don't want to get booted. Therefore, rather than actually defining this word, I'll leave it to each of you to imagine what a foul-minded, uncouth, maggot-ridden low-life *might* say if he were left to his own devices. Not that I would. I'm couth.
Coot:
Coot: The guy with the white mustache and beard and salt and pepper hair that has drastically receded that keeps staring out of my mirror at me!
White Raven:
White Raven: There are many references for this from popular culture, but I'm going to instead employ my usual lame-brained humor and say it's what was left after someone scared the regular raven half to death.
Carpathia:
Carpathia: A transatlantic passenger steamboat that risked dangerous ice fields to pick up survivors of the Titanic.
Risk:
Risk: Depends on experience. A novice thinks little of free climbing down into a deep ravine on barely supportable rocky protrusions, falling and dying never occurring to him or her. (This is a true story, and the person was me!) Someone with experience views risk with trepidation, having fallen and not wanting to repeat the experience, so they remain on the couch watching action flicks, getting their risk thrills vicariously. (This is me some thirty years later!)
trepidation:
Trepidation: A four syllable word that could be replaced, if we were machines, by the one syllable word, “fear”, and, come to think of it, if we were machines and didn’t have to talk to humans, we wouldn’t even need the word “fear”. But thankfully we don’t have to think about it.
Artificial intelligence:
Artificial intelligence: A disease that affects politicians and for which there is no cure...
Disease:
Disease: A slang way of referring to sleep, i.e. "I was catching da Z's."
Appalling:
Appalling: How one might end up describing a movie advertising all its prizes at artsy film festivals if one made the mistake after knowing that and actually watched it.
Mistake:
Miss Take won several beauty pageants in the greater Beaumont area before marrying a promising young attorney, who later became Governor of Kansas, embarrassing his lady wife only the usual number of times on the way by getting caught with his pecker in the pickle jar.
Intern:
Intern1: We once put messages on pigeon's legs... that was outlawed in the year 2021. A more effective and less revealing method was devised in 2018 and proved, even back then, to maximize the covert bird messaging system utilized by the Harangen Hegemony (in dimension 8 of the Tyvlid Sorcerer's realm) brought into manifestation to the Tellurian world "Earth" due to the discovery of the ZEN quark (similar to the charmed quark but more elusive due to its spin in classical multi-phased dimensions - first demonstrated at Cornell University in 2016... leading to the first sustainable wormhole in 2017). One need merely insert 1015.7 pico-pico dots into a nano construct which allows the tern to be programmed after feeding. The nano construct serves two processes: first - install the tern's programming; second - to circumvent the tern's digestive system.
Intern2: One who installs nano constructs into a tern's feed. Some interns grossly refer to this as "buggering" the tern's food: an inaccurate and vulgar anachronism, even by present day 2037 standards.
Wormhole:
Wormhole: A technique worms use to get from one part of the universe to another.
Worm:
Worm: What's left after eating the apple.
Tailor, you villain, I'll never be able to look at young, shapely students on Capitol Hill the same way again.
Exploitation:
Exploitation: Deliberately provoking any race, religion, political party, views on various things such as the death penalty, abortion, civil rights, etc. 2) This same institutions placing themselves in public view while deliberately acting stereotypical
Provoke: