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Sight: 1) That one of the five senses wot lets you see things, 2) A place featuring loads of HTML, applets, and otherwise impressive technology, all for the purpose of presenting a load of codswallop, 3) A place where construction workers, and soon just a 3D printer, build a building.
Pendragon, it be funny you should tell that tale about your grandfather, as it relates to a thread I may soon be starting under the serious discussions thingy, so keep your eyes open.
Codswallop (if we've done that, substitute bilge, blarney or blatherskite)
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Codswallop: Nonsense, blarney, bungo, bunk, crap, twattle, etc.
Smell:
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Smell: That unfortunate sense which makes you aware of the 80 year olds even if you can't see them.
Irving Berlin:
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Irving Berlin: The guy we have to blame for everyone being excited about a white Christmas and snow in general
Descartes:
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Descartes: What the dessert carts are commonly called in fancy restaurants.
Restaurant:
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Restaurant: A place with a restroom which is usually free to use provided you purchase some food or drink which means you will need the restroom even more than before, but at least it serves both ends.
End:
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End: What we all come to. Also, something at least half the young girls who go out to Hollywood to become stars eventually make their living with.
Rent:
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Rent: Payment made to use something one doesn’t want to buy outright.
Exercise:
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Exercise: A distasteful routine that is only good for people already in shape. I mean I can ride my exercise bike and use my heavy bag, but I still am way overweight because losing weight isn't that simple no matter what infomerchials for things like bow-flex say.
Infomercial:
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Infomercial: The thing that made Ron Popeil a household name. And Billy Mays. And Jason Vale. And proved a form of employment for countless has-been actors and TV personalities. Spray-on hair, the Ab-Doer, the George Foreman Grill, juicers--stuff you'd never have imagined you needed and yet there you are reading off your credit card number to the person on the phone. Also, something to watch late at night when you're done watching that other thing you watch late at night.
Marketing:
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Marketing: The Fine Art of Lying
Art:
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Art: The act of monkeying with raw materials that are minding their own business. This is often referred to as “adding value”. The act generates something called an “art object”, or “objet d’art” if one is seeking a premium valuation, which one can try to sell but if unsuccessful, one can always hang it in one’s basement.
Basement:
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Basement: That thing which, if you want to have one in the new home you're about to build, and you live in the northeastern United States, you first have to have an inspector come in and check for radon, the gaseous form of radiation seeping up from the center of our globe, and otherwise known as earth farts. Also, if you're a prepper, the basement is where you keep your three hundred tins of Chef Boyardee.
Gaseous:
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Gaseous: Having the properties of gas such as a bellyache and farts loud enough to stop conversations and smelling enough to require gas masks
Conversation:
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Conversation: Something other people expect you to make, thus one of the reasons I avoid other people. Also, women expect a lot of conversation if you want access to their non-verbal parts.
Stinky, being what I am right now. If we've done stinky, substitute malodorous, foul, wretched or oh my freaking god.
