Hokum: False or irrelevant material introduced into a speech, essay, etc., in order to arouse interest, excitement, or amusement. In other words, the usual Political Debate drivel.
Unctuous:
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Hokum: False or irrelevant material introduced into a speech, essay, etc., in order to arouse interest, excitement, or amusement. In other words, the usual Political Debate drivel.
Unctuous:
Unctuous: oily, insincere, when a politician shakes your hand, smiles at you and tells you how much he admires you.
Fatuous:
Fatuous: This word probably has nothing to do with fat just like the word unctuous has nothing to do with unct, but it is hard to avoid the associations like when someone says something is oxymoronic. We know they think it is moronic. And so when some oxymorons say that some comment I made was fatuous, they don’t literally mean I should check the scale, but they know I will. There’s no other reason to use the word since no normal person knows what it means.
Scale:
Scale: What Smaug the dragon had lots of, till he took an arrow where he didn't, and ceased to be. Then he didn't have any scales. Then there's the scale in a butcher shop, which the butcher weighs your meat on, but luckily not his own. That we know of. Then there are the scales of justice, whose depiction in statuary tops the entrance to every courthouse, making us laugh till the moo juice comes out our noses. Then there's the post office scale, used by drug dealers when measuring out quantities of horse and coke. And finally there's the bathroom scale, which I haven't stood on in years and don't intend to.
And I don't agree that no normal person knows what fatuous means. I know what it means. <cough>
Dung heap:
Dung Heap: From the perspective of a dung beetle, this is a glorious gift from the Gods. From the perspective of the creatures depositing said heap, it is a glorious form of relief.
Relief:
Relief: When a tree grows its foliage back in Spring.
Foliage:
Relief: Having someone post a word like "fatuous" and knowing exactly what it means instead of thinking you're being insulted for being fat!
Sang-froid:
Sangfroid: The ability to stay calm under pressure, self-possession, cool, being chill while decapitating nine children and stashing the remains under your porch.
But what do you have against foliage, Pendragon? ;-) Foliage: A bunch of leaves hanging off a tree. Lazy buggers.
Also, YesNo, your perspective on dung heaps does you credit. I'll just call you Sri YesNo from now on, shall I?
Satori:
Satori: zeninabhagavadgita
Siri:
Siri: Object oriented Computer language, thus: "I am going to smash this siri computer which isn't worth a siri to siri pieces thia siri of a siri!"
Cheddar, I beat Calidore to the punch, but I had to edit to correct spelling, and his got in before I got back, and I just didn't see it. Foliage: Bushy plants
Unbreakable:
Unbreakable: A rather good movie. Also, definitely not my balls. Also purportedly a type of glass, though I suspect that if Sancho whacked it with his tripod it'd give. I mean.
Unfathomable, a favorite word of mine, so you'd better get it right lads.
Unfathomable: Dry land
Knots
Knots: Played Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. Also the basis of the Japanese art of Kinbaku, literally 'the beauty of tight binding.' And no, I won't tell you how I know.
Malevolent, since I just watched an episode of House of Cards
Malevolent: Feeling of intense evil directed towards someone. You know people like this. They can clear a bar by just walking in. They can make everyone shut up by just walking towards people. They always make you clutch your wallet and give them the whole sidewalk, if not the whole block!
Mild-Mannered:
Mild-Mannered: Clark Kent and Peter Parker both were said to exhibit this quality, thus confirming that, as the saying goes, "It's always the quiet ones..." I also met a deceptively mild-mannered rabbi when I was born, who then produced a pair of pruning shears and went to work on my todger. Trust no one.
Spunky, an unfortunately named personal attribute if ever there was one.