Modern military term: To bomb into heaps of rubble what it took heaps of men heaps of time to build.
Indigestible
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Modern military term: To bomb into heaps of rubble what it took heaps of men heaps of time to build.
Indigestible
Any foodstuff that will not pass easily through the digestive tract without the aid of a decent Scotch, or any old brandy. A plausible excuse for cirrhosis.
Oxymoron
Oxymoron An honest politician
Word
Word - The living proof of life
Liver
Liver An organ of the body designed to filter posions, and often served in the case of pig or beef liver with onions, making starvation look like the easy way out...
Computer
Computer - a device which those who revile it use to broadcast their estimation of how much better life was before it
marmalade
What happened to Queen Victoria.
Semaphore
Marmalade - An "English" word made in Spain from a fruit that cannot be grown in England.
Spaghetti
This is a fantastic game-Loksenna and Mark, you guys have me laughing all the way across the Atlantic!
Marmalade - A lazy jam maker's very successful deception
Purse
Semaphore - The speed at which I operate my computer so that Daffyd's definition of marmalade speeds through the ether at a speed faster than semaphore.
Spaghetti
gee I'm caught in a semaphoric cycle!
Purse Coin container the right size for the fist of one's offsprogs.
Consternation
A very serious way of looking at the stars.
Pedigree
What a poverty struck arist-o-crat lives on when there's no more Purina
Ambitextrous
Yep sic
The ability to press the "t" key with either hand.
garnet
Garnet - a small child from Yorkshire or thereabouts Diminutive of Garn - his parent.
miscegnation
And no credit goes to the guy who began the game. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ruminate
Any country that does not have beer in big metal barrels.
Folk-music
Folk music - music that other folk listen to.Quote:
Originally Posted by dafydd manton
ruminate
Ruminate -- To take a long, relaxing soak in a tub of rum.
extrapolate
Sorry Nikhar, I must have stumbled into the middle of this! Nice to meet you -all credit to the original genius :)
Have to say, I like the definition of my namesake!
Extrapolate - An embarassed explanation detailing the reason the birthday/anniversary/wedding present showed up two weeks after the fact
Boron
Boron is the chemical element with atomic number 5 and the chemical symbol B. Boron is a trivalent metalloid element which occurs abundantly in the blah, blah, blah...
Hydrocarbon:
Hydrocarbon:- A huge set of compounds made of hydrogen and carbon only, which saturates a student in confusion (methyl?methyne?), and makes him unsaturated of marks.
Honor Killing:-
Honor Killing Situation which occurs when one's pride is greater than the value of a human life; the road to dishonor paved with the blood of innocents
Gelding
A process where expensive bits of horse are removed and served in a restaurant for an exorbitant price, to the detriment of the genus equus.
Gourmand
Gourmand
A food snob who apparently knows a great deal about the subject, but actually is merely a person with an eating disorder--they would swallow live flies if someone informed that they tasted heavenly
Hell
Hell - long-term accommodation provided by a landlord who's the eviller of two lessors.
Bungee-jumping
An extreme sport involving copious quantities of gravity. Like most modern phenomena, it has its ups and downs.
Buffet
Buffet - Predisposed to wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking fruity frozen drinks.
yo-yo
The name of a Japanese violinist who is better known for her musical prowess than controlling a couple of pieces of wood that travel up and down a piece of string.
pageant
.......come on. That pun for 'hell' was so satisfying, I may never write again.
But as I'm here...
pageant: in Europe, a formal display intended as a celebration of tradition, triumph or social coherence. In America, a bunch of buxom young women in bikinis. Take your pick. I know which I prefer.
situation comedy
It was indeed awesummm. :nod::smile5:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
situation comedy Comedy suited to the situation, i.e., there's nothing else to watch on TV at the moment, and you have ran out of good DVD's. The situation comedy lives on a diet of bored watchers and canned laughter, a deadly combination that tends to liquefy brains
Facts
Stuff that you should know/must know/want to know.
A bar
Frankly, it was so good it left me breathless. I wish I'd said that. (You will, Oscar, you will.....)Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
A bar - a piece of metal, curved in shape and used to break in to pubs when they are closed.
siesta
Siesta - socially sanctioned laziness amongst some greasy Europeans.
Bodybuilding:-
Bodybuilding - What a mad scientist does
Editor
A man who thinks he knows more about what you are thinking than you thought you did. I think.
Translator
Translator A person who is well versed in confusing people in more than one language
Charity
Charity: An elaborate system of disingenuous self-flagellation designed to assuage middle-class guilt and promote aesthetically degenerate pop albums.
Commerce: