Sasquatch: Big and lumbering, but not there either.
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Sasquatch: Big and lumbering, but not there either.
Angel
Angel: Human figure with wings, despite this description of angels being nowhere in the KJB. There are flying creatures, seraphim for example have six wings; cherubim; is a winged angelic being described as a lion or bull with eagles' wings and a human face, and the creatures described by such people as Ezekiel, Daniel, and St John on Patmos in Revelations. No human with wings. Hummmm...
Gargoyle:
This confirms that Paul McCartney isn't human.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Gargoyle: To talk like Popeye's girlfriend through liquid held in your mouth. Should only be attempted by professionals.
Antidote
Angel: a ghost in drag.
Antidote: a short or amusing story about having survived poisoning.
Bubonic plague
Angel: A pole dancer at the Devil’s Delight Gentlemen’s Club.
Antidote: The real author of “Maresiedotes”.
Gargoyle: An extra virgin dragon oil.
Bubonic Plague: An attempt by microbes to level the playing field.
Extra Virgin:
Extra Virgin: An impossibility, as virginity can only be lost once. There is no take back. This is a culinary term used to make non-chefs feel like Gordon Ramsey...
Hell's Kitchen:
Hell’s Kitchen: More than one needs to know about how one’s food is prepared. Or, a good reason to be glad you cancelled your cable subscription.
Barbecue:
Gargoyle: A female toothed and armored fish found in the brackish swamps of southern Florida. See Alligator Gargoyle.
Barbecue: French for BBQ.
Caviar
Caviar: Fancy culinary term designed to make snooty people forget they are eating fish eggs
Oyster:
Oyster: A disgusting delicacy best served with a loaf of bread and butter and seasoned with pepper and vinegar and fit for a weepy walrus and his carpenter companion.
Delicacy:
Oyster: a glorious beast best taken with horseradish and champagne while the stench of magnolia and streetwalkers drifts with fog through a warm New Orleans night.
Look YN, my pagan side came out! :blush5:
Delicacy: an item of viscera fit for none but the honored guest. (Translation: you eat it!)
Tofu
It occurred to me I'm probably not a fancy believer in the New Age as I've often thought, but just an ordinary, old-fashioned pagan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Tofu: Another uncanny transformation of the lowly soybean into something believed to be edible.
Pagan:
Pagan: a nature worshipper; in Ancient Rome, one who rooted for the lions.
Apostate
Apostate: One of the many reasons to burn someone at the stake thereby giving them a brief preview of the hell-fire they will soon enjoy for supposedly eternity.
Burning at the stake:
Burning at the stake: letting the charcoal get too hot at the Labor Day cookout; see well done.
Hot cocoa
Hot Cocoa: The drink of royalty, best served with snow on the ground, a fireplace going, and marshmallows in the cup!
Offensive:
Offensive: Offensive is to defensive as proactive is to reactive as kicking butt is to having butt kicked. For example:
There once was a monster named Moe
Who was happy as most monsters go.
On the offense he’s mean.
On the defense he’s seen--
Well, he’s not, since he won’t even show.
DUFF:
Duff (also DUFF): the back of one's front.
Porcupine:
Porcupine: An introverted group of species who decided early in their evolutionary transformations that they really did not want to be petted.
Hot Tub:
Hot tub: a cruel thing to call a plus-sized model.
Triceratops
Triceratops: That famous horned dinosaur who may or may not have had a lot of similar species. Perhaps all of them didn't have the three horns, some had more, and some had none. Were the ones without horns but with the distinctive backplate on the head maybe female? Female deer, for example, have no antlers...
Evolution:
Evolution: An optimistic view of devolution.
Read:
Read: a verb that rhymes with deed or dead, depending on when the deed was read. But as a present active participle, it rhymes with wedding and refers to a town in Massachusetts.
Kleptomaniac
Kleptomaniac: Someone who can’t keep his hands out of other people’s cookie jars not because he doesn’t have a cookie jar of his own that is filled (with other people’s stuff), but because he feels he has a duty to tidy things up and stuff that is not in his cookie jar is simply not in its proper place.
Enchantment:
In other words (as the old joke goes) someone who helps himself because he can't help himself.
Enchantment: an evolutionary instinct assuring the human male that a given cookie jar would be a delightful place to intrude a hand.
Abstinence
If one does get caught, that is about as good of an excuse as one can find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Abstinence: An ability to resist a pleasure. Extra brownie points if this resistance occurs without a good reason to do so.
Brownie point:
Brownie point: what brownie do when Tarzan show her police line up.
Casino
Casino: A place to have fun losing money.
Naan:
Naan: I am reliably informed, Sahib, or Memsahib, that this is a flat bread baked only in India, but the details of the taste I cannot tell you
Groat:
Groat: A ancient coin valued at four pennies and containing real silver rather than the fiat kind we use today.
Fiat:
Fiat: 3rd person singular present active subjunctive of the Latin verb fio, fieri (to become). Also a car for poor slobs who can't afford Jaguars.
Promiscuous
Promiscuous: A fearless state of mind that makes you think you can take on any member of the opposite sex which you hope will happen to you when you can finally afford that Jaguar.
Slob:
Slob: Uncouth drunk in the pub who likes to start rows 2) One's general appearance in the mornings after a night on the town
Bob:
Bob: As an English word with a short popping sound it could mean just about anything. As an acronym you would have to use your imagination. Some like to think it is what a girl does who has long hair and is sick of washing it and combing it and so she cuts it. Others think it is the heavy end of a pendulum. Some, who have a boyfriend named Bob, even think it refers to their boyfriends.
Acronym:
Bob: Bob spelled backwards (a palindrome); also your uncle, allegedly; and a tail upon which bells apparently ring.
Acronym: an anagram for "my acorn."
Litotes
Litotes: One of those remarkable English words that isn’t the most critical for a civilized vocabulary.
Vocabulary:
It's Greek.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Vocabulary: words, words, words.
Metonymy
Vocabulary: To know a lot of words and their correct usage, or simply to know a lot of words, to heck with whether or not they are used correctly
Metonymy: a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, such as strong drink, dead drunk, etc, and a fine piece of vocabulary!
Amalgamate:
Amalgamate: To bring a bunch of stuff together like all the a’s in this word.
Best man:
Best man: The embarrassing drunk guy at your wedding reception who may or may not still be your good friend the next day!
Legal: