Filament: A unnecessary, multi-syllabic word for something, and it could be anything, that seems thread-like or chain-like.
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Filament: A unnecessary, multi-syllabic word for something, and it could be anything, that seems thread-like or chain-like.
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Thread: 1) thin string used to sew with 2) Thin clues to go with 3) Thin topic to crow with
Eat crow:
Eat Crow: What one should do after realizing one is wrong, but with the help of avoidance techniques most cognitive dissonance can be rationalized away thereby kicking the can down the road and giving the crow a chance to fly away.
Road:
Road: An endless black ribbon leading from nowhere to nothing with all eternity in between
Wreck:
Wreck: What happens when a fast moving car meets a slow moving wall.
Greater Fool Theory:
Greater Fool Theory: The fool that thought up this theory was the greatest fool ever
Positive Identification:
Positive Identification: An identification made with 100%, absolute, no-exception confidence of being accurate until other evidence pops up that positively shows it to be otherwise. For example,
There once was a positive lad
Who knew what was good; what was bad.
He could tell them apart.
He could prove he was smart,
But inside we all knew he was mad.
Confidence:
Confidence: Doubt expressed loud and firmly
Correct:
Correct: A standard by which our current behavior will be judged. It is often hidden so we can’t check it like before submitting the exam at the end of the period and then we think, “Oh, yeah, we did that right, didn’t we?” Then we wonder if we really did. Then we know we didn’t. Then we figure there may be more important things to worry about.
Worry:
Worry: A totally useless occupation that never changes the situation
Stress:
Worry: getting all worked up and stressed out over all the bad things that might not even happen.
Stress: The end result of worry.
Memory:
Memory: The only thing I've really paid attention to since the 6th grade when some of the girls from 5th grade came back from summer vacation with them.
Antelope:
Antelope: An animal with hooves like a cow or goat that has not found a way to convince humans to exploit it and so will probably go extinct.
Exploitation:
Exploitation: The art of making a mountain out of a molehill
Riot:
Riot: An uncontrolled forest fire in the streets.
Control:
Control: 1) A restriction of movement by mechanical, physical, mental, or legal influence ex.) Medicine is used to control his mental illness. 2) To cause movement in a already designated fashion by mechanical, physical, mental, or legal influence ex.) Brainwashed by a cult. Roger's religious beliefs control his way of thinking.
Disorder:
Disorder: An unpleasant arrangement of reality that might be resolved with a mop and broom if one didn’t have better things to do.
Mop:
Mop: 1) A thing consisting of a cloth head and wooden pole used to scrub floors. 2) To use such a thing 3) unruly hair badly in need of a barber
Barber:
Barber: In olden days, a person who cuts hair for a few bucks. Now replaced by 'coiffeurs' or 'hair stylists' who do the same job for a lot more money.
Butcher:
Butcher: 1) One skilled with a cleaver who cuts meat for a living 2) To break down an animal carcass into parts used for cooking 3) Brutal murder, often with severe overkill 4) destroying language by poor grammar, spelling, or ignorance of the language's proper use
Distasteful:
Distasteful: The opposite of tasteful whatever that means.
Highlighter:
Highlighter: Pen commonly used in college to mark monumental sections of text in those oh so expensive class books, which sounds crazy when you look through one years later and wonder why you needed to know that "A scientific statement makes predictions that can be proven wrong." Like, wow, right? I'm sure you use that gem every day!
Problematical:
Problematical: A position that rubs other positions the wrong way.
Law of Physics:
Law of Physics: The bane of pseudo-scientific theory, smacking fantasies in the face with a dash of cold reality
Unproven:
Unproven: The poppycock, bunk, drivel and swill that vomits forth from the spittle-laden mouths of internet radio talk show hosts.
Hobnob:
Hobnob: To bootlick your way into a social gathering beyond your station by ingratiating your self with false praise and insincere hero worship
Lazy:
Lazy: A life skill that obsessive compulsive people didn’t learn.
Skill:
Skill: A flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing or browning. Sorry, that's skillet. Skill: Something you spend years developing in hopes of impressing a girl, only to find out she prefers other girls.
Pointless:
Pointless: A spear without a pointed head otherwise known as a staff.
Mundane:
Mundane: Fancy word for "common", "plain", etc. used when one feels pompous in one's oratory: Ex: Preacher: "The Word of God does not adhere to the mundane facets of earthly mortification!" Say What?
Macabre:
Macabre: Something normal folk think goes best with words like grim, ghastly, gruesome and gross.
Gross:
Gross: 1) a dozen dozen 2) One who eats a dozen dozen at one time
Obese:
Obese: What happens when one eats a dozen dozen dozens of times.
Cheese
In lieu of a dozen dozen--donuts, that is, the nice ones with jam on the inside and fine powdered sugar on top--a penchant for the fermented curd will make one obese.
Ferment:
Ferment: A chemical reaction that transforms grapes into wine, hops into beer, curd into cheese, and fools into politicians
Chemical:
Chemical: An atom or molecule the theory of chemistry focuses on to make predictions such as hydrogen, oxygen and chemical X.
Upscale resale:
Upscale resale: To purchase an expensive item second hand
Jump to conclusions: The ease with which an irrational answer is given when something unexplained happens!
unexplained:
Unexplained: Something that doesn’t fit easily into current theories and so has to be monkeyed with to protect the current theories from being overthrown.
Overthrown:
Overthrown: Now considered unlikely in light of recent discoveries or because it obviously doesn't answer the current question
Question:
Question: What?
Answer: