Black Hole Having such a bad mood that even the light of reason and the joy of life cannot pierce the veil of sadness that surrounds you
Space
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Black Hole Having such a bad mood that even the light of reason and the joy of life cannot pierce the veil of sadness that surrounds you
Space
Space: The area of nothing which is inside everything and which everything is inside.
Butterfly
Butterfly A most dangerous insect which by merely flapping its wings can cause disaster on the opposite side of the globe according to Chaos theory.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses - The art of outwardly seeming to alter, but actually staying the same. Insects are the unchallenged masters of the technique (consider the cute caterpillar becoming the cute butterfly, the disgusting maggot turning into the equally disgusting blowfly)
Therefore the more things appear to change the more they fundamentally do not
Some writers metamorphose into cockroaches, some cockroaches into writers - some revert - but in essence they are the same
Witness Franz Kafka who believed he was a cockroach, and no-one noticed (actually this is more a self-delusional illusion, and though it doesn't really count, is still worthy of consideration)
Joker
Joker1) A person whom, fueled with liquor, is infinitely less funny than he thinks. There is at least one in every gathering, and sparks and vile jokes fly when they fight for territory. It is not a pleasant experience.
2) A person who insists on telling jokes when you are trying to tell your own
Fate
Was he a cockroach who wrote? Or a writer who roached?
Sorry, what? Oh - Fate is it?
Fate - the hallucination that everything happens for a reason, and there's purpose in it
Who you are does not indicate whom you are, inasmuch as getting hit by a bus is bad luck - very bad luck I'll grant you - but merely bad luck
You are not badly fated unless it happens again the same afternoon - by any bus, anywhere
Here comes one now...
Boarding a bus is also bad luck - but boarding the same bus day after day after day, morning and afternoon to the same destinations ad nauseum will drive you bonkers, which is why people do it - they don't need a bus - they need a vallium and a long rest!
vallium
Valium Highly addictive quack cure-all for the hopelessly depressed and highly gullible. The need for more of the drug to get the same result as time passes is a high conduit for the onset of stark insanity. Caveat emptor.
Cave Canium
Shouldn't that be cave canem? Accusative, which is what I seem to remember cavere takes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
I also remember being shown this when I was thirteen.....
http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/canem2.jpg
..though if the Roman equivalent of signwriters were anything like as arbitrary in their use of grammar as those currently plying their trade in South London, this example of usage is not necessarily much to go on.
(This message has been brought to you by Grammar School Pedants Inc - picking nits for profit and pleasure.)
I Googled both and found lots of cave canem, but no cave canium, so I'll go with the former.
Cave Canem: Warning often heard in nightclubs frequented by seminary and law students when the hour grows late and the pickings grow slim.
Candelabra
Candelabra - Fancy name for a tri-pronged candlestick holder, an item the fancy famous penis (whoops, pianist) Liberace placed upon his fancy organ (whoops, piano) during concerts in place of a sizzling redhead in a split red dress
Observe that it is the only word to rhyme with abracadabra indicating perhaps the Satanic element of how a chubby (whoops, portly) little man of such limited talent and charm with equally chubby little fingers became so incredibly successful
Other aspects of his life include a besequinned tendency, innumerable gold-plated Rolls Royces and grand pianos parked in the living room which he shared with his mother and extensive collection of rare fluffy white cats, expensive dental work - and most notably a role as guest villain in a dual episode of Batman the television series
And all this in an age of student riots, the Vietnam war, and Richard Nixon
Horrible - just too horrible...
Swinging Sixties
Swinging Sixties - bondage night at the Golden Acres Residential Home.
pangolin
Pangolin - particularly confused pineapple that thinks it is simultaneously a skunk, a sloth, an armadillo, an aardvark*
You're a fruit! Get back in that tree!
Nocturnal
*Always wanted to put aardvark last for a change - they've had it too good for too long...
Nocturnal: One who raps on a door and immediately opens it without waiting for a response.
Calibrate
Calibrate - to be so pleased to have lost five pounds that you mark the occasion by engulfing a 14" pepperoni pizza and two chocolate eclairs
Repartee
Repartee - Unique Italian-style news gathering, up there with paparazee style landscape photography
Dating from Early Etruscan times when the king had unlimited wealth to accompany his unlimited age, unlimited underage orgies to accompany his unlimited libido, and unlimited power to silence his unlimited opposition
Fortunately many centuries have come and gone, and we now live in the Twentyfirst century where this sort of thing just doesn't happen (because of repartee?)
Paparazzi