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Snow: A sort of cold precipitation which is a time of rejoicing for kids who look forward to school being canceled and riding down hills on anything that will slide. Adults are less enthusiastic because the kids are out of school and tracking in snow and mud from playing in the snow and their cars slide like sleds as they attempt to make it into work, which of course is NOT canceled.
Rain:
Rain: A way for water to get its head out of the clouds and find its way back to earth.
Black Hole:
Black Hole: The bedroom of the average teenager. Anything could be lurking beneath the piles of dirty clothes, filthy dishes, and discarded pizza boxes that allow none of the floor to be visible. Any missing pets are probably there, sucked into that foul smelling rattrap!
Teen:
Teen: In terms of worldliness, cynicism and experience, the new forty-year-olds.
Generation Gap:
Generation Gap: The gap across which the spark of procreation flies.
Fly:
Fly: Annoying insect who nevertheless provides a very crucial service, i.e. determining time of death in many criminal cases
Scarab:
Scarab: A guy who's scared of Arabs. Also, in ancient Egypt, a symbol of the soul, used as a talisman. And to scare Arabs.
Needle: (Ask me why I said this--go ahead, ask me)
Needle: A long, thin piece of metal with a nice, sharp point on one end and a tiny eye at the other end through which a thread can run. It is good for sewing and popping balloons and metaphorically annoying someone.
Why? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Maze:
Maze: Once a hedge row carefully carved by gardeners to confuse the Master and Mistress of the house, usually with a statue or fountain in the center. Now, a field of corn carved into a confusing mess of rows, decorated by the local Halloween madman, with a statue of death at the center, used to scare the bejeebers out of people for profit
Labyrinth:
Labyrinth: Apply to social security or whichever other of your favorite bureaucracies for even the simplest thing, and you'll soon learn the meaning of labyrinth. And Kafka-esque. And anger management.
Also, Pendragon, speaking of profit, don't forget the use of those manufactured wheat field patterns as UFO landing zones.
I mentioned needle earlier, as in syringe, because earlier today I went to the orthopedist about a swollen knee. He proceeded to jam not one, not two, but three needles way, way up inside my knee in order to access the fluid with which it was swollen and drain it. I can honestly say that was as much pain as I've ever experienced in my life.
hornswoggle:
Hornswoggle: Another way to say “bamboozle”.
Haggle:
Haggle: Basically two people trying to see which one can swindle the other over something that one of them has and that the other desires
Confidence:
Confidence: There are a bunch of politicians wanting to be President currently dashing about the countryside trying to take us into theirs.
flimflam
Flimflam: A form of rhyming that cannot wait until the end of the line. For example, “swimswam”. Also an explanation of reality that works if one believes it will. It’s basic job is to get one to believe it will.
Doodle:
Doodle: The aimless wondering of a pen or pencil over a page during boring meetings. Of course, the Spiritualist Movement calls it "automatic writing."
Channeling:
Channeling: “The mistake of letting others know that you got your inspiration from some other disembodied spirit, like a muse or a dead guy, telling you what to write or say or do. It just makes them think you’re nuts, but if what you’re saying makes no sense to begin with, it also wouldn't hurt to have some excuse.” Spirit X as channeled by YesNo.
Dematerialization:
Dematerialization: To unravel a piece of cloth by pulling on a loose thread.
Grandeur
Grandeur: 'The world is charged with the grandeur of God.' --Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur One of my personal faves, that is. I used to read old Gerard heaps back in high school. It were he wot turned me on to the word 'dappled,' so he did. Grandeur means basically the "majestic sense" or "majestic aura" of a thing. So grandeur and pork drippings, for example, don't have a lot in common.
Pendragon, you impress me with your allusion to the spiritualists of the 19th Century since, again while in high school, I was big into the Theosophical Society. Likewise channeling, YesNo. Madame Blavatsky made a whole career out o' them kind of writings, as did many later New Age flimflam men and women. I got led down that garden path in the 80s, too, instead of growing glam hair and being in a metal band as I ought.
dalliance
dalliance: Adultery or Fornication under a word that makes it seem harmless
Planchette:
Planchette: One o' them things wot ouija board users use to let the dead talk to them--and spell out where the life insurance policy is hid and all that. Works wonders on the unwitting. And I loves me a good fornicate.
soothsaying
Shh! Don't tell anyone. I think muses exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Soothsayer: Someone who can predict the future, that is, tell the truth about something before it happens. This could be a scientist or a psychic. The difference between the two is that scientists don’t use intuition to get their results.
Intuition:
Intuition: A mildly to appallingly unpleasant condition for which a little sodium bicarbonate usually brings relief. Wait. Sorry, that's indigestion.
Cheeky
Cheeky: Having the stones to actually say what's on your mind without a politically correct filter
Mind:
Mind: (1) A terrible thing to waste (2) Short for Mindy
Waste:
Waste: When the hottest girl this side of Toledo turns out to be gay. (No filters there, Pendragon, me old mate.)
offal
offal: The detritus of the slaughter house, being parts of the animal judged not fit for human consumption--which in some parts of the world would be eaten with thanksgiving as people are starving
Flotsam:
Flotsam: Along with his femme fatale Jetsam, cut a swath of blood and vengeance across the heartland, leading to a grand battle with G-men in which thundering Thompson sub-machine guns hurled bullets like hail, the bodies of both hero and villain shredded like the chassis of their iconic black Packards.
Sweetness:
Sweetness: An illusion that makes temptation hard to resist.
Temptation:
Temptation: Something one desires that may or may not be good for them. Oscar Wilde famously said: "There is only one way to resist temptation and that is to give into it."
Resistance:
Is futile, I believe.
Hedonism
Hedonism: A philosophy that celebrates the party’s buzz while ignoring the morning after.
Buzz:
Buzz: the sensation of having one's head removed with a chainsaw.
Student:
Student: A person spry of limb and quick of wit, who, when not bent on the loins of other students, leans hard into study in the mistaken belief that it will all pay off one day.
enraptured:
Enraptured: So visibly delighted that people think there is something wrong with you.
Wrong:
Wrong: Contrary to the status quo or perhaps simply to your personal standards. A grey area...
Righteous:
Righteous: On the good side of bad. Or the bad side of good depending on whose butt is getting kicked.
Good Side:
Good Side: The side of your body where a photograph should show none of your flaws. To believe that you actually have such a side is the epitome of mental illness
Epitome:
Epitome: the cover of a tome, usually hard covers of a long and old book, e.g. of a Bible.
Metal illness:
Metal Illness: The personality disorders associated with a metal’s unstable isotopes.
Unstable:
Your definition was better than mine, YesNo. I would have just said "rust".
Unstable: To let the horses out to graze.
Catamaran