RV: Impolite form of RSVP
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RV: Impolite form of RSVP
RSVP:
RSVP: Literally, répondez s'il vous plaît, French for "Please respond." How it came to be an Americanism I will never know. Here in the South we just say "(Name of event) Y'all come." which usually gets one of two answers: "OK" or "Can't"
ASAP:
ASAP: The kind of person who votes for a demagogue, buys snake oil and expects a Rolex to cost £30 from some guy at a gas station.
Assassin:
Assassin: Dancing back-to-back.
Plunder
Plunder: a blunder on Pluto that can take your life.
Blunder:
Blunder: A mistake somewhat more serious than one normally makes.
Mistake:
Mistake: something you wanted, but missed.
Something:
Something: Originally, the opposite of nothing, but then with the big bang it looks like everything, including something, popped out of nothing and so it looks like something and nothing aren’t exactly opposite anymore, and so I don’t know what it means.
Pop:
Pop: Onomatopoeia/Palindrome meaning burst/father/soft drink: "Stop! You must not hop on top of Pop!"
Crustacean
Crustacean: That part of a pie that sinks to the bottom or floats to the top.
Snake Oil:
Snake oil: like baby oil but slimier.
Coxcomb
Coxcomb: The latest tool for making your rooster look like Donald Trump or Benny Hinn by styling the red. fleshy appendage atop his head 2) A species of flower (look it up, it's true)
Appendage: That part of a male’s anatomy that (most) females think looks better on men than it does on them.
Anatomy:
Anatomy: Something one is scarce permitted to comment upon these days, lest one have one's appendage lopped off by the High Court of Social Justice, sentence having been pronounced by a magistrate with a codpiece while a coxcomb were at Morris dancing.
Vivisectionist:
Vivisectionist
One who is compassionate enough not to kill an animal before passing it's meat around.
Quincunx
Quincunx: a word which, if mispronounced while shouting it out with glee upon rolling double fives, could result in the nearest feminist performing unsanctioned alterations to one's wrinkly bits.
Dodecatheon:
Dodecagon: A polygon with 12 sides and 12 faces like a standard jury, a politician, or a Televangelist with weird hair
Polymorph:
Polymorph: Dyslexic for Poor Lymph; what caterpillars do; parrots molting
dyslexia:
Dyslexia: common misspelling of Lysdexia.
A parrot molting = polymorph...tailor, I can't be held accountable for my actions...
keelhauling:
Keelhauling: A way sailors like to administer a butt kicking when an average butt kicking is not good enough.
Butt Kicking:
Buttkicking: What I must content myself with when keelhauling tailor for making that "Polly morph" joke isn't an option.
Judas cradle (I'm looking at you, tailor):
Judas cradle: Receiving 30 pieces of silver for doing the yo-yo trick "rock the cradle" as remuneration from an audience. Side note: The National Yo-Yo museum is now in a city I worked and/or lived in for a short time: '86-'89... Chico, CA
Remuneration:
Remuneration: a salary that is supposed to cover your needs.
Grasshopper:
Grasshopper: What all half-Chinese/half-American disciples of the kung fu temple are called before graduation, at which point they begin an epic journey across the Old West whose only real purpose is gratuitous fighting and the smashing up of saloons.
Pear of Anguish:
Pear of Anguish: Famous knight of the 5th Century (when "peer" still was spelled "pear") who founded the House of Anguish. His descendants were numerous.
Hall of Fame:
Hall of Fame: An edifice not for the most-of-us; a place where accolades are strewn among perceived or real heroes
hero:
hero:see p. xxx of the dicionary. In revised version a Heron reduced to hero.
Humbug:
Humbug: A bug who hums because it doesn't know the words
Words:
words:units of sounds and letters humans use to block comunication.
comunication:
Words: Something bad for an apple, good for a garden. <cleans Mr. McGoo glasses>
Foyer:
Foyer: The entrance to a public building and for some as far as they can get into the building before they get kicked out.
Communication: The human act of exchanging confused understandings of reality with each other.
Confusion:
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Thanks for the correction of the game, Yes/No. :)
confusion: Confucianism gone awry.
pathetic:
pathetic: The path eTics take after you've been skunked online from trying to purchase an eTic after t minus 1 pico-pico second
Sniped:
Sniped: snipe is the posh pronunciation of snape, meaning to bevel the end of a timber to fit an inclined surface. The peculiar fascination this activity held for the Victorian aristocracy was the subject of Nevil Shunt's 1983 novel Weekend at Slough.
Earthenware:
Earthenware: Ear-then-ware or earings for warewolves who ware them so as to be transformed into waryness by other than the full moon; also a fashion statement for warewolves.
Fashion:
Fashion: <points to self>
Modesty:
Modesty: #Moi
Dreams:
Dreams: what I'm always hoping will feature a chaste and unknowing college freshman who with blinking blue eyes coquettishly peeks out from beneath her blonde bangs and asks me to show her the ways of the world, but which invariably features Otto Preminger delivering an address about the use of avians as metaphor while standing in a living room which is simultaneously the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History. And he's naked.
Chagrin:
Chagrin: Distress occurring when the bad parts of one’s dream come true on top of the good parts.
Coquettishly: