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Old 05-08-2008, 09:51 PM   #16
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Old 05-08-2008, 09:52 PM   #17
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Old 05-08-2008, 09:56 PM   #18
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i'm a fan of the letter "z" as well. must be my slavic ancestry.
I have always liked the word "zarf" (a metallic coffee cup holder)
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:04 AM   #19
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I keep having to look up 'Syzygy' because it has so many meanings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy

Isn't it a pretty word? I believe that it and 'rhythm' are the longest English words without vowels. And I like z's.
I thought syzygy was about beer making.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:07 AM   #20
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I first found "defenestrate" in a poem, and was shocked. How could I not know this word?
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:07 AM   #21
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Sorry. That's Zymurgy.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:08 AM   #22
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I first found "defenestrate" in a poem, and was shocked. How could I not know this word?
Defenestrate: CENSORED

What sort of poetry are you reading, Bruce?
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:11 AM   #23
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i thought we said no definitions ?

i like the word defenestrate because it exists in french and english in almost the same forme, and because it illustrates the use of the circonflex (vestigial s).
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:14 AM   #24
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pshrynk, edit your post this instant! No definitions is the rule. Don't make me bring out Little Brother, or even worse, sic Zelda and her deadly titanium-tipped pinwheels on you.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:15 AM   #25
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I find it amusing that defenestration is first defined as a political tactic.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:16 AM   #26
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Fixed it. Although, the titanium tipped pinwheels bit does sound moderately arousing...
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:18 AM   #27
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Freudian katzenjammer, indeed.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:19 AM   #28
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Freudian katzenjammer, indeed.
I stopped being a Freudian when the insurance companies stopped paying for it!

Katzenjammer, OTOH, is apt.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:32 AM   #29
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I have one of my own, though it makes no sense.

Whenever I heard a certain phrase, either in reference or in song (16 of them, apparently going to the beach), I always heard it incorrectly in my head as...

"vestigial virgin"

(even though the meter was right off in the song)

Just what is a vestigial virgin? (Purely a rhetorical question, not to be answered less the act of defining raise the ire of the Advertently Violent Adrian)

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They don't exist, as any native New Yorker can tell you, Patience and Fortitude never yet having been heard to roar. No, I am not explaining this post. Do the work.


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