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You Too Can Build a Stronger, Stupider Vocabulary!

Some words from ExpressWriters.com:


Bumfuzzle. To confuse. Probably derived from the Old English dumfoozle, which is even better.

Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

Gardyloo. Apparently this was the warning people in Edinburough would shout to passers-by in the street when they were about to dump their latrines (piss-pots, I guess) on to their heads.

A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout.

So I think "gardeloo" must be something like "Look out, I'm using the garderobe."

Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie.

Snickersnee. A long cut-and-thrust knife of the 1700s.

Widdershins. Counter-clockwise.

Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily.

Flibbertigibbet. Someone who can't stop talking, or who is flighty. I know this one from Erg's favorite movie, Joe vs. The Volcano.

Some words from Mental Floss:


Quakebuttock: A coward.

Usage: David French is a quakebuttock, though if that is from cowardice or sexual anticipation, I cannot say for certain.

Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.

This is interesting to me because I've been watching British detective shows and keep hearing the word "humbug," but used in the sense of "a kind of hard candy" rather than "nonsense." Maybe the original word used to say "nonsense" was "humdudgeon," but then people started using the shorter "humbug."

Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.

Is that related to "hugger-mugger," meaning jumbled confusion or secrecy? It must.

Another few from Mental Floss:

Bumfodder: toilet paper.

Well that makes sense.

Betweenity. Indecision, being of two minds.

Clinchpoop. Someone lacking the social graces and gentlemanly bearing that we all share.


Scarebabe. Something that scares a baby. Not sure why you need a word for that. Everything scares a baby, except a boob.


Ventoseness.Windy, as in full of empty talk, or full of flatulence.


Yex. An archaic word for a hiccup or burb.

More from RD.com:

Pronk. A weak or foolish person

Fubsy. Squat or portly.

Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellow, and also likes kahhk.

Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.

Cask-Sizes-DC-820X375.jpg


A few very old words this I picked up from this very, very old dictionary.

Cheaping. A market.

I think I sort of knew that: "Cheap Street" in old towns means "Market Street." Not "Low Quality Goods Street."

Update: I realized recently that all of the towns in Agatha Christie books named "Chipping something," like "Chipping Cleghorn," mean "the market at Cleghorn."


Clutch. Apparently this means "claw."

Aha! So "in his fiendish clutches" means "in his fiendish claws."

Compass. "To compass" as a verb means to "search for something."

Copener. A lover. Like a copulator.

Couth. Known. The past participle of the Old English cunnan, to know, which survives in the word ken. Beyond my ken = beyond my knowledge. I guess "uncouth" might mean uneducated? Or it can just mean "unknown" as in "a stranger," or "a foreigner," maybe.

Dayrim. Dawn, break of day.

Frippet. This is a good one: a pretty, frivolous young woman. Almost like flibbertigibbet.

Sozzled. Drunk.

Swive. To copulate.

H/T commenter: bafflegab, meaning gobblygook.

Actually I know who said that, it was weft-cut loop. (Most of this post was written almost a year ago. I don't know when weft-cut loop said that. He probably doesn't even remember.)

I just came across this word, searching for a synonym for "ramble:"

pootle: to move somewhere slowly and with no real purpose.

Banana Dream added this one today:


unbosom

intransitive verb
1. To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
2. To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
3. To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
4. to make known, disclose (as information previously kept secret)
| ...unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends..

I'm going to use this in an engineering report somewhere. Just watch me. I'll sneak it in somehow.


I shelled out $15 (American) for a book called The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words and I'm not eating that kind of outlay as a pure loss so here are some from the M's:

mactation. "a sacrificial murder."

maffle. To mumble or stutter, or to confuse.

madefy. to wet, or becoming wet (as an adjective).

malaxation. a moistening, softening, or kneading.

makebate. A troublemaker.

Hm.

I think there are a lot of makebates in the comments.

madstone. a stone which is supposed to be an antidote to animal poison. I thought this meant a useless magical talisman but apparently it's a real remedy -- the porous stone sucks up liquid, like poison from a fresh sting or bite.

maniple. A handful. Also a body of soldiers.

mang. to lead astray or to go astray. as an adjective, anxious or puzzled.

manqueller. A murderer.

manustupration. Masturbation. This seems to be closer to the original Latin for the term.

deliberate erotic self-stimulation," 1711 (earlier as mastupration, 1620s), from French masturbation and directly from Modern Latin masturbationem (nominative masturbatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin masturbari "to masturbate."

The long-standing speculation is that this Latin word is altered (probably by influence of turbare "to disturb, confuse") from *manstuprare, from manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual) + stuprare "defile" (oneself), from stuprum "defilement, dishonor," related to stupere "to be stunned, stupefied" (see stupid).

That's a pretty bang-on etymology, really.

marplot. "An officious plot-marrer." That doesn't help me at all.

matugolangia. "antemeridian sexual desire." What? Oh, you mean the opposite of this....

meable. "easily penetrated." This list was made for David French.

merdivorous. "eating dung." Again, a David French word.

meacock. An effeminate or cowardly man. Again....

mentulate. "well-hung." Mentula is Latin for penis. This isn't a word about David French, but one he uses frequently in his dating life.

migniard. dainty, delicate, mincing. Most words, I'm learning, describe David French.

mird. to meddle, or to fool around sexually. Like mirding a marriage by sleeping with the wife? I dunno. Back to David French.

miserotia. Aversion to sex.

mixty-maxty. mixed up, confused.

Mithridatism. an immunity to poison gained by slowly ingesting increasing dosages of the toxin. Named for Mithridates VI of Pontus, who gained poison immunity this way.

moll-buzz. A pickpocket specializing in picking the pockets of women (molls).

mome. a crashing bore, a buffoon.

momzer. an impossible person, a useless person, a pest, a liar, a troublemaker, a "nothing."

montjoy. a medieval French battle cry.

mool. dry earth or a grave.

morology. nonsense, foolishness.

mortpay. also called "Deadpay," payments incorrectly (or fraudulently) made to a dead soldier.

mossback. a conservative. Hey, why I oughtta...

mouthfriend. a false friend. Weird, I would have guessed it meant "a really really good friend."

mytacism. Using the letter M incorrectly, or to the extreme.

To wrap up:

mataeology. Useless or foolish conversation.

If you like this thread you might see another post like this in the future. If you don't like this thread, you also might see another post like this in the future. Seriously, fifteen bills is a big expense, I have to amortize that outlay over multiple posts.

Posted by: Ace at 06:23 PM




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1 twvwe3tvfw3

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:24 PM (l6OhZ)

2
Didn't know THAT term, did you?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:24 PM (l6OhZ)

3
NOOD

Don't forget that one.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:24 PM (l6OhZ)

4 I have to say, clinchpoop seems like a good word

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 12, 2025 06:25 PM (NtVYv)

5 Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie.

I did some of that.

Posted by: Sniffy Joe at September 12, 2025 06:25 PM (ynpvh)

6 this post has been in draft for like two years. I finally posted it because boy, am I exhausted.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:26 PM (KRtlO)

7


Tubule = Stetler choking on Grape Nuts?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:27 PM (x0n13)

8 > Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

I thought this one meant crooked or askew. My mom used to use this one frequently.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:27 PM (lIio7)

9 'Confuzzled' is a favorite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

10 And nary a flesh spade to be spied upon this list.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (6GsEQ)

11 If someone in government had a sense of humor, we'd see a statement:

I can finally unbosom this information, because it is now declassified....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (S/Y4j)

12 there was a line from NatLamp's Yearbook parody (or maybe a high school text book parody), where they offered:

FOR FURTHER REVIEW

Each day, use one of the aphorisms from Poor Richard's Almanac with your friends. How long do you think it will be until you are punched in the head?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (KRtlO)

13 5 Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie.

I did some of that.
Posted by: Sniffy Joe at September 12, 2025 06:25 PM (ynpvh)



Clark Gable boffing the Sofa in the Plantation?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (x0n13)

14
keokuk

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (O7j1V)

15 I learned a lot of obscure words in nursing school. I haven't had much call to use them in the past forty years, since I quit that (for me) awful profession.

Posted by: huerfano at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (98kQX)

16 I see now how much is a butt load.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (63Dwl)

17 "Bumfuzzle", "cattywampus", and "lollygag" are all part of my working vocabulary.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (w6EFb)

18 I still have two of Rich Hall's old Sniglets books.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (CNl8/)

19 another line from NatLamp's textbook parody:

FOR FURTHER REVIEW

Do you think that if the Indians had had the atomic bomb, they would have used it?

Would you?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (KRtlO)

20 Lollygag's a good word.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (AkkXw)

21 Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily.
.....

This one I am familiar with.

Posted by: wth at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (UjdFS)

22 I thought this one meant crooked or askew. My mom used to use this one frequently.
Posted by: bonhomme

Same here, but it's my wife who uses the word.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (Dv3i1)

23 >>17 "Bumfuzzle", "cattywampus", and "lollygag" are all part of my working vocabulary.

Are you scottish perhaps?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (KRtlO)

24 Taradiddle

_____________________

This is another word for messing around with Vivien Leigh.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (dIske)

25 Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.


I have an older friend who is building hot rod. He used that term over the summer when he was rebuilding the front end. I never heard it before, that was the first time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (snZF9)

26 Jobbernowl: A stupid person, a blockhead

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (MNmXr)

27 This is another word for messing around with Vivien Leigh.

Or Tarafiddle

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (6GsEQ)

28 20 Lollygag's a good word.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (AkkXw)



What happens to a woman named Lolly if she did what Kamala did to Willie Brown?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (x0n13)

29 Justice Scalia used "jiggery-pokery" in one of his opinions.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (CNl8/)

30 What happens to a woman named Lolly if she did what Kamala did to Willie Brown?

Lollyschtupp?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (6GsEQ)

31 Cornfused: a cracker looking at a road map

Posted by: wth at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (UjdFS)

32 IIRC, there's a bit in one of the Jungle Books

Be kind to the cubs of another
For thought they are little and fubsy
It may be a bear is their mother.

I personally I love threads like this.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (s0JqF)

33 >> Are you scottish perhaps?

Of that descent. This is upstate, SC area, Greenville County. They were used a good by my father's generations. Still are, with the natives.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (w6EFb)

34 I knew these ones:
Lollygag, Flibbertigibbet, Frippet, Sozzled, Cattywampus, Miserotia, Momzer

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (lIio7)

35 Sozzled's good too.

"Where's Grandpa?", we'd ask upon arriving for Saturday dinner

"Your no good grandfather's sozzled down the beer garden", grandma'd say

Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (AkkXw)

36 Chthonic: Concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld

Posted by: Zombie H.P. Lovecraft at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (MNmXr)

37 I LOVE THIS

But will have to read after dinner.

A lot of those words I heard in the crazy South growing up to the supermodel I am now.

God bless you all. Ace, you have what is left of my battered heart for all you do to lift spirits and make me laugh. Blows kisses.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (6PCLE)

38 I like the word kine, the old plural for cows; it has none of the letters of its singular.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (ynpvh)

39 After Willie Brown, no one desired to snogg with Kamala.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (6GsEQ)

40 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:28 PM (6GsEQ)

I really like the sun room pic for some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

41 Two years is a long time to be in draft. I wondered what the odor was.

Posted by: Gardeloo! at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (oftw2)

42 >>> 28 20 Lollygag's a good word.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (AkkXw)



What happens to a woman named Lolly if she did what Kamala did to Willie Brown?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (x0n13)

I thought Kamalala's talent was that she didn't...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (ULPxl)

43 David French likes watching his wife quakebuttock when she's plowed by the bull

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (Ve63F)

44 We're gonna need some noggins, piggins, and demijohns to complete the set.

Posted by: Cash only at September 12, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

45 One I found out recently is manky. Never heard of it before. It means something not exactly the same but in the same ballpark as janky. Janky is more of a structural, mechanical assessment, something being in a non-functional state of disrepair, where as manky means it is all bad, dirty, stinky, rotten.

I wonder if hankypanky were real words on their own and they just put them together for emphasis and we should do the same now for mankyjanky.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 06:33 PM (3uBP9)

46 What happens to a woman named Lolly if she did what Kamala did to Willie Brown?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (x0n13)

She's a professional, JJ. Of course, she might be doing it for effect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

47 ***gardeloo***

Loo is not an uncommon synonym today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 06:33 PM (aWmr1)

48 Lollyslurp?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2025 06:33 PM (Ve63F)

49 > Justice Scalia used "jiggery-pokery" in one of his opinions.

Common in quirky Brit shows like Dr Who.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (lIio7)

50
I had a maternal great-aunt (old high school English teacher) who like to make up words -- well more "mash ups" as the kids would call it today. One of hers I use regularly is "agrafretting", "aggravate" + "fret".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (w6EFb)

51 You left out Bing Bong.

"She has a nice Bing Bong."

Posted by: Hanky Panky at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (R/m4+)

52 Hogwash!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (ekM0A)

53 Thank you Aetius.

Need to post something to celebrate 7,000 likes and 175 followers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (6GsEQ)

54 mome. a crashing bore, a buffoon.


Hmm, most of the mome I went to were lit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (snZF9)

55 I thought Kamalala's talent was that she didn't...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (ULPxl)

Guys can have some odd kinks, Helena.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

56 Absurd Historical Slang that Needs to Come Back
BlueJay
https://youtu.be/HW2Y45Jigc0

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (y2HDL)

57 I know the tub of water on a ship is a butt, and so the chit-chat around the water-butt became "scuttlebutt." I don't know what scuttle means there.

early 19th century (denoting a water butt on the deck of a ship, providing drinking water): from scuttled butt . Sailors would traditionally exchange gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water.

apparently "scuttle" means the same as "scurry." (In addition to "sinking a ship by holing the hull")

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (KRtlO)

58 I have become very partial to manky git

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (mFSH6)

59 So loo meaning toilet in the UK probably comes from gardeloo?

So as Ace infers, 'loo' is short for look or lookout?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (144I4)

60 Bumfodder: toilet paper.
......

Buttwipes: whatever is handy.

Posted by: wth at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (v0R5T)

61 Noone knows how to drive anymore.

I need a word for that.

Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (7Kd+r)

62
Do you think that if the Indians had had the atomic bomb, they would have used it?

They threatened Washington with a giant arrow on a Get Smart episode.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0587613

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (63Dwl)

63 >>> 55 I thought Kamalala's talent was that she didn't...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 06:32 PM (ULPxl)

Guys can have some odd kinks, Helena.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

"Is this about me?" -- Stephen King, probably, and ewwww

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (ULPxl)

64 Mouthfriend is my favorite followed by meacock

Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (VE6XX)

65 What happens to a woman named Lolly if she did what Kamala did to Willie Brown?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:30 PM (x0n13)

She becomes Lolly the cock slob.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (snZF9)

66
Justice Scalia used "jiggery-pokery" in one of his opinions.
Posted by: Mark1971

==============

That kind of talk is just argle-bargle!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (l6OhZ)

67 Posted by: Gardeloo!

good one.

a gardeloo is a toilet. Specifically an exterior-wall toilet whose pipes release out to the land below (or the moat)

I think "wardrobe" comes from that, because they used to keep clothes near the gardeloo because the stink kept away moths

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (KRtlO)

68 firkin is one of my fave words in the workplace. as in, "hey Mike, that's the dumbest firkin thing i've heard this month"

Posted by: DenverGregg at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (9aCp1)

69 You lollygag down to first base! You lollygag around the infield! What's that make em?

Lollygaggers, sir.

Lollygaggers!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 12, 2025 06:36 PM (2UnvF)

70 I thought Lolly dealt in adverbs.

Posted by: Did Schoolhouse Rock lie to me? at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (TbWk/)

71 One I've forgotten all but the last 2 lines of:

I tell the tale I've heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (s0JqF)

72 57 I know the tub of water on a ship is a butt, and so the chit-chat around the water-butt became "scuttlebutt." I don't know what scuttle means there.

early 19th century (denoting a water butt on the deck of a ship, providing drinking water): from scuttled butt . Sailors would traditionally exchange gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water.

apparently "scuttle" means the same as "scurry." (In addition to "sinking a ship by holing the hull")
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:34
Buy yourself a Bluejacket Manual, ace.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (jgmnb)

73 They threatened Washington with a giant arrow on a Get Smart episode.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0587613
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 06:35 PM (63Dwl)
___________________________

Missed us by thaaaat much.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (dIske)

74 So loo meaning toilet in the UK probably comes from gardeloo?

So as Ace infers, 'loo' is short for look or lookout?

I think the first is correct, the second is a made-up "folk etymology." But I have heard that. But I think I also heard it was just a folk etymology.

"Loo" might be a corruption of the French "lieu," place.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (KRtlO)

75 Su-sussudio!

Posted by: Phil Collins at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (CNl8/)

76 I love when Ace's inner etymologist breaks out.

Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mADJX)

77
So loo meaning toilet in the UK probably comes from gardeloo?

So as Ace infers, 'loo' is short for look or lookout?
Posted by: haffhowershower

============

It's from French. L'eau -- the water. Gardy-loo is what they shouted when they tossed a pot of urine out the window so those passing in the street would jump out of the way. Originally Gardez! L'eau! They had gotten it in the Norman Conquest, along with "love" for 0 in tennis, which is also "l'oeuf," or "the egg," referring to the shape of 0.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (l6OhZ)

78 Time to refill my frikin cask.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mFSH6)

79 May all the Commie cumsuckers plans go awry in ways detrimental to their wellbeing.

Angly can mean how much Anglo-Saxon ancestry you have? Weird, what a froop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (6GsEQ)

80 >>>Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

The proper term is kitty-corner. Only a leftist wanker would think otherwise.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (vlXMQ)

81 I have been out riding horse on the trails for the last 3 days, the trees are starting to turn, weather was nice. Saw 2 flags at half mast on the way home and wondered why. Fired up the internet and learned of the terrible news of the death of Charlie Kirk and the vile reaction by some. Prayers for his family and for all grieving and for our nation. I really have no words just kinda of stunned

Posted by: jadedlady at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (svHLU)

82 74 So loo meaning toilet in the UK probably comes from gardeloo?

So as Ace infers, 'loo' is short for look or lookout?

I think the first is correct, the second is a made-up "folk etymology." But I have heard that. But I think I also heard it was just a folk etymology.

"Loo" might be a corruption of the French "lieu," place.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:37 PM (KRtlO)

It's a looloo...

"looloo" is slang for a seductive or alluring woman.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh)

83 I need an extra bathroom. Going to apply for a loo grant.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (63Dwl)

84 > I think "wardrobe" comes from that, because they used to keep clothes near the gardeloo because the stink kept away moths

French garder (to keep or guard) + robe (garment) = a place to keep garments. Garderobe -> Wardrobe.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (lIio7)

85 >>>Lollygag

Best use was in Bull Durham.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (vlXMQ)

86 (gard and "ward" are related because french words often had two variants, one beginning with g and one with w, as you see in "twin words" like "guardian/warden" or "guarantee/waranty")

WIlliam the Conqueror is really Guillaume le Conquerant.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (KRtlO)

87 Obliviot, an oblivious idiot.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (i0F8b)

88 >>.French garder (to keep or guard) + robe (garment) = a place to keep garments. Garderobe -> Wardrobe.

oh, makes sense

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

89 78 Time to refill my frikin cask.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mFSH6)

I don't give a frikin' firkin about it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:40 PM (ynpvh)

90 David French's favorite book: Mentula the Bulla

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 06:40 PM (144I4)

91 76 I love when Ace's inner etymologist breaks out.
Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mADJX)

Really bugs me when his inner entomologist breaks out though.

Posted by: Speaking of scuttling at September 12, 2025 06:40 PM (TbWk/)

92 Obliviot, an oblivious idiot.

Aka a blivit

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (6GsEQ)

93 I love when Ace's inner etymologist breaks out.

Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mADJX)

Let's hope we never see his inner entomologist.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (CNl8/)

94 > It's from French. L'eau -- the water.

Garder (to keep or guard) l'eau (water). A place to keep the water.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (lIio7)

95 >>Su-sussudio!

Posted by: Phil Collin

fun fact: the song is based on the synthesizer line from Prince's 1999, and you can hear that once you know it. Collins called up Prince to make sure it was okay and Price said, sure, cool.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (KRtlO)

96
For "loo," see number 77. I am a language geek and I know this stuff. If zombie were here zhe would probably back me up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (l6OhZ)

97
skip, skip, skip to the loo
skip to the loo, my darling

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (O7j1V)

98 Scarebabe. Something that scares a baby. Not sure why you need a word for that. Everything scares a baby, except a boob.


Scarebabe is the anti chick. There is always that one friend who makes sure you won't attract chicks when you go out. The one when you are ready to hit some bars down the shore and he shows up with sandals and white socks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:42 PM (snZF9)

99 A Loo Ow is when the shit gets real.

Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 06:42 PM (7Kd+r)

100 91 76 I love when Ace's inner etymologist breaks out.
Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mADJX)

Really bugs me when his inner entomologist breaks out though.

Posted by: Speaking of scuttling at September 12, 2025 06:40 PM (TbWk/)

It causes formication...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:42 PM (ynpvh)

101 99 A Loo Ow is when the shit gets real.

Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 06:42 PM (7Kd+r)

Would you be interested in the pu-pu platter?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (ynpvh)

102 >>>Garder (to keep or guard) l'eau (water). A place to keep the water.

oh okay

thanks.

But -- trying to defend my french etymological knowlege here -- do you know what the french "banlieue" (ghetto or neighborhood it means now) comes from?



Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (KRtlO)

103 I use skosh all the time.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (mFSH6)

104 >>>It causes formication...

heh

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (KRtlO)

105
Garder (to keep or guard) l'eau (water). A place to keep the water.
Posted by: bonhomme

==============

From The Scotsman:

>>The person tossing the waste was also supposed to call out “Gardez l’eau!” meaning ‘watch the water,’ which later became corrupted to “Gardyloo!”

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (l6OhZ)

106 Dayrim. Dawn, break of day.

______________________

Uh huh, but when Ronald Reagan dated Doris Day, it meant something completely different.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (dIske)

107
I'm going to win this!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (l6OhZ)

108 A whole book of unusual words, that's at least 26 posts.

After the events of this week, this makes for some good levity. Thanks Ace.

Posted by: Corona_exile_back_in_exile at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (4TAOz)

109 Flibbertigibbet is used in one of the songs from “The Sound of Music,” specifically, “Maria.”

Posted by: Ken at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (ke69m)

110
Anyone remember, oh about 25 years ago, when Square Dancing was a brief mainstream fad?

Promenade!

So what do all those wacky commands mean, anyway?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (O7j1V)

111 >>>After the events of this week, this makes for some good levity. Thanks Ace.

good i'm glad it was the right call. I am so burnt out.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (KRtlO)

112 Uh huh, but when Ronald Reagan dated Doris Day, it meant something completely different.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (dIske)

Damn. Nice pull, Mr President.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

113 Nothing I see I want to use

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (+qU29)

114 WIlliam the Conqueror is really Guillaume le Conquerant.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:39 PM (KRtlO)

Le Batard?

Posted by: Warai-otokovitch at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (06Hmj)

115 A Tun is 252 gallons by the way.

That's a lot of booze.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (XV/Pl)

116 101
Would you be interested in the pu-pu platter?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:43 PM (ynpvh)


"You go now!"

- - Emperor Pooh Pooh Xi

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (x0n13)

117 >>>Promenade!

promenade means a walk. Promenader is the verb for "to go for a walk." Like a pleasure walk, not a travel walk.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (KRtlO)

118 what kind of flabstabbin muckruckin peediddlin post is this!!!1!

Posted by: Yosemite Bill at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (8uzBS)

119 8 > Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

I thought this one meant crooked or askew. My mom used to use this one frequently.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:27 PM (lIio7)

I've always heard it used as something on the diagonal. Like if you were at an intersection and referring to the corner that you would have to cross both streets to get to.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (vlXMQ)

120
Another word I learned early from that great-aunt was "addlepated", one of her favorites.

That AOC sure is addlepated.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)

121 Cattywampus is what folks around here sometimes said instead of crooked. "why is the couch all cattywampus?" "well... The football bounced off the lamp and went behind the couch so we pulled the couch away from the wall so we could get our ball back". Steely glare.... " sorry mom."

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (2J/Lj)

122 A Tun is 252 gallons by the way.

That's a lot of booze.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (XV/Pl)

Or a small party thrown by George Washington.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (S/Y4j)

123 good i'm glad it was the right call. I am so burnt out.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (KRtlO)

I was thinking of accidently linking a huge set of naked tits by 'accident' but alas, I am at work and on work wifi.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

124 >>>Le Batard?

yes, exactly, at least before he got a more grandiose sobriequet.

(that is, he was Guillaume Le Batard (bastard) before he conqured england)

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (KRtlO)

125 100?

I like this thread Ace!

Clutch as a noun can also mean a group, like a clutch of eggs.

Posted by: Dad of Six at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (GW7ho)

126 Anyone remember, oh about 25 years ago, when Square Dancing was a brief mainstream fad?

Promenade!

So what do all those wacky commands mean, anyway?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:44 PM (O7j1V)
_______________________

I had a sadistic (and lazy) phys Ed teacher in elementary school that used to make the class square dance. I think the fat bastard just liked sitting on his ass telling us what to do.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (dIske)

127 Promenade left ,Allemande right

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:46 PM (mFSH6)

128 A Tun is 252 gallons by the way.

That's a lot of booze.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:45 PM (XV/Pl)

so..MoMe size?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (snZF9)

129 117 >>>Promenade!

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

130 51 You left out Bing Bong.

"She has a nice Bing Bong."
Posted by: Hanky Panky

This is down right agastopian!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (p4NUW)

131 Oh, do use and hear others say Lollygag

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

132
Okay, Ace.

How about Allemande?!

And "Do Si Do!?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (O7j1V)

133 >>>I had a sadistic (and lazy) phys Ed teacher in elementary school that used to make the class square dance. I think the fat bastard just liked sitting on his ass telling us what to do.

i hated the school squre dance days because it was embarrassing and also because I was afraid girls would think I 'Liked them" and would not like me

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (KRtlO)

134 Ho, gode felawe! Wilt þou wende wiþ me unto þe taverne, and þere drynken a pynt of ale frothy and strong?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:47 PM (XV/Pl)

135 >>>Allemande?!

sounds like the word for Germany so maybe it's some kind of german step

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (KRtlO)

136 So, anonymous and uncouth etymologically mean the same thing, but their meaning has diverged a lot.

Posted by: Fizz's Free Funds at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (HCw/F)

137
That's the meaning of cattywampus as I learned and used. It means askew, crooked, out of alignment in sort of a "sideways way".

"Side goggled" is another one, and looking like that up, it's Appalachian mountaineer in origin. Although the way my father and his generator pronounced it was more "Side-goddled".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (w6EFb)

138 I use skosh all the time

skoshe Ben...means an amount

"Just a skoshe please, I'm already full"

Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (8uzBS)

139 @128

>>so..MoMe size?

No, a MoMe Tun is TwoTun.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (XV/Pl)

140 19 another line from NatLamp's textbook parody:

FOR FURTHER REVIEW

Do you think that if the Indians had had the atomic bomb, they would have used it?

Would you?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (KRtlO)

Are we talking autochthonous natives of North America, or those from the Indian subcontinent?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

141 A lot of these words just sound like harry potter characters.

Emily Fuzznethers, William Scrotbitters, etc..

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)

142 >>>136 So, anonymous and uncouth etymologically mean the same thing, but their meaning has diverged a lot.

yeah it's neat. I like noting that many words for scumbag, like villain and knave, just come from words meaning "lower class worker." Villain from villein, peasant farmer, and knave from servant.

Kinda makes you think.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:49 PM (KRtlO)

143 Allemande Left!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 06:49 PM (p4NUW)

144 Do you think that if the Indians had had the atomic bomb, they would have used it?

Would you?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:29 PM (KRtlO)

Are we talking autochthonous natives of North America, or those from the Indian subcontinent?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

Fucking Ghandi.

Posted by: Every Civ Player Ever at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (06Hmj)

145 "sergeant" comes from servant too

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (KRtlO)

146 > But -- trying to defend my french etymological knowlege here -- do you know what the french "banlieue" (ghetto or neighborhood it means now) comes from?

I know it has something to do with lieue -> Latin for the distance measurement of a league. I'm not sure of the ban part off the top of my head.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (lIio7)

147 lieutenant - lieu - tenant, place holding

not sure if this means banner-bearer or just someone who is in command (place-holding) while the actual captain is away

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (KRtlO)

148
Where did the word "mosey" come from?

Like, mosey on down here, boy, from Westerns.
Shirley it comes from a proper English term.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (O7j1V)

149 I'm not sure of the ban part off the top of my head.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:50 PM (lIio7)

It's Chinese for like 10,000 or something.

That can't possibly be relevant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 06:51 PM (06Hmj)

150 Cattywampus

my mom used that one when something was out of kelter

Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 06:51 PM (8uzBS)

151 fun fact: the song is based on the synthesizer line from Prince's 1999, and you can hear that once you know it. Collins called up Prince to make sure it was okay and Price said, sure, cool.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:41 PM (KRtlO)

Stevie Nicks wrote Stand Back after listening to Little Red Corvette. She copied the some synth parts. She called Prince to tell him and he ended up coming to the studio and playing synthesizers on the track.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:51 PM (CNl8/)

152 > also because I was afraid girls would think I 'Liked them" and would not like me

Relatable.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:51 PM (lIio7)

153 >>>I know it has something to do with lieue -> Latin for the distance measurement of a league. I'm not sure of the ban part off the top of my head.

yup! The hard word "ban" is an archaic french word meaning "outside." A banlieu was a place outside of a league from a city, where I guess city authority did not extend. so a neighborhood independent of the city.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:51 PM (KRtlO)

154 The Indians are just begging for the chance to use the Bomb on Pakistani interests.
Trump (somehow) talked them out of it.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (gKWVE)

155 Heartbreaking

@GhostCypher04
Sep 11
Give me back my son, he’s only 31!’ 💔
Charlie Kirk’s father collapsed in grief at a memorial outside TPUSA HQ in Phoenix. His anguished cry shook the crowd, flowers, candles, and tears now cover the site as the nation mourns.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (3ImbR)

156 Since we are on the subject of square dancing:

Hillbilly Hare:

https://youtu.be/O6QR5CBKWWE

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (IBQGV)

157 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)

158 yeah it's neat. I like noting that many words for scumbag, like villain and knave, just come from words meaning "lower class worker." Villain from villein, peasant farmer, and knave from servant.
__________________________________

I always get a chuckle every time I think of Chris Pratt debuting a movie in the UK. Essentially..."Guardians of the Galaxy" Starring Chris "the Jerk"

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (dIske)

159 My mom used bass-ackward a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (3uBP9)

160 I'm doing the last bits of house cleaning. There's a mirrored thing hanging behind the bar with two shelves. It's about 2 feet by 2.5 feet.

I remember for the longest time Mom had cans of Billy Beer on there. From the good Carter.

There wine glasses now. I'm not dusting those anymore. The glasses can go away. Maybe I can put small booze bottles there.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (jvJvP)

161
>>>Promenade!

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

>>>Zócalo

Babylon 5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (63Dwl)

162 Cattywampus was not the same as catty corner.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)

163 I encountered quite a few of these in The Canterbury Tales, of course. If you have a copy with a decent glossary, by the Miller's Tale it gets fairly easy. (Where I learnt "Swive".)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (s0JqF)

164 Rumpswab - Howie Carr's term for political ass-kissers

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (/2KcO)

165 I find myself traipsing along at the end of the day.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:54 PM (mFSH6)

166 @128

>>so..MoMe size?

No, a MoMe Tun is TwoTun.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (XV/Pl)

The booze table at the texas MoMe qualifies as a fuck tun.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:54 PM (snZF9)

167 > yup! The hard word "ban" is an archaic french word meaning "outside." A banlieu was a place outside of a league from a city, where I guess city authority did not extend. so a neighborhood independent of the city.

Interesting!

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:54 PM (lIio7)

168 I've always liked using the word "fop", as in "Eric Swallowswell is a hapless fop."

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (i49OE)

169
Since we are on the subject of square dancing:

Hillbilly Hare:

https://youtu.be/O6QR5CBKWWE
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


What's most funny about that is its probably one of your favorite childhood memories.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (O7j1V)

170 My mama would say "bedroogled" instead of bedraggled.

That was just being silly, though.

Like, "I have to water these plants, they're looking all bedroogled".

It's one of those things that I never realized until later in life that other people don't actually ever say it because it isn't a word.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (06Hmj)

171 jerk is also a term for the change in acceleration...
The change in jerk is snap (or jounce)...
The change in snap is crackle...
the change in crackle is pop...

Yeah, somebody had fun with these terms...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

172 >>>164 Rumpswab - Howie Carr's term for political ass-kissers

good one.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (KRtlO)

173 Heartbreaking

@GhostCypher04
Sep 11
Give me back my son, he’s only 31!’ 💔
Charlie Kirk’s father collapsed in grief at a memorial outside TPUSA HQ in Phoenix. His anguished cry shook the crowd, flowers, candles, and tears now cover the site as the nation mourns.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (3ImbR)

They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (snZF9)

174 I always get a chuckle every time I think of Chris Pratt debuting a movie in the UK. Essentially..."Guardians of the Galaxy" Starring Chris "the Jerk"
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (dIske)

What about Donald Trump

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (E0p3T)

175 >>> Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)


The most confusing thing to me? Which hand do you use to start typing "right", and which hand for "left"? I don't know why but I have to kind of disconnect my brain for a second when I type those out. Always. Port and starboard the same.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (3uBP9)

176 >> Cattywampus was not the same as catty corner.

Yeah, in the local usage I picked up, they are different. Cattywampus implies something out of proper alignment in a diagonal, skewed, sideways sort of way.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (w6EFb)

177 " Seriously, fifteen bills is a big expense, I have to amortize that outlay over multiple posts."

WORD...

Posted by: JML at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (l1UWN)

178 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)
----
Even more so if you use "larboard" instead of "port"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (IBQGV)

179 wait my own source says that the etymology is "look out i'm using the garde"

I don't know, that sounds fake to me. I wrote this two years ago so I didn't remember that's what it said

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:57 PM (KRtlO)

180 Cattywampus was not the same as catty corner.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)


Yes. I always thought Cattywampus meant out of alignment, whereas catty corner was just the place where two walls meet....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 06:57 PM (i49OE)

181 What's most funny about that is its probably one of your favorite childhood memories.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (O7j1V)
-------
One of mine too!

"Grab a fence post, hold it tight
Whomp your partner with all your might..."

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 06:57 PM (/2KcO)

182 Looked it up. What I was remembering, with the line about Mithridates, was "Terence, this is stupid stuff" by A E Houseman.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 06:57 PM (s0JqF)

183 Berserker, I volunteer for grenade placement duty.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (mFSH6)

184 I recommend "The Superior Person's Book of Words" and its follow-on volumes, by Peter Bowler. He not only introduces obscure words but gives examples of how to deploy them passive-aggressively against the unenlightened. Plus, hilarious illustrations.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (kpS4V)

185 > Frippet

This reminds me of "Frippery." It means unnecessarily showy or ornamental.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (lIio7)

186 Swive. To copulate.

See also: Boff..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (nbLIj)

187 What's most funny about that is its probably one of your favorite childhood memories.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (O7j1V)
---
I LOVED Bugs Bunny cartoons growing up. Still do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

188 >> I find myself traipsing along at the end of the day.

"Traipsing" is another local, old-timer word. Usage here is usual for someone "walking around" in an unauthorized manner.

As in, "What are you doin' a-traipsin' around my property?"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

189 Another possible meaning for catty corner is someplace bad to be caught when two women are about to start beating each other up.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (S/Y4j)

190 Ace - good call on the Steve Inman in the Cafe last night. It was cathartic

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (/2KcO)

191 Jiggery-pokery was a favorite line of Sir Henry Merrivale, Carter Dickson's detective. (Really, John Dickson Carr.)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (s0JqF)

192 I've always found 'snorkel' to be a funny word. Also, 'ointment' and 'blimp'.

Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (AOsQT)

193 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?

port is left - 4 letters
that leaves starberd as right

now do coxswain and boatswain

Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (8uzBS)

194 >>> "Traipsing" is another local, old-timer word. Usage here is usual for someone "walking around" in an unauthorized manner.

oh i know that one, i've heard it said IRL lots of times

I guess it's less common now

"and you go blithely traipsing along" is a common usage

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (KRtlO)

195 All the Looney Tunes cartoons are on Tubi now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (CNl8/)

196 Cattywampus

I know this as crooked, as in messed up, cockeyed.

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (u/66v)

197 I LOVED Bugs Bunny cartoons growing up. Still do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

you're not alone.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (snZF9)

198 Pot-valiant.

Bravery from alcohol.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (WHfpM)

199 >>>190 Ace - good call on the Steve Inman in the Cafe last night. It was cathartic

yeah for me too. I was enjoying the beatdowns.

beatdowns are good for the soul

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (KRtlO)

200 now do coxswain and boatswain
Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (8uzBS)

the one steers. The other sits in the front and yells at the rowers like a little dickhead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (06Hmj)

201 186 Swive. To copulate.

See also: Boff..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (nbLIj)

____________________________

Ah, ok, so it's not Rico Suave....it's actually Rico Swive.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (dIske)

202 If you really want to have fun with words, read Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun.

Not sure how many of the words he uses are made up or are archaic words that he's dusted off to tell his story.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (IBQGV)

203 196 Cattywampus

I know this as crooked, as in messed up, cockeyed.
Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (u/66v)

I had a Southern girlfriend who used this word a lot. It was fun to hear her say it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (WHfpM)

204 two fathoms = mark twain

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (CNl8/)

205 Since we are on the subject of square dancing:

Hillbilly Hare:

https://youtu.be/O6QR5CBKWWE
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (IBQGV)

Look up Seven Brides for Seven Brothers barn dance to The Rodeo Song.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (2J/Lj)

206 When Christ turned water into wine at the Marriage at Cana, the large containers of water held six firkins a piece.

Posted by: Wino Man at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (oftw2)

207 found online: "Reddit is the playable demo for the circles of Hell"

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (gKWVE)

208 Akimbo

Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (AOsQT)

209 > I've always found 'snorkel' to be a funny word. Also, 'ointment' and 'blimp'.

The word, "golf" is hilarious. I imagine it's the sound I'd make if someone karate chopped me in the throat.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (lIio7)

210 Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

About 1978 my Sunday School (I went to SS at one time) teacher bought a Town Car and it ran down the road about 4 inches left front to right rear.
And there was an argument from Ford lawyer what kitty corner meant.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 07:01 PM (gbOdA)

211 "In my own words? Lady, i'm just using the same words everyone else is using!"

Posted by: obligatory carlin reference at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (06Hmj)

212 The real question is whether I'll see another post like this one in the future.

I like Robwords, too.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)

213 @173

>>They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.

I have three sons, I would be inconsolable.

This monster must be put down like a dog, firing squad is too merciful.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (XV/Pl)

214 just some background on this post and why it's special to me

for two years, I have moved this post up to be published on most fridays for easy content. Then find other stuff to post, and save this post for when I need a quick fill-in.

It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

and now he's gone.

sad!

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)

215 But "necropants" is still the best word ever, and would be the best band name.

Also cool: "Anthropodermic bibliopegy".

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (kpS4V)

216 I have to start reusing potlicker.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (mFSH6)

217 https://youtu.be/O6QR5CBKWWE
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


What's most funny about that is its probably one of your favorite childhood memories.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 06:55 PM (O7j1V)

And everything I learned about Opera? Yeah... Bugs..

Kill duh Wabbit... Kill duh Wabbit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (mP0Kj)

218 195 All the Looney Tunes cartoons are on Tubi now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (CNl8/)

Maybe most of them, but I doubt all of them. Some of those oldies used blackface. Others were made during WWII and the Japanese portrayals were not flattering.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (vlXMQ)

219 > The other sits in the front and yells at the rowers like a little dickhead.

A drum would be manlier than yelling "stroke, stroke, stroke" like a masturbation cheerleader.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (lIio7)

220 this post was a comfort. it was my rock. I knew I could always duck out for an hour and just hit "publish" on this post to cover the time.

And now?

I am alone again

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

221 beatdowns are good for the soul

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (KRtlO)
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"When used as directed...."

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (/2KcO)

222 216 I have to start reusing potlicker.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (mFSH6)

is that someone who licks your joint before firing it up?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (mP0Kj)

223 I am only midway through this post and I think it's the best ace has ever written.
Pulitzer-worthy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (gDlxJ)

224 197 I LOVED Bugs Bunny cartoons growing up. Still do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

you're not alone.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 07:00 PM (snZF9)
____________________________________

LMAO...my brothers and I used to recite the dialogue on family car trips when really little. Drove my parents crazy. I remember my dad doing the reach back to get us to behave while driving, and hooking his hand in the pocket of the hideous matching shirts my mom made, and ripping it accidentally. All I could think of was I no longer had to wear the plaid red shirt that made me look like a Scotch Tape dispenser.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (dIske)

225 They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (snZF9)



"On second thought... Fuck the bonus"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (2J/Lj)

226 Make "Nickelfucker" Great Again!

I can't find a definition online; speaking of which, anybody heard from or seen MP4 around lately -- anybody know is he okay? I haven't been around much myself lately ...

Posted by: Shain -- The Transtifa Left Just Assassinated A Likely Future POTUS at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (re1kw)

227 >>>mentulate. "well-hung." Mentula is Latin for penis. This isn't a word about David French, but one he uses frequently in his dating life.


Ace, any expense that allows you to maximize (SWIDT?) your level of cruelty is money well spent. Especially when David French is involved.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (lHPJf)

228 On the sidebar - Maori men in NZ do a haka war display for Charlie Kirk

Watch. If that doesn't at least give you chills, you have no soul.

Posted by: Warriors recognize warriors at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (TbWk/)

229 216 I have to start reusing potlicker.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (mFSH6)

Never throw away the potlicker when you make collards!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (06Hmj)

230 Port has 4 letters, as does left.... therefore starboard is right.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (i49OE)

231 Romeo13, a potlicker is a disgusting, worthless human or animal.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (mFSH6)

232
Thinking about "cattywampus" vs "side-goggled", the former is used mostly for something *static*, like say, a shelf installed all cattywampus.

"Side-goddled" would be used for some mechanical part running out of alignment in a sideways sort of manner.

For example, if a car's front-end were out of alignment such that it tried to run to the side, you'd say it was "side-goggling/goddling".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (w6EFb)

233 220 this post was a comfort. it was my rock. I knew I could always duck out for an hour and just hit "publish" on this post to cover the time.

And now?

I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

Naturally...

Posted by: Gilbert O'Sullivan at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)

234
It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

Posted by: ace

You mean like Dexter's inner voice? That type of companion?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (O7j1V)

235 >>>230 Port has 4 letters, as does left.... therefore starboard is right.

neat

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (KRtlO)

236 231 Romeo13, a potlicker is a disgusting, worthless human or animal.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (mFSH6)

So... someone who licks yer joint... /smile

Posted by: Gilbert O'Sullivan at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (mP0Kj)

237 perp looks like a degenerate

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (g47mK)

238 226 Make "Nickelfucker" Great Again!

I can't find a definition online; speaking of which, anybody heard from or seen MP4 around lately -- anybody know is he okay? I haven't been around much myself lately ...
Posted by: Shain -- The Transtifa Left Just Assassinated A Likely Future POTUS at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (re1kw)

I always thought it was "he could fuck the ridges on the side of a nickel", which is sarcastic because nickels don't have ridged edges.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (06Hmj)

239 135 >>>Allemande?!

sounds like the word for Germany so maybe it's some kind of german step
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:48 PM (KRtlO)
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Hence the German Dances, or just "germans".

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (s0JqF)

240 "On second thought... Fuck the bonus"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (2J/Lj)

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I initially read that as "bonus-hole."

Posted by: Shain -- The Transtifa Left Just Assassinated A Likely Future POTUS at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (re1kw)

241 which he is

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:05 PM (g47mK)

242 Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.
-ace-
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The Duke of Clarence drowned in a butt of malmsey wine meant it was pretty big.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

243 > Port has 4 letters, as does left.... therefore starboard is right.

This is exactly how I remember it.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (lIio7)

244 It’s KITTYwompus.


JFC.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (vAtLy)

245 >>>About 1978 my Sunday School (I went to SS at one time) teacher bought a Town Car and it ran down the road about 4 inches left front to right rear.
And there was an argument from Ford lawyer what kitty corner meant.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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This hurts my head.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (aWmr1)

246 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

247 Does one use bumfodder for a clinchpoop?

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (fveCG)

248 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)
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You don't drink starboard.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (krQz2)

249 >>> for two years, I have moved this post up to be published on most fridays for easy content. Then find other stuff to post, and save this post for when I need a quick fill-in.

It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

and now he's gone.

sad!
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)


We have terrible memories. Wait a few months, rotate it back in, and we'll be all OMG THIS IS FIRE!

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (3uBP9)

250

Pooontang!

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (ImqEA)

251 248 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)
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You don't drink starboard.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (krQz2)

Well, you could drink a port starboard...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

252 It may have already been brought up, but if not, the people in NE Mississippi and the Appalachians have a folklore belief about something called a Wampus Cat. Who or what the Wampus Cat is varies depending on the teller; anything from a vengeful Chickasaw princess to a panther that is bipedal would be included. Children were warned that if they weren't good, the Wampus Cat would get them. Rather a bizarre belief, but that's superstition for you.

Posted by: John Drake at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (MNqfd)

253 >>>We have terrible memories. Wait a few months, rotate it back in, and we'll be all OMG THIS IS FIRE!

good idea.

i can find the book and do another few letters of obscure words, I guess.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (KRtlO)

254 I've always found 'snorkel' to be a funny word. Also, 'ointment' and 'blimp'.
Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (AOsQT)


Deterred. It's funniest when spoken vs. read. Kinda fits in with gardeloo.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (144I4)

255 I think Cattywampus has to do with greek "kata-" meaning across from, opposed to, etc etc.

Prepositions are the most poorly translating parts of speech ever, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (06Hmj)

256 243 > Port has 4 letters, as does left.... therefore starboard is right.

This is exactly how I remember it.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Starboard is steerboard. That's where the steer board was placed, on the right side of the boat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (aWmr1)

257 Cernovich@Cernovich

Whatever we thought about the FBI, we now see it’s worse. Not even Trump has the power to hold it to account. This is really dark stuff.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (TGPs7)

258 I can't find a definition online; speaking of which, anybody heard from or seen MP4 around lately -- anybody know is he okay? I haven't been around much myself lately ...
Posted by: Shain -- The Transtifa Left Just Assassinated A Likely Future POTUS

He's been around the early morning tech thread. You have to get up early to catch him.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (lJ0H4)

259 250

Pooontang!
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (ImqEA)
____________________________

Tourretes?

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 07:09 PM (dIske)

260 220 this post was a comfort. it was my rock. I knew I could always duck out for an hour and just hit "publish" on this post to cover the time.

And now?

I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)
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Uh, oh...Ace is sliding into emo territory. Get him the antidote, stat! (What is the antidote?)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:09 PM (IBQGV)

261 Sozzled is the best of the bunch.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2025 07:09 PM (JY+81)

262

Catawomper

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0594032

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (63Dwl)

263 Cernovich is the Jim Hoft of Laura Loomers

Posted by: See "crackpot" at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (TbWk/)

264 If your itches are from formication, don't tell your girlfriend; she'll get the wrong idea.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

265 Hornswaggled. Always check a horses teeth.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (mFSH6)

266 250

Pooontang!
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (ImqEA)
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Related to "putain".

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (s0JqF)

267 These are great crossword puzzle words

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (+qU29)

268 Anybody seen "The Long Walk" yet? It's based on a Stephen King short story. Written back in the day. Supposed to be an allegory for the Vietnam War, or something.

At IMDB it's either "10/10 -- Brilliant!" Or "2/10 - Bullshit!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (kpS4V)

269 THank you for this fun and entertaining post. I have current events fatigue. Just can't deal with liberal idiocy and lies.

I need a firkin of a strong adult beverage.

Posted by: Iris at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (bOJ2I)

270 246 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

He's a Trooper

Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (7Kd+r)

271 good idea.

i can find the book and do another few letters of obscure words, I guess.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:08 PM (KRtlO)
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Libraries are often full of dictionaries with cool themes....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (IBQGV)

272 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

THE Bruce Dickinson?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (144I4)

273 What is the etymology of "cooze"?

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (CNl8/)

274 David French does not swive his wife, but he does watch when her copener swives her.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (fveCG)

275 They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (snZF9)

Epic viewing parties.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (LjSYW)

276 >>>Whatever we thought about the FBI, we now see it’s worse. Not even Trump has the power to hold it to account. This is really dark stuff.

what is this clickbait grifter bitch babbling about now?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (KRtlO)

277 I always thought it would be cool to have a classic Cadillac with license plates WOMPUS.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (NZ5n/)

278 Those are all perfectly cromulent words

Posted by: Josephistan at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (SLwrZ)

279 264 If your itches are from formication, don't tell your girlfriend; she'll get the wrong idea.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

"I've got ants in my pants."

"About what, baby?"

"No, seriously, they're biting at my clackerbag."

"...Gross!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (06Hmj)

280 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

He's a Trooper
Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (7Kd+r)
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It'll be Two Minutes to Midnight.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)

281 Willowed,

Is this the same Michael Mann who has been persecuting Mark Steyn?
Posted by: Decaf at September 12, 2025 06:27 PM (unUNN)

yes, it's the same a-hole from U.Penn.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (8V3a1)

282 What is the etymology of "cooze"?
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (CNl8/)
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Start here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXzpoH6m2c

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (IBQGV)

283 I have to write a lot of code for port starboard left right. I like equal length variables, and I really like 4 letters, so it is port stbd left rght fuse wing horz vert ... etc.. some 3 like fwd aft.

But imagine my horror when I was looking at some of my code that everybody and their dog had been using for years and what my brain decided would be the best variable for anything that contained the final results of the analysis.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (3uBP9)

284 Just remember, port and starboard are relative to the boat or ship. Not to you. It's still your right hand. If you are facing aft, your right hand is to port.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (s0JqF)

285 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

Nice.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (LjSYW)

286 260 220 this post was a comfort. it was my rock. I knew I could always duck out for an hour and just hit "publish" on this post to cover the time.

And now?

I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)
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Uh, oh...Ace is sliding into emo territory. Get him the antidote, stat! (What is the antidote?)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:09 PM (IBQGV)

Busty Lesbians?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

287 Keith Olbermann@Keith Olbermann

I assume @kashpatel means Valhalla NY because otherwise I hate to break it to him but neither he nor Kirk nor Trump are getting into heaven 🤦🏼‍♂️

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (TGPs7)

288
Plinth

Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (AOsQT)

289 Bruce Dickinson is singing the national anthem at the Steelers game this weekend.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (CNl8/)

THE Bruce Dickinson?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:10 PM (144I4)


Will there be live cowbell???

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (i49OE)

290 port is to the left if you are looking stern to bow

oh crikey now I have to remember what these two mean

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (KRtlO)

291 David French does not swive his wife, but he does watch when her copener swives her.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 07:11 PM (fveCG)
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It lasted till dayrim.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

292
I don't understand the attack on Kash at all. From what I read, he had fired some honcho in the Salt Lake office, and there were some disgruntled about that, and that was the genesis of this Kash-hate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)

293 > I've always found 'snorkel' to be a funny word. Also, 'ointment' and 'blimp'.

Beverage. The word makes me uncomfortable.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)

294 I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)
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Naturally.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (krQz2)

295 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXzpoH6m2c
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (IBQGV)


IT'S A TRAP!!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (i49OE)

296 port is to the left if you are looking stern to bow

oh crikey now I have to remember what these two mean
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (KRtlO)
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Read a little Joseph Conrad and you'll be speaking fluent sailor in no time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

297 I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

Without Youuuuu!

Posted by: Don Dokken at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (CNl8/)

298 287 Keith Olbermann@Keith Olbermann

I assume @kashpatel means Valhalla NY because otherwise I hate to break it to him but neither he nor Kirk nor Trump are getting into heaven 🤦🏼‍♂️
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (TGPs7)

Because he's Hindu, Keef? BECAUSE HE'S HINDU?!?!?

Racist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (06Hmj)

299 I've always found 'snorkel' to be a funny word. Also, 'ointment' and 'blimp'.

Beverage. The word makes me uncomfortable.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)
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Right.

* shudders *

Because it's singular.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (krQz2)

300 214 just some background on this post and why it's special to me

for two years, I have moved this post up to be published on most fridays for easy content. Then find other stuff to post, and save this post for when I need a quick fill-in.

It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

and now he's gone.

sad!
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)

Wow!

Posted by: Iris at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (bOJ2I)

301
What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (O7j1V)

302 @280

>>It'll be Two Minutes to Midnight.

And he'll go on an on about the Wasted Years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (XV/Pl)

303 The Duke of Clarence drowned in a butt of malmsey wine meant it was pretty big.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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"Shall we dally in a butt of Malmsey?" said Lord M___ sloshedly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (kpS4V)

304
mennonite devices?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (O7j1V)

305 You can rerun this one in a couple of years, Ace. All the boomers will have forgotten it by then.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

306
The Maori men in NZ video is a must watch.

Thanks to the moron who pointed it out.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (3ek7K)

307 I am boycotting King, who btw said Charlie condoned stoning gheys then of course had to take that back.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (+qU29)

308 They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (snZF9)

Too fast. I'm thinking 55-gallon drum, him inside with the lid welded on and a single 3/8" hole drilled in the bottom and thrown into the Chesapeake Bay.

Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (7Kd+r)

309 >>port is to the left if you are looking stern to bow

>>oh crikey now I have to remember what these two mean

oy

Give me strength.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (viF8m)

310 Beverage. The word makes me uncomfortable.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)

I usually pronounce it "bevvidge" because I never say that word unless i'm intentionally being silly anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (06Hmj)

311 So loo meaning toilet in the UK probably comes from gardeloo?

So as Ace infers, 'loo' is short for look or lookout?
Posted by: haffhowershower

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It's from French. L'eau -- the water. Gardy-loo is what they shouted when they tossed a pot of urine out the window so those passing in the street would jump out of the way. Originally Gardez! L'eau! They had gotten it in the Norman Conquest, along with "love" for 0 in tennis, which is also "l'oeuf," or "the egg," referring to the shape of 0.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

=============

Thank you! And a bonus for 'love'. I always wondered where that came from but never bothered to look it up. I love entomology, but don't know much. It's an interesting subject.

Years ago at a library book sale, I bought an old hardbound book called "American Place Names". It had the origin of the names of thousands and thousands of towns. Like a dummy I let it go.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (144I4)

312 >>>What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?

mnemonics (nem-onics, not pneumonics as people often say)

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (KRtlO)

313 I love when Ace's inner etymologist breaks out.
Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 06:38 PM (mADJX)

91 Really bugs me when his inner entomologist breaks out though. - Speaking of scuttling

Well, actually, that's a good thing. I'm pretty sure I saw some bedbugs in the earlier comments.

Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (mADJX)

314 || What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?

Bras.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (asXVI)

315 It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

and now he's gone.

sad!
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)
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I don't think that I can take it, because it took so long to make it, and I'll never have this thread idea again....OOOOHHH NOOOOOO!!!!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

316 I use cattywompass all the time. To describe anything askew and it's more polite than "fucked up".

Posted by: Reforger at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (SPOEc)

317 The Maori chant for Charlie Kirk (in the side bar) gave me the feels. I don't normally like Maori chants but this literally raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Very powerful.

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (q177U)

318 >>> They had gotten it in the Norman Conquest, along with "love" for 0 in tennis, which is also "l'oeuf," or "the egg," referring to the shape of 0.

oh neat

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (KRtlO)

319 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXzpoH6m2c
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:12 PM (IBQGV)


IT'S A TRAP!!!!!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (i49OE)
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Now, now...It's the best Horde mating ritual you can find on the internets...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (IBQGV)

320 > Port has 4 letters, as does left.... therefore starboard is right.

This is exactly how I remember it.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (lIio7)


After reading the O'Brian books, I kinda wish we would go back to using "larboard," rather than port.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (lHPJf)

321 Whence derives "snizz"?

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:16 PM (kpS4V)

322 >>>I don't think that I can take it, because it took so long to make it, and I'll never have this thread idea again....OOOOHHH NOOOOOO!!!!

yup. it's kind of the end of an era. I don't know how many times the poor cobloggers had to look at this post title in the queue. almost every friday.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (KRtlO)

323 Uncomfortable amount of back-patting by Patel at the press conference.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (WHfpM)

324 port is to the left if you are looking stern to bow

oh crikey now I have to remember what these two mean
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (KRtlO)



Bow is front, stern is rear, but you really knew that just based on the word stern....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (i49OE)

325 At 8:15pm, Erika Kirk is planned to make an address on Turning Point USA's platforms. We will be ending our coverage before that, regardless of progress in planned topics for the show. The stream will be broadcast on Rumble, X, YouTube, and Fox News.

Turning Point USA's YouTube Channel: / @turningpointusa
Turning Point USA's Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/turningpoin...

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (y2HDL)

326 >>It'll be Two Minutes to Midnight.

And he'll go on an on about the Wasted Years.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (XV/Pl)
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Back in the Village.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (krQz2)

327
okay, then here's a moronic device to help you with Port/Starboard:

"Port is red, but not right."

You will never forget that for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (O7j1V)

328 Watch the news b****** on the Sunday shows for a pathetic attempt at showing true concern .

Posted by: Cynic at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (ck5Ug)

329 >> butt of malmsey wine

Hyacinth Bucket gets into the Dowager Lady Ursula's homemade gooseberry wine:

https://tinyurl.com/23dmak4k

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

330 288
Plinth

Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (AOsQT)

Ran into this word a few years ago: caliche. It's a type of desert soil that has lots of calcium carbonate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (ynpvh)

331 I'm not looking for Howard Stern to bow.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (krQz2)

332 How long has it been since Erg has been mentioned here? The volcano thread was the best laugh I had here.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:18 PM (s0JqF)

333 What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (O7j1V)

"I'm Sidney Sweeny and I'm here to help you."

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at September 12, 2025 07:18 PM (nxhlp)

334 What a wordy thread.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:18 PM (bJRuO)

335 Too fast. I'm thinking 55-gallon drum, him inside with the lid welded on and a single 3/8" hole drilled in the bottom and thrown into the Chesapeake Bay.
Posted by: jsg at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (7Kd+r)

A full case of grenades. All duds, but tell him one is live. Make him go through one by one, his choice, until he hits the last one, thinking "this is it..."... but nothing.

"could it be? Am I saved?"

.....

And then hit him in the fucking face with a shovel until he stops twitching.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:18 PM (06Hmj)

336
Port is red [wine], but not right.

So the Port side light is...what color?

And what side is Port?

Now you know. Forever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 07:18 PM (O7j1V)

337 Ran into this word a few years ago: caliche. It's a type of desert soil that has lots of calcium carbonate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (ynpvh

I got that word from No Country for Old Men when his Dad is talking about burying someone in that hard Caliche.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (bJRuO)

338 "Whence derives "snizz"?
Posted by: All Hail Eris,"

From "snatch". Which derives from, um, uh, I dunno.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (vFG9F)

339 Beverage. The word makes me uncomfortable.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM 

Moist makes some people uncomfortable...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)

340 333 What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?

Boobnemonic

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (asXVI)

341 In days of yore when Vikings ruled the seas, they made ships that had a steering board that they hung off the right side of the ship, not directly astern.

Consequently, they docked with the left side of their ship to the port so as not to crush their steering board.

And that's the true meaning of Christmas Charlie Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (viF8m)

342 I am alone again
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:03 PM (KRtlO)
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Naturally.
Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (krQz2)

Without Youuuuu!
Posted by: Don Dokken at September 12, 2025 07:14 PM (CNl8/)

All by myselllllfff...


Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (144I4)

343 I usually pronounce it "bevvidge" because I never say that word unless i'm intentionally being silly anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (06Hmj)

Or, theoretically, because you had already had a few "Brevrages"....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:20 PM (i49OE)

344 Cattywampus is all screwed up
Catty-corner is opposite corners

The gas station is catty-corner to the bar on main Street

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:20 PM (+qU29)

345 publius, in case I don't see you I want to wish you and Miley a very Happy Anniversary next week.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:20 PM (mFSH6)

346 Who exactly gave Keith Olbermann the keys to heaven?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:20 PM (gKWVE)

347 Ran into this word a few years ago: caliche. It's a type of desert soil that has lots of calcium carbonate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (ynpvh

I got that word from No Country for Old Men when his Dad is talking about burying someone in that hard Caliche.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (bJRuO)


Just ask Ben Had or other Texas Morons about caliche.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (144I4)

348 for two years, I have moved this post up to be published on most fridays for easy content. Then find other stuff to post, and save this post for when I need a quick fill-in.

It a way, it's become a longtime companion, a buddy that was always there for back-up, if I needed it.

and now he's gone.

sad!
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM

post=404703
post=416459

11 thousand posts+ since this was written.

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (WtmqQ)

349 I thought I was losing my mind when I misplaced my car keys, Saint Peter got some 'splaining to do.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (gKWVE)

350 FUBAR is also Cattywampus

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (bJRuO)

351 337 Ran into this word a few years ago: caliche. It's a type of desert soil that has lots of calcium carbonate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:17 PM (ynpvh

I got that word from No Country for Old Men when his Dad is talking about burying someone in that hard Caliche.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (bJRuO)

It's one of those borrow-words from Spanish that is spelled the same way, but pronounced differently, like chocolate and chicle.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (ynpvh)

352 I enjoyed this thread, but now I shall absquatulate.

Posted by: Croak at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (YVaDw)

353 Moist makes some people uncomfortable...
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)

Yea, that can really be a disturbing word in certain contexts....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (i49OE)

354 Absolutely GREAT posting. Moar, pliz …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 12, 2025 07:22 PM (ayRl+)

355 you got it wrong. Cattycorner is diagonal from. Cattywampus is all out of skew.

Posted by: docweasel at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (cIix/)

356 "Whence derives "snizz"?
Posted by: All Hail Eris


As soon as the $20 shows up?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (144I4)

357 The Chordettes with the assistance of a young Andy Williams:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9C61bjGk4k

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (VphID)

358 >> I want to wish you and Miley a very Happy Anniversary

Thank you. Luckily, someone gave us a wall piece with the date engraved in on it, so I don't forget....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (w6EFb)

359 My people rest under the Caliche. I guess I will too, unless I die before Mrs928. Then it's probably off to Savannah to become an unquiet spirit.

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (WtmqQ)

360 "and you go blithely traipsing along" is a common usage
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 06:59 PM (KRtlO)
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In Liverpool maybe.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (3ImbR)

361 251 248 Isn't Port and Starboard confusing enough?

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)
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You don't drink starboard.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:06 PM (krQz2)

Well, you could drink a port starboard...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

and need the Poop deck later...

Posted by: Gilbert O'Sullivan at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (mP0Kj)

362 What's CattyCalls?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (bJRuO)

363 This very hot blonde wants to teach you vocabulary (goes to YouTube)

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:24 PM (hdZBB)

364 https://tinyurl.com/42td5p9d

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:24 PM (hdZBB)

365 Dang... of one hit wonder sock!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)

366 It's really a low bar that if you want to be considered in human society that you not celebrate the death of somebody shot by an assassin.

We're not asking that much.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:24 PM (krQz2)

367 What kind of profession requires you to learn catchy mnemonic phrases to keep track of which way is which just to be able to get through your day?

Like having an office building, "Oh, that's not Accounts Payable, tee hee, how adorable, New Guy. We here call that Florfmagorph! You can remember it because Florf has the same number of letters as "Check", which is what they used to deal with over there, before everything went electronic. Glarpshplarp is on the other side of Doobleplop."

Fuck that noise, psycho, i'mma go work for someone else who knows what words are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:25 PM (06Hmj)

368 Excellent ! I'm going to save some of these words.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 07:25 PM (2WIwB)

369 ndrew Kolvet
@AndrewKsway
·
36m
🚨Charlie Kirk's beloved wife, Mrs. Erika Kirk, will address the nation tonight at 8:15 PM EST.

Her remarks will be streamed LIVE on all of Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk's social media platforms.

In case it hasn’t been posted.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 07:25 PM (pZEOD)

370 355 you got it wrong. Cattycorner is diagonal from. Cattywampus is all out of skew.
Posted by: docweasel at September 12, 2025 07:23 PM (cIix/)

Cattywampus: see also Whomperjawed.

Posted by: sal at September 12, 2025 07:25 PM (f+FmA)

371 My dad said terlit and burgular.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:25 PM (3ImbR)

372 I guess they slowed down the original vocabulary lady. Still purdy though

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (hdZBB)

373 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember. Starboard is right and port is left. There are a bunch of confusing nautical terms but those two aren't them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)

374 Moist makes some people uncomfortable...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)
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Especially if it's used in relation to Taylor Lorenz' feelings for Luigi Mangione.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (krQz2)

375 I'm guessing you didn't include mephitic on your list of 'M' words, as it's become quite commonly used in the comments on this blog.

Posted by: J. Random Commenter at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (yuVjX)

376
I always thought potlicker was hillbilly for "pot liquor," which might be something like the juices after you've cooked up a slab of meat. I gave that wayyyyy too much thought.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (l6OhZ)

377 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember. Starboard is right and port is left. There are a bunch of confusing nautical terms but those two aren't them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)
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Calm your aft down.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (krQz2)

378 Oof, I think I have had a clinchpoop before.

Trying to hold it and find a shitter !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (WF/xn)

379 >>> Moist makes some people uncomfortable...
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)

Yea, that can really be a disturbing word in certain contexts....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:21 PM (i49OE)


Just don't speak moistly!

Posted by: Justin Castreau at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (3uBP9)

380 Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)

The post was there waiting to be needed and today it was more needed than ever. Good job post!!

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (E0p3T)

381 who was the blonde girl on Gutfeld that used 'Woopsie Poopsie!" instead of "oh shit!"

that semi stuck with me, my grand daughter laughed

Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (8uzBS)

382 learn me no words today, thank you.

Posted by: maths major at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (HNXEw)

383 I've always hated the word "squat".

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (lJ0H4)

384 Or, theoretically, because you had already had a few "Brevrages"....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:20 PM (i49OE)

Fact.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:28 PM (06Hmj)

385 >>>Moist makes some people uncomfortable...
~~~~~

Damp. Damp is better.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:28 PM (3ImbR)

386
This very hot blonde wants to teach you vocabulary (goes to YouTube)

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:24 PM (hdZBB)

============

She's REALLY vacuous.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:28 PM (l6OhZ)

387 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember. Starboard is right and port is left. There are a bunch of confusing nautical terms but those two aren't them.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM

Port came about because left was known as larboard, which was easily confused with starboard.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

388 when I was trying to learn german I came across this german girl with grossige brusten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLufCqWhkM

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (KRtlO)

389 288
Plinth
Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 07:13 PM (AOsQT)
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Would that be the new one, who replaced Plinthy the Elder?

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (v7apI)

390 >>>who was the blonde girl on Gutfeld that used 'Woopsie Poopsie!" instead of "oh shit!"
that semi stuck with me, my grand daughter laughed
~~~~~

I don't know her name, but she was one of the first female sportscasters. She's retired now.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (3ImbR)

391 Missed earlier post but Greenwald has always (obviously) been a lightweight at best, with stupid anti-American views and instincts.

But that's not the point. The point is his ridiculous make-believe "white supremacy" fantasy - one that is repeated by many public figures. It was even a make-believe issue that the glorious FBI focused on.

Of course there is no significant or meaningful thing called "white supremacy". Nothing. A few thousand extra-chromosome anti-semites and freaks, on the fringes of society with zero (zero) overlap or traction or influence or anything with the real political world.

There's no program, no policies, no laws, no agenda, no organization, no $$, no events, no movement, nothing - related to "white supremacy". Whatever that is supposed to be. Yet everyone on "the right" stipulates the ridiculous fantasy, daily, by not challenging and demolishing the airheads who burble the words.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (U/Byj)

392 As an Austere Religious Scholar, I can say with certainty that in the fullness of time, bovine specialist and manustuprator Keith Olbermann will be resurrected as a feral pig.

Posted by: runner, austere religious scholar at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (g47mK)

393 >>>The post was there waiting to be needed and today it was more needed than ever. Good job post!!

glad that i used this at the right time

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (KRtlO)

394 381 who was the blonde girl on Gutfeld that used 'Woopsie Poopsie!" instead of "oh shit!"

that semi stuck with me, my grand daughter laughed
Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 07:27 PM (8uzBS)

I say this, along with sugar and fudgecicles.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (pZEOD)

395 She's REALLY vacuous.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:28 PM (
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Extremely vacuous. It doesn't help that it's been slowed down and English isn't her first language, but yes... she's no professor

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (FqCIy)

396 FebRuary is stupid. Just get rid of the R. No one says it that way anyway.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (3ImbR)

397 learning german is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPVurxwAfNQ

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (KRtlO)

398 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember.

I gets no respect.

Posted by: Larboard at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (WtmqQ)

399 Especially if it's used in relation to Taylor Lorenz' feelings for Luigi Mangione.
Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:26 PM (krQz2)

That bitch ain't been moist since she hooked up with the shitty nephew in law of Tiglath-Pileser II's royal ass-wiper and thought she was finally someone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (06Hmj)

400 Oof, I think I have had a clinchpoop before.

Trying to hold it and find a shitter !
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

Get thee some bumfodder!

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (fveCG)

401
Catty-corner is opposite corners

Walgreens and CVS

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (63Dwl)

402 I misread that last one as Maetenloch.

Hope he's doing well.

Posted by: Nato at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (pBz/W)

403 "A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout."

I visited a smallish castle - a slott - that wasn't too far from where I lived in Sweden. The tour was awesome, and included one of these. There was a chair with velvet draperies, so funny. I imagined sitting in there with a candle...The excretions did indeed run through a channel that led outside the walls. I can't for the life of me remember if there was a moat. I don't think so.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (w6EFb)

404 t 8:15pm, Erika Kirk is planned to make an address on Turning Point USA's platforms. We will be ending our coverage before that, regardless of progress in planned topics for the show. The stream will be broadcast on Rumble, X, YouTube, and Fox News.

==

what time zone ?

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (g47mK)

405 Comment seen on Facebook:

Charles Manson harmed no one directly. He spent the rest of his life in prison for radicalizing others. Perhaps it's time to take a serious look at the education system and those who radicalize their students who in turn go and harm others.


Can't say I disagree.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 07:31 PM (D3P9d)

406 "Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember. Starboard is right and port is left. "

The left of which side?

Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

407 Fecund is a gross word

So is facetious

Both sound like shit

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (WF/xn)

408 ==

what time zone ?
Posted by: runner at September

EST

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (pZEOD)

409 388 when I was trying to learn german I came across this german girl with grossige brusten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLufCqWhkM

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (KRtlO)
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Sacre Bleu!

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (z1j+k)

410 I just realized that anyone new coming here over the next week or so now is going to be like "What in the high holy fuck is wrong with these people?!?"

I mean, you know, more than usual.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (06Hmj)

411 when I was trying to learn german I came across this german girl with grossige brusten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLufCqWhkM
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM

Ja. De quelle couleur sont ses yeux?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

412 There's no program, no policies, no laws, no agenda, no organization, no $$, no events, no movement, nothing - related to "white supremacy". Whatever that is supposed to be. Yet everyone on "the right" stipulates the ridiculous fantasy, daily, by not challenging and demolishing the airheads who burble the words.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:29 PM (U/Byj)
_______________________________

And thus was born the farcical "Critical Race Theory" to help rationalize their purposeful misrepresentation of that truth.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (dIske)

413 Weirdly, this post coincides with an assignment I gave my students this week.

I had them come up with five terms of jargon from a hobby or interest they had and then define them for a layperson.

It's always fun finding out what my students' interests are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (IBQGV)

414 another hottie who got me very interested in the german language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4zkgHJbYk

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (KRtlO)

415 who was the blonde girl on Gutfeld that used 'Woopsie Poopsie!" instead of "oh shit!"
that semi stuck with me, my grand daughter laughed
~~~~~

Erin Maguire. A brunette.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (3ImbR)

416 Supercillious means "really, really silly".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (06Hmj)

417 I notice that the Five had Harold Ford on. The probably didn't want to inflict that bitch Tarlov on us.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (s0JqF)

418 "Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember. Starboard is right and port is left. "

The left of which side?
Posted by: Guy still not getting


Until you turn around.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (D3P9d)

419 329
Hyacinth Bucket gets into the Dowager Lady Ursula's homemade gooseberry wine:

https://tinyurl.com/23dmak4k
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley


I was once in a stage production of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' with Patricia Routledge. She was absolutely lovely and just very talented.

Posted by: stv at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (XMeSM)

420 368 Excellent ! I'm going to save some of these words. - Diogenes

I think we all ought to make an effort to incorporate these words into our comments over the next week or so, as we...[checks list]...unbosom ourselves of our innermost thoughts and feelings.

Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (mADJX)

421 honestly most of the girls doing language lessons are pretty easy on the eyes

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (KRtlO)

422 So, I drink Port with my left hand which leaves Star Lager for my right hand.

Posted by: maths major at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (HNXEw)

423 >>I gets no respect.
Posted by: Larboard

But where did larboard come from?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (viF8m)

424 If I recall correctly Cortez had too few sailors and had to press soldiers into working the boats. Larboard and Starboard meant nothing to them so they hung garlics to one side and onions on the other and used those when giving directions. All Hands To Garlic!

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (WtmqQ)

425 I've always heard "catawampus" as off-balance or not square. "Them shelves is catawumpus."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 12, 2025 07:34 PM (qIqvJ)

426 What do those call those phrases to help you mammarize something?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Uh to mammarize, you need a pneumonic device
😉

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 07:34 PM (dE3DB)

427
Extremely vacuous. It doesn't help that it's been slowed down and English isn't her first language, but yes... she's no professor
Posted by: 496

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Haha I never got to the YouTube, I was joking because there was no link or anything in the post.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:35 PM (l6OhZ)

428 Larboard and Starboard meant nothing to them so they hung garlics to one side and onions on the other and used those when giving directions. All Hands To Garlic!
Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (WtmqQ)
---
"Change course to two points off the onion bow!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2025 07:35 PM (IBQGV)

429 My teacher referred to my homework as a gallimaufry of egregious errors.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (MMp6W)

430 Speaking of hotties, I still have a tab open with the twins singing "Quando". I noticed that their first outfits looked much better than the later.

I also pointed out to my wife that it was just about the time I got interested, that women started dressing worse.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (s0JqF)

431 "Look at those folks carrying signs in the rain."

"Yes, it's a moistly peaceful protest."

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (NZ5n/)

432 Fartclam is still an all-time great wors

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (A/QNE)

433 Robinson wasn't radicalized in college. He noped out early. He was going to vo-tech (electrician).
Roll up the people on Discord who got to him and then maybe we can figure out what radicalized them.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

434 417 I notice that the Five had Harold Ford on. The probably didn't want to inflict that bitch Tarlov on us.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (s0JqF)

Was Gutfeld on?

I've been watching FoxNews weeknights. Not now....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (jvJvP)

435 Ace I probably will see Trix again, having watched that one

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:37 PM (+qU29)

436 Cortez had too few sailors

Wasn't be mostly a shallow-water guy? Not much to sail with in the Valley Of Mexico.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:37 PM (gKWVE)

437 410 I just realized that anyone new coming here over the next week or so now is going to be like "What in the high holy fuck is wrong with these people?!?"

I mean, you know, more than usual.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (06Hmj)

They will learn soon enough we are all about that wangle pangle.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 07:37 PM (pZEOD)

438 Haha I never got to the YouTube, I was joking because there was no link or anything in the post.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:35 PM (l6OhZ)
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Your comment was, nevertheless, quite perspicacious

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (Mjjx+)

439 and now he's gone.

sad!
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (KRtlO)

Gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (zZu0s)

440 The left of which side?
Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

The left side as you are facing the bow, natch!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (i49OE)

441 I always understood cattywampus to refer to a kind of errant disorder. Like if you misaligned the buttons on your dress shirt so that each goes into the buttonhole above it, your shirt is cattywampus.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis, Expert at betting on trannies at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (jYRYu)

442
And thus was born the farcical "Critical Race Theory" to help rationalize their purposeful misrepresentation of that truth.
Posted by: Orson

=============

"But we also have to address..."

Posted by: The equivocating, smooth-voiced, blow-dried Eva Brauns of the MSM at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (l6OhZ)

443 434 417 I notice that the Five had Harold Ford on. The probably didn't want to inflict that bitch Tarlov on us.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:33 PM (s0JqF)

Was Gutfeld on?

I've been watching FoxNews weeknights. Not now....
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (jvJvP)
_______
He's there. Hasn't spoken yet.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (s0JqF)

444 I learned oderkorbalspieler means basketball player in high school German class

really worthless but there it is

Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (8uzBS)

445
Your comment was, nevertheless, quite perspicacious
Posted by: 496

==============

As are many of them!

Posted by: The equivocating, smooth-voiced, blow-dried Eva Brauns of the MSM at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (l6OhZ)

446 Schlonged
Hillary and Kamala both got schlonged by Trump.

Posted by: torabora at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (+LXmR)

447 398 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember.

I gets no respect.

Posted by: Larboard at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (WtmqQ)

Nor should you. You've been confusing me for several decades when reading naval-related novels.

Posted by: Farquad at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (HSJIN)

448 I also pointed out to my wife that it was just about the time I got interested, that women started dressing worse.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:36 PM (s0JqF)

The women on "The Price is Right" were really well dressed and looked pretty hot. I like that for background tv.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (jvJvP)

449 Tommy Robinson is really, really psyched for the big rally in London tomorrow. You don't often see him this happy. Guys been prosecuted and persecuted almost as much as Trump.

Also, they're going to do a tribute to Charlie.

Saw a Haka for Charlie earlier too. The world mourns for him.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (3ImbR)

450 Cortez had too few sailors

Wasn't be mostly a shallow-water guy? Not much to sail with in the Valley Of Mexico.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:37 PM


Had to get from Cuba to Mexico.

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (WtmqQ)

451 I am alone again
Posted by: ace

Naturally.

Posted by: Gilbert O'Sullivan at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (oftw2)

452 >>I learned oderkorbalspieler means basketball player in high school German class

What's the term for a basketball player in a college class?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (viF8m)

453 I learned 'firkin' from C S Lewis The Last Battle when the last King of Narnia thought his border towerlets should have a firkin of wine.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (NcvvS)

454 I know that "enorme kicanyanas" means big tits in Spanish, or so I was told...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (i49OE)

455 447 398 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember.

I gets no respect.

Posted by: Larboard at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (WtmqQ)

Nor should you. You've been confusing me for several decades when reading naval-related novels.
Posted by: Farquad at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (HSJIN)

Bow if Fore.... Stern is Aft....

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (mP0Kj)

456 He's there. Hasn't spoken yet.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (s0JqF)

Cool. Thanks.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (jvJvP)

457 Tears in the rain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (63Dwl)

458 I knew these ones:
Lollygag, Flibbertigibbet, Frippet, Sozzled, Cattywampus, Miserotia, Momzer

Posted by: bonhomme at September 12, 2025 06:31 PM (lIio7)

"How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet! A will-o'-the-wisp! A clown!"

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (w6EFb)

459 But where did larboard come from?

"Larboard" preceded "port" as a name for the left side of a ship. I guess the powers that be (or were) figured out that "larboard" sounded too much like "starboard". The word, "larboard", comes from ME "laddeboard" , or "loading side" of a ship - opposite the steering or "starboard" side.

Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (mADJX)

460 "The left of which side?
Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

The left side as you are facing the bow, natch!"

Why is there a bow on the boat? Do they put it on the front or back?

Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

461 >>>435 Ace I probably will see Trix again, having watched that one

she only really busts out the brusten in about one quarter of her videos. You might have to sample and peck.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)

462 Snickersnee I learnt from the Mikado.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (s0JqF)

463 The most used, old time word on this blog?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (mFSH6)

464 The women on "The Price is Right" were really well dressed and looked pretty hot. I like that for background tv.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

Most of them look like the just got their hair did at the Beauty Parlor. Some looked like they had TV makeup.

Posted by: Nobody In Pajamas at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (oftw2)

465 Contrafibularities!

Posted by: Edmund Blackadder at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (PiwSw)

466 Yeah, duh, I forgot. Probably was able to get away with hiring a few morons who can't boat (like me) just to hop from Cuba to Veracruz(?).

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (gKWVE)

467 There's no program, no policies, no laws, no agenda, no organization, no $$, no events, no movement, nothing - related to "white supremacy".

Lotta money in hatin' on white folks.

Posted by: AL Sharpton, Race Warlord at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (R/m4+)

468 I learned 'firkin' from C S Lewis The Last Battle when the last King of Narnia thought his border towerlets should have a firkin of wine.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM

Firkin was my favorite word in Fictionary. More than once I fooled every player by defining it as 'short hairy breeches worn by ninth century Norsemen'.

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:42 PM (WtmqQ)

469 440 The left of which side?
Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 12, 2025 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

The left side as you are facing the bow, natch!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (i49OE)

We could really confuselate em all and talk Frame Numbers..... /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (mP0Kj)

470 "Quakebuttock: A coward."

Good one!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

471 Kiffness did a tearful tribute to Charlie

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (+qU29)

472 Larboard sounds like you were starting to say "left" but realized that isn't the right boaty-people word so hypercorrected mid word to the only other boaty-people word you could remember.

"Which way did you see that bird go?"

"Le---uhhhh... arrrrboard?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (06Hmj)

473 Wasn't there an actress named Jane Firkin? Or Birkin, maybe.

All seriousness aside, a good post for a Friday to close out a bad week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (omVj0)

474 she only really busts out the brusten in about one quarter of her videos. You might have to sample and peck.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)


And "peck" is a code word for....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (i49OE)

475 I'm not me without a snickersnee or three

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 07:44 PM (gDlxJ)

476 Wasn't there an actress named Jane Firkin? Or Birkin, maybe.

All seriousness aside, a good post for a Friday to close out a bad week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (omVj0)

Jane Merkin ? Haha

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 12, 2025 07:44 PM (WF/xn)

477 >>>The women on "The Price is Right" were really well dressed and looked pretty hot. I like that for background tv.

there is a youtube channel devoted to one of them, Diane something.

Very... ample.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (KRtlO)

478 Lade board

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (viF8m)

479 Mulva?

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (WtmqQ)

480 459 But where did larboard come from?

"Larboard" preceded "port" as a name for the left side of a ship. I guess the powers that be (or were) figured out that "larboard" sounded too much like "starboard". The word, "larboard", comes from ME "laddeboard" , or "loading side" of a ship - opposite the steering or "starboard" side.
Posted by: Paco at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (mADJX)

It was teh Port side because that is the side you would tie up to the Pier, so your steering rudder didn't hit the dock.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (mP0Kj)

481 toby928 - LOL

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (NcvvS)

482 They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM (snZF9)



"On second thought... Fuck the bonus"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 07:04 PM (2J/Lj)

That was a great scene.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (snZF9)

483 Maybe most of them, but I doubt all of them. Some of those oldies used blackface. Others were made during WWII and the Japanese portrayals were not flattering.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 12, 2025 07:02 PM (vlXMQ)

Anyone remember the old Dick Tracy cartoons? Featured characters with names like Gogo Gomez and Joe Jitsu...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (nbLIj)

484 Bushel and a peck, and a hug around the neck.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (mFSH6)

485 Ace I probably will see Trix again, having watched that one
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she only really busts out the brusten in about one quarter of her videos. You might have to sample and peck.
~~~~~

Trix just keep gettin' harder to find.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (3ImbR)

486 We could really confuselate em all and talk Frame Numbers..... /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (mP0Kj)


LOL! But never used that on the boat, we tended to just use compartment names...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (i49OE)

487 flibbertigibbet

- used as in exclamation by Granny in the Sylvester & Tweety Bird cartoons

- sung in, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" in "The Sound Of Music"

Posted by: JTP at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (8daDi)

488 474 she only really busts out the brusten in about one quarter of her videos. You might have to sample and peck.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)


And "peck" is a code word for....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (i49OE)

A small worthless person...

Posted by: Mad Mardigan! at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (mP0Kj)

489 Of course forget it but the German word for wife of a Rhine River steamboat captain is about 26 syllables or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (U/Byj)

490 The left's propaganda strategy has now shifted to framing Tyler Robinson as a right-wing radical in alignment with Nick Fuentes' Groypers. I'm told they thought Kirk was too milquetoast of a conservative.

MSNBC tried to say it was Robinson's family that told him Charlie Kirk spread hate.

Of all the non-Fox sources I've read, only Al Jazeera is offering the most reasonable characterization of Robinson.

Posted by: Brisco_County_Sr at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (Y0InX)

491
Remember the oft-used word "nukular".

Posted by: Arbalest at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (FlRtG)

492 486 We could really confuselate em all and talk Frame Numbers..... /smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (mP0Kj)


LOL! But never used that on the boat, we tended to just use compartment names...
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (i49OE)

My first ship was an LPH, lots of Marine Berthing Compartments... so yeah... Frame numbers.

Posted by: Mad Mardigan! at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)

493 Was that $15 dictionary composed of only "m" words?

Well, you can write it off on your taxes anyway.

I like this post.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (79pEw)

494 diane wilkinson? Something like that

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (KRtlO)

495 I always thought the ladies on TPIR to be just a smidgen past their expiration date...

Oh, look, I used the word "smidgen"!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (i49OE)

496 It was teh Port side because that is the side you would tie up to the Pier, so your steering rudder didn't hit the dock.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:45 PM (mP0Kj)
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I'd hit it.

Posted by: Another Steering Rudder at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (krQz2)

497 should I post the cafe or put it off and link Charlie Kirk's widow Erika's statement at 8:15 and then the cafe later?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (KRtlO)

498 I learned oderkorbalspieler means basketball player in high school German class

really worthless but there it is
Posted by: DanMan at September 12, 2025 07:38 PM (8uzBS)
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Favorite high school German phrase:

Hallo, Fraulein, du musst meine Schlange essen!

This was because the animal chapter came right after food, and well...

[Hello, Miss, you must eat my snake!]

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)

499 Jane Birkin was 5'8", but in her youth looked like she weighed 105, around 8 Stone.

Posted by: Weigh Down South at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (oftw2)

500 They really need to shove a grenade in the shooters mouth and pull the pin on national television.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 06:56 PM

No love for me?

Posted by: M-72, applied Edward II-style at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

501 I thought "mome" was a word from Lewis Carroll?

From the Jabberwocky (memory, so if I'm a bit wrong please don't sue!)

Twas brillig, and the slythy toves, did mire and mimble about the grabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

Did I get lied to and mome actually existed before Carroll invented it?

Posted by: SimoHayha at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (Zd6Rk)

502 Starboard and port are incredibly easy to remember.

I gets no respect.

Posted by: Larboard at September 12, 2025 07:30 PM (WtmqQ)

Nor should you. You've been confusing me for several decades when reading naval-related novels.
Posted by: Farquad at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (HSJIN)

Bow if Fore.... Stern is Aft....

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2025 07:40 PM (mP0Kj)

Joe Pesci wants a word with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCzNJE1prM

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (snZF9)

503 My first ship was an LPH, lots of Marine Berthing Compartments... so yeah... Frame numbers.
Posted by: Mad Mardigan! at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)

Damn, that's like the fourth time today I forgot to take me sock off

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (mP0Kj)

504 George Lucas is a famous marplot.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (krQz2)

505 489 Of course forget it but the German word for wife of a Rhine River steamboat captain is about 26 syllables or something.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:46 PM (U/Byj)

Rhinenflussensdampfschiffskapitansweib

*counts on fingers*

*runs out of fingers*

Yup. 26.

Posted by: Warai-otoko ain't looking it up he just wants to make the joke dammit at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (06Hmj)

506 Ever wonder why its called a Bill of Lading?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)

507 497 should I post the cafe or put it off and link Charlie Kirk's widow Erika's statement at 8:15 and then the cafe later?
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (KRtlO)

I'd like to hear the statement

Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (VE6XX)

508 Bow is front, stern is rear, but you really knew that just based on the word stern....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)
----------------

They cut 'em open stem to stern.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (aWmr1)

509 As are many of them!

Posted by: The equivocating, smooth-voiced, blow-dried Eva Brauns of the MSM at September 12, 2025 07:39 PM (l6OhZ)
-------
Indeed!

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (B1b0T)

510
Well, Patricia Routledge is still alive at 96. She's now Dame Commander Patricia Routledge, OBE.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (w6EFb)

511 Pusillanimus has stuck.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (JY+81)

512 Stern is an aft.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (krQz2)

513 I'm pretty sure I've seen JJ Sefton use momzer before. I figured it was Yiddish.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (79pEw)

514 Maybe it's changed, but when I was up on the language, the Germans had plenty of insults, but "Fichst du dich!" was not among them, and friends mine told me they used it in front of an exchange student who utterly lost his mind laughing because, of course, it is anatomically impossible, and Germans are quite literal.

I wonder if it caught on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (ZOv7s)

515 Boy Clemson is really carving a profile of idiocy for itself. Check out the fiasco of its profs (of course) celebrating political murder and the board and prez beclowning themselves beyond belief.

Their statement clarifying and mumbling all the right pieties contains their own contribution to 1A jurisprudence, saying sure free speech and all that BUT ..... not when words hurt feewings. THIS is their statement trying to hose down the fire started by their barbarian airhead academics. Beautiful, really.



Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (U/Byj)

516 thanks , Piper

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (g47mK)

517 Was that $15 dictionary composed of only "m" words?

Well, you can write it off on your taxes anyway.

I like this post.
Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM

You are a verbivore, and linguaphile, m'dear.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

518 And "peck" is a code word for....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:43 PM (i49OE)

A small worthless person...
Posted by: Mad Mardigan!

Didn't Dickens have a villain named "Pecksniff " in one of his novels?


Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (lJ0H4)

519
Didn't Dickens have a villain named "Pecksniff " in one of his novels?


Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (lJ0H4)

In Willow they called the little people pecks

Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (VE6XX)

520 Pronk. A weak or foolish person

Fubsy. Squat or portly.

Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellowpronk, and also likes kahhk.
---
Fixing Ace's missed chance.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (krQz2)

521 497 should I post the cafe or put it off and link Charlie Kirk's widow Erika's statement at 8:15 and then the cafe later?
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (KRtlO)

More content is always good

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis, Expert at betting on trannies at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (jYRYu)

522 >> Pusillanimus has stuck.

"Pusillanimous poltroon" is one of my favorites -- I like to alliterate with my insults.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (w6EFb)

523 Peckerwood.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (mFSH6)

524 Stern is an aft.
Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM

Axeman stands athwart the Thread!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

525 My first ship was an LPH, lots of Marine Berthing Compartments... so yeah... Frame numbers.
Posted by: Mad Mardigan! at September 12, 2025 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)


That must have been fun, having a host of jarheads on your ship! I remember on the tender we re-fitted at in Holy Loch the Marines were complete no-nonsense. Getting caught on the tender when they initiated one of their drills could (and did) result in bloodshed for us hapless submariners...

Oh, "hapless", another good word!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (i49OE)

526 Lileks: The faces of The Price is Right:

https://tinyurl.com/5n83vh65

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:53 PM (kpS4V)

527 The "Some words from Mental Floss:" link is 404'ing for me (Page not found.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 07:53 PM (O7YUW)

528 should I post the cafe or put it off and link Charlie Kirk's widow Erika's statement at 8:15 and then the cafe later?
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 07:48 PM (KRtlO)

I'd like to hear the statement
Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 07:49 PM (VE6XX)

seconded...you can keep the cafe in draft for 2 years, make it your new companion !

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:53 PM (g47mK)

529 I think Stateless was referring to the lady contestants. Anyway, Jan Pennington was on the show from 72-2000. She was the oldest. She was Playmate of the month in 71 when she was nearly thirty, which was unusual for Hefner. Diane a couple years younger, she as Miss USA 1965. Holly is about 73 now, much younger than the other two.

Posted by: TPIR Follies at September 12, 2025 07:53 PM (oftw2)

530 Evenin', Hordelings, and welcome to the weekend. I'm expecting a very busy and stressful day tomorrow taking care of my elderly mother, but at least tonight there is steak and wine (either a ripasso or amarone, haven't made up my mind).

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (fGYWG)

531 Is it just me, or have several years passed this week?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)

532
sock off before I accidentally use it again

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (l6OhZ)

533 531 Is it just me, or have several years passed this week?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)

Seems like it doesn't it...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (VE6XX)

534 You are a verbivore, and linguaphile, m'dear.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)
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Ha! You wouldn't know it by that post though - I mostly used words of one syllable. So I could understand them. I'm dense, you know.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (79pEw)

535 I'm pretty sure I've seen JJ Sefton use momzer before. I figured it was Yiddish.
Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM (79pEw)


Almost as often as he used "a red nether-hair"....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:55 PM (i49OE)

536
484 Bushel and a peck, and a hug around the neck.

Hug around the neck, and a barrel and a heap
A barrel and a heap and I'm talkin' in my sleep
About yooouuuu . . .

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 12, 2025 07:55 PM (GYt5+)

537 Compass: makeup sex.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:55 PM (krQz2)

538 Stern is an aft.
Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 07:50 PM

Axeman stands athwart the Thread!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (0sNs1)
--
I'm ready on the poop deck!

Posted by: Mayor Pete, Naval Officer at September 12, 2025 07:55 PM (ZOv7s)

539 512 Stern is an aft.
Posted by: Axeman
----------

Where is it?

Abaft.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:56 PM (aWmr1)

540 Is it just me, or have several years passed this week?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)
---------

Not just you. I feel as though I've aged by at least ten years in the past few days. I'm actually feeling closer to 30 than 29.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:56 PM (79pEw)

541 seconded...you can keep the cafe in draft for 2 years, make it your new companion !
Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 07:53 PM (g47mK)


Awww! Just like a Weighted Companion Cube!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:56 PM (i49OE)

542 I'm the son of a sea cook!

Posted by: Mortimer Brewster at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (oftw2)

543 Think I knew, or figured out, about two thirds of the words. I know too much weird shit.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (yTvNw)

544 "a red nether-hair"....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:55 PM

This has a precise engineering definition: 0.010 inches.

A smoot, on the other hand, is 5' 7".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

545
"A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (l6OhZ)

546 515 Boy Clemson is really carving a profile of idiocy for itself. Check out the fiasco of its profs (of course) celebrating political murder and the board and prez beclowning themselves beyond belief.

Their statement clarifying and mumbling all the right pieties contains their own contribution to 1A jurisprudence, saying sure free speech and all that BUT ..... not when words hurt feewings. THIS is their statement trying to hose down the fire started by their barbarian airhead academics. Beautiful, really.



Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 07:51 PM (U/Byj)

Talk media here is letting them have it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (LjSYW)

547 I've seen a few RobWords videos and I always like them.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:58 PM (79pEw)

548 A firkin is a unit of measure equal to a quarter barrel.


There once was an actress named Birkin
Whose vag was the size of a firkin
When Prince Charles spread her knees
She said "If you please,
Your cock is the size of a gherkin",

(with apologies to Muldoon)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 12, 2025 07:58 PM (qpyNK)

549 I hope Ace links this thread in the sidebar for later perusing and edification.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 07:58 PM (kpS4V)

550 Not just you. I feel as though I've aged by at least ten years in the past few days. I'm actually feeling closer to 30 than 29.
Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:56 PM (79pEw)
---
Monday does not seem four days ago.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)

551 Post what you want, Ace. I'm so tired from this week, I'm gonna go to bed early.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (O7YUW)

552 545
"A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (l6OhZ)

Good. Get the fuck out.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (LjSYW)

553 'is daddy is a pistol an 'es a son of a gun

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (aWmr1)

554 I grew up in a little railroad town in the midwest. Railroad town. It was laid out according to grade.
My Pop always said the town was cattywampus.

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (cPGH3)

555 Cannons were called guns at that time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (aWmr1)

556 That must have been fun, having a host of jarheads on your ship! I remember on the tender we re-fitted at in Holy Loch the Marines were complete no-nonsense. Getting caught on the tender when they initiated one of their drills could (and did) result in bloodshed for us hapless submariners...

Oh, "hapless", another good word!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 07:52 PM (i49OE)

Was actually kinda amusing, ship's company ran security, not Marines... they didn't know the ship.

Had one Marine Officer come out of his stateroom during a drill, and almost got decked by a Petty Officer that worked for me... and it would have not been pretty... my guy was a Northwest American Indian... 6 foot 4 and 275 lbs of pure beef (we constantly had to do the water test to get him past PRTs, his Body Fat percentage was about 12%... so charts were WAAYYYYY off).

Note, met some of his family once... he was the RUNT OF THE LITTER.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

557 Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships.

Accordingly, one milliHelen is a face that would launch one ship.

There could also be negative values, representing the number of ships one would scuttle to avoid seeing the face in question. Examples: Ratsheeta Taliban, Rosie O'Donnell, the late Helen Thomas (who probably actually looks better now that she's been decomposing for a while).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (qpyNK)

558
Clemson statement:
https://tinyurl.com/27pkq2mh

Bunch of pusillanimous poltroons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (w6EFb)

559
Monday does not seem four days ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

==============

On September 9, it seemed like the world had changed because of Iryna Zuretska. It was virtually every other post on Twitter, the outrage, the grief, the resolutions from men to protect their daughters. Blinkers falling off, people deserting the left because of the failure by the left to protect this girl, ghetto fatigue over that "magistrate" who let the stabber go.

Then came September 10.

Two days that shook the world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (l6OhZ)

560 554 I grew up in a little railroad town in the midwest. Railroad town. It was laid out according to grade.
My Pop always said the town was cattywampus.
Posted by: MkY

Blessed be the ties that bind.

Posted by: Floyd and Charlie on the Cannonball at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (oftw2)

561 PabloD best wishes on your duties, and I still recall an amarone I had 20 years ago in Montreal. Hockey tournament, included some coupons for a nice restaurant, team let me order the wine. An amazing amarone, we ended up getting many bottles. They'd never had anything like it, and I barely had. Recently nosed around some amarone and the $$$ drove me away, even in today's ridiculously inflated world.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (U/Byj)

562 >>>I am boycotting King, who btw said Charlie condoned stoning gheys then of course had to take that back.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (+qU29)

I am boycotting King because I consider him a mediocre writer who mary sues himself into really shifty and nasty plot devices and then imagines he is some cultural touchstone to modern morality.
The fact that he is also a lying karen trying to get affirmation through social media is pretty much what he as been up to for a while

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 08:02 PM (rbvCR)

563
Then came September 10.

Two days that shook the world.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (l6OhZ).

Followed by the 24th Anniversary of 9/11

Posted by: It's me donna at September 12, 2025 08:02 PM (VE6XX)

564 Not just you. I feel as though I've aged by at least ten years in the past few days. I'm actually feeling closer to 30 than 29.
Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 07:56 PM (79pEw)
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Monday does not seem four days ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2025 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)
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Oddly enough, we interned my mother a day before Kirk was shot, so it feels like a long week for me.

Although my BIL put on one HELL of a good repast! (God love him!)

The women of my mom's church all wore the beanies my mom had knitted. A lot of fond memories were shared.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:03 PM (krQz2)

565 @558/publius: " Clemson statement:
https://tinyurl.com/27pkq2mh"

Gormless twits.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 08:03 PM (O7YUW)

566 **Scree-haw**

A word Mom would use, when something was misaligned or otherwise out-of-whack.

"Your brother was working on his car and now its headlights are all scree-haw."

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2025 08:03 PM (rdVOm)

567 >>>I am boycotting King because I consider him a mediocre writer who mary sues himself into really shifty and nasty plot devices and then imagines he is some cultural touchstone to modern morality.
The fact that he is also a lying karen trying to get affirmation through social media is pretty much what he as been up to for a while

I don't easily attack King because he has fans here and of course he's commercially mega-successful, but he's a shit writer who's ideas are pretty stupid and whose execution is hacky and terrible. He has cute little "ideas" about how to begin a story with a cliffhanger, then he waffles about like an idiot for 1000 pages, then he has no ending at all.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)

568 Did anyone tell Ace that Cattywampus is not cattycorner. One means disorganized and the other means the opposite corner

also, widdershins is mostly used in reference to a church. It is bad luck to go around a church widdershins. ie, it is not just ccw, but the wrong way.

Posted by: FBI at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (W9QCn)

569 It's not just a King movie, it has Mark Hamill!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

570 sock off

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (W9QCn)

571 Years ago at a library book sale, I bought an old hardbound book called "American Place Names". It had the origin of the names of thousands and thousands of towns. Like a dummy I let it go.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 07:15 PM (144I4)

There is Lewis McArthur's Book of Oregon Geographical Names. I got that one from my Dad when he passed.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (rbvCR)

572 In short, old words are fun!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 12, 2025 08:05 PM (XjTSo)

573 "and then the big bad monster died because the children held hands and yelled insults at him"

"and then the underaged children had a gang-bang which I will now describe to you pornographically"

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:05 PM (KRtlO)

574 also, widdershins is mostly used in reference to a church. It is bad luck to go around a church widdershins. ie, it is not just ccw, but the wrong way.
Posted by: FBI at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM

Wiccans use it a lot, I've heard.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 08:05 PM (0sNs1)

575 Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 08:00 PM (mP0Kj)

Man, great guy to have on your team! We had a few Philippinos on our crew, same kind of really tough guys...

Aw, no interesting words in this post!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 08:05 PM (i49OE)

576 >>.568 Did anyone tell Ace that Cattywampus is not cattycorner. One means disorganized and the other means the opposite corner

thanks, other commenters mentioned that. i'll correct later.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:05 PM (KRtlO)

577

Make this guy famous:
https://tinyurl.com/2yqgcm82

"Assistant Professor" Melvin Earl Villaver, Jr.

I will not use my affectionate "Clempson" for any reference to this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 08:06 PM (w6EFb)

578 Clemson statement:
https://tinyurl.com/27pkq2mh

But I can still go to the footbawl game right?

Posted by: Idiots Who Still Go Watch Kollege Sports at September 12, 2025 08:06 PM (R/m4+)

579 @ace: Seriously, click on the "Some words from Mental Floss:" link you posted.

404. Page not found.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 08:06 PM (O7YUW)

580 557 Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships.

Accordingly, one milliHelen is a face that would launch one ship.

There could also be negative values, representing the number of ships one would scuttle to avoid seeing the face in question. Examples: Ratsheeta Taliban, Rosie O'Donnell, the late Helen Thomas (who probably actually looks better now that she's been decomposing for a while).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 12, 2025 08:01 PM (qpyNK)
_______
Yes. Antimillihelen is a face ugly enough to sink one battleship. Tlaib is an excellent example.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:06 PM (s0JqF)

581 Sorry about your mom, Axeman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (LjSYW)

582 >>@ace: Seriously, click on the "Some words from Mental Floss:" link you posted.


it's a two year old post. a lot of the links are dead.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (KRtlO)

583 "Momzer" is Hebrew for "bastard" iirc.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (gKWVE)

584 Rhomboid - I've had some more pricey amarones, but the cheap(er) versions they sell at Trader Joe's are quite drinkable.

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (fGYWG)

585 Axeman, I'm sorry to hear about your mom. May she rest in peace.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (79pEw)

586 @580/Eeyore: "Yes. Antimillihelen is a face ugly enough to sink one battleship. Tlaib is an excellent example.

Helen Thomas.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (O7YUW)

587
A moment to celebrate.

"He Had It Comin'" seems to be the themesong of the lefty psychos who are celebrating Charlie's death.

Here's the final chorus for one of them:

https://x.com/DissidentMedia/
status/1966582215690600588

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (l6OhZ)

588 Also,....

Barrels where the containerized shipping of their day and that is why they came in so many sizes.

Lots of things came in barrels because they were easy to transport, protected the goods inside, and were robust.
pickles, wine, nails, meat,..... they were the thing between Roman amphora and American conex box.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (W9QCn)

589 Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships.
---
That's a lot of people fleeing one face!

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:08 PM (krQz2)

590 I don't easily attack King because he has fans here and of course he's commercially mega-successful, but he's a shit writer who's ideas are pretty stupid and whose execution is hacky and terrible. He has cute little "ideas" about how to begin a story with a cliffhanger, then he waffles about like an idiot for 1000 pages, then he has no ending at all.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)


I love the first half of that first sentence, when juxtaposed with the remaining sentiments expressed.

Yeah! "Juxtaposed" for the win, baby!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 08:08 PM (i49OE)

591 I keep my mouth shut about most authors, since taste varies, but King bothers me because he has been built into such a phenomenon.
You all can hate on me for my opinions. Many of mine are dumb too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 08:08 PM (rbvCR)

592 "A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 07:57 PM (l6OhZ)

Good. Get the fuck out.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 07:59 PM (LjSYW)


Almost half a million people who should never have been here. It's mind-boggling.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:08 PM (lCppi)

593 Guessing that Melvin Villaver Senior got a lot of wedgies, and named his son "Melvin" for revenge.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:08 PM (gKWVE)

594
"People don’t have any intention of saying something that leads to something dangerous. We cannot take responsibility for the minds."

-- Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1)

595 Axeman, I'm sorry to hear about your mom. May she rest in peace.
Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (79pEw)
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Thanks. Just stating why I thought it was long week for me.

But some of it was very good.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (krQz2)

596 It's a little bit terrifying, in a good way, how Kirk's assassination is resonating throughout the entire world, even in corners you wouldn't expect. Probably a combination of two things. The dude was honestly just way more popular worldwide than just being "the guy in the memes". And people who only sort of knew of the guy, or were on the fence or not paying attention, are now galvanized by his murder to admit that they actually, you know, really kind of aren't on board with all the garbage they've been idly pretending they "believe" just to get through their day. And there is no zeal on earth like the zeal of a recent convert.

Related thought: People around the world really don't hate America as much as the people in America who hate America would want everyone else to believe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (06Hmj)

597 567 ...
I don't easily attack King because he has fans here and of course he's commercially mega-successful, but he's a shit writer who's ideas are pretty stupid and whose execution is hacky and terrible. He has cute little "ideas" about how to begin a story with a cliffhanger, then he waffles about like an idiot for 1000 pages, then he has no ending at all.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)

Agreed. My wife likes him, and yes, he can start a story, but very soon the "how much longer do I have to go" sets in. And there are 1200 pages left. Swive that.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (s0JqF)

598 "People don’t have any intention of saying something that leads to something dangerous. We cannot take responsibility for the minds."

-- Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1)
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Very different from "Tucker Carlson killed those people in Laredo/Buffalo" vibe when they try to shut conservatives down.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (krQz2)

599 Very sorry about your mom, Axeman.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)

600 Thanks PabloD. Didn't even realize TJ's had amarones. Will check it out next time (probably tomorrow actually).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 08:11 PM (U/Byj)

601 I didn't radicalize that Nut, he did it himself

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 08:11 PM (+qU29)

602 I hope someone somewhere is keeping track of all the people that are losing their jobs because they are celebrating Charlie's death. I wonder if the "Charlie's murderers" people will keep track. Hopefully someone will.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:11 PM (79pEw)

603 In Dallas some Cuban illegal beheaded a (legal) Indian there.
x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1966261244421148993
I got that link from some Indian accounts, as it happens.
Biden let in just about err'body and as a result, we have Sikhs t-boning cars of Haitians in Florida, and this would-be Maya Ball Game champion today.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:11 PM (gKWVE)

604
Stern is an aft.
Posted by: Axeman
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Where is it?
Abaft.
Posted by: Braenyard

Athwart what exactly. Can someone 'splain to me wtf athwartship actually means and how it is applied to the reference frame of a ship, please?

I've been using three cheeseburgers by two corgies as my reference, but that doesn't seem correct.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (AQgL+)

605 583 "Momzer" is Hebrew for "bastard" iirc.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (gKWVE)
_________
Is there a word for words that seem to exist in two languages, but are really different?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (s0JqF)

606 it's a two year old post. a lot of the links are dead.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (KRtlO)

He says on comment 582.

Damn, do I love this place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (06Hmj)

607 Clemson statement:
https://tinyurl.com/27pkq2mh

Bunch of pusillanimous poltroons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

*waves hand

"These aren't the droids..."

*stares blankly, waiting for you ro leave

Posted by: Clemson Jedi Council at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (4DY5T)

608 NOOD Charlies wife

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (i49OE)

609 Is there a word for words that seem to exist in two languages, but are really different?
Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (s0JqF)

False cognates?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (06Hmj)

610 I really think that it's South Park that recently made Kirk such a popular target for the left.

And that if there is anything to "stochastic terrorism" Parker and Stone bear some of that weight.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (krQz2)

611 Clemson? Really? Jeez.

Posted by: Crusader at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (TN0g+)

612 The one thing that most hits me is Kirk's little girl, picking out a toy, then taking it home, hand in hand with her daddy. I have very few memories from when I was three. What will she have? (Her brother can have none, alas.)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:14 PM (s0JqF)

613 I am amazed that I can show up an hour late to a thread, make a comment, and have it responded to by the boss.

(I am afraid to type his name to thank him since I guess he has a filter and is tagged somehow by that? Minx 0.8 beta must be more advanced than I though.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 12, 2025 08:15 PM (W9QCn)

614 it's a two year old post. a lot of the links are dead.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:07 PM (KRtlO)

He says on comment 582.

Damn, do I love this place.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (06Hmj)
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And this post has aged a year from the time it was posted. In the actual post (which I read, I know, I know) Ace says this post is almost a year old.

By midnight it will be a great-grandpa.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:15 PM (79pEw)

615 Oh, i forgot to say in #613 -- I don't want to waste his time for nothing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at September 12, 2025 08:16 PM (W9QCn)

616 How do you find Erika on youtube? I don't see anything to click?

Posted by: Iris at September 12, 2025 08:16 PM (bOJ2I)

617 Next post, Iris!

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:18 PM (79pEw)

618 BUTT: Pork shoulders were shipped from Boston in "BUTTS", and were know as Boston Butts, Pork shoulder.

Posted by: Paul B at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (XlYoV)

619 My favorite odd word: "borborygmi", which is the word for the gurgling sound that your bowels make.

It's an example of "onomatopoeia", which is a word, like "bang", that sounds like the thing described.

Posted by: Nemo at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (4RPgu)

620 Security isn't a dirty word, Blackadder. Crevice is a dirty word, but security isn't.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (rbvCR)

621 on now it's already tough

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (KRtlO)

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