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Topic: Enraptured Beef Tallow
Hellooo. It is rather bloggy in here.
Whoa, I hardly
felt that Monday at all. It didn't even leave a mark. Neato.
Here's the deal... three new words, one Mensa challenge, one
trivia for fun,
(although I am not sure if it will be a trivial fact or a trivia
question...) and a definition. Your brain needs the nutrition, no
worries, mate.
Vocabulary ~ I don't know how "real" these words are. They are just funny.
- anphelopsis, n. - total ennui, disinterest.
- cerenibrium, n. - narcotized tranquility.
- dort, n. - small object of scorn and derision.
Perhaps you won't be stumped by this MENSA challenge:
So far as we can determine, only one other word can be made from
the letters of INSATIABLE. Find it.
One trivia question, and it's multiple choice, too.
One of the trademark professions of old London has gone away -
Bernard Reyner agreed to retire as the last known practitioner of
what position?A.) Seller of pigeon food in Trafalgar Sqauare
B.) Top-hatted "Chim-Chiminey Cheroo" chimney sweep
C.) Lord High Executioner
And finally, Why We Say It:
+Adam's Apple
+
Many a man, such
as Abraham Lincoln, has had a prominente Adam's apple. Male
chauvinism is reponsible for the centuries-old name. Pioneer
English
anatomists were puzzled by the section of cartilage that refused
to stay in one spot. Folktales explained that Adam should not
have taken the apple from
Eve in the Garden of Eden. When he yielded to her temptation, a
piece of fruit stuck on the way down. Ever since, it has moved
when men eat or talk in
order to warn: "Beware the temptress!"
In truth, the
growth of the visible knot is stimulated by male hormaones.
Because women have a small amount of this hormone, they also have
a small
version of the Adam's apple.
And I Quote,
"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a
lot."
~Anatole
France, Revolt of the Angels
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Tuesday, 28 September 2004 - 7:46 AM CDT
Name: jfkhaos
E-Mail: theghostofjfkhaos@hotmail.com
The cigarette, frequent dort in the eyes of the addicted, creates a state, on some occasions, of euphorius cerenibrium, but at the same time, becomes the posterchild of anphelopsis.
For the trivia question, I would like to submit "C" as my answer, although the pigeon guy is good as well. I do know, however, that those poor rusty souls (wink wink) were told to shove off of Trafalgar Square as all the pigeon crap (now you know that should be pronounced as a Scot, aye) was creating a smell of soot and poo.
Lastly, I must be an idiot because I cannot come up with another word that can be created out of the word 'insatiable'. Then again, however, not too many of you out there in blogland respond, so I may come out on top!
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Name: Christonaspike
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/TheNeedleInMyEye
E-Mail: Torirocks@msn.com
Dude, that Monday hit me pretty hard, it scarred me for life :(.
ahh, and i might give you this link!
ok, anyways, the vocabuary, i think one day, we should write as if we were writing the Canterbury Tales.
And by the way, I have no idea what even the definition of those words mean.
That's about what i figured for the adam's apple, well atleast the whole thing with adam and that damn apple problem, but didn't know even choked, hahaha.
BANALITIES
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Interjection by punksoup
BANALITIES n. pl. ba?nal?i?ties -
The condition or quality of being banal; triviality.
Something that is trite, obvious, or predictable; a commonplace.
And, I have NEVER read the Canterbury Tales, so perhaps I would be lost when you make such a request! LOL!
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Wednesday, 29 September 2004 - 3:56 PM CDT
Name: Christonaspike
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/TheNeedleInMyEye
E-Mail: Torirocks@msn.com
Canterbury Tales
1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15: And specially from every shires ende
16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
