Comments by arby

  • @danama - ha! I love it. Certainly not feeling "meh" about "Meh!"

    May 3, 2013

  • @yarb - ha!

    @frogapplause, belatedly - yes, I hate that too, but since "Pacific" is technically a real word (albeit misused in your example), I shan't include it on this list. This list is for words/expressions that just don't exist. (Well, "kerfluffle" is arguable, but I don't like it, I think it should be "kerfuffle".)

    May 3, 2013

  • My own father refuses to admit that "heighth" is incorrect!! He says because it's "width" and "breadth" that height has to follow suit. And he has a degree from Wharton!

    May 2, 2013

  • Who, moi?

    *looks innocent*

    April 18, 2011

  • Not to be confused with charnel - or the Pokemon character Charmy the Charmander.

    June 23, 2010

  • This list is awesome!! I love extra lemurs - like there is some magic number of lemurs it is acceptable to have, but if there's one more, chuck it. (Picturing the cow being hurled on the catapult in The Holy Grail.)

    April 28, 2010

  • frogapplause - totally! Reminds me of Otter Pops, which the ex and I used to joke were made from 100% pure otters.

    April 28, 2010

  • Mmmmmmm, delicious spam. How do we report you again?

    January 28, 2010

  • This list is hilarious!

    January 28, 2010

  • Ha!

    January 28, 2010

  • Ha-ha

    *gets it*

    Awww! - Nelson

    January 28, 2010

  • what in the..

    January 28, 2010

  • *smiles evilly*

    January 28, 2010

  • olive peon

    January 27, 2010

  • PPS strike tag does not appear to be supported in list names on Zeitgeist - see my list, which reads fine on the actual list page, but on the home page the word "Strike" shows up.

    January 27, 2010

  • This is the name of a woman I went to college with. I asked her if I could use her name for a band and she said yes. \o/

    January 27, 2010

  • ha ha, random Tweet says "very confused about consanguinity"

    January 27, 2010

  • I don't even know if there is an "ants" tag but there should be! It would render that cheesy MS word animated effect. You know, the one with the ants.

    January 27, 2010

  • Sorry, I thought I was so clever but I got it wrong. Nothin' to see here, people, move along.

    January 27, 2010

  • Well I'm one of the few who would notice - I was the one who begged you to add it, because it cracked me up so much. Maybe it's just me who automatically wants to end any sentence beginning "take this x and.." with "shove it" - it's no reflection of my feelings towards x itself. Totally silly, of course you want to put real functional items in the drop-down. Maybe we could link "shove it" to a page saying "Why would you want to shove this word? Don't you like it? Be nicer to words! Unless it's irregardless. You are allowed to shove that evil non-word."

    ETFix grammar

    January 27, 2010

  • I found a bug! My newly added "word", What's That Blue Thing Doing There?, comments link yields a "Disallowed key characters in global data" message. But only on the direct link - if you go to the regular word page and then click "Comments" it removes the question mark and works fine.

    January 27, 2010

  • Removed and re-added to correct reference - bonus points to anyone who gets it!

    January 27, 2010

  • awww, so cute!

    January 27, 2010

  • ha!

    January 27, 2010

  • ps dontcry stop kissing ass

    January 27, 2010

  • You got rid of the "and shove it" option in the "take this word and..." drop-down! What happened, too many people report the fact that it did nothing as a bug?

    January 27, 2010

  • Anaconda captured in Florida park

    People at the park near Orlando had noticed ducks and geese disappearing, and had suspected an alligator. The 12-foot snake was taken to a serpentarium. - LA Times

    January 24, 2010

  • Buntface is the name of my new band.

    November 23, 2009

  • YOU SHH!!

    November 23, 2009

  • I don't think so. It should be cuntfa but that really is sort of still breaking the rules of the game. The point is it's almost innocent-sounding without the last two letters, and cuntfa, while weird, is not exactly innocent-sounding.

    November 23, 2009

  • MY OPINION -- NOT THAT YOU

    November 23, 2009

  • A ha ha ha you actually added "Shove it" to the "Take this word and..." menu!!! I love it! That rhymed!!

    November 23, 2009

  • Eh? Ah. Oh.

    (Poppin' fresh dough!)

    November 23, 2009

  • From the examples:

    "N.O.R.E. is a backronym for Niggaz On (the) Run Eatin"

    Ha!

    November 23, 2009

  • Sadly, I don't care for sour plums. And so the great arby-yarb twinship project of 2009 came to a screeching halt.

    November 23, 2009

  • I too love crumb bum.

    November 22, 2009

  • Slang for motherfucker.

    November 22, 2009

  • cheap-as version of shitbag.

    November 22, 2009

  • Or, something serious like what he said.

    November 22, 2009

  • O vanishedone, pray tell what that means?

    November 22, 2009

  • yES? Or rather, wHY?

    November 22, 2009

  • Yeah, that's the ticket! Or shtiggeth, as the case may be. Someone should invent the Lovecraft equivalent of Pig Latin.

    November 22, 2009

  • The more economical alternative to mofo.

    November 22, 2009

  • That's one cheap-as mof.

    November 22, 2009

  • Ew. Also reminds me of the Clapper. Is there a lardoff?

    November 22, 2009

  • Totally agree about the Lovecraft thing! Why is it so Lovecraftian?? Is there some other 'craft coinage that is similar?

    November 22, 2009

  • Why plural? Is there no such thing as shibboleth?

    November 22, 2009

  • Oh - it was because I looked at the examples and they looked quite spammy. Perhaps I do not understand how the examples are obtained? Are we just Googling with case sensitivity on?

    November 22, 2009

  • More corporate-speak bullshit: acronym for "Subject Matter Expert".

    November 21, 2009

  • Replacing with SME - might as well get some benefit out of this capitalization kerfuffle.

    November 21, 2009

  • RBY4EVA - bilby

    November 21, 2009

  • I shouldn't WordNik after 3am, it's obviously deleterious to my grammar.

    November 21, 2009

  • Of course, the time(s) I try to experiment with strikethru code and not only doesn't it work, but neither does editing, so I'm caught with my pants down. So to speak.

    November 21, 2009

  • Why bilby, I'm touched.

    YRB4EVA RBY4EVA

    There - fixed it for you.

    November 21, 2009

  • DEIMOS!

    November 21, 2009

  • Title of a brilliant article on Tiger Beatdown. Someone in the comments said it was a great band name. I agree. Hence my list.

    November 21, 2009

  • I don't know but it's brilliant. If I better understood the original perhaps I could come up with a definition. *hangs hed in shame at stupidity*

    November 21, 2009

  • It reminds me of harvest but probably would rhyme with bravest. *is too lazy to look up pronunciation*

    November 19, 2009

  • Tony says this on The Sopranos to Richie Aprile: "Stop giving me those Manson lamps!" meaning crazy eyes.

    November 14, 2009

  • Popular Photography derided the images in The Americans as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." - Wikipedia page on Robert Frank

    November 14, 2009

  • Shouldn't it be Obamamania?

    November 13, 2009

  • For example, http://www.wordnik.com/words/drunken+horizons/comments yields a cute "Unable to Complete Request" message.

    November 13, 2009

  • Over on comments john already said the function of "Add to list" will be provided again. I'm assuming it will be in the "Take this word and.." drop-down.

    November 13, 2009

  • Plus I cannot access any comment links to new words (I get the Wordnik equivalent of a 404 error). Is that by design?

    ETA: Good news is, my profile comments are un-borked and editing comments on words is back! Huzzah! I do not seem to be able to edit comments on lists though.

    November 13, 2009

  • Thanks tony. Can you provide any more detail on how it will be implemented?

    November 12, 2009

  • (Let's pretend that last sentence was grammatically correct.)

    November 12, 2009

  • I agree with marky. I think that keeping the distinction between Turkey and turkey is much less critical than the risk of being flooded with unwanted dupes and illiterate-looking entries. Misspellings are one thing, but caps? What' the approximate percentage of words are spelled the same but change their meaning from capitalization?

    November 12, 2009

  • Sorry, not trying to be negative. Change is good! Many improvements are materializing. I just need to remember to click a different link for the real Wordie-style "home".

    November 12, 2009

  • PS I don't like the new home page, the Zeitgeist is so much more entertaining! I guess the home page is Wordnik for Dummies, eh?

    November 12, 2009

  • yes, this! I miss going straight to the good stuff

    November 12, 2009

  • Sorry, I forgot the brackets rule! Undo it, undo it! (I will wait until editing capability becomes available but I can never hide my shame of accidentally created incorrect words.)

    November 12, 2009

  • Popular Photography, derided (Robert Frank's) images in The Americans as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." - wikipedia re: RF

    November 12, 2009

  • Sorry, I didn't see the welcome/disclaimer on the Zeitgeist page, I wouldn't have come in so guns a-blazin' had I done so. The font was unexpectedly normal and tiny instead of gimongous, I think that threw me off.

    Where can we access our preferences or site settings? (Not editing profile, but controlling things like the order in which comments are displayed.) And is there any way we can turn off the Flickr or Twitter feed display on a user level?

    November 12, 2009

  • 1) My profile is a hot mess - tons of unrecognized characters. I know I like annoying HTML so I'm sure some of my comments would be hard to render no matter what, but I doubt bilby went back in time and left me a cryptic chinese message reading "�?走常规路,独特视角。" Unless perhaps he is sekritly Hiro from Heroes? (bilby, if it's true, don't deny it.)

    2) Also my "you are a" looking for etc is all blank, I know some of them are the same from Wordie but the order is different and I suspect it has boggled the gui;

    3) In addition all my counts are 0 except it's randomly counting one list. I know I've been away some time so if it got purged that's cool;

    4) I tweeted an obscure word and then tried to look it up in the usual places, no one had it so I went to Wordie. (blissfully ignorant of the changeover.) Is the "On Twitter" function independently scanning the public feed or is it stalking me? I was not logged in to Wordie WordNik at the time I looked up the word and it had my tweet; and last but far from least,

    5) I really want a dummy menu item for "shove it" under the Take this word and... menu.

    November 12, 2009

  • PS what about sobriquets?

    March 27, 2009

  • Awesome! I love oM. Aren't you just loving Skeletal Lamping?

    March 27, 2009

  • Nice word!

    Not to be confused with shiftless.

    September 6, 2008

  • Oh and yes, I know the rhyme's not exact. I don't pronounce it PEE-tard.

    PS skipvia I don't get it, what's The Enterprise ref. I'm thinking of the latest and most horrible Star Trek series - and to me that totally makes sense because I hate Scott Bakula and find him retarded.

    September 6, 2008

  • Thanks, now I have "Desperado" in my head. I hate The Eagles!!

    *cue Mojo Nixon* ("Don Henley must die/Don't let him get back with Glenn Frey")

    September 6, 2008

  • I associate this word with two things: 1) retard, simply due to the rhyme, and 2) wedgies - I always thought a petard was like a Renaissance garment, and hoisting by one's petard meant being hung up by one's underwear. I know this makes no sense in the actual sense of the phrase (which is analogous to cutting off your nose to spite someone else's face) but I secretly like my definition better.

    September 6, 2008

  • c_b, your comment was cut off on the home page just at the most suggestive place - "hard". Ha ha!

    Yes, I have nothing substantive to add to the discussion.

    July 31, 2008

  • Not that OED, I was referring to the Online Etymology Dictionary.

    But I used to have the real OED on CD-ROM. I bet it's online subs now.

    PS: Yes, have a wallaby.

    July 27, 2008

  • Yes. It's one of my Dad's favorites, used to infuriate me as a child. But now I think, at least there's some hope in it - it could be worse. Could be "for you NOT to find out". But it doesn't specifically preclude you from finding out, it just says, "I'm not going to tell you, just for fun".

    July 27, 2008

  • And let's go to the OED:

    "female lover," 1651, from It. innamorata, fem. of innamorato, pp. of innamorare "to fall in love," from in "in" + amore "love."

    ding ding ding - points to bestiary!

    July 27, 2008

  • I called my BF a crumb bum and he was genuinely insulted. That was hilarious - I can't imagine anyone taking this word seriously enough to be insulted by it. It's just so ridiculous. And then there's the excellent crummy.

    July 27, 2008

  • More corporate-speak bullshit: acronym for "Subject Matter Expert".

    July 26, 2008

  • Also?

    July 26, 2008

  • Sionnach dear, I think you've got an unclosed italics tag in your last comment.

    July 26, 2008

  • Dude, if they instituted a swear jar at my company, I'd be broke within a month. But several others would go down too, including the President, so thankfully it's never been brought up.

    July 26, 2008

  • Oh god, clicks-and-mortar is so bad!! Whoever came up with that should be shot. Or smited, as your list title says. (Smitten?)

    July 26, 2008

  • Since when is this a verb? It's more corporate-speak that I hate. Recent usage: "We need to iterate this problem."

    July 26, 2008

  • Cool - added!

    July 25, 2008

  • Not to be confused with Bellerophon.

    July 11, 2008

  • Which reminds me of the classic short story/Twilight Zone ep, "To Serve Man" - in case you don't know it, the entire premise of the episode is based on a pun on the title.

    July 9, 2008

  • Excellent list, she!! *favorites*

    (Is that short for "She Who Shall Not Be Named"?)

    July 9, 2008

  • I thought palooka was a she?

    *easily confused*

    PS to frogapplause - yes, but we can stop now that you're here.

    July 9, 2008

  • Get out - that is not a real word!

    July 9, 2008

  • Sounds quite dirty. *adds to list*

    July 9, 2008

  • OMG I love it!

    July 9, 2008

  • See also flist.

    July 9, 2008

  • Also livejournal slang for "friends-lock".

    1. To lock an entry or journal to only be viewable by those on one's "friends list".

    2. An adjective describing such a locked entry.

    July 9, 2008

  • Now flock, on the other hand, is definitely used as both noun and verb on LJ.

    ETA: I am an idiot and still don't know my grammatical terms - flock is not a noun, it's an adjective.

    July 9, 2008

  • I don't think it is used as a verb - the verb is to friend.

    July 9, 2008

  • Cute word, kind of gross etymology.

    July 9, 2008

  • One of my favorite authors of all time, James Kirkwood, uses this to mean "cute" (sexy) in P.S., Your Cat Is Dead!.

    July 8, 2008

  • Ha! I like that.

    July 8, 2008

  • I feel like this should mean something in English but backwards.. pennis - ha ha ha

    *is twelve*

    July 8, 2008

  • Also a coy (usually female) euphemism for urination.

    July 8, 2008

  • This is awfully close to tinkling, which conjures up an entirely different picture in my mind.

    July 8, 2008

  • I suppose it should be described as "to serve" or something horribly boring like that.

    July 8, 2008

  • According to the pompous Kenneth G. Wilson (The Columbia Guide to Standard American English), buttle (v.) "is a back-formation from butler (past tense and past participle are buttled) describing what this functionary does: at best it is Conversational and Informal; at worst it is slang."

    I beg to differ, sir - it is hilarious and adorable.

    July 8, 2008

  • As Mike Doughty would say, "More bacon than the pan can handle".

    July 8, 2008

  • Ok it seems I always misuse backformation - is there no equivalent for this (awful, awful) trend of changing verbs into adjectives?? (*sucks at grammar, not entirely sure that's what she means to say*)

    July 8, 2008

  • I think Wodehouse invented this - backformation from butler.

    July 8, 2008

  • This word is so f-in' cute that I think I would be in big trouble if I lived in England. "Help! I'm being burgled!" I couldn't say it with a straight face. See also the wonderful buttle.

    July 8, 2008

  • Is it also responsible for the adorable Britlish verb burgle?

    July 8, 2008

  • I've been seeing this particular abomination a lot lately on real estate listings. Similar to the pathetic ignorance and backformation that brought us ice coffee and ice tea. It's regular glass that has been STAINED, realtors! How does that not compute?!?! It's not some wacky new thing, it's been around for f-in' centuries!

    July 8, 2008

  • It's iced coffee, idiots! Aka regular coffee that has been ICED. See also ice tea.

    *grits teeth and backs away before becoming homicidal*

    July 8, 2008

  • Eww, my cats have never eaten their own puke. I thought only dogs did that! Mine just try to cover it with nonexistent dirt.

    July 4, 2008

  • I love the construction of this expression, though - doesn't it sound like one of those ridiculous gas station convenience marts? a la "Gas-n-Go"

    July 4, 2008

  • A maneuver performed by pets whereby they hoover large quantities of food and then immediately regurgitate it, preferably somewhere that will cause their owners the most distress.

    I suppose you could also say some humans (those suffering from bulimia) also display this behavior.

    July 4, 2008

  • Huh. Guess that blows my theory out of the water.

    I (and vets I have known) draw a distinction between immediate regurgitation of undigested food and vomiting of partially digested food.. the latter is usually due to hairballs, while the former can be due to eating too fast or as my vet said, if the cat is nervous because another cat is trying to steal his or her food, that can result in a snarf-n-barf.

    July 4, 2008

  • "as balls" is a general qualifier, not really necessarily indicating the qualified item has any characteristics in common with actual testicles. Other favorites are hot as balls, cold as balls. See also: "like ass".

    July 4, 2008

  • Not to be confused with alouette of the children's song.

    July 4, 2008

  • Also the name of a gorgeous but sadly long-discontinued bath bomb from Lush.

    July 4, 2008

  • Is it just me, or is Wordie slow as balls today? I'm trying to take my mind off work, damn it! Plus, the server delay is making double posts. (OK, that could just be me clicking the button more than once because it looks like nothing's happening.)

    July 4, 2008

  • I have no problem contributing genetic material, I just don't want anything to do with the resulting spawn. My friends in college used to call me the Replicator because all I want to do is replicate my DNA.

    C_b, too bad we're both female and thus can only combine efforts via the help of Frankensteinian Science!

    July 4, 2008

  • All cats are more or less hork-prone, trivet. My personal theory on this is because their digestive systems haven't evolved past being pure carnivores and thus all this grain-based manufactured food does not agree with them. My cat sadly has an eating disorder - when he wants attention he does a "Snarf and Barf" maneuver where he hoovers a large quantity of food and then immediately regurgitates it, preferably somewhere that will cause me the most possible distress, such as the couch. He has learned that if nothing else works, I will certainly stop whatever I'm doing to deal with the puke.

    July 4, 2008

  • Hilarious!

    July 4, 2008

  • Thanks skipvia for the gherkin info! (Side note #1: doesn't gherkin almost sound like it could be used as a substitute curse word? Kind of less lame than using sugar for shit) (Side note #2: Weird words that rhyme with "gherkin" - firkin, merkin - I feel a limerick coming on!)

    Everyone is so welcome for the Steve Don't Eat It, I'm proud to have found a community that can appreciate his truly sick & twisted humor!

    July 4, 2008

  • Why double post, why?!?!?

    *shakes tiny fists*

    July 4, 2008

  • WTF double post

    July 4, 2008

  • Has anyone seen Mike Judge's Idiocracy? Not a great movie overall, but the first 3 minutes are priceless - demonstrating just how the idiots are outbreeding the intelligent. Ah, here it is on YouTube.

    July 4, 2008

  • And bilby gets it in one!

    July 3, 2008

  • Cripes. Duh! I feel like an idjit now.

    July 3, 2008

  • Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

    July 3, 2008

  • PS because I cannot bear to edit a 10th time - this word is earworming me with "Every Time You Go Away" (You Take a Piece of Me With You). Needs a parody but what the hell rhymes with asparagus? Bus? Pus? Prolagus?

    July 3, 2008

  • 1) All asparagus is disgusting, canned or no *horks*

    2) So is okra

    3) Someone please tell me how gherkins are not a kind of pickle! ETA WordNet says "any of various small cucumbers pickled whole" - aka pickle

    4) I love the word gherkin. Imagine if we never said boring old pickle again and instead referred to everything as gherkined okra or whatever. The world would be an awesomer place.

    5) Now the word pickle looks weird to me.

    6) Best blog about eating the most disgusting things known to man? Steve, Don't Eat It! I have spent hours laughing until I cried reading his descriptions of the unbelievably foul foods he's eaten. Language warning, he is quite crude. One of the reasons I love it.

    July 3, 2008

  • Interesting, Asativum! I always thought it was a euphemism for Hell.

    tmyn

    July 3, 2008

  • Perhaps an abstention from teats? Poor little calves, they have no choice but to become teatotallers.

    July 3, 2008

  • Ha ha ha dontcry I too tea-totally agree - I used to think the same thing, and wonder what on earth not-drinking had to do with golfing. Seemed like the people my parents hung out with liked to do a lot of genteelly drunken golfing.

    July 3, 2008

  • Sounds yummy! I have no fear of chocolate.

    July 2, 2008

  • Ooh, gruntles! I want one too. Send it c/o Suspicious.

    Because surely you can't be referring to moi as Disgruntled Wordie, can you?

    July 2, 2008

  • This should go on the "There's a Word For That?!" list.

    ETA: never mind, the nebelwerfer came first and the Screaming Meemie(s) came later - see this page.

    July 2, 2008

  • Yeah, soon there'll be punny lunchboxes and then it's all over.

    July 2, 2008

  • Quiet, you, or we'll give you something to dontcry about.

    July 2, 2008

  • Thanks for your support.

    Now I have "Let's Hear It For the Boy" in my head. Damn earworms!

    July 2, 2008

  • Mon Dieu! According to this site it is a particularly long & thin type of baguette. I've often enjoyed a nice "heat at home" ficelle with brie cheese from Trader Joe's.

    July 2, 2008

  • Not to be confused with ficelle, which is apparently some kind of bread. At least, Trader Joe's appears to think so. (Too lazy to Google)

    July 2, 2008

  • Me too, and I just about died laughing when I heard it. Prime Simpsons, that.

    July 2, 2008

  • I love it! This goes on my Amusing Insults list, fo' sho'.

    July 2, 2008

  • Dear "Abby",

    What is a bilby? Is that some sort of weird Australian lingo?

    Signed,

    Suspicious of New Information

    July 2, 2008

  • No.. why do you ask?

    *is skeptical*

    July 1, 2008

  • That's helpful, Mercy! I could never remember 1) what it meant or 2) how to spell it.

    ETA: Sorry for getting your name wrong. For some reason I keep reading it as Mary.

    June 28, 2008

  • It sounds like it should mean "to piss off". BTW Roget (via Bartleby) says a synonym is incrassate.

    June 27, 2008

  • *posting as pumpkin*

    PS - thanks Pro!

    June 27, 2008

  • Ooh, really? *is chuffed*

    I'm going to bed now, really!

    *turns into pumpkin at stroke of midnight*

    June 27, 2008

  • When I first saw this word I thought it was a bizarre misspelling of navy.

    My favorite lyrical usage is in Towers of London by XTC:

    Fog is the sweat of the never never navvies who pound

    Spikes in the rails to their very own heaven

    June 27, 2008

  • This is one of those words that sounds more innocent than its meaning. Sort of the opposite of my entendres r us words.

    June 27, 2008

  • Ok, not to tootle my own horn or anything, but I think I spy with my little eye a bug - I happened to be hanging at palooka's profile and I noticed s/he has my default list (arby's words) favorited. In the list of hir favorites, it says "18" after the list name, but in reality my list has 245 words!

    June 27, 2008

  • Hmm, how about if he expressed his weight in pit bulls?

    June 27, 2008

  • â„¢ bilby, here.

    Tosh is apparently Britlish for rubbish, so made of tosh is something that is so nonsensical, it's composed entirely of claptrap and malarkey.

    June 27, 2008

  • aka ineffable. It simply cannot be eff'ed. F'ed up, maybe, but not eff'ed.

    June 27, 2008

  • Take-off of ambulance, but for whiny crybabies. Used to mock people on the internet.

    June 27, 2008

  • Somebody call the waambulance!

    June 27, 2008

  • What I want to know is, who is the mysterious someone (or some thing - dun dun DUN!!) who conveyed to the alien-carwoman that s/h/it wanted this number (of the beast??) added to Wordie?? And how was this message delivered, via Morse Code?

    June 27, 2008

  • Rhymes with wassail, of course.

    June 27, 2008

  • Short for awesome, pron. "oss"

    June 27, 2008

  • Made of tosh is so awes! My new favorite phrase.

    ETA: â„¢ bilby

    Also, are we no longer allowed to use the strike tag? Waaaaaaah!!

    *cries like baby*

    June 27, 2008

  • 1) Thank you Private 'Renn! Just doing my best to keep them at bay, sir.

    2) Waldo, don't delete this list! It's a Conversation For the Ages (â„¢ chained_bear).

    3) mmmmm, peanut sauce.

    June 27, 2008

  • Tried to add made of tosh and got a 404 error. The URL was malformed:

    http://wordie.orgword/?added=made%20of%20tosh

    Luckily the phrase was added anyway. Just thought you'd like to know.

    ETA: And I see I'm not the first to report this bug. That's what I get for not reading the recent comments!

    June 27, 2008

  • You mean welcome back, bilby? Why thank you.

    *looks up tosh*

    ETA: made of tosh, I like that!

    June 27, 2008

  • I like it because at first I read it as a new word and it looks kinda cool.

    This comment brought to you by the Sleep Deprivation Committee, trying to make me look as dumb as possible.

    June 27, 2008

  • Acronym for DO NOT WANT

    June 27, 2008

  • "Used to refer to something unbearably stupid or ludicrous, usually in the form of "object of scorn iz pastede on yey!" (The deliberate misspellings are half the point of the joke.)"

    Ultimately this derives from the JournalFen-based FandomWank community, which exists to mock the stupid in various fandoms. The original story involves Lord Of The Rings fangirl Crystal Gamgee, who perpetuated her false reputation for knowing the actors well enough to make sketches of them - sketches which were forgeries using borrowed photos and obvious Photoshop filters. In the course of her self-defense, she displayed an obvious photomanip of LOTR actor Dominic Monaghan supposedly lying on her bed. Thus, the original reference ("My hed iz pastede on yay!") indicated general lack of A) credibility and B) skillz. "Yay" in the original has mutated into "yey" in later fannish use.

    - Encyclopedia Dramatica

    June 27, 2008

  • I want to kiss it and hug it and love it and call it George.

    June 27, 2008

  • I suggest we move the camels to a secluded location and then provide them with a diuretic - maybe some iced tea? Or perhaps No-Doz(tm) would work?

    June 27, 2008

  • Tell me about it. I see them every day while I'm waiting for the bus on Bedford Ave - hotbed of hipsters. Possibly even worse than the hair atrocities they commit are the sartorial abominations - grown women wearing orange rainboots and overalls as a fashion statement, and carrying ironic lunchboxes.

    June 27, 2008

  • A follower of the linguistic school of thought that believes that language is made by the speakers and there is no "wrong" usage if it exists in the wild. Isn't Noam Chomsky a descriptivist, or am I misremembering?

    June 27, 2008

  • Antonym - descriptivist

    June 27, 2008

  • A follower of the linguistic school of thought that says there is one true way to use language (usually the rules we are indoctrinated with in school) and that deviances from it in real life are wrong and should be frowned upon.

    June 27, 2008

  • Pshaw, "supposed" - what are you, a prescriptivist?

    June 27, 2008

  • A lady never tells...whether she has multiple personalities on teh intarwebs.

    *sits back and awaits the cringing*

    June 27, 2008

  • No joke, I actually have seen some BP haircuts. Along with assorted ridiculous haircuts that were lame in the 80's and have not been improved by the passage of time. I blame Urban Outfitters, among others, for bringing back things like Flock of Seagulls hairstyling.

    June 27, 2008

  • PS - Prolagus, are you new? I don't think I know you.

    June 27, 2008

  • Well, we can't have that, can we?

    June 27, 2008

  • Oh there are TONS of progressive, trendy hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Not my 'hood, but next to it - I'm in Greenpoint.) I hatesss them!

    June 27, 2008

  • "Even modern American marriages between progressive, trendy hipsters are, at the least, fanciful or ironic reenactments of a gruesome misogynist hegemony, and wreak some degree of megatheocorporatocratic carnage. Especially when the male hipster is a depressive artiste, and the female hipster has one of those Bettie Page haircuts." - Twisty, in this post

    March 12, 2008

  • "These articles largely avoid the “empowerful�? trap, which is the trap so well-skewered by Twisty, wherein the relief that comes when you quit fighting for yourself and just give up is mixed in with the joy of actual victory. Pulling down a real paycheck, leaving the asshole and living by yourself, obtaining a powerful job — these are real forms of power. Stripper aerobics, where the fun mainly comes from being able to combine the pressure to exercise a lot with the pressure to practice being a sex object, is empowerful. Not real power at all, just feels like it in the hands of those who aren’t used to what real power might actually feel like." - Pandagon, from

    this article.

    March 12, 2008

  • Acronym for "Not Getting Any".

    January 2, 2008

  • I found out about it in the Wikipedia article on Cake.

    January 2, 2008

  • This word is GREAT! Sounds like an exotic new sex toy.

    December 17, 2007

  • My beloved Andy Partridge has an adorable story about how growing up he thought "disabell" was slang for breasts because his mother would say "You saw me in dishabille".

    OK, so maybe you had to be there. Trust me, it was adorable.

    December 13, 2007

  • Awesome, thanks sh!

    December 6, 2007

  • see blackcurrant.

    December 6, 2007

  • Not to be confused (as I just did) with cassis, which is French for blackcurrant.

    December 6, 2007

  • Wikipedia sez:

    "Most of the spice sold as cinnamon in the United States and Canada (where true cinnamon is still generally unknown) is actually cassia. In some cases, cassia is labeled "Chinese cinnamon" to distinguish it from the more expensive true cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), which is the preferred form of the spice used in Mexico and Europe. "Indonesian cinnamon" can also refer to Cinnamomum burmannii, which is also commonly sold in the United States, labeled only as cinnamon."

    So, that makes cassia the Poor Man's Cinnamon. Cinnamon's Red-Headed Stepchild.

    *wants to taste REAL cinnamon*

    December 6, 2007

  • If we were to have a "Most Educational" list, I'd nominate reesetee's It has a name??.

    December 6, 2007

  • Sounds like yahtzee.

    December 4, 2007

  • That's a given - but I wish they had a Babelfish at least. Not that far off from a symbiote, really.

    December 4, 2007

  • Yeah, it's like how everyone pronounced Goa'uld differently, with no in-show explanation for the variance. Drives me crazy!!

    December 3, 2007

  • How about PlanetKiller?

    November 30, 2007

  • According to Mencken, we call them ferns. (I've never heard bracken used over here.) I associate this word with Scotland and heath for some reason.

    November 30, 2007

  • Thanks c_b!! I love England too, and its words crack me up.

    Signed,

    Belatedly Catching Up on Comments

    November 30, 2007

  • How about one for "Most Educational"? I like lists where I learn something I didn't know before.

    This comment brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

    November 30, 2007

  • Brilliant! Now I want to do a "Animal Names in Tolkien" list.

    November 30, 2007

  • I've seen both, my totally real, non madeupical friend.

    November 30, 2007

  • They're everywhere!!

    *looks around in paranoia*

    PS true dat about Ricky G. I like Extras ok, but it's no Office.

    November 30, 2007

  • How about a category for "Most Cringeworthy" - words you love to hate?

    November 30, 2007

  • Reesetee's The Several Stages of Wordie Addiction, for being awesome. I have a feeling reesetee and chained_bear are going to sweep the awards.

    November 30, 2007

  • Oh! *bats eyelashes* I'm so flattered!

    *runs off to nominate others*

    November 30, 2007

  • And with that, I'm back on the top 10 commenters for the week!

    *takes bow*

    November 30, 2007

  • My brain goes to pizzle with that spelling. (Not that it's entirely inappropriate, but still!)

    Also, I think capezzoli might be correct, in Italian that "e" would be pronounced like "i".. there's another pastry reference dancing on the edge of my brain but I really have to leave work now!! I'll check back later.

    November 30, 2007

  • Yeah! Also, ha.

    November 30, 2007

  • From the Fandom wank wiki:

    Short for "mundane" or "human", a mun is the player of a sockpuppet in an RPG. The real person behind the mask.

    Sometimes there is wank when a mun is discovered to be someone another mun hates outside the RPG. Sometimes wank happens when a mun leaves in a huff and the character gets passed to another player. Sometimes muns are just wanky people in general.

    November 30, 2007

  • Ha! Fandom Wank Wiki to the rescue!

    "1. A person claiming to be somebody else for the sake of gathering support -- sometimes, when they are obviously losing; other times, to distract and confound their friends and enemies.

    2. The character played by a mun, either in an RPG or just for fun."

    November 30, 2007

  • (verb) Sockpuppeting: Registering multiple usernames and pretending they are not you, for the purposes of making oneself look more popular online and/or causing drama.

    (noun) a sockpuppet is a fake persona utilized for the above purposes. Sometimes people make them as a joke and troll their friends' journals with them.

    Not sure if this originated on LiveJournal but it's used there with great frequency.

    November 30, 2007

  • I wonder if people are going to think yarb is my sockpuppet - I swear, we're two different people!

    November 30, 2007

  • And yeah, compared to Mozart we're all pretty lame. Except maybe Beethoven.

    ETA I was the one who misspelled hoo-hahs, so I take full responsibility for your pouting.

    November 30, 2007

  • No worries c_b! I love Amadeus (though you wouldn't know it from my inaccurate description of the scene - it's just because my brain is like a sieve) and agree - the tale of Salieri is incredibly tragic, all the more so because he was able to appreciate Mozart's genius, unlike most of his contemporaries. (King what's-his-face, he of the "too many notes!" comment.)

    November 30, 2007

  • Yeah, that's what I meant. I knew that, I swear!

    *blushes*

    *is tempted to edit previous comment to make self look less ignorant*

    November 30, 2007

  • Oh, that reminds me of another fingernail on the chalkboard of my brain - copywrite.

    November 30, 2007

  • PPPS

    I'm always doing about 50 things online at the same time, and being commenty on Wordie at work is.. not recommended for optimum productivity.

    November 30, 2007

  • LOL at sending Nipples of Venus to your senator - hey, maybe it'll result in some meaningful legislation!

    Also, I do NOT recommend Googling "nipples of venus".

    November 30, 2007

  • c_b - hey, you're right! I think the second time I looked at it I saw "to cover their hoo-has" and thought it was more or less the same thing. *adds back to self-coinages list*

    November 30, 2007

  • Ha!

    ETA your edit made it look like I was mocking you - that "Ha" was in response to the first comment

    re: the second, you could be right! That's probably where I got it from. I remember the scene where Salieri was trying to seduce what's-her-face, Mozart's wife, with those "Nipples of Venus"

    .

    November 30, 2007

  • PS

    Isn't there some kind of Italian pastry called "Nipples of Venus"?

    November 30, 2007

  • ewwwww

    November 30, 2007

  • I didn't mean to take credit for your word - I don't know why I put it on my self-coinages list.

    November 30, 2007

  • This word makes me think of pastries. Or at least, it used to. Now it just makes me think of hoo-has, with a side of exotic dancers.

    November 30, 2007

  • Thanks rt!

    *not listening to u's creepy innuendoes*

    la la la la

    *fingers in ears*

    November 30, 2007

  • That reminds me of The Brave Little Toaster, in which the following exchange occurs:

    Kirby (Vacuum Cleaner): Why don't you shut off?

    Air Conditioner: Oh, I'm really scared there, Kirby. What are you going to do, suck me to death?

    November 30, 2007

  • For TV nerds, better known as "a fictional race on the television series Stargate SG-1" (Wikipedia). The WeirdNet definition is (typically) the least used one.

    November 30, 2007

  • IAWTC

    November 30, 2007

  • Genius!! I want to know who came up with this one!

    November 30, 2007

  • Ooh, here's a real bug - clicking "Comment" with no text in the box results in a 500 Application Error.

    *acts helpful*

    November 28, 2007

  • abbreviated dnw

    November 28, 2007

  • Acronym for "I Agree With This Comment"

    November 28, 2007

  • Huh. Maybe I'm just thinking of Blanche from the Golden Girls.

    November 28, 2007

  • Mounting experiments solely to provoke WeirdNet - see peeler for context.

    November 28, 2007

  • An unfortunate condition in which one's calves flow directly to one's ankles without narrowing.

    November 28, 2007

  • aka cankles

    November 28, 2007

  • I have to say, I think mounting experiments solely to provoke WeirdNet has to be added to Reesetee's list!

    November 28, 2007

  • c_b, I like your definition for hoo-hah coverings the best!!

    November 28, 2007

  • Also I don't know if this is a bug or if I should even bring it up (because my favorite Obnoxious HTML tags aren't listed in the "Some HTML" popup, and yet old comments using them still display correctly) but it looks like HTML doesn't display on the home page in comments. At least, my little strike tag doesn't (on WeirdNet, if you must know). This is unfortunate because it makes my comment make much less sense.

    Because it's All About ME!! *twirls*

    November 28, 2007

  • I've heard it both ways - I think the "euphemism for unseemly body parts" use is a Southern thing.

    November 28, 2007

  • Won't someone think of the children spawn??!?!?!?!

    November 28, 2007

  • My favorite malapropism around moot point was on Friends when Joey thought it was "Moo point" because it was like what a cow would say, i.e., irrelevant.

    Someone on TV recently tried to explain why they thought it was mute point, but I'll be damned if I can remember what show. (My brain is like a sieve.)

    November 28, 2007

  • I like the subject line! Many of my comments won't be nearly as witty without them.

    November 28, 2007

  • Coined by the Buffistas - I quote from the FAQ:

    Holy Shit Quotient, a term invented by David S. Refers to the moments when you go, "Holy shit, I can't believe they did that!" The second season of both Buffy and Angel had a heavy HSQ.

    November 28, 2007

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