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Knots!

A list of 160 words by reesetee.

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O time, thou must untangle this, not I.

It is too hard a knot for me to untie.

-- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2, scene 2

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  • yarb commented on the list knots

    The round turn and two half hitches is the least imaginatively-named knot I know.

    January 9, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Wow. That's for sure. Thanks, yarb.

    January 9, 2008

  • seanahan commented on the list knots

    I don't see mooring hitch, also known as fireman's hitch or highwayman's hitch, according to wikipedia.

    January 9, 2008

  • uselessness commented on the list knots

    This list is just begging for some terrible puns. But I'm knot going to be the one to make them.

    Oh wait... crap.

    January 15, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Aw, go on. You know you want to make some terrible puns. You--

    Oh wait....

    January 15, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list knots

    That's knot funny, uselessness.

    January 15, 2008

  • skipvia commented on the list knots

    So how come slipknot is on this list of yours but not on this one?

    *waiting for the answer, which will surely be in the form of a pun*

    January 15, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Why knot? ;-)

    Actually, I collect words on those big long lists until I come up with a more specific list where I can use a few. Then I move them. Plus I'm not finished with this list. It's all extremely complicated and exact, see. I could explain it in nauseating detail, if you'd like.

    January 15, 2008

  • uselessness commented on the list knots

    Hmmm, I'd rather you did knot. It's much more entertaining to just keep using the same terrible pun over and over again. Is it ever knot funny? I think knot.

    January 15, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    What's knot to like?

    Eesh, even I'm getting sick of it.

    January 15, 2008

  • uselessness commented on the list knots

    Knot again!!

    January 15, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list knots

    Knot is a bird word, reesetee! How can you get sick of it? (And why aren't you listing red knot?)

    January 15, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Sick of the jokes, mollusque. Never sick of the birds. :-)

    I'm listing knot as a bird, but not red knot. (Say that three times fast.) It's all extremely complicated and exact, see. I could explain it in nauseating detail, if you'd like.

    January 15, 2008

  • palooka commented on the list knots

    This list must have tied you up for a while reesetee.

    February 23, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Haha! Palooka, nice icing on the cake--and you didn't even use the word "knot"!

    February 23, 2008

  • gangerh commented on the list knots

    Maybe here's the cake under the icing, reesetee. Ocean Mat.

    March 9, 2008

  • ruzuzu commented on the list knots

    What a lovely list!

    December 11, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list knots

    I had no idea there were so many knots! Nice collection.

    December 11, 2009

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Thanks! Some are actually different names for the same knot, as I recall. Plenty more where these come from, too--maybe I'll finally get back to working on this one. :-)

    December 16, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list knots

    See chinkle - a twist or kink in a rope.

    November 20, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Added, even though it's technically knot a not.

    I mean....

    November 21, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list knots

    Say... whaddabout Don Knotts? And Knots Landing?

    November 21, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    See, that's where I draw the rope line.

    November 21, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list knots

    Aye, no--I know. I was just being knotty.

    November 21, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Ha! Why, I ought to girth hitch you to the yardarm, you scalliwag!

    I have no idea what I just said.

    November 21, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list knots

    Well, I suppose that's all right--but only until the Drunken Sailor returns (I hear chained_bear is gonna tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under).

    November 21, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    As long as she doesn't take him to a show, then go window shopping. That's just too cruel.

    November 21, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list knots

    I can't type yardarm without thinking of yarb. Is that another of the "several stages" of addiction to this site?

    November 21, 2010

  • yarb commented on the list knots

    Yes, and it's also one of the several stages of yarb addiction!

    November 21, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    Yarb is correct. It's a dual addiction. You may want to consider attending your local Yarbaholics Anonymous meeting.

    November 21, 2010

  • yarb commented on the list knots

    Please do, I would love some company!

    November 21, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    *puts on enormous pot of coffee for YA guests*

    By the way, yarb, the Century Dictionary says that you're a dialectal form of herb. Is this true?

    November 21, 2010

  • yarb commented on the list knots

    Well, from my perspctive it would be the other way around. But you should ask herb what he thinks.

    November 23, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list knots

    I'll do that, thanks.

    *makes note to ask Herb if he's a dialectal form of yarb*

    November 23, 2010