Here're my thoughts on the issue. I like that you combined both lists. It seemed the purpose of the list was to gather any and all terms used frequently in reference to Bush. Combining the lists evens the playing field, but removing words based on an individual (potential) taking umbrage at their presence doesn't make sense to me. I understand that this isn't scientific, but that's more reason to include all available terms, as far as I can see. Why attempt to play mediator? I think all you need is a disclaimer that the words don't necessarily represent your thoughts or feelings.
Now, a word like "asshole" would have no place in the list. That's mere name-calling and could branch off indefinitely. But "murderer," for instance, is a word often used is relation to the President, whether people like it or not.
have any more info on this? What is it about the educational system people object to? I can think of a few, but is there something this term applies to, specifically?
There's also "Every Adult Dog Growls, Barks, Eats," and the more popular "Easter Bunnies Get Drunk After Easter (1st to 6th)," but that would mean adding Easter 2x, which we can't do in Wordie.
Is not such recondite reasoning, leading to such opaque conclusions about such baroque regulations of speech, prima facie evidence of incompatibility with the austere brevity of the First Amendment?
Could we find a more pompous ass passage this year? I don't think so. Of course, Bill Bennett is still out there.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
Here're some off the top of my head. Not limited to Dems, though: criminal, coward, war criminal, liar, ineffective, inactive, underestimated, profiteer, corrupt, cheat, zealot, murderer, scary, uninformed, misled, sucker, tool, illiterate, simpleton, likeable, principled, convinced.
This site is all about coinkydinks. Every day someone comments on something I was just doing, reading, listening to. I was just reading Dinosaur Comics.
"You mean aside from the fact that texting is the stupidest fucking thing in the world? I mean, why would anyone in their right mind spend fifteen minutes tryin' to type some shit they could've called and said in five seconds? Plus, it involves typing with your thumbs! Which I just don't approve of. Fuck, I don't know about you, but I don't have time to read nothin' that a motherfucker typed with they thumbs. Fun Fact: Nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important. It's all just Nigga Technology anyway."- Gin Rummy (The Boondocks)
Here're some more: pallid, sordid, candid, sapid, rapid, hairdid (I like to combine those words; look in the Urban Dictionary. Wonder if you could use it as an adjective:), squalid, and valid.
Hark! Whose list beese this? Ah, tis yorn! ElmoAli. Fellow Rubbies afficionado. Propagator of an inborn tongue. Concoctive linguist. Autodidact and woman to watch! Welcome.
Rubbies were what my family used to call those rubber diaper underwear trainers for kids. Some of these words nearly reduce me to incontinence for one reason or another.
there's also despondent, disaster, duplicitous, deleterious (think you made a typo), declination, depleted, denial, detox (depressing yet hopeful), downcast, deceased and detested,
"It should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolictopology that Homer Simpson has stumbled into the third dimension"
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
''I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.''
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the British use of pants. Love it. My girlfriend started calling me "Pants" after I took to referring to girls as skirts.
Thanks for the comments John. Was going to go back and add some, so this is a big help. Will be editing the unaccented ones though, so don't knock yourself out :)
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abraxaszugzwang commented on the list words-against-bush-and-or-his-administration
Here're my thoughts on the issue. I like that you combined both lists. It seemed the purpose of the list was to gather any and all terms used frequently in reference to Bush. Combining the lists evens the playing field, but removing words based on an individual (potential) taking umbrage at their presence doesn't make sense to me. I understand that this isn't scientific, but that's more reason to include all available terms, as far as I can see. Why attempt to play mediator? I think all you need is a disclaimer that the words don't necessarily represent your thoughts or feelings.
Now, a word like "asshole" would have no place in the list. That's mere name-calling and could branch off indefinitely. But "murderer," for instance, is a word often used is relation to the President, whether people like it or not.
January 31, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word cootie
the original with a board and pegs, not the newfangled bug-parts version.
January 31, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word mines
as in, "that sangwich is mines."
January 31, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word ignoying
your son is what my family would call a "gen," pronounced "gene," or genius for all you pro-nounce-the-whooole-wooord-liiike-thiis people
January 31, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word antiprceducationalsystem
have any more info on this? What is it about the educational system people object to? I can think of a few, but is there something this term applies to, specifically?
January 31, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list geek-culture
Don't forget larping
January 30, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list horror-film-festivals
Excellent list. My vote goes either to splatterville or bloodfest.
January 30, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word gentleness
Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list mnemonics-days-in-the-month
Except February, which has twenty-eight, or twenty-nine in a leap year.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list mnemonics-guitar-strings
There's also "Every Adult Dog Growls, Barks, Eats," and the more popular "Easter Bunnies Get Drunk After Easter (1st to 6th)," but that would mean adding Easter 2x, which we can't do in Wordie.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list trademarks-2
band-aid is actually a brand too. "I am stuck on band-aid brand," and so forth.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list that-smarts
Oh, thank goodness it's you! I couldn't take being preempted on this one by anyone else. Thanks!
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word recondite
From pompousasswords.com:
Is not such recondite reasoning, leading to such opaque conclusions about such baroque regulations of speech, prima facie evidence of incompatibility with the austere brevity of the First Amendment?
Could we find a more pompous ass passage this year? I don't think so. Of course, Bill Bennett is still out there.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word panoply
The Pixies original name was "Pixies in Panoply"
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list mapping-it-out
are you from the North Shore then? I'm from Lynn.
January 29, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word nationalism
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimme
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word patriotism
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~George Bernard Shaw
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word lenticular clouds
you have to insert it with html code. But I asked cause John says he wants to keep this site text only. I'm inclined to agree.
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list words-against-bush-and-or-his-administration
Here're some off the top of my head. Not limited to Dems, though: criminal, coward, war criminal, liar, ineffective, inactive, underestimated, profiteer, corrupt, cheat, zealot, murderer, scary, uninformed, misled, sucker, tool, illiterate, simpleton, likeable, principled, convinced.
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word cavalcade
“The scene ends badly, as you might imagine, in a cavalcade of anger and fear.�? ~ The Mountain Goats
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word lenticular clouds
http://www.ncas.org/condon/text/images/pl01.jpg
Can we/should we insert images?
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list speech-bubble
Sorry Ry, no can do. This list is limited to the oddball/made up words. If it wasn't, I'd be listing for days.
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list strugligagliast
Yes, but I discovered its brilliance. And yep, saw the egger suit :)
January 28, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list too-much-effort-words
This site is all about coinkydinks. Every day someone comments on something I was just doing, reading, listening to. I was just reading Dinosaur Comics.
January 27, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word pinon
Odd. I was just listening to the TV on the Radio version of Mr. Grieves.
January 27, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list strugligagliast
You little thief! This was going to be my next list. And if you're gonna steal, do it right. The word is strugligagliast.
January 27, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word here
hey zero, how come you change your comments all the time? Are they quotes?
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word loneliness
1(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
~ e.e. cummings
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list word-guidelines-for-wordie
Well, I meant a random list of words generated from one's own lists. But that's also a good idea.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word SHAZAM!
how did you capitalize this?
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word luddite
is there a word that means "anti cell phone"?
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list that-would-be-illogical
I'm currently teaching a debate class, so some of the logical fallacies are fresh in memory. There are many, but these are some I'm teaching: argumentum ad nauseam (what a perfectly cutting and intelligent way to say, "gag me."), argumentum ad ignorantiam, argumentum ad numerum, argumentum ad populum, non sequitur, and tu quoque.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word a buck
used to mean 100. Hate that.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list late-night-double-feature
Ha! A bit long, though I did include dellamorte dellamore.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list filler-words
good ones, though I don't know anyone who uses oi in all seriousness. Would raspberry be a kind of sound?
Btw, does the word ones bother anyone? I know people who can't stand it.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list gn-words
which reminded me of foreign
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list icon-words-of-the-electronic-age
Hows about digg, ebay, AIM, and (bit)torrent? You got the big ones, I think.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list nouns-that-i-hate-seeing-used-as-verbs
"You mean aside from the fact that texting is the stupidest fucking thing in the world? I mean, why would anyone in their right mind spend fifteen minutes tryin' to type some shit they could've called and said in five seconds? Plus, it involves typing with your thumbs! Which I just don't approve of. Fuck, I don't know about you, but I don't have time to read nothin' that a motherfucker typed with they thumbs. Fun Fact: Nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important. It's all just Nigga Technology anyway."- Gin Rummy (The Boondocks)
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list pahdon-me-i-fahted
Thanks guys. I've added those. Pissa was in my Rubbies list. wicked pissa should probably be there too.
January 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word pebble
hey zero, what was that other line from that you just had up for pebble?
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list gn-words
Hey Valse. Here's one more: design
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word freakazoid
Aaaaaaaaaw, Freak Out!
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list pahdon-me-i-fahted
this could go on forever. Ought to limit myself to Boston-related things, eh?
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word chutist
good word. Reminds me of the movie "The Shootist," which, near as I can tell, is not really a word.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list too-much-effort-words
what do you use in place of enunciate?
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word eep opp ork ah ah
and that means "I love you"
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang
excellent! I was trying to think of a way to add this the other day. You just went for it. Kudos.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list a-list-of-mythical-proportions
Ah, my mistake. I glanced at your list too quickly and thought it was dealing with all things mythical.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word hocus pocus alimagocus
I'm amazed someone else has this.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list word-guidelines-for-wordie
I'd like it if the blog widget allowed you to generate a random list from any/all lists.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list adjectives-ending-in-id
placid and flaccid. Oh, and stupid and putrid.
January 25, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list adjectives-ending-in-id
Here're some more: pallid, sordid, candid, sapid, rapid, hairdid (I like to combine those words; look in the Urban Dictionary. Wonder if you could use it as an adjective:), squalid, and valid.
January 24, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list elmoali-s-words
Hark! Whose list beese this? Ah, tis yorn! ElmoAli. Fellow Rubbies afficionado. Propagator of an inborn tongue. Concoctive linguist. Autodidact and woman to watch! Welcome.
January 24, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word doodle
cloodle was making me snicker the other night.
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word zardoz
"The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds."
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word verbiage
I'm simultaneously repelled by and drawn to this word.
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list rubbies
Is anyone aware of a word that means the combining of ethnicities with nationalities, as in Irish-American or African-American?
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word agnostic
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing" - Socrates
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list seanahan-s-words
You're right to be protective/picky.
January 23, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list rubbies
Rubbies were what my family used to call those rubber diaper underwear trainers for kids. Some of these words nearly reduce me to incontinence for one reason or another.
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list d-is-for-depressing
there's also despondent, disaster, duplicitous, deleterious (think you made a typo), declination, depleted, denial, detox (depressing yet hopeful), downcast, deceased and detested,
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list words-that-are-also-movies
House 2 is where it's at
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word plutoed
You'd think the Word of the Year would be something people use, have used, or will use at some point in the future.
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list words-for-bush-and-or-his-administration
folksy
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list language-of-the-gods-the
Tried to choose:
real words
no given names
fun words (if not real)
What're people's thoughts on including full names (e.g. Elvis Presley)?
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word camisole
Check out caffeinatedcows' Decemberists lyrics
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word bum-looker
I love that you list all these Ulysses quotes and then bust out with bum-looker :)
Joyce would actually be proud, I'm sure.
edit: I listed asshat 10 mins ago. What a coinkydink.
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word bum-looker
what a finely hyphenated word.
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list words-i-fucking-b-hate-b
word on eclectic
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word quotidian
Dude, quotato's awesome. No worries.
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word plum
Am I so dear?
Do I run rare?
And you've changed some:
peach, plum, pear.
-Joanna Newsom
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word plum
This Is Just To Say
-William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
January 22, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word alf
or Gordon Shumway, as he's known on his home planet of Melmac
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word mxyzptlk
Kltpzyxm!
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word diapason
A black sheep boy grows horns
Breathing smoke through his microphone
The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason
-Okkervil River
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word wisteria
A black sheep boy dissolves
In hot cream, in sweet moans
In each dead bed and empty home
In each seething bacterium
Killing softly and serial
He lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial
He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria
He's the thrill of the abecedarian
(See the muddy hoofprints where he carried you?)
-Okkervil River
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word hyperbolic
"It should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology that Homer Simpson has stumbled into the third dimension"
- Professor Frink
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list fashion-for-poets
camisole is nice. Great lists. Not helping me get my much needed sleep though.
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word qed
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
--Douglas Adams (THGTG)
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word ectoplasm
''I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.''
- Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)
January 21, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word pants
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the British use of pants. Love it. My girlfriend started calling me "Pants" after I took to referring to girls as skirts.
January 20, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list charming-words-sung-by-joanna-newsom
Just listened to Ys again. Thanks for this list.
January 20, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list stuffie-metamorphosis
tire, stance, positions, rules, pace, scenery, approach, world
I love the Stuffie lists.
January 20, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list stuffie-picking-up-the-pieces
code, spirit, law, record, habit, commitment, in, news
January 20, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the list stuffie-who-s-keeping-score
knick knack (on someone's thumb, knee, etc.), sucker, part, Cops & Robbers, Cowboys & Indians, on words, goodcop/badcop, up, down, off, helpless
January 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word cliché
An overused word. Suggest the pleonastic tired old chesnut
January 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word utilize
I'm really surprised at how many people hate this word. I think it's so much more than a substitution for "use."
January 19, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word twat
"get the jelly twat"
January 18, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the user johnfallstaff
Thanks for the comments John. Was going to go back and add some, so this is a big help. Will be editing the unaccented ones though, so don't knock yourself out :)
January 18, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word ni hao
hěn hǎo. xiè xie!
January 18, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word surcease
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore
January 18, 2007