Comments by tankexmortis

  • "That really chafes my cock!" is my new catchphrase.

    August 20, 2008

  • Not to be confused with vaginernose, which means something VERY DIFFERENT.

    August 20, 2008

  • Ewww. EWWWWWWW!

    August 20, 2008

  • I think it sounds great, personally. Reminds me of snickerdoodle or swashbuckle.

    August 20, 2008

  • Interesting article, whichbe. I gotta wonder what idiot started the idea of Kafka's supposed "saintly image" - did they ever actually read his work?

    August 11, 2008

  • Pre-adolescent hipsters?

    August 9, 2008

  • Hoho, so you can! Oh, the advances Wordie has made since my heyday.

    August 9, 2008

  • I thought it said "serious fluid" at first. I was imagining a bowl of grim, determined fluid with a face like >:(

    August 8, 2008

  • :(

    August 8, 2008

  • n. vomiting of curd-like matter.

    August 8, 2008

  • leint.

    August 8, 2008

  • Great list! I love the title - I had to do a double-take.

    EDIT: And a double post, apparently.

    August 8, 2008

  • Harley Quinn Syndrome?

    August 7, 2008

  • The desire to have limbs amputated.

    I have this, but only for other people's limbs.

    August 7, 2008

  • A rare condition where a person craves eating non-food items, usually small things like nails, paperclips, plastic bags, etc.

    August 7, 2008

  • "Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been ‘relocated’ to another site. For example, a person may believe that they are in fact not in the hospital to which they were admitted, but an identical-looking hospital in a different part of the country."

    August 7, 2008

  • "Paris syndrome is a condition exclusive to Japanese tourists and nationals, which causes them to have a mental breakdown while in the famous city."

    August 7, 2008

  • "A rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise."

    August 7, 2008

  • "A rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical looking impostor. "

    August 7, 2008

  • "So I was canoodling my cat last night..."

    August 7, 2008

  • See also cacopygian.

    August 7, 2008

  • Not, in fact, a message written on a poo.

    August 7, 2008

  • WHAT

    August 7, 2008

  • "Having ugly buttocks."

    August 7, 2008

  • I believe there's a synonym, or at least a similar word, but I can't recall it. Anyone?

    August 7, 2008

  • A bag full of Germans.

    August 7, 2008

  • One of the most disappointing definitions ever. Hands up all who hoped for another penis word to giggle at? *raises hand*

    August 7, 2008

  • For others who were curious about the method of torture referred to: "Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), is a figure from Greek mythology. He was a bandit from Attica, with a stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; victims who were too short were stretched on the rack until they were long enough. Nobody ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar."

    From Wikipedia, naturally.

    August 7, 2008

  • Whoops. Left out the "s".

    August 7, 2008

  • The Acme of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. They make everything!

    August 7, 2008

  • How very emo.

    August 7, 2008

  • "French. A person who challenges the established order." Sort of a combination of an iconoclast and a troll.

    August 7, 2008

  • Also a Sanskrit word referring to "the mistaken belief that a symbol is the same as what it represents."

    August 7, 2008

  • This seems to be used particularly when referring to the suffering of privileged youth.

    August 7, 2008

  • "Thai. To slake an emotional or spiritual thirst, to be revitalized."

    August 7, 2008

  • "Sanskrit. Men who worship their own sexual organ."

    August 7, 2008

  • "Kiriniwa, New Guinea. Use of metaphors as disguised speech."

    August 7, 2008

  • "To deliberately shock people with conventional values."

    August 7, 2008

  • "Scottish. To swallow, gulp, suck with a slobbering noise."

    August 7, 2008

  • From Wikipedia: "Spoo is a fictional food product that served as a running joke within the Babylon 5 science fiction television series. In the series' fictional universe, spoo is made from alien worm-like creatures of the same name, and is considered to be the most delicious food in the galaxy, regardless of which species is asked. Although it is a universally loved foodstuff and an actively traded commodity, the creature itself is regarded with contempt by the races that consume it."

    August 1, 2008

  • Someone stuck in the kind of thinking typical of adolescence, in particular someone often found in omphaloskepsis.

    July 31, 2008

  • Ratcatcher: Oh, I gather you've got a little rodental problem.

    Mrs Concrete: Oh, blimey. You'd think he was awake all the night, scrabbling down by the wainscoting.

    Ratcatcher: Um, that's an interesting word, isn't it?

    Mrs Concrete: What?

    Ratcatcher: Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscoting.

    Cut to the village of Wains Cotting. A woman rushes out of a house.

    Woman: We've been mentioned on telly!

    July 31, 2008

  • As immortalized by the Urinals in their song "Ack Ack Ack Ack".

    July 31, 2008

  • Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.

    Q: What's green and pear shaped?

    A: A pear.

    July 31, 2008

  • Ewwwww!

    July 31, 2008

  • Definitely needs eldritch and cyclopean.

    July 31, 2008

  • I've also heard it used to mean general behaviors (such as wearing a baseball cap backwards for 80s hip-hop kids), and not just phrasing.

    December 27, 2007

  • This is an awesome word. I totally thought it was an H.P. Lovecraft creature when I first heard it.

    THAT MAKES IT EXTRA AWESOME

    December 9, 2007

  • Wow, this list is so much better than mine. :(

    August 14, 2007

  • But how will you talk about nuzzling deified dystopian caboose glyphs?!

    February 1, 2007

  • OH GOD!

    February 1, 2007

  • I think that Ryan has an account here, 'cause I emailed him about the site early on. But it seems he has better things to do than play around on Wordie... Alas.

    Anyway, cool list, I might start one as well.

    February 1, 2007

  • Great list. Favorited.

    February 1, 2007

  • Damn you nkocharh! I came here just to mention that line, thereby impressing the entire internet with my leet knowledge of counter-culture heroes. But I guess you're 51 days leeter than I.

    Seriously though - best Gorey line ever.

    February 1, 2007

  • Boss #1: We have a caulk issue.

    Boss #2: Is it big?

    Boss #3: Very.

    Employee passerby: I know all about caulk -- it's very sticky.

    February 1, 2007

  • God, how could you misspell floccinaucinihilipilification?

    February 1, 2007

  • Arrogance, like stupidity, is always difficult to argue with.

    February 1, 2007

  • All you other linguists can't deny.

    February 1, 2007

  • Panties?

    *slinks away creepily*

    January 22, 2007

  • DUDE HOW COULD YOU LEAVE OUT "GOLLY"!?

    Shame.

    January 22, 2007

  • Hey, how come I can't link words in my profile text? If I could, it would be neat.

    January 22, 2007

  • Who defines cool?

    I do.

    January 22, 2007

  • 1. A sub-par intellectual.

    2. An intellectual who focuses on stupid, worthless, or pointless things.

    3. An intellectual involved in anti-intellectual culture or counter-culture.

    January 22, 2007

  • I keep contemplating it, but nothing's happening. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

    January 17, 2007

  • Not just a great-sounding word, I love the genre too.

    January 17, 2007

  • Can't go wrong with words about butts.

    January 17, 2007

  • Sounds... Really good. Someone should totally genetically engineer a real strappleberry.

    January 17, 2007

  • I don't care (he don't care)

    I don't care (he don't care)

    I don't care about this world

    I don't care about that girl

    -Ramones, "I Don't Care"

    January 17, 2007

  • Something about gross misanthropy has appealed to me since I was very small.

    January 17, 2007

  • ... I nearly killed 'em!

    January 17, 2007

  • Some folks like water

    Some folks like wine

    Well I like the taste

    Of straight strychnine

    You may think it's funny

    That I like this stuff

    But once you've tried it

    You can't get enough

    Wine is red

    Poison is blue

    Strychnine is good

    For what's ailing you

    If you listen to what I say

    You'll try strychnine some day

    Make you cough it'll make you shout

    It'll even knock you out

    -The Sonics, "Strychnine"

    January 17, 2007

  • Coined by Sam Raimi and company, I think. Refers to the merging of the splatter-horror and slapstick film genres.

    January 17, 2007

  • One devoted to apathy.

    January 17, 2007

  • So what's the monthly equivalent of this word, anyway?

    January 17, 2007

  • Who was it that said that in 50 years the only words left would be like and dude?

    January 12, 2007

  • It's like thing, fuck, stuff, and dude all in one!

    January 12, 2007

  • "Uffish" is from the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. In a letter, Lewis Carrol, it's author, defined it as "A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."

    January 12, 2007

  • It's also what you should watch out for when driving on certain roads: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/roadway_dept/retro/sign/presentation04/images/slide0016_image030.jpg

    My family has a running joke whenever we see one of these signs: "Ew! I stepped in ped!"

    Yeah, my family's pretty lame. :D

    January 12, 2007

  • I use it both ways myself.

    January 12, 2007

  • Tinny! Tin tin tin!

    January 12, 2007

  • That comment you left on my list really pisses me off. Mostly because I wish I was that clever. Bastard.

    January 12, 2007

  • Geeeelfliiiiiiing!

    January 12, 2007

  • Calvin and Hobbes for the win.

    January 12, 2007

  • Used frequently as an insult by the distinguished linguist Little Pete.

    January 10, 2007

  • I pronounce it "kee-ho-tik". I'm takin' it back!

    January 10, 2007

  • Retiree visiting the office: I was working on the windows and running around the yard with my caulk in my hand, and I have this neighbor, Dave, who was standing in the bushes, and I didn't see him. But Dave scared me and there was caulk everywhere -- caulk all over the windows and caulk on my hands. No, I'm serious, there were inches of it coming out! You guys aren't even listening to me! I didn't know what to do about all of the caulk on my hands but I called the 800 number on the side of it and the guy said that friction could get it off.

    December 5, 2006

  • A tool for those with little imagination.

    December 4, 2006

  • You left out my favorite: awesome.

    Although I suppose it's only more recently that it's become generally positive.

    December 3, 2006

  • like

    December 3, 2006

  • All right! You're a king amongst men, John. It's amazing how quickly you've been adding features.

    December 3, 2006

  • "Pleat" is one of my favorite fashion-related words, you should add that. :)

    December 3, 2006

  • Geez, none of you guys capitalized it even!

    December 3, 2006

  • I'm pretty sure that us being the first people to argue about the definition of irony on this site makes us heroes of pedantry. :D

    December 3, 2006

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_fiction

    December 3, 2006

  • If he were going to the store to buy milk, riding a milk-powered car and eating milksicles then I'd say sure, it'd be ironic. Because there's an abundance of milk in the context. Just as this guy was looking for irony but was rendered unable to by a force which may or may not be ironic. That is, his not getting to the page isn't ironic, but his continued confusion because of his inability to access the page is.

    The section on the page that talks about comic irony also has some similar uses.

    "...an ironic situation might involve getting hit by a rib-delivery truck after trying to poison someone with bad rib-sauce in order to steal his or her gems,"

    "...a hapless cat is trapped against an inside house window, having to watch the once-in-a-lifetime consequences of a collison outside between a truck labeled "Al's Rodents," and another labeled "Ernie's Small, Flightless Birds.""

    December 3, 2006

  • Thanks! Nice resource, too; I'll have to bookmark that.

    December 3, 2006

  • Yeah, after looking at your LibraryThing and homepage I saw that. Neat stuff. More of a prose man myself. Anyway, keep up the listing as I'm enjoying it. ^_^

    December 3, 2006

  • I had a million dollars but I spent it all.

    December 3, 2006

  • Oh, my bad. Imploded heads are rarely any good. I was just curious if you did any amateur or professional work in fiction since I liked the sometimes surreal definitions from the list.

    That better?

    December 3, 2006

  • So what are the rules regarding the use of "although" vs. "though"?

    December 3, 2006

  • Vry clvr.

    Srry. Bd jk, knw. Cldn't hlp mslf.

    December 3, 2006

  • snikt?

    December 3, 2006

  • Really enjoying your imaginary words list, although I'd argue that if you're writing them they're not imaginary.

    Are you a writer?

    December 3, 2006

  • I'd argue it fell under the category of cosmic irony. From the aforementioned Wikipedia page:

    "Cosmic irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectation of an outcome and what actually occurs, as if the universe were mocking us."

    December 3, 2006

  • H'lo again, just thought I'd ask about the chances of a list re-sorting feature. That is, I'd like to change the order my lists appear in so that related lists which I created at different times are together and such. Not a particularly useful feature, but I've been noticing it's absence.

    Oh, and a really great but probably difficult to implement feature would be a way to track my comments as on Last.fm.

    Now, back to the addiction. :D

    December 3, 2006

  • <@ZoFreX> goddammit

    <@ZoFreX> I forgot the definition of irony

    <@ZoFreX> so I went to look it up on Wikipedia

    <@ZoFreX> but Wikipedia is down

    <@ZoFreX> AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S IRONIC OR NOT

    December 3, 2006

  • I've started using this word to describe distortion-heavy garage rock a la Oblivians.

    December 3, 2006

  • OH SHIT WHO TOOK ALL MY GORM

    December 3, 2006

  • "Post" is probably my least favorite prefix. I like modernism, rock, and punk just the way they are, thanks; the claim that these "post-" genres go beyond it just seems like pretension to me. They don't call rock "post-jazz", after all.

    December 3, 2006

  • "Post" is probably my least favorite prefix. I like modernism, rock, and punk just the way they are, thanks; the claim that these "post-" genres go beyond them just seems like pretension to me.

    December 3, 2006

  • cockamamie

    buttress

    asinine

    Awesome list.

    December 3, 2006

  • I hope I'm not the only one who thought this was only a term from Vampire: the Masquerade...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antediluvians_%28World_of_Darkness%29

    ... I only played the Troika computer game! Don't look at me like that!

    December 3, 2006

  • Is there anything it CAN'T mean?

    December 2, 2006

  • dude

    fuck

    totally

    y'know

    oops

    fart

    niggardly

    December 2, 2006

  • post-rock

    December 2, 2006

  • Why does that make me think of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

    "We can't stop here; this is semicolon country!"

    December 2, 2006

  • Larry: Right, you. The one in the middle, what do you think?

    Second Writer: (panic) Er... er...

    Larry: Come on!

    Second Writer: Splunge.

    Larry: Did he say splunge?

    First and Third Writers: Yes.

    Larry: What does splunge mean?

    Second Writer: It means ... it's a great-idea-but-possibly-not I'm-not-being-indecisive!

    Larry: Good. Right. .. (to third writer) What do you think?

    Third Writer: Er. Splunge?

    Larry: OK...

    First Writer: Yeah. Splunge for me too.

    December 2, 2006

  • onomatopoeia that best describes Leper-chan: kapow!

    December 2, 2006

  • A late night gaming-derived word. From "I cake your tookies", which was said in relative seriousness (in that I did not realize the transposed letters) and became a recurring phrase among my friends. Because they're jerks. :D

    December 2, 2006

  • "One who pushes babies." Derived from Perambulator.

    December 2, 2006

  • ambulance (seriously, I have friends that still struggle with this one)

    December 2, 2006