I was doing Three Sisters by Chekov and we would play music backstage before the audience arrived. One day I brought my Monty Python Sings tape. Everything was going fine, everyone laughing and having a good time and occasionally singing along, until the children's chorus came up during Every Sperm Is Sacred.

That stage manager really needed to learn how to loosen up.

We were discussing playing "Every Sperm is Sacred" during the set up for Sister Mary. *grin* It's sacrilicious!

You're doing Sister Mary Ignatius? Cool - I love that play.

Break a leg, Obs!

Excellent, Obs! I love Durang's plays, and not just because I share his birthday. :)
Break a leg.

You don't need a box and a board and cards an'etc. to play Balderdash. Back when I was a lad, we had a game called "Dictionary." It was played with pencils and paper and...wait for it...a dictionary. One player would trawl the dictionary for a candidate word; everybody would write a definition, and then they'd all vote. Some game manufacturer smelled a profit and just eliminated the search step by printing up a bunch of cards. You don't even need a particularly fancy dictionary--the OED is great if you've got it, but even the Merriam-Webster Collegiate has good words in it. Why, on just one page I've found thuja, thurl and thyratron--any of which would be great Balderdash words.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, by accident and happenchance.

I don´t know, I think the wait for a new and enjoyable presidential pseudo-word is very fun. My college democratic newsletter prints a collumn of weekly bushisms, which are funnier than the student-written comics, usually. the oral sex is not sex conundrum was amusing but overworked. Were it not for the slight fear that a new pseudo word or paraphrased bible quote will spark an international incident even more extreme than the one we already have, I would say hands down that Pseudo-words of our beloved leader should be given their own cable timeslot.

pseudowords, but David Letterman often does a bit called "The George W. Bush joke that's not a joke", Or 'Smile' or 'strange saying' ('Hi Elaine' was one, said before a speech). It's not funny in print here, but it's hilarious on TV. They're usually 30 second clips.

Occasionally he does accidentally come up with a really good psuedowork. My Dad's favorite is "misunderestimate".

--'Tebri mir-asihntose. Et vokala banana keronse.'

I love board games. There, I said it. Actually, I'll take card games, too. Well, let's just say I love games in general. That should take care of most of them. My current favorite is Spite & Malice, a variation of SkipBo but with normal decks of cards.

And Umrguy, I thought Floogle involved just tossing your hands over your head, not actually covering your ears. Must go check. OK, CITYBagel says it's "put one's hands over one's eyes and sigh deeply," so now I'm totally lost as to what the original meaning was. Guess we could just say it's any of the above, huh?

*grin*

I meant eyes, obviously I screwed up in transposing it. Should've been eyes. I'll fix it in a moment.

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

Two dork point possiblilities:
1 dork point to anyone who can tell me without a dictionary which three root words in the english language begin with DW...

...and
1 dork point to anyone who knows why we use the word ¨galore¨ unlike any other English word.
Example: ¨There were problems Galore with that one.¨ works but ¨there were problems Lots with that one.¨ Does not work.

I got dwarf and dwindle, but I didn't get dwell. But how about dweeb? That's accepted usage these days, isn't it?

I'm very curious about 'galore', though. And that -er question too.

One dork point for anyone who can tell me the original meaning of the word "dork."

...Nah, it's too obvious. Half a dork point.

(*crosses legs, looks uncomfortable*) Um, Uh, "Dweezil"?

I remember reading in The Prehistory of The Far Side book when I was about 12 years old that dork was just a slang for "penis," not specifically one belonging to a whale. I battle this point to this day. =) (But please, if I'm proven wrong, let me know.)


--Trent---

Whale penis, I believe.
At least, that's one meaning. And no, I don't believe this just because I grew up in Alaska.
*grin*

Isn't "schmuck" yiddish for "horse penis," or something? Hm. I think my brother told me this, and he's not exactly a reliable source of trivia. He told my sister and I (when we were little) that daddy longleg spiders were "turantulas, and they'll suck your blood!" Oh, the terror.

Actually, the "schmuck" is what's left over after a bris.

And the bris is the ceremony that culminates in the mohel performing a circumcision. I'll let you figure it out from there.

Did you hear about the Rabbi who didn't get paid for circumcisions??
He only took tips
Ahhhh whadayou know from funny. __ " ...And Mr. Stiggs is trying to kill fish with his mind..."

it was a Moehl (sp?) tim. But still an off-color, politically incorrect, on-topic joke.
1 OCPIOTJ pt.

...Matt got it right: mohel.

It's just two comments up, guys.
*gryn*

It's transliterated (aka "spelled out") from Hebrew, so although there's an "accepted" spelling, if it sounds right it still gets the point across. :*)
A good example of this is Yahweh... the original word does not actually have any vowel sounds, because it's supposed to represent the Unnameable.

Baskets of stones, five dollars! Get your basket of stones!

-Jn-
Rock-Throwing Hermit and Stoning Supply Vendor

that was a meal good enough for Jehovah ...


Jehovah Jehovah Jehova ...



Good Shot!

daen - but I keep switching from threaded to flat list, so looking '2' comments up doesn't always work.

One of them's dwindle. I'd sure like to know the other two.

"Galore" is used like a Latinate adjective, modifying after the noun. I have no idea why. It's also a lot less formal.

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English with three consecutive double letters.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed only with the left hand.

Dwindle, dwell, dwarf.

"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be typed using the top row of the keyboard.

Here's a puzzle: in English, many verbs can have the suffix "-er" added to them to turn them into nouns meaning "one who [verb]s" (such as eat/eater, run/runner). However, there is one verb in the English language that ends in "-er" such that when you remove the "-er" you are left with a noun meaning "one who [verb]s". What is the word pair?

No, augh, did you ever tell us the answer to this verb-noun thing? (Or do we have to figure it out ourselves?)

--Trent---

Dweomer, of course.

And Mycroft says "Dwemeanor".

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist

oh, no... we can't have mycroft reading/contributing to this site. it's just not allowed. there will be... repercussions. just - no. i mean, remember what happened when... it's... dammit, man, we've been through this!

of course, if it's just in an 'over the shoulder' kind of way, i don't suppose there's much the goons can do. heh.

Just be careful Joe, cause you know steff and the IP goons. She can be onerous, nay, even obdurate when she dispatches them.

here's the not-so-secret secret: joe's not in the least scared of me. and for good reason... he knows the password. music, savage beast, and all that.

besides, who the hell did ya think i bought the goons FROM? mine were too busy talking obs into letting them hot-rod the cleavagemobile, picking up guys and talking them into buying them funny-sounding drinks and shoes, and reading tomes on quantum physics, italian cuisine and eastern philosphy (which, they tell me, interconnect in some achingly lovely ways).

of course, there was that pair of twin goons who were trying to start the singing-telegram/catburglary business with the hedgehog army, who, it should be noted, have defected to sluggy's camp.

we need a chart, don't we?

Why confuse things with documentation?
Words to live by.

I thought the passerby ones eventually showed up. But here it is, um, days later and no show. I realize they need to be moderated, but dang girl - how long does that take!?! Grin.

And I can't remember what I even posted, but it was darned trenchant. Pithy even.

I think you need to remember that you have to post it after you preview it. Otherwise it goes to data heaven.

No anonymous post has shown itself in the new format. They await approval--and as you tell us, your daughter is very, very busy. No criticism, there, just a fact. Eve has a life, and that's a good thing, because if she never got out, she'd never overhear anything, and then where would we be? Er, my point. Oh, yes, my point! My point is that it probably wasn't any mistake on Eileen's part that kept the post from appearing.

Saint.

Oh, so that's how you got the name.

Actually, I am pretty sure I did preview and then post, but I'm not entirely ruling out the possibility that ParU is correct and I made a boo-boo.

After all, in an infinite universe, anything is possible. Even that I might make a mistake.

;-p ;-b ;-p ;-b

I had a sarcastic, way-to-belittle-a-regular-poster response, but I had to go before I could actually compose it. When I got back, Saint had filled in the needed "She's no simpleton" response, but was nicer about it than I would've been, so all good things, I guess.
uh...yeah.

But I have to confess, the post as it stands has been edited for content. The original was pretty harsh. So after a bit, I decided I didn't really need to insult the Unit to defend theEileen, and I changed it.

That last post was by me. I'm still trying to a) remember to log in and b) what the heck my password is.

The Eileen

oops - this is confusing because my "passerby" post hasn't passed through the moderator. But eventually it'll post. And it'll be by me.

hehehe.... goooood point. i only make these suggestions to cover my tracks, after all.

dwive and dwat.
( insert Elmer Fudd laugh)
__ " ...And Mr. Stiggs is trying to kill fish with his mind..."