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PhilHunt
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 Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:05 pm
Along the lines of Erik's Grailway.
Idle Worship - Idolatry for the lazy
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Erik_Kowal
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:26 am
Loiterature - The merchandise that airport bookshops pacify you with during a 4-hour layover.
Avomination - A cat's infuriating habit of throwing up all over your freshly-cleaned carpets.
Orchasm - The discrepancy between a romantic fantasy and the disappointing reality.
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Phil White
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:45 am
bawdlerize - To gratuitously insert obscenities and lewd descriptions into classical literature in order to spice it up for modern schoolchildren.
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Erik_Kowal
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:22 am
Very nice, Phil.
But the little blighters will download the bawdlerized classics to their iPhones only after they have finished sexting each other during English; some of them may do so before the main part of the class spurts off to the local park for a spot of après-school dogging.
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Erik_Kowal
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:32 am
Blablacadabra – The jargon of magicians.
Ankhlave – A camp established by Egyptian archaeologists.
Whingeing streak – What the majority of Britain’s population is permanently on.
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Erik_Kowal
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Tue May 05, 2009 9:49 am
Arlington Specter – Name given to a doughty old warrior who stages an unexpected return from near-oblivion.
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Shelley
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Thu May 07, 2009 10:25 pm
Erik_Kowal wrote: Whingeing . . . How do you pronounce this word, Erik? Does "whinge" rhyme with "wine", "wing" or "hinge"?
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Erik_Kowal
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Re: Twisted definitions Posted on: Thu May 07, 2009 11:22 pm
Hinge.
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