Wordie: Plethora: Comments

Comment by bilby, about 1 month ago

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:34:04 +0000

"Although there is a strangely monotonous plethora of incident, the plots play continual variations upon a few themes and personages."
- Carl Van Doren, 'The American Novel'.

Comment by chained_bear, 3 months ago

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:26:45 +0000

Oh, ha, ha, ha!! I'm sorry for any discomfort, P_U, but this exchange kind of made me smile. :) Absolutely post your wordie (and Wordie) beautifulness here.

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 3 months ago

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:47:29 +0000

Oh, right. Thanks for that clarification! :-)

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:22:13 +0000

Uhh, I hope you realise chained_bear was referring to Dr Goodword, Possibubbles. By all means share your finds here, no harm in that at all.

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 3 months ago

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:38:00 +0000

Sorry...

Comment by chained_bear, 3 months ago

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:49:55 +0000

And... git.

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 3 months ago

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:51:20 +0000

oh...you did? I guess you all knew about it then. tee hee *blushes*

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:41:39 +0000

Undies, we discussed his list a while ago on beautiful.

Comment by PossibleUnderscore, 3 months ago

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:01:30 +0000

Hey--'plethora' is on the list of 100 Most Beautiful Words as chosen by Dr. Goodword (Robert Beard), who has been making dictionaries, creating word lists, and writing poetry for 40 years.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/100_most_beautiful_words.html

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:23:56 +0000

A note slipped from the folder. Your auntie sent it on to Uncle Jim. His clever grandson posted it on the internet. About your rabid putsch for control of the International Piñatomasochism League.

Sorry dude.

Comment by plethora, about 1 year ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:12:13 +0000

You want to beat me with a stick, bilby?

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:57:23 +0000

Can we have a piñata of plethoras then?

Comment by plethora, about 1 year ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:39:14 +0000

I don't think that you actually can have a plethora of piñatas. You can never have too many piñatas, in my humble opinion.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:53:11 +0000

Don't wibble, plethora. Your username gives good mouthfeel, no matter what Uselessness tagged it. :) (Or, you know, wibble all you want, as long as it makes you feel good.)

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:26:42 +0000

If you started with a plethora of piñatas, but your stock was decimated in a freak fire-ant infestation, would what you had left still constitute a plethora?

I like the term boatload myself. Or oodles. Or scads.

Comment by plethora, about 1 year ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:03:42 +0000

*reads comments*
*reads tag*
*wibbles*

Comment by Asativum, about 1 year ago

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:31:37 +0000

It essentially comprises the epitome of words that a plethora of people get wrong...

Comment by mollusque, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:48:10 +0000

The original meaning of "plethora" was overabundance of one of the humors, especially blood. Treatments included bleeding the patient, using leeches. So "plethora" is merely continuing its course of amelioration.

Has anywordie done a list of ameliorations or pejorations?

Comment by iangilman, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:58:22 +0000

As seen in a Cracked's '9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think'.

Comment by pheiticeira, over 2 years ago

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:04:21 +0000

Actually I think the association can be traced to the abundantly unfunny Dane Cook who used this it 4 times during a recent tour.

Comment by reesetee, over 2 years ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:14:17 +0000

Sellibee, I think everyone should own a copy of that movie. :-)

[plethora]

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:54:09 +0000

The Three Amigos. I should own this movie.

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:27:15 +0000

I've already commented on the overratedness of this word, but I should add that it's especially annoying when people emphasize the second syllable. It's "PLETH er uh," not "pleth OR uh."

dang someone beat me to the Three Amigo's quote. that's why i added the word to my list.

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:26:54 +0000

Comment by uselessness, over 2 years ago

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:00:20 +0000

Good quote, but this word is ridiculously overrated. I've grown tired of hearing all the kiddies at school saying it to one another as though it were a mark of intelligence. It's almost as bad as "epitome." Both words should be blacklisted for ten years, and then gloriously rediscovered.

Comment by benefactor, over 2 years ago

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:25:51 +0000

I think much credit for plethora's popularity should definitely go to the movie "The Three Amigos". Read:

Jefe: I have put many beautiful piñatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little surprises!
El Guapo: Many piñatas?
Jefe: Oh yes, many!
El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
Jefe: A what?
El Guapo: A plethora.
Jefe: ...Oh yes. You have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora!
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo, I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?

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