Wordie: Story of a Missing "S": Comments

Comment by mollusque, 3 months ago

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:13:34 +0000

I miss uselessness!

Comment by reesetee, 3 months ago

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:22:34 +0000

You can "favorite" it, though. :-)

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:57:30 +0000

Oh dear. Houston?

Comment by jennarenn, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:48:31 +0000

You can't list a list on a list. So here I sit, listlessly wishing that somebody had listed this list as a specific word.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:47:00 +0000

Why can't you list this list on your conversations list?

Comment by jennarenn, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:32:12 +0000

It was beautiful, wasn't it? I wish I could list this list on my conversations list.

Comment by bilby, 3 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:59 +0000

*gobsmacked*

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:29:42 +0000

Wow, that was...poetic.

So you're saying this *isn't* all about me? ;-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:38:54 +0000

It's like watching an Indy 500 wreck in slow motion... and then rewinding to see it again and again. Fascinating; frightening; beautiful; and compellingly obscene. Even I morbidly look on as the disaster grows, sweeping across the lanes in a gruesome domino effect as it escalates a fender-bender into an angry, fireballing hundred-car pileup -- and I am internally torn between alternating swells of horror and fatherly pride.

Like any good car accident, it's never the fault of just one driver.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:57:37 +0000

It's the suppository thing, isn't it? It made everyone plain nutso.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:36:04 +0000

this list is dead to me now

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:20:38 +0000

Y'all are WAY too clever fer yer own goods! oof! (foo in reverse).

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:58:19 +0000

oh! Well! I . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:02:16 +0000

Did I open Pandora's box? I think not. Foo right backatcha! In fact, pfui Teufel! :-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:59:43 +0000

"Powers of its own?" Lookatchuself!! This is all your doing! And reesetee's, and oroboros'. But mostly yours. Foo.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:50:05 +0000

(ahem!) copulatory, aleatory, inhibitory, clerestory, dextrorotatory, investigatory. Also auditory, preparatory, circulatory, subdirectory,contributory, signatory, compensatory, reformatory, defamatory, congratulatory, peremptory, territory, ambulatory.

That's it. I am walking away from this list, which clearly has developed some kind of evil powers of its own.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:47:47 +0000

Hey now, that wasn't meant to be inflammatory! Just truthatory! I won't have violence on my listory!!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:21:10 +0000

Yikes! A shootout! I think I'll go work on a list somewhere....

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:10:42 +0000

You know U, first you doubt my sincerity, then you kick me while I'm down. Each time I let you have it. But you don't shit on a man's words. Not round these parts anyhow. Prepare to die.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:03:47 +0000

NOW you tell me.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:59:39 +0000

Probably one of AZ's. They don't count, you know.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:54:57 +0000

Really? I could have *sworn* I saw it on a Wordie list somewhere....

What?

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:53:18 +0000

That's not a word!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:50:07 +0000

You're being cookietory at a time like this??

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:44:58 +0000

*enjoys watching the tennis match*
Nearly choked on my cookie laughing at this...

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:34:55 +0000

And you're just jealoutory.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:30:13 +0000

Okay, now you're just showingoffatory.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:15:00 +0000

Yes, it will be delivered in manners speedilatory and unmercilatory, and (I hope against hope) its punitory effect will yield correctory results. I have such good parentory skills!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:48:46 +0000

No! Not corporaltory punishment!

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:46:10 +0000

It's a good list. It's a good child.

It's just spoiled rotten to the core, and needs a little loving discipline. *pulls out the spankpaddle*

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:44:01 +0000

Indeed, they are. And indeed, you shouldn't.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:25:43 +0000

Hey, sionnach's additions are terrific. I love that there is a list containing both depilatory and suppository. It's important never to confuse one of those objects with the other.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:11:25 +0000

This one's the wayward one, then?

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:02:30 +0000

Never!!! My lists are like my childrens!!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:29:51 +0000

You're going to have to drive a stake through its heart, I think. ;-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:26:03 +0000

...and yet it lives on.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:29:35 +0000

promontory, conciliatory, depilatory

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:23:24 +0000

I've created a monster!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:08:26 +0000

Perhaps you should rename the list "Frankenstein."

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:04:22 +0000

I must admit, my feelings toward this list are now somewhere between regretory and iwannabashmyheadagainsthewallifihearthatonemoretimeatory. What was I thinking?!?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:21:25 +0000

Touché, sionnach!

P.S. Copulatory plug? Barf!

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:42:09 +0000

Ever wonder if your kid's pet rat might be pregnant? Don't go palpating. Instead, why not check for that copulatory plug? Rats do it, spiders do it, iguanas etc. I knew that all those years of reviewing toxicology protocols would be useful for something - I can still remember the slightly nauseous feeling induced by first reading the phrase "copulatory plug".

http://ratguide.com/breeding/pregnancy/determining_pregnancy.php

Not as bad as the first concert I attended where the program featured aleatory music. But then, life is a crapshoot.

Clerestory windows, on the other hand, can be very soothing.

Finally, I think it is reasonable to suppose that Britain's Investigatory Powers Act, passed in the year 2000, has had an inhibitory effect on the freedoms of residents of that sceptered isle. I've heard that matters have taken such a turn to the right, it's screwing up their chemistry. Chiral molecules known to have been laevorotatory in the past suddenly flip to being dextrorotatory overnight.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:45:37 +0000

I exhort you for that suggestion!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:37:11 +0000

Exhortatory? And apologies for the earlier obfuscatoriness. ;-)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:28:27 +0000

Yes, sorry, it was obfuscated by all the fake words. :-)

And cunctatory just sounds dirty. But it's a good one -- added!

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:28:22 +0000

Also, with apologies for the delay, cunctatory

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:25:44 +0000

Doesn't obfuscatory make the cut? Enquiring minds...

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:03:52 +0000

Ooh, I do like that one. Thanks!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:54:15 +0000

Uselessness, just found another one: feretory. Apparently another word for reliquary.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:17:54 +0000

Sounds scrumptiatory.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:45:07 +0000

Foo, bub? This discussion is getting downright obfuscatory. It's giving me an appetite for some Italian food. Maybe some delicious chicken catch-a-tory.
(Instructions: first you have to hunt down your tory, then prepare them in a nice reduction of tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs and wine. One sleek, well-fed, Tory serves a party of twelve, according to P.J. O' Rourke's groundbreaking book "Eat the Rich")

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:32:27 +0000

Busted on RTFQ. I hereby retract, tory and story. foo.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:31:35 +0000

Oh dear, this list is quickly getting out of handatory.

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:05:02 +0000

Let's push for a retro-edit of Amadeus where Salieri uses "Foo."

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:00:09 +0000

Recalcitricatory? Why yes, how good of you to notice. It was definitely madeupatory--even fakeatory, if you will. But try pronouncing it a few times. Doesn't it sound hilariatory?

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:55:12 +0000

You mean recalcitricatory or purgatorial? Foo. (Not really. I just wanted to call someone a foo and you, sir (?), as Salieri says in "Amadeus," were at hand.)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:43:44 +0000

That word sounded... rather... madeupatory?

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:22:14 +0000

God. This list is purgatorial.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:02:43 +0000

Sorry. Were we being recalcitricatory?

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:47:08 +0000

My directions were explicatory.
"Word endings" are indicatory of suffixes, not entire words.
To think otherwise compromises the compilatory nature of this list.
Don't make me reprimand you in a more compulsatory manner.
Your recalcitrance will go down in history.
Foo.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:56:18 +0000

Foo, chained_bear. Clearly you didn't read the ever-so-explicit directions. Words that END in -tory (emphasis mine).

Well, okay, technically, Tory also ends in -tory. But really. Are we picking nits here or what?

Eew. I just grossed out my own self.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:44:41 +0000

Do we not like Tories? I mean, what's wrong with tory? Besides that it's rightfully a proper (i.e. capped) noun?
p.s. "foo" made me laugh out loud.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:12:23 +0000

You know, "expectatory", like when you're trying to cough up one more word. In my defence, (or, if you prefer, "in exculpatory vein"), I'd already come up with a bunch, and anyway, my interest in the topic is really desultory, at best .
Personally, I prefer "exploitative" as the adjectival from, 'exploitatory' sounds more like a political strategy.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:36:13 +0000

Oh, that WAS smooth, sionnach!

Expectatory?

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:44:24 +0000

Nice try, bub. :-)

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:37:06 +0000

Not contributing out of any kind of expectatory sense as far as winning anything; I just loves the wordies.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:27:14 +0000

Suggestions added. But you ain't won nuttin'. How you 'spect to beat out s'pository? Foo.

oroboros, on the other hand, loses for thinking tory and story count on this list. :-P

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:25:12 +0000

rectory; story; directory; tory

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:14:55 +0000

derogatory, supererogatory, minatory, interrogatory, accusatory, valedictory, contradictory, victory.. oh god, get this out of my head already - I can't look at these words anymore.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:08:06 +0000

Uh oh--must be another winner sionnach has in mind. ;-)

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:43:44 +0000

olfactory, satisfactory, unsatisfactory, laudatory, hortatory, refectory. I'll stop now.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:53:38 +0000

LOL, suppository for the win!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:29:16 +0000

Thanks! Well then, umm...suppository? (blushing)

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:21:39 +0000

No need to stop! Those were great! I'm pretty much at a loss to think of any more... though I'm sure there are plenty I've missed.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:16:13 +0000

Great list idea. How 'bout nugatory, transitory, lavatory, or predatory? Wait! Dormitory! Repository!

I'll stop now.