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on funambule, colleen said:
"French: tightrope" more...
on mamihlapinatapai, colleen said:
"featured on Kottke.org today!" more...
on the list mojo, colleen said:
"thanks apepch7, but Hecate isn't traditionally associated with American folk magic, which is the purpose of this particular list." more...
on asshaberdashery, colleen said:
"the art of being an asshat." more...
on the list junk drawer, colleen said:
"mollusque, this is both a general 'things that might be found in one's junk drawer' and a pastiche of all the junk drawers I have loved before...." more...
on the list a little carrot over the 'a', colleen said:
"HAH. you had me going for a minute. I need more coffee, clearly." more...
on the list a little carrot over the 'a', colleen said:
"a cheerio? really? O.o" more...
on the list a little carrot over the 'a', colleen said:
"wiki tells me that hacek = caron! *adds*" more...
on the list a little carrot over the 'a', colleen said:
"thank you, Prolagus! a memory from when I was (badly) learning Slovak... :)" more...
on dictionary of the khazars, colleen said:
"Oh, I love this book, these books, Pavic is possibly my favorite writer in the world.

sionnach, the difference is a paragraph which changes..." more...
on the list the worshipful company of haberdashers, colleen said:
"frindley, that is the best idea I've heard in forever." more...
on ursinanity, colleen said:
"a state of being. a state of mind.

compare: humanity" more...
on the list Adoption agency, colleen said:
"maybe this place would be less of a tip if I had some quality office girls." more...
on radar range, colleen said:
"aka microwave oven." more...
on spelt, colleen said:
"1) past tense of spell

2) dreadful-tasting wheat product" more...
on ekphrasis, colleen said:
"that's the one!" more...
on ekphrasis, colleen said:
"reesetee, apparently we get the same newsletter. :)" more...
on the list metaphorical places, colleen said:
"Lower Shebobia is a real place in Nova Scotia... I think. :D One of my colleagues uses it to refer to any place remote, which is (pardon..." more...
on the list Demonyms, colleen said:
"in New Orleans, folks from St. Bernard parish, specifically Chalmette, are called chalmations." more...
on guillemets, colleen said:
"« »" more...
on pilcrow, colleen said:
"¶" more...
on the list exposure, colleen said:
"SUCH a drag, life without Wordie..." more...
on the list the worshipful company of haberdashers, colleen said:
"thanks, bilby! that's a good one!" more...
on the list exposure, colleen said:
"Rumors of my death &c &c, bilby! Please feel free to drop suggestions on any of my lists. If I'm going for a specific gestalt in my own mind, I may..." more...
on the list exposure, colleen said:
"Hey, reesetee! I'm just getting started on it, I've been so busy that I hadn't had time to properly Wordie. Hope to correct that soon..." more...
on colleen's profile, colleen said:
"thanks, adrift! you're off to a great start yourself!" more...
on tragedian, colleen said:
"Does it not also refer to actors who perform said tragedies? The singers of goat songs, as it were?" more...
on John's profile, colleen said:
"oh! and one more thing, re what mollusque mentioned: in Firefox you can also navigate your tabs with ctrl-page up and..." more...
on John's profile, colleen said:
"reesetee, I don't know when I started saying holy carp but it was probably around the same time I started saying oh my dog.

A bit late on it,..." more...
on John's profile, colleen said:
"Holy carp, John, I was away awhile and the layout tweaks you've made in that time are fantastic. I'm off to poke the site with a sharp stick and see..." more...
on booger, colleen said:
"My mother is Irish and doesn't say booger, she says bogie; when I was small and picked up this word at school (as an insult) she thought I was..." more...
on ferengi, colleen said:
"Well, you COULD spit it at people! To each their own. :D" more...
on the list Pastas I have loved, colleen said:
"John, I'm thiefing some of these for my maccheroni list. there are so many I missed!" more...
on ferengi, colleen said:
"Originally it's a Persian name for white people -- feringhee or farangi. It was used in India as a slur for English people up to a point as well...." more...
on frau bleucher, colleen said:
"I have a couple of those resources in my del.icio.us, uselessness, for the occasions that I can't remember either the html or the ALT code." more...
on the list frenchois, colleen said:
"Being picky about fake French brings me to a new low, so I think it's time for bed. :D

(Bonne liste!)" more...
on advertising, colleen said:
"Doing the backstroke through your piles of gold!" more...
on the list frenchois, colleen said:
"should it not be Jacques Penné avec le lettre c?" more...
on frau bleucher, colleen said:
"c_b, apparently the uml tag only works on vowels. I was just now trying to make a Spinal Tap joke and it refused to put the umlaut on the n where it..." more...
on advertising, colleen said:
"Is it a time zone issue, perhaps? Do you have to set the default time zone?

Anyway, it looks all right to me. It's not terribly intrusive and I..." more...
on frau bleucher, colleen said:
"CB:

ü

& u uml ;

without the spaces" more...
on nerf herder, colleen said:
"Hee. Oh, UD. User-generated content at its finest." more...
on lamp, colleen said:
"And the award for most chavtastic sentence on Wordie (so far) goes to..." more...
on nerf, colleen said:
"Unrelated to nerf herder, one of the greatest insults in the galaxy." more...
on features, colleen said:
"John, I just happened to notice on Facebook that you mentioned ads? Would that be as in advertisements?

edit ah, question answered by..." more...
on sugar bush, colleen said:
"Also called a sap bush in some parts." more...
on nadir, colleen said:
"If I was to make a list of words learnt from "Bloom County," this would be on top of it." more...
on aurify, colleen said:
"To Do: alchemy list." more...
on coke, colleen said:
"skipvia, all you had to do was say Cheerwine and we'da known what state you was from. ;)

I believe that strictly speaking soda has..." more...
on coke, colleen said:
"You say "regular." more...
on the list Tunie: French Perfume, colleen said:
"It is a gorgeous turn of phrase, yes. I do love GBS. :)" more...
on black dog, colleen said:
"I think that Dr. John does as well!" more...
on moot, colleen said:
"I geeked out mightily for a moment, there, huh?" more...
on the list Tunie: French Perfume, colleen said:
"Eee, I love this song. Awesome list. :)" more...
on wordie funs language, colleen said:
"Ah, that was me, John, on misuse. :)" more...
on moot, colleen said:
"Yes, actually "Rohirric" is just Anglo-Saxon, or Englisc, if you prefer. :)

Has anyone done a Tolkien list?" more...
on moot, colleen said:
"There is also the Old Entish meaning..." more...
on john thomas, colleen said:
"Some days I check the comments feed and I wonder, I really wonder." more...
on the list Words often used by stupid people to cover for the inability to articulate a full idea, colleen said:
"Hmm. Where you lose me is at the assessment "stupid people." A number of phenomenally intelligent people are terrible at verbal communication." more...
on the list words from the German, colleen said:
"And since I'm at it, as for mesmerize, mesmerism appears to come from the surname of one Austrian Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer, who came to live..." more...
on the list words from the German, colleen said:
"This is where a citation would've been handy -- I completely agree with sionnach, but out of curiosity I checked the OED to see if there was someting..." more...
on hajj, colleen said:
"the Fifth Pillar of Islam: pilgrimage to Mecca" more...
on sawm, colleen said:
"the Fourth Pillar of Islam: fasting during Ramadan" more...
on zakâh, colleen said:
"the Third Pillar of Islam: giving alms" more...
on salah, colleen said:
"Second Pillar of Islam: prayer" more...
on shahadah, colleen said:
"the First Pillar of Islam: profession of faith." more...
on salah, colleen said:
"John, thanks for reminding me to add the rest of the pillars." more...
on umfundisi, colleen said:
"I'm pretty sure the title of the book is Cry, The Beloved Country." more...
on the list A Long, Strange Trip, colleen said:
"final destination, ultima thule?" more...
on John's profile, colleen said:
"appears in lists" IS vawes but it doesn't seem to work for words listed by only one person?

and I'll pass on the sandwich and have a tea,..." more...
on the list These are permanent winds that live in the present tense, colleen said:
"thanks, trivet! I have a Thing." more...
on carribean, colleen said:
"There but for the grace of spellcheck go I." more...
on carribean, colleen said:
"Now I should like it very much if someone would teach me how to remember the correct spellings of Cincinnati and Mediterranean. :D" more...
on carribean, colleen said:
"The mnemonic I was taught to for spelling this was to remember the "carib bean grows in the caribbean." more...
on the list This is one lame-ass list., colleen said:
"and then two seconds after posting the below I get an email:

today is weirdassed." more...
on the list This is one lame-ass list., colleen said:
"I'd rather have a lame-ass list than a broke-ass list." more...
on black dog, colleen said:
"Mm, yeah. That would be the rougarou, if she was down thattaway..." more...
on black dog, colleen said:
"Point!" more...
on the list Favourite Fonts, colleen said:
"I didn't add font names to my own typography list, or I'd have been here for years. This list is lovely." more...
on black dog, colleen said:
"You'd be amazed what you find in Mississippi." more...
on symbology, colleen said:
"Now, I thought symbology was some wanky term that the writer of "The DaVinci Code" coined as a synonym for talking shite. :D" more...
on pants, colleen said:
"Pants" is also an expression of badness, such as, "I'm pants at checkers." or "This day has been absolute pants." more...
on black dog, colleen said:
"It's just a death portent, like the "Hound of the Baskervilles." Sometimes just seeing it is enough, sometimes it, pun intentded, dogs you a bit..." more...
on crocs, colleen said:
"Just don't wear them on an escalator!" more...
on vaccicide, colleen said:
"Kewpid, would that be killing of vegans?

*innocent face*" more...
on vaccicide, colleen said:
"Murder of cows" is a nice visual pun, though, isn't it?" more...
on isfahan, colleen said:
"Yes, Esfahān nesf-e jahān ast." more...
on trout, colleen said:
"Well! Now I know. :)" more...
on the list her goddamn Bokhara rug, colleen said:
"faraway, I missed this comment, sorry! Thank you! I have a bit of a thing for that book, and for Rushdie in general. :)" more...
on smacked ass, colleen said:
"I imagine it has to do with being red...?" more...
on the list Zee Germans, colleen said:
"jochen, did you know you can leave your quote on the word itself? :) Great list!" more...
on trout, colleen said:
"But fbharjo, they haven't any teeth..." more...
on trout, colleen said:
"Personally, I always think of Kilgore..." more...
on scrutator, colleen said:
"Would that be "SCREW-ta-tor" or "screw-TATER"?" more...
on colleen's profile, colleen said:
"Thanks, 82! You will find that I make all kinds of hands. ramblehands, gimmehands, explainyhands... although offline they do look rather like the..." more...
on runcible, colleen said:
"TRUE. It is an old-timey madeupical word!

You're going to have to accept that you've been living a lie." more...
on runcible, colleen said:
"This word is, in fact, madeupical." more...
on the list Redundant and Repetitive, colleen said:
"PAST HISTORY. *shakes people by the lapels*" more...
on the list Redundant and Repetitive, colleen said:
"Oh, I remember now! The question, by nurse, doctor or other healthcare worker, "Do you have a past history of n?"

Drives me batshit." more...
on the list Redundant and Repetitive, colleen said:
"Did I? I may have. I don't remember either, reesetee! :)

Speaking of things that I don't remember, there's a redundancy I hear in the doctor's..." more...
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