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on bananaphone, kad said:
"noooooo! the bananaphone earworm begins again!" more...
on municipium, kad said:
"The Romans were so smitten with Zadar — the Old Town is a 400-by-1,000-meter peninsula (about 100 acres) framed by Adriatic islands — they gave..." more...
on bdelloid rotifers, kad said:
"small transparent animals that live in damp places such as puddles, or patches of moss" more...
on vibrissae, kad said:
"or walrus whiskers:

"...the stiff, sensitive whiskers that a walrus uses to search for bivalves through the seabed’s dark murk, and that feel like..." more...
on squananaphone, kad said:
"a telephone that looks, amazingly, like a banana and a squid." more...
on globaloney, kad said:
"...the ability to declaim for portentous minutes about the revolution in world affairs brought about by technological change/environmental..." more...
on the list A Long, Strange Trip, kad said:
"Strawberry Fields?" more...
on ecoanxiety, kad said:
"It was the subject of a recent cover story in San Francisco magazine that quotes a Berkeley mother so stressed out about the extravagance of her..." more...
on eat, pray, rove, kad said:
"The disillusioned Boy Genius seeks gastronomical and spiritual enlightenment on a journey to the world's most traveled places." more...
on the kite ruiner, kad said:
"The story of an Afghan boy haunted by the guilt of destroying his best friend's kite." more...
on angels and lemons, kad said:
"Dan Brown's suspense-filled tale of an attempt by the Illuminati to sell the Pope a Ford Pinto." more...
on human stain remover, kad said:
"Or is it someone who hates Phillip Roth?" more...
on run dry run, kad said:
"excellent!" more...
on the tag woty07, kad said:
"Thanks everyone :) Our wedding words list would probably be pretty short: city hall, snow boots, dinner. But this list continues to grow:..." more...
on aqua regia, kad said:
"Such a nice sounding phrase for what is actually extremely caustic stuff." more...
on idea hamster, kad said:
"I thought I'd discovered a bug on dictionary.com when this came up. Does anyone actually use this phrase?" more...
on the list Reasons to love the Steelers, kad said:
"cowher power! here we go!" more...
on baklava, kad said:
"see also: yummy" more...
on holy carp, kad said:
"can't believe this hadn't been listed until now! it's a colleen classic!" more...
on locavore, kad said:
"Nope, I'm a kiwi-eating, darjeeling-swilling eater of world foods. To me, coffee is the #1 reason not to be a locavore, with greek olives a close..." more...
on locavore, kad said:
"I've also heard locatarian as a way to describe the valiant few among us on the east coast who can forgo coffee." more...
on eye cap, kad said:
"Skipvia, did you actually witness such an eye popping event?" more...
on the list The Measure of Man, kad said:
"It's not arcane, but one of my favorite units of measure is the Sverdrup. In oceanography, it's a measure of the volume of water transported by a..." more...
on bobization, kad said:
"or systematically naming all men 'Bob'" more...
on pseudotribosphenic, kad said:
"From what I can gather, this is a type of tooth, a molar to be more precise.

Etymology: Pseudo, false, for superficial resemblance; tribos,..." more...
on next steps, kad said:
"perhaps each of us should have an action item." more...
on succotash, kad said:
"Or, as served in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, a dish that came in a box in the frozen food section and elicited groans from young children." more...
on excrescence, kad said:
"They had taken supper, an inedible excrescence, at a restaurant across the parking lot, in a booth beneath a faux Tiffany lamp, served by a spotty..." more...
on the list My Stupid Day, kad said:
"glad you had pad thai and mocha...they seem to balance out the passive-aggressive and the overcast." more...
on diluent, kad said:
"And kind of like an eluent--a substance used to separate different components of a solution." more...
on nanowrimo, kad said:
"thanks reesetee! i think i'd feel a sense of accomplishment if i even had a halfway decent paragraph of fiction by november 30, so there's not much..." more...
on puptuplet, kad said:
"I love it!" more...
on nanowrimo, kad said:
"I'm having pre-wrimo anxiety--trying to decide whether to go for it or not. It seemed like such a good idea back in July, but reality is setting in...." more...
on times, kad said:
"One of my pet peeves is when someone says 'you times the first number by the second' instead of 'you multiply the the first number by the second.'..." more...
on compersion, kad said:
"Sort of the good-spirited opposite of schadenfreude." more...
on jeez, kad said:
"i like "jeez louise" myself." more...
on the list expectant words, kad said:
"ew! though i wonder if there are enough synonyms for phlegm to constitute a list..." more...
on buwahaha, kad said:
"Is this how you spell the sound of Dr. Evil's laughter in 'Austin Powers?'" more...
on islets of langerhans, kad said:
"is there a road trip destinations list yet?" more...
on correlogram, kad said:
"a correlation graph that helps to reveal the characteristics of a time series" more...
on commensurable, kad said:
"I was surprised to find that this is actually a word. I'd always used commensurate, which basically has the same meaning." more...
on pit of despair, kad said:
"The Pit of Despair! Don't even think about trying to escape. The chains are far too thick. Don't dream of being rescued either."

--The Albino, in..." more...
on the list Misunderstood Lyrics, kad said:
"Until, uh, last night I thought that Belle and Sebastian were singing about louvredors rather than "louvre doors:"

"Now the centre of my so called..." more...
on goji berries, kad said:
"I can't see or hear 'goji berries' without hearing this guy in my mind:

..." more...
on electroporator, kad said:
I just received this email:
"We are in search of an electroporator capable of delivering 15V for 50 ms pulses that also has a plug for an external electrode. Thank you for your..." more...
on the list The Elements, kad said:
"kewpid, you also might enjoy this list" more...
on gloaming, kad said:
"Always makes me think of one of the saddest short stories I've ever read: 'In the Gloaming,' by Alice Elliot Dark." more...
on fumiferous, kad said:
"and 'fumi' would be a great nickname for a dragon :)" more...
on verbivore, kad said:
"Reminds me of the "Verbivore Challenge" on the radio show "A Way With Words," a cheesy show about words that was on KPBS when I lived in San Diego...." more...
on back door front, kad said:
"A weather front that slips in behind another." more...
on the list Strange Pennsylvania Place Names, kad said:
"Gnatstown reminds me of the Icelandic town of Myvatn (sp?), which translates to 'Fly Lake.' A beautiful little town, but unfortunately it is is..." more...
on sobriquet, kad said:
"me too!" more...
on the list funny place names in the garden state, kad said:
"Absolutely. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, not far from the Youghiogheny River. Unless I've been mispronouncing it my whole life, the first 'gh' is..." more...
on the list funny place names in the garden state, kad said:
"Thanks reesetee! Are you in the Garden State, too?" more...
on cheesequake, kad said:
"Very seriously. This is apparently a town, a state park, and a rest stop on the garden state parkway. Despite desperate attempts last weekend, I..." more...
on vagisil, kad said:
"If there's anything worse than having a yeast infection, it's having to buy a product called Vagisil to get rid of it." more...
on the list Misunderstood Lyrics, kad said:
"brenda renetti (instead of brenda and eddie in billy joel's 'scenes from an italian restaurant')" more...
on lowrider, kad said:
"This reminds me of one of my favorite misunderstandings of lyrics. A friend of mine thought that the singer of 'Lowrider' kept saying 'Low, dry dove,..." more...
on cuckquean, kad said:
"a female version of a cuckold." more...
on kouprey, kad said:
"a critically endangered ungulate found mainly in northern Cambodia." more...
on the list newspaper names, kad said:
"the rutgers university newspaper is the daily targum." more...
on morman, kad said:
"A Mormon who is also a man, e.g. Mitt Romney." more...
on vernix, kad said:
"A waxy white protective substance covering the skin of a fetus." more...
on youse, kad said:
"I love the 'How to Speak 19th Century' page! It reminds me of John's list of Olde Fashyned Slang:

http://wordie.org/people/John?wl=917" more...
on John's profile, kad said:
"dig the random word!" more...
on youse, kad said:
"there was a you'uns thread going..." more...
on square the circle, kad said:
"it's already been done. the result is the squircle." more...
on the list Stuffie: Lettuce Pray, kad said:
"go." more...
on freegan, kad said:
"I had always thought that it was the latter definition." more...
on the list Scavenger Hunt #1: Blanguage, kad said:
"blistering? as in a blistering review?" more...
on the list Klaatu Barada N... Necktie... Nickel . . . . Klaatu Barada Nahagablaga!, kad said:
"legendary chicken fairy, make my dreams come true!" more...
on eel, kad said:
"inconceivable!" more...
on you'uns, kad said:
"As in you'uns-guys goin' dahntahn? Watch the Stillers?" more...
on the list They Roll Off The Tongue, kad said:
"quixotic is my favorite (though it's not easy to choose with so many good words!). i like both the reference to a literary character and the way..." more...
on censoriousness, kad said:
"none of the letters stick up or hang down, and i dig that in a word. the dot of the 'i' is a bit troublesome, though." more...
on embranglement, kad said:
"Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun." -- Don DeLillo, Underworld" more...
on five by five, kad said:
"She's like this cleavagey slutbomb walking around going 'Ooh. Check me out, I'm wicked cool. I'm five by five.'" -- Willow, 'This Year's Girl'" more...
on the list Pittsburgh Words, kad said:
"jaggers, jaggerbushes, and recently learned that 'dippy eggs' are a pennsylvania thing." more...
on the list She Blinded Me With Pseudoscience, kad said:
"oh, also thought i'd suggest 'aromatherapy,' which my last dentist used in an attempt to make the cavity-filling process less stressful." more...
on the list She Blinded Me With Pseudoscience, kad said:
"It's amazing how easy it is to get a rise out of scientists -- I'm no exception :) Black sheep we may be, but plain old sheep, we are not. I think..." more...
on nick, kad said:
"as is mark." more...
on the list Bushisms: Where Wings Take Dream, kad said:
"uninalienable" more...
on the list glaciation, fluvioglaciation and periglaciation, kad said:
"moraine, kettle, pluvial lake" more...
on the list She Blinded Me With Pseudoscience, kad said:
"Um...'global warming' and 'power crystals' in the same category? The phrase 'global warming' may be vague, but the phenomenon is very, very real. As..." more...
on the list Pseudonyms, Or "What's in a Name?", kad said:
"sometimes finding lists like that on websites takes the joy out of compiling the list yourself (waiting for the end of 'car talk' with pencil in..." more...
on the list Pseudonyms, Or "What's in a Name?", kad said:
"lots of good ones on their website:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html

my favorite:
Curator of our French Armanents Exhibit..." more...
on the list I don't give a damn, kad said:
"joy, ruby, jewel" more...
on the list WoRd CHeMiSTrY, kad said:
"neat. it took me a minute to figure out what this list was, and now i'm madly trying to think of words to add to it :)" more...
on sic transit gloria, kad said:
fun fact
"Goldie Hawn's character in the movie 'Foul Play' was named Gloria Mundy." more...
on the list words of youth, kad said:
"and 'wicked' if you're in new england." more...
on the list Words Some People Can't Pronounce, No Matter How Often They Try, kad said:
"'realtor' often becomes 'reel-i-tur' when it should be 'reel-tur' or 're-uhl-tur.' as for vietnamese and spaghetti, i'm as perplexed as you are,..." more...
on the list ramona, kad said:
"uncle hobart, chevrolet (ramona's doll), picky-picky (their cat)" more...
on the list There is No 'X' in 'Espresso': Words Butchered by Americans, kad said:
"I often hear "supposably" instead of "supposedly." Then there's Oregon. How most of America can mispronounce the name of one of our own states is..." more...
on aidje's profile, kad said:
"Herpetophobia, while not specific to alligators/crocodiles is the fear of reptiles, amphibians, and other similar animals." more...
on saudade, kad said:
from wikipedia:
"Portuguese word for a feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future. It often carries a..." more...
on the list daisyladen's Words, kad said:
saudade
"This is one of my favorite words in another language for which we have no equivalent in English. From Wikipedia:

"...Portuguese word for a feeling..." more...
on the list the name game, kad said:
"pearl, ruby, sandy, mark" more...
on the list Words often used by stupid people to cover for the inability to articulate a full idea, kad said:
"There have been studies that show that your brain is very active when you're using hesitation words (such as "um"), so they're actually an important..." more...
on fnordy, kad said:
"creepy, very creepy" more...
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