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on the list Passport to Upstate New York, pomegranate said:
"Prolagus, right you are. I've added them. Are you from Western NY?" more...
on the list Passport to Upstate New York, pomegranate said:
"Right you are! I'll add it." more...
on bhumibol adulyadej, pomegranate said:
"Next time you go to a Thai restaurant, look for a framed picture of a dark-haired, skinny, bespectacled guy with a well-decorated white military..." more...
on john alcock and arthur whitt..., pomegranate said:
"Who is the first to make a non-stop transatlantic flight? Charles Lindbergh, right? Wrong! These guys did it eight years earlier, flying from St...." more...
on lino lacedelli and achille c..., pomegranate said:
"You know Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, right? Of course... the first to summit Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. May 1953. ..." more...
on michael collins, pomegranate said:
"Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: first men on the moon, Apollo 11, July 1969. Michael Collins: orbited the moon in the command module, so the other..." more...
on william dawes and samuel pre..., pomegranate said:
"Even small children know of Paul Revere's midnight ride from Boston to Lexington to warn revolution leaders and people in general of approaching..." more...
on marketer's syndrome, pomegranate said:
"A learning disorder characterized by the inability to spell English words without shortening them ridiculously (e.g. "E-Z," "thru"), a tendency to..." more...
on favre's syndrome, pomegranate said:
"A pathological inability to remain retired" more...
on skitsophrenia, pomegranate said:
"A mental disease characteristic of thespians who take their jobs far too seriously" more...
on algoraphobia, pomegranate said:
"Fear of people who fear global warming" more...
on 7457, pomegranate said:
"This refers to "Proclamation 7547" by George W. Bush, made on July 25, 2001: ".... Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States..." more...
on undershausers, pomegranate said:
"(UND-erz-how-zerz) - underwear

I cannot remember where this word came from, but I have been using it for most of my adult life." more...
on shitfire, pomegranate said:
"An expletive to show frustration." more...
on the list Every college team deserves a good nickname (except Duke), pomegranate said:
"Tough to get excited about the nickname "Rockets," even if Slippery Rock does use it. "Mossy Granites" would have been better." more...
on the list On the rocks, pomegranate said:
"i.e. no-moss-gathering?" more...
on the list Every college team deserves a good nickname (except Duke), pomegranate said:
"Who are Rockets?" more...
on fried bologna, pomegranate said:
"C.NY, though I did move to W.PA (Cresson) for a short time after I grew up." more...
on virginians, pomegranate said:
"Three: one to put in the new bulb and two to reminisce about the old one." more...
on data, pomegranate said:
"plethora, if sionnach loses, I lose as well. "Data" is the plural form of "datum"." more...
on bohemian rhapsody, pomegranate said:
"Queen: "Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me" more...
on pancreas, pomegranate said:
"Al Yankovic: "My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely..." more...
on mrs robinson, pomegranate said:
"Simon and Garfunkel: "Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes. Put it in the pantry with your cupcakes." more...
on marrakesh express, pomegranate said:
"Crosby, Stills, and Nash: "Take the train to Casablanca going south blowing smoke rings from the corners of my m,m,m,m,mouth" more...
on you can call me al, pomegranate said:
"Paul Simon: "Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly, get these mutts away from me.... some roly-poly little bat-faced girl.... cattle in the marketplace" more...
on cows with guns, pomegranate said:
"Dana Lyons: "We will fight for bovine freedom and hold our large heads high" more...
on everything you know is wrong, pomegranate said:
"Al Yankovic: "They offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go and so I told them send me back to last Thursday..." more...
on teach your children, pomegranate said:
"Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: "Teach your children well; their father's hell did slowly go by...." more...
on scarborough fair, pomegranate said:
"Simon and Garfunkel: "Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme" more...
on ananym, pomegranate said:
"You mean "Bob"? "Anna"? "Eve"?" more...
on cup of tea, pomegranate said:
"yarb, I think we could all get jobs writing Old English gospel hymns if that's the best they can do." more...
on macaulay culkin, pomegranate said:
"I beg to differ! The two "Home Alones" were chock full of quotable lines, and most of them were Kevin's." more...
on cameltoe, pomegranate said:
"Excuse my idiocy, but which letter did you change?" more...
on sheetbend, pomegranate said:
"When I first heard the word "sheetbend" spoken, I thought I heard "sheepbend" and assumed that it was a knot that shepherds used for some reason." more...
on food crack, pomegranate said:
"I had thought when I first read it that it meant "mouth," as in the crack into which McDonald's food is mindlessly inserted." more...
on the list A Long, Strange Trip, pomegranate said:
"You're right, reesetee... great list! :-)" more...
on bob and leo, pomegranate said:
"It was an interesting morning... fruitful. But it lacked the intensity that you and I generate together. The sparks that we get one on one." more...
on statler and waldorf, pomegranate said:
"The two old guys in the balconey on "The Muppet Show" more...
on prozac na+ ion, pomegranate said:
"Very creative, I must say!" more...
on snot falling on cedars, pomegranate said:
"David Guterson's novel about Godzilla and the challenge of other Japanese Americans in the cold, wet rainforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula." more...
on the lion, the ditch, and the..., pomegranate said:
"Poor little Lucy Pevensie's wardrobe is garish and threadbare, but is that sufficient reason for Aslan and Mr. Tumnus to tread it underfoot and bury..." more...
on olives twist, pomegranate said:
"In this collaboration by Dickens and Steinbeck, we read the story of a poor young orphan migrant laborer in the orchards of the Sacramento Valley..." more...
on the boys of sumter, pomegranate said:
"Roger Kahn recounts the history of baseball at the great South Carolina Civil War fort." more...
on the taming of the screw, pomegranate said:
"Thus in plain terms: i not so very handy
Hath naught dexterity to pound a nail-
And so the screw. Its narrow groove doth mock me.
For am I he am..." more...
on of lice and men, pomegranate said:
"Too much "layin' in the hay" gives George and Lennie "a powerful itch" to move on to the next ranch before trouble can follow." more...
on primary dolors, pomegranate said:
"Working on the presidential campaign staff of Governor Jack Stanton is not exactly a walk in the park!" more...
on schindler's last, pomegranate said:
"Amon Goeth discovers Oskar Schindler's deception and picks Schindler off from his porch with a rifle as Schindler at morning muster picks out his..." more...
on paper loon, pomegranate said:
"Pale, emaciated sportwriter George Plimpton tries out at quarterback for an NFL team and barely lives long enough to write this tome about his..." more...
on the bald beginning, pomegranate said:
"Sunny is sensitive about her hairless pate, a word which here means the billiard-ball-like top of her noggin. In fact, she sharpens her canines on..." more...
on murder on the orient empress, pomegranate said:
"Agatha Christie's newest whodunnit. Can Anna's death be blamed on the jealous rage of the Thai king's wife or are more sinister forces at work?" more...
on wife of pi, pomegranate said:
"Now you've gone too far! People in adjacent cubicles are giving me baleful stares because my laughter is disturbing their work." more...
on qb vii, pomegranate said:
"Leon Uris' biographical novel about Denver Broncos' quarterback, #7, John Elway. No letter change needed!" more...
on men are from bars, women are..., pomegranate said:
"The differences between the sexes are far easier to understand than John Gray first thought." more...
on horton heats a who, pomegranate said:
"Dr. Seuss' elephant shows the Grinch how to prepare a Christmas meat far more delectable than roast beast." more...
on the two towels, pomegranate said:
"In this second book of the Tolkein trilogy, Samwise Gamgee gives Gollum a red cloth and Smeagol a blue cloth. These ostensibly are to more..." more...
on the red barge of courage, pomegranate said:
"Henry Fleming finds it easy to lose his yellow streak when he attacks the Rebs from a barge far out in the river with a score of long range cannon!" more...
on watership mown, pomegranate said:
"The caretaker finally mows the grass on the famous bunny hill. Fiver, Hazel, and the other residents now must come and go without any foliage to..." more...
on harry potter and the philoso..., pomegranate said:
"Harry, Ron, and Hermione use the marauder's map to get into the Hogsmeade Bakery, but an evil surprise awaits them there!" more...
on the old man and the sex, pomegranate said:
"Hemingway's last work of fiction is really a lament" more...
on dragon, pomegranate said:
"What Eragon rode" more...
on dunce, pomegranate said:
"That's a sandworm, you idiot!" more...
on the list Change one letter, pomegranate said:
"Hilarious damn list! Excellent!" more...
on this page intentionally left..., pomegranate said:
"But once you print it on the page, the page is no longer blank. You therefore must instead print "This page intentionally left blank, except for the..." more...
on waikikamukau, pomegranate said:
"Thank you, bilby and oroboros, for bringing this word to my attention! I flatter you by taking it as a word of my own!" more...
on eckyeckyeckyeckypikongzoopbo..., pomegranate said:
"uselessness, how you spell it is anyone's guess, of course... here's my..." more...
on eckyeckyeckyeckypikongzoopbo..., pomegranate said:
"The word that the "Knights who No Longer Say 'Ni'" say." more...
on the list metaphorical places, pomegranate said:
"sionnach, I love this list! For other Snicket fans out there, I recommend the addition of Briny Beach, the Mortmain Mountains, [Lake..." more...
on krummholz, pomegranate said:
"Note re "Getting high" list: I added this word at John's suggestion, and a fine suggestion it was." more...
on TheSuperiorBeing's profile, pomegranate said:
"Welcome, TSB. I hope you don't mind our shortening your name in our comments. Hey, it happens." more...
on the list Adoption agency, pomegranate said:
"Who're debbie and warren? Must they be adopted together because they are sibs? What if I just want warren?" more...
on the list Adoption agency, pomegranate said:
"So few of us Wordies. I don't mind there so few of us. It's not so easy to get lost in the sauce. Excuse me for being a cynyc." more...
on tooele, pomegranate said:
"Pronounced "too-WIL-la," although I prefer "toolie" more...
on the list Carolina on my mind, pomegranate said:
"No... I mean yes! So isolated and quiet. I slept on the beach once, and it was like I washed ashore and was the only person who'd ever been there. ..." more...
on the list State of the Union, pomegranate said:
"Great list, sionnach! How about the Oregon Trail?" more...
on the list Carolina on my mind, pomegranate said:
"skipvia, don't let out the secret about Ocracoke. Once people know about it, it will become Virginia Beach!" more...
on feck, pomegranate said:
"what feckless people do not have" more...
on hap, pomegranate said:
"what hapless people do not have" more...
on eyesome, pomegranate said:
"Handsome, toothsome, eyesome" more...
on nocuous, pomegranate said:
"vs. innocuous" more...
on spiteless, pomegranate said:
"vs. spiteful" more...
on regardful, pomegranate said:
"vs. regardless" more...
on the list Carry me back to old Virginia, pomegranate said:
"Boiled peanuts suck. I never tried the peanut soup. We used to eat the peanuts raw all the time, picking the leftovers from harvested fields before..." more...
on loblolly, pomegranate said:
"Loblolly is a pine species. "Thick gruel"? Puh-leeze!" more...
on the list Carry me back to old Virginia, pomegranate said:
"Personally, I was there for the pine. I worked for Union Camp." more...
on the list Carry me back to old Virginia, pomegranate said:
"Thanks for the suggestions! I added a few of them to the list. I actually considered Rappahannock for my original list, but as far as I can tell,..." more...
on palindrome, pomegranate said:
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?

A Toyota's a Toyota.

A dog, a panic in a pagoda." more...
on spotsylvania, pomegranate said:
"Wow, yarb. You are old." more...
on unalaska, pomegranate said:
"There's an Onalaska in Washington, but no Unwashington as far as I know." more...
on the list Excuse my French!, pomegranate said:
"bilby, this was also the French knight in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

"Yes, depart a lot at this time and cut the approaching any more, or..." more...
on the list Come fly away!, pomegranate said:
"Ha! Bilby, you apparently have never seen a penguin exit the water!" more...
on donut, pomegranate said:
"Actually, this one now appears in almost all English dictionaries, because after being bashed with it for five or six decades, the linguists have..." more...
on the list Proof that marketers are idiots, pomegranate said:
"Thanks for the additions! Skipvia, I also thought of the 'n', but I couldn't think of a good way to add it as a word. There's also "o'" as in "Bits..." more...
on goobles, pomegranate said:
"It's not my word, but it's my spouse's, and I love it! It is used for wet or messy things, such as spittle, lipstick, or sandwich drippings." more...
on monocausotaxophilia, pomegranate said:
"The mental state of a person who likes the "fair tax"?" more...
on the list War-die: Them, pomegranate said:
"Then there are spics, wops, dagos, polacks, micks, haolis (sp?), honkeys, and bigots!" more...
on kudzu, pomegranate said:
"In the South, the forensic investigators can calculate time of death by the density of the kudzu on the corpse." more...
on woolly, pomegranate said:
"Woolly" describes a forest stand so thick with underbrush that it is difficult to walk through." more...
on dihydrogen monoxide, pomegranate said:
"A very unusual compound that can cause death if present in either too small or too large quantities." more...
on dihydrogen oxide, pomegranate said:
"A very unusual compound that can be lethal if present in either too small or too large amounts." more...
on man-who story, pomegranate said:
"I had an economics professor who coined this phrase and used it to keep us honest. A man-who story is any line of logic that begins along the lines..." more...
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