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what fun would that be :ph34r: ?

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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mocteroof

Go ahead, guess what it means. No cheating now.

Give up yet?

The act of making produce look better quality than it is.

try that on your next trip to the grocery store :)

"If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777

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Hmm like wax on the veggies an beet juice in the ground beef?

sigh...

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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How about "OSWEGO"?

Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers....

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Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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How about "OSWEGO"?

Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers....

Bwahahahah!

I thought that was what was going on with "mocteroof."

Let's see now.... has anyone brought up "floccinaucinihilipilification"?

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Rivulet

mmm saucy....

is from Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus, "a brook, a stream."

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Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Today's word

Barratry:

In maritime law barratry is a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo.

Something any good pirate should know how to do :ph34r:

"If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777

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QUOTE (Red Cat Jenny @ Mar 29 2007, 10:08 PM)

How about "OSWEGO"?

Aye it's a place...but it would be fun if one were to attempt it with a mouth full of cereal or Ritz crackers.... 

Been there...Lived there...went to College there...fun place

But....can you say it with a mouthfull of Ritz crackers?

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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There's a new poster with the ID Jack an Apes, which I happened to know was wordplay, but I didn't know the actual meaning of the word. So I thought I'd enlightened everyone else with me:

jackanapes n. A conceited or impudent person. A mischievous child. Archaic. A monkey or an ape. [From Middle English Jack Napis, nickname of.]

:huh: What a great moniker! My hat's off to him/her. :huh:

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In a completely unrelated word matter, I came across a phrase this morning in Investor's Business Daily on a company that processes corn (Corn Products International - CPO) and I liked it so much that I have to repeat it.

"It will be disastrous for refiners if the summer's corn crop flops."

Corn crop flops! :huh: (The world is really so amusing. I bet they wrote that that way on purpose.)

"You're supposed to be dead!"

"Am I not?"

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Blamange... :lol:

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Today's word is plenum..

Because it looks cool..and you can't say it with a mouthfull of crackers

Also because the phonetic spelling..PLEH-nuhm..contains a variation of one of my oft used words.. Pleah

Plus if you were a small furry creature you might find one cozy and adopt is as your home.. and so that makes it cool.

There is no answer...this wasn't a question.. <_<

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My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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recherché (adj.)

1. Uncommon; rare.

2. Exquisite; choice.

3. Overrefined; forced.

4. Pretentious; overblown

Misson's persistence in switching user IDs to maintain Dread Pirate status is quite recherché. (You decide which meaning is implied.)

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde

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Aye, now here is a word you don't hear to often: Juggernaut - n. an irresistable force

Now that is interesting.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

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Flummox ... :huh: I just can;t imagine anyone really using that word...heehee

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Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Vichy...

as in shower.. :lol:

not soise...

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I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Petard - n. an ancient cannon or bomb attached to a gate or wall, to blow a hole in it.

B) One of my favorite lines in Hamlet Act III scene iv: Hoist with his own petard

A wonderful metaphor for being caught in a trap of one's own making.

However in further reading the word petard comes from the french pe'ter, "meaning to fart" and ultimately the Latin pedere which also has the same low meaning.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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I was watching the classic version of The Scarlet Pimpernel the other day and I noticed he kept saying "Odds fish!" So I wondered what that meant...

Noun: odd fish ód fish or odds fish ódz fish

1. Someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

So I am an odd fish. ;) In fact, we all are. ;)

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright

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