October 2008
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anyone else remember this?
a baloo is a bear.
a yonker is a young man.
to wuzzle means to mix.
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the most common third letter in a word in order of...
e, s, a, r, n, i
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one double lanted ale, please
for those of you that have trouble keeping your food down, stop reading NOW. i just looked up the word lant. apparently it’s fermented human urine that has a variety of <ahem> interesting applications.
Lant was also recommended to freshen the breath, to flavor ale (as in “lanted-” or “double-lanted ale”) and to glaze hard pastries. Lant was used in...
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a gas gripe
my gas pump gripe is not about the rising price of oil. i’m a member of the bourgeois and these things don’t really concern me. nope, my gripe is over the word refuel.
the prefix re- means “again.” so when i talk about refueling my vehicle, (which is an awesome 1999 toyota corolla BTW) i am simply stating that i am fueling it again. BUT SO WHAT? why does the verb fuel get...
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antipodes
when i started digging a hole in the sand in margate, nj back in 1986, the funny thing to ask if you were a member of my family is where i was planning to go. inevitably, the self-supplied answer was a predictable china, though occasionally it was an offbeat country that no longer exists like ceylon or zaire. perhaps if i had the stamina i could have tunneled myself to my antipodal point, that...
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our greatest grandfather
here are some words that i have been collecting that relate to family relationships. each term is the name for the father of the term preceding.
father
grandfather
ayel
besayle
tresayle
quatrayle
tritavus
your tritavus is your great-grandfather’s great-grandfather (and by extension and latinate first declension feminine endings, your tritavia is your great great great great great...
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you have reached the end of the line
there is no more ragbag. if you have made the perilous journey all the way back to this post, i would very much like to celebrate you by eating your favourite cheese. you can tell me what that cheese is in the comments section. i await your word, slut.
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update: the comments section is now closed on account of: profanity