Yesterday I used the word “pace” (in italics) when referring to something in the past that is related to the thing that is happening now. It was an email about an insurance policy and was a response to a lawyer’s pompous and dismissive email which contained the italicised words “mutatis mutandis” without context, or explanation – as if nothing further needed to be said.
Or something like that. Cos today I learned that Kenny Everett did the voice of Charlie the cat in the ‘Charlie Says…’ public information films. How did I not know that already?
Is it because I missed the “me” off the end (as in goodness gracious me)? Can’t see the problem otherwise..
…and “WTF” am I?!? I’m the eyeball that floats to the top of your soup and watches you with idle curiosity. Look out for me next time…because I’ll be watching you…
“Weird, weird shit”, apparently…I’ve been thinking about it.
While I think on, Moose, what was the video above? I got the “unavailable in your house” message. It seemed to pacify C. Stroker a bit, whatever it was…
chiz says
Supine
fitterstoke says
Terpsichorean
Mike_H says
Rebarbative
Moose the Mooche says
Affricative.
GCU Grey Area says
Labtebricole.
Gary says
Towel
hubert rawlinson says
Geoffbs7 says
Tuesday
Rigid Digit says
Clandestine
(but you ain’t read that, right)
retropath2 says
I wouldn’t mind some petrichor right now…..
Kaisfatdad says
arch
(as in playfully roguish or mischievous)
Used recently by TrypF to describe St Vincent’s concert.
Jaygee says
Catchfart
Baron Harkonnen says
borborygmi
dai says
covfefe
Gatz says
Phlogiston
hubert rawlinson says
I was only talking about dephlogisticated air this very weekend, as postulated by Joseph Priestley.
Boneshaker says
Hot.
Uncle Wheaty says
Crepuscular
the californian says
Sesquipedalian
Black Celebration says
Yesterday I used the word “pace” (in italics) when referring to something in the past that is related to the thing that is happening now. It was an email about an insurance policy and was a response to a lawyer’s pompous and dismissive email which contained the italicised words “mutatis mutandis” without context, or explanation – as if nothing further needed to be said.
fitterstoke says
Sounds like you showed remarkable restraint…
Black Celebration says
It was a subtle dig – and so subtle that I think it probably passed him by. As a non-confrontational coward, this is the best way to be.
thecheshirecat says
Palimpsest
duco01 says
Chthonic
Paul Wad says
Meowmwurrumgerummurrowmmyarunmurrum
Or something like that. Cos today I learned that Kenny Everett did the voice of Charlie the cat in the ‘Charlie Says…’ public information films. How did I not know that already?
Lunaman says
Pottingerism
fentonsteve says
Dull
Moose the Mooche says
Hurr
chinstroker says
To err is human
to arr is pirate
to hurr is Moose
Moose the Mooche says
A fat bloke is sitting somewhere in the jungle muttering…
…the hurrur…..
Bamber says
Referring back to the original post, I have long described petrichor as “the smell of Mother Nature’s armpit”, a veritable GM Hopkins I am.
As for my favourite word – today it’s uisce – the Irish for water, pronounced ishka and the root of the word whiskey.
retropath2 says
Bit like uisge, then, the Scottish Gaelic for the same and hence whisky.
Mike_H says
Another day, another word.
Protagonist
duco01 says
zeugma
a great word to drop in conversation
Moose the Mooche says
gamine
fitterstoke says
gamey
dadwardo says
Derailleur
retropath2 says
Embonpoint.
Moose the Mooche says
Jouissance.
mikethep says
Oo-er madame.
fitterstoke says
Aliquots
hubert rawlinson says
Dunning
hubert rawlinson says
Kruger
duco01 says
Litotic
retropath2 says
Mitotic
fitterstoke says
Stereoisomeric
duco01 says
Philtrum
Kaisfatdad says
Nice one, Duke. Something we all have but I suspect very few of us knew its name.
https://dentagama.com/news/the-philtrum
Then again I can’t imagine any context in which I would need it.
Bamber says
It’s useful (or its absence) in diagnoses of foetal alcohol syndrome.
Just me then?
retropath2 says
Hence the big tache?
Diddley Farquar says
Wasn’t he the pretty one in ELO?
Mike_H says
Today’s word:
gumbo.
retropath2 says
Which reminds me, there is a posthumous Dr John country record coming out soon!
GCU Grey Area says
Gasogene.
Jaygee says
Fandabbydozy
fitterstoke says
Allotrope
GCU Grey Area says
If there wasn’t a band called that, there should have been. Ditto ‘Triple Point’.
fitterstoke says
Triple Point sounds the title of a lost VdGG album.
Moose the Mooche says
Fusillage
Mike_H says
Folderol
duco01 says
Tragus
GCU Grey Area says
Aestivation.
Mike_H says
Bouillabaisse
Freddy Steady says
B Side of Davey’s on the road again, fact fans.
Moose the Mooche says
Recrudescence.
retropath2 says
Vellum.
retropath2 says
Dysdiadochokinesis
fitterstoke says
Well, if you will insist on modelling your leg movements on FYC guitarists…
retropath2 says
Respect!
fitterstoke says
Entropic
GCU Grey Area says
Ucalegon.
fitterstoke says
Algonquin
Mike_H says
Plebian
retropath2 says
Armageddon. And not just any word. THE word for these days.
Moose the Mooche says
RIGHT!!!
duco01 says
caesura
fitterstoke says
Simulacrum
Moose the Mooche says
Noisome.
chinstroker says
brouhaha
GCU Grey Area says
balderdash
fitterstoke says
ballyhoo
GCU Grey Area says
It’s only talk…
Junior Wells says
Clarithromycin
fitterstoke says
Good gracious!
I’ll see your clarithromycin and raise you an amphotericin B…
chinstroker says
You use a word like “gracious”. WTF are you? What kinda word is that?
Moose the Mooche says
All the weird shit on this thread and that’s what you call out?
chinstroker says
No that is weird. weird shit. Think about it.
Moose the Mooche says
Let’s put on some music while I’m thinking…
chinstroker says
Jay-zus it wasn’t me. It was that devil devil in me
chinstroker says
but what a rocking sound anyways
fitterstoke says
Eh?
fitterstoke says
Is it because I missed the “me” off the end (as in goodness gracious me)? Can’t see the problem otherwise..
…and “WTF” am I?!? I’m the eyeball that floats to the top of your soup and watches you with idle curiosity. Look out for me next time…because I’ll be watching you…
chinstroker says
Okay, alright. I like your definition of yourself.
It’s best not to the me too seriously, ‘Stoke.
duco01 says
oology
Junior Wells says
Ectoplasm
mikethep says
incunabula
fitterstoke says
Gracious
‘exclamation: gracious, used to express polite surprise, eg
“good gracious, that was close!” ‘
Moose the Mooche says
Weird
fitterstoke says
“Weird, weird shit”, apparently…I’ve been thinking about it.
While I think on, Moose, what was the video above? I got the “unavailable in your house” message. It seemed to pacify C. Stroker a bit, whatever it was…
chinstroker says
Oh go on!
Moose the Mooche says
It was Good Gracious, a fine nugget of post-bop from Lou Donaldson. Great cover image of him oggling a bord like a kind of jazz Kenneth Connor.
chinstroker says
Fabulous sound.
hubert rawlinson says
A word I learnt this week.
Toadpipe.
GCU Grey Area says
Oneiromancy.
fitterstoke says
Permeability
duco01 says
Ouroboros
Diddley Farquar says
Baggywrinkle
Moose the Mooche says
Underfelt
chinstroker says
Velvet underfelt?
Moose the Mooche says
Never knowingly.
fitterstoke says
sac
duco01 says
mnemonic
Junglejim says
Menticulture
fitterstoke says
Trousers
GCU Grey Area says
Abyssal.
Junior Wells says
Supercilious – Afterword Tshirt
Bamber says
Overstood
Moose the Mooche says
Cuniform.
duco01 says
anglet.
Moose the Mooche says
Postern.
fitterstoke says
ovoviviparous
duco01 says
shibboleth
hubert rawlinson says
and pickle
Moose the Mooche says
Effluvium
duco01 says
Samizdat.
fitterstoke says
obfuscation
Mike_H says
Blurt
fitterstoke says
stoichiometry
fitterstoke says
On reflection, perhaps the word for today should be:
Rickrolling
Moose the Mooche says
Rhomboid
duco01 says
Stentorian
Moose the Mooche says
Prurient
Moose the Mooche says
Nodule
fitterstoke says
Bof
chinstroker says
crapulence
duco01 says
vituperative
Rigid Digit says
frottage
Moose the Mooche says
Bint
duco01 says
Lapis lazuli (which I suppose is two words, if we’re being strict)
fitterstoke says
Three, if we’re being REALLY strict…
fitterstoke says
capacitance
Mike_H says
Crepuscule
fitterstoke says
…with Nellie?
fitterstoke says
scrimshaw
Moose the Mooche says
Flummoxed
duco01 says
Isinglass
hubert rawlinson says
Swimbladder
fitterstoke says
gorts
hubert rawlinson says
Sellotaph
dadwardo says
Calumny
Moose the Mooche says
Champerty
duco01 says
Crikey … there’s not too many words beginning with Cb….
Moose the Mooche says
Thank you!
duco01 says
Usufruct
fitterstoke says
rheological
fitterstoke says
Boak
See also: the dry boak…