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« Reply #1995 on: February 09, 2012, 03:47:02 PM »


Shrewtamery:  Tact applied in a popular Shakespearean myth of the late 16Th Century.  That, "..Taming of the Shrew", gave false hope to the less savvy males of the day and many tried, cried, and died as a result of attempting to change women for "the better" [their opinion, not mine, so don't come after me].

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« Reply #1996 on: February 10, 2012, 04:31:21 PM »

bunionics: The study of foot deformities caused by students repeatedly kicking locked classroom doors in a desperate attempt to escape "boring" lectures.

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« Reply #1997 on: February 11, 2012, 10:22:07 AM »


gluteus sarcophagus:  Any coffinlike item, compartment, or chamber that has been secured with glue, as differientiated from those having been sealed with nails, latches, or other hardware fasteners.  Who knew?

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« Reply #1998 on: February 12, 2012, 07:02:43 PM »

cowlquim: Ny-quil for bovine patients. 

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« Reply #1999 on: February 13, 2012, 12:43:13 PM »

eewee: the throaty chortle of an ungulate.

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« Reply #2000 on: February 14, 2012, 02:22:01 AM »

gastaecean: Faux biological term used to describe the organisms living today whose remains will become the world's fuel supply in several million years.

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« Reply #2001 on: February 14, 2012, 11:53:14 AM »


gloraxial:  I was not able to find a definition for gloraxial; however, I was able to find a firm name, recorded in Vatican Library, Public Records Newsletter Incomunicado, for GLORAXIAL, with a notation that the company is the newly named cable and cable services provider for The Devil Incarnate.

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« Reply #2002 on: February 14, 2012, 02:13:31 PM »

irenty: The irony that Tim Pawlenty, the first candidate to exit the Republican primary, would probably be the only respectable candidate now if he had stayed in the race.

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« Reply #2003 on: February 14, 2012, 02:40:04 PM »

dillaquongitudinal: The direction in which slices of dill pickles spin when rotated in a jar of juice.

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« Reply #2004 on: February 16, 2012, 04:35:23 PM »


hypochasism:  A belief system involving voices from the deep, sounding forth at seances, held aboard watercraft, steadied in the vicinities of watery graves.

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« Reply #2005 on: February 16, 2012, 06:11:41 PM »

avealin: Violin like musical sounds made by certain species of birds

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« Reply #2006 on: February 17, 2012, 07:20:51 AM »

santoropithecus:  The genus name for a species of politician seeking to return the United States to a cultural stone age, particularly with regards to women's reproductive freedoms.  The most commonly encountered example of this genus is Santoropithecus frothicus.

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« Reply #2007 on: February 17, 2012, 02:32:00 PM »

synophedrin: "Scientific" terminology for bath salts and other products that "aren't really drugs" but do the same things as drugs.

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« Reply #2008 on: February 17, 2012, 03:01:33 PM »

zillwhanger:  Any low down, rotton, hornswoggling, back biting/stabbing, devious, insidious, crooked, mean, improper, illegal, despicable, dirty, cheap shot or information gathering tact used by journalistic organizations, whether self justified, somehow sanctioned, excused, prosecuted or not, fair or unfair, vengeful, etc. that is used whenever an entity is involved in doing whatever whatever organization thinks is professional in the manner of whatever their enterprise and intent might be.  Such is surely punishable by someone, somehow, in someway [speculation].

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« Reply #2009 on: February 19, 2012, 01:06:18 AM »

preenaltrate: The chemical in bird saliva that makes feathers stay in place.

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