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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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For the non politico threads:
patience
endurance
caring
peace
joy
helpin yo bro
bearing one anothers hurts and cares
havin fun with a suspect crowd and puttin yo self on the line
giving when yo don't have much if any
smiling when yo don't feel like it AT ALL
Generally embracing a day with HOPE that looks like it holds nothing.
We be givin' it a try, yah mon. :DD
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Heliophysics, rolls off the tongue.
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MH2
climber
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Could we reverse the process and someone tell me what is the word for those criss-crossy streaks of reflected light I first remember seeing in a half-full can of paint? Also seen on the hull of the yacht below.
The effect seems related to schlieren but I am sure has a word all its own.
Closest my memory produces is crostics but that word has a different territory all its own.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2009 - 01:31pm PT
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New WotD:
Kerfuffle
MH2, not sure of a word for that particular optical effect. Interested to know if one turns up though.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 12, 2009 - 01:40pm PT
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how about the word:
ideation
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 12, 2009 - 01:54pm PT
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Don't do it Ed - you have so much to live for!!!
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Feb 12, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
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Did you know that 'gullible' is not really a word? Not in the dictionary.
Look it up.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 12, 2009 - 02:55pm PT
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no no no,
one example use of my suggestion, ideation is "suicide ideation" which is probably were the work comes from, 1818...
but IBM's infamous series of adds uses it because it is an "I" word:
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation
but then again, after being forced to play buzz word bingo too long will lead to ideation of the type the word was coined to describe...
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Feb 12, 2009 - 03:22pm PT
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How about "advocatious", "nefarity" or "luminomity"? Words, that don't exist, but sound like they could or should. My old friend Paul Sibley had a vocabulary comprised to a large extent of such oddities made up on the spot to fit a particular situation.
-Jellousnicity
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MH2
climber
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Feb 12, 2009 - 04:29pm PT
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For a while by younger brother had a language he shared only with a neighbor kid who was the same age, 5 yrs. "Peace and twami" is the only phrase I remember. Spelling inferred from context since he seemed to mean "peace and quiet."
(refractive) caustic:
The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.
There is an artist by the name of Aaron Costic who produces sculpture in a
medium known to Jello, sculpture capable of producing refractive caustics.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Feb 12, 2009 - 04:40pm PT
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Absolute proof that there's an inner beauty/spirit just waiting to leap out at us from the ice!
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Gene
climber
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Feb 12, 2009 - 07:40pm PT
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The word that rhymes with "orange."
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Strider
Trad climber
one of god's mountain temples....
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Feb 12, 2009 - 08:36pm PT
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I always wondered if there were any other xkcd fans here...
-n
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
the outer bitterroots
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Feb 12, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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back in my 'ute i bankrupted my fool self by going to the university of stupidly expense. same one out last predisdent went to (the only good thing about him is that he proved my point to the world -- that there are as many morons per square foot at that fancy pants college as anywhere else). but His dad was a rich guy. my dad framed houses and had 7 kids. so who's the bigger moron.
i studied words (english lit). even did some grad school work there and at other insanely expensive swankeries. i like robin williams' term 'gradual school' -- the place where you gradually learn you no longer want to go to school.
but i digress [one of the great skills i learned in various insanely expensive and famous universities].
so, anyway, i tell those few fool enough to ask that what i gained from years in libraries and bankrupting my fool self was learning 3 outstanding words i hadn't encountered previously.
and here's my fave of the 3:
callipygian (cal·li·pyg·ian) adjective
from the Greek kallipygos. kalli- (beautiful) and pygē (buttocks)
definition: having shapely buttocks
(this from the merriam-webster dictionary. the OED def is better, but i don't travell with an OED (would if i could).
now here is a truly useful word. for if you are at a party and go up to a potential prom date and say "hey, you have a great butt" you will likely be slapped. and perhaps deservedly so.
OTOH, if you walk up to the same hottie and say "i was struck by what a callipygian lady/gentleman (whatever is appropriate to your gender and tastes) you are" you don't get slapped. in my esperience, you get at "well, thank you" for few know the word.
later, when they look it up they might well want to slap you, but you are at a safe distance. and given the theory of large numbers, every so often you might get a call from said prom date. touchdown.
ok, that will be $285 dollars (what i calculated every one class meeting at the university of expensive cost -- and that was back in the mid 80's).
make your checks payable to:
^,,^
Date: circa 1800
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MH2
climber
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Feb 13, 2009 - 08:49pm PT
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sententious (adj.) given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner: Many posts on the Taco Stand are exceedingly sententious.
If so it would be more than just a "Word of the day", my good man.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Feb 13, 2009 - 11:30pm PT
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hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Feb 14, 2009 - 11:04am PT
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for Valentine's day a double header;
Eros
agape
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