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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Feb 14, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Nurse Dablam?
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
the outer bitterroots
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Feb 14, 2009 - 09:02pm PT
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> Nurse Dablam?
huh? is she a she (an Ama)? if so, is she callipygian?
lonely inquiring minds want to know.
^,,^
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
the outer bitterroots
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Feb 14, 2009 - 09:11pm PT
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scatophage
def: one who eats sh#t.
example: "Today is National Take A Scatophage To The Rodeo day."
^,,^
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MikeL
climber
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Feb 14, 2009 - 10:04pm PT
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Arete, initially a Greek word meaning excellence.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
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New WotD, heard at least twice whilst listening to Rush Limbaugh this afternoon during errand running:
(wait for it, it's a good'un)
Buttboy!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Buttboy, circa 1976, Dick Cilley.
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Square Root Day
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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idiolect. one of my personal favorites.
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wildone
climber
GHOST TOWN
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I snuck "concomitant" into a letter to my boss...I doubt he knew the meaning. I felt like an ass.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 16, 2009 - 06:08pm PT
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new WotD:
bankster
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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Locofoco: noun; pronunciation; lo-kuh-fo-koh:
From Wiki:
The term "Locofoco" comes from Spanish for matches, or "loco focos" ("crazy lights"), a new invention. It originated when a group of New York Jacksonians used these matches to light candles to continue a political meeting after a conservative group tried to break up the meeting by turning off the gaslights.
In the 1840 election, the term "Locofoco" was applied to the entire Democratic Party by its Whig opponents, both because Democratic President Martin Van Buren had incorporated many Locofoco ideas into his economic policy, and because Whigs considered the term to be derogatory.
In general, Locofocos supported Andrew Jackson and Van Buren, and were for free trade, greater circulation of specie, legal protections for labor unions and against paper money, financial speculation, and state banks.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2009 - 05:02pm PT
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So Hankster, I understand you wee involved in some bold FAs at E-Rock. Any groovy stories?
That place has always had a very cool vibe to me. Southern granite just feels different than it's western counterparts.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Apr 11, 2009 - 05:11pm PT
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Well, Caylor, that is the idiomatic definition.
Strictly speaking it means "affected with, or showing symptoms of apoplexy" which is "a sudden diminution or loss of consciousness and voluntary motion caused by rupture or obstruction of an artery in the brain."
In other words, what happens to Locker when he reads a post by LEB.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 11, 2009 - 05:23pm PT
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Boolean
Another word that sounds so smooth, if only I could figure out how to use it at a party.
booooooleeeannnn
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2009 - 05:30pm PT
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Just hit up a geek party, preferably programmers, and you're in.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 11, 2009 - 05:31pm PT
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I don't get invited to enough of those geek parties. Or maybe they're just the wrong geeks.
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