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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 17, 2015 - 01:37am PT
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I'm still working through my issues with syzygy. After winning for my school, I lost early in a regional spelling bee with this word sometime in junior high. The audience laughed when they heard the word stated for me to spell. I had never heard it before. I knew all the rest, including the word the second place person missed in the end. I was frustrated.
Maybe it's time to let it go ;)
While I'm letting stuff go, I misspelled Wednesday in a 4th grade spelling bee then knew all the rest of the words. Sigh. Deep breaths. Carry on.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Apr 17, 2015 - 03:21am PT
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Conflate
Osculate
Crapulous
Flotsam or jetsam - which is it?
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 17, 2015 - 03:31am PT
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april. the word of the month is april. almost sure of it
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2015 - 12:34pm PT
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Whatever it was, it is now "freeze".
%^)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 17, 2015 - 02:12pm PT
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Or is it frieze?
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thebravecowboy
climber
liberated libertine
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WOM May '15
Voluptuary:
/vəˈləp(t)SHəˌwerē/
noun: voluptuary; plural noun: voluptuaries
1. a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.
adjective: voluptuary
1.concerned with luxury and sensual pleasure.
"a voluptuary decade when high living was in style"
FWIW: I offer this WOM in the more sybaratic sense than in the sense of luxurious inanimate objects.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Tardegrade, aka "The Water Bear".
Wow! Had to look that one up, and found that it has another common name: "Moss Piglet."
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2015 - 09:26pm PT
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You know you are cool when you have a NASA link about you.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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re·prise (r-prz)
n.
1. Music
a. A repetition of a phrase or verse.
b. A return to an original theme.
2. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
tr.v.re·prised, re·pris·ing, re·pris·es
To repeat or resume an action; make a reprise of [of which to make a reprise. Do I need to repeat myself? myself?]
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ver·bal·ize
ˈvərbəˌlīz/
verb
1.
express (ideas or feelings) in words, especially by speaking out loud.
"they are unable to verbalize their real feelings"
2.
speak, especially at excessive length and with little real content.
"a 'typical' presidential hopeful will verbalize with another in the 'so-called' debate over quotation marks"
Which, natcherly, brings up Ed Abby and his complaint about "verbalizing nouns."
His intent was to discourage making nouns into verb forms.
His prime example was the so-called verb "to orgasm."
At this late stage in my life, I could care less, or I couldn't care less, depending on "certain factors."
Other verbalized nouns, of which there are many, might excite different levels of caring, although, again, "it depends." I just wish "it" didn't "depend" so much and so often!
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
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Flummoxed - it seems appropriate.
verb (used with object), Informal.
1.
to bewilder; confound; confuse.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"How many bored feet on that dude, Babe?"
"why, he's not bored at all, Paul. He's havin' fun flume-ridin'."
plumage mo' beddah, Meester E
Honestly, I thought I would not have to explain that any more than I did, esp. to an old married man.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2015 - 04:40pm PT
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The word for August is: callipygous
"Having beautiful, well-shaped or well-proportioned buttocks"
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mister E.. thanks for the hot tip..it will take human resources about a year to figure out i'm telling the women they have nice back sides..hugs and kisses...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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cosmick...thanks...you had to go there didn't you...?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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go for it..Mister E won't care if his thread gets frozen...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Isn't Callipygous an island near Kalymnos? I hear all the hot climbers hang out there on rest days.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The word for August is: callipygous
"Having beautiful, well-shaped or well-proportioned buttocks"
Witnessed a few of those today on the way up and down Baldy.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2015 - 07:43pm PT
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LOL.
I hear the limestone on the back-side has these perfectly curved cliffs...
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DanaB
climber
CT
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**callipygous
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That was the word Joseph Heller used to describe Nurse Duckett's ass in Catch 22.
Apposite.
Iterate - no reiterate.
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