[peter]

dastoprimetshatelnosti

its the russian word for 'sights'.

[Ian]

YO

[Ampa]

"discombobulation"

It just sounds so damned fun!

What does it actually mean?

'To throw into a state of confusion'

Ampa

[Starseed]

Excalibur

Decisive

'ma jolie'

Zimbabwe

Durabolin

anachronism

choice

[Socar MYLES]

I've got a list of words I like (and hate) on my computer, in my 'rubbish' folder:

LIKED: belt, root, spoggly, peck, squawk, rude, skyvey berk, yaud-swyving, blagg, blether, spiky, rook, egregious, beak, blimey, toad, gorblimey, shebang, and baldy.

HATED: wet, pudding, pants, bran, weedy, poontang, radge, soggy, and ranch. Oh, and I hate all those irritating things my mother always says: "Don't be such a blether!" (I like the word 'blether', but not when my mother says it); "Stop being silly!"; "We've got to go like the clappers!"; and, most horrible of all: "Well, look what the cat's drug in!" Why does she have to say these things????

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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

[Socar MYLES]

quote:

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Originally posted by quintessential:
flocinicilihilipiliphication
(did I spell that right)

it's the longest word in the english language

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Nope--as far as I recall, it's actually spelled "floccinaucinihilipilification"...and it means.... "the dismissing of something as worthless or futile...."



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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

[Impaler]

Maybe it's some sort of Canadian law or something.

"Blether"?

"clappers"?

?

. . .

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My signature is slightly better than yours.

[PandaX52]

ACHTUNG!

i'm not even German!
and i spelled it wrong..possibly...

[Socar MYLES]

quote:

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Originally posted by Impaler:
Maybe it's some sort of Canadian law or something.

"Blether"?

"clappers"?

?

. . .

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I suppose I ought to have posted a word or two of explanation along with my list of favourite words. I LIVE in Canada, but I haven't always. I'm actually from England. My much-revered <cough>FEARED<cough> mother is from Scotland. Apparently, old people in Scotland like to say 'go like the clappers' when they mean 'move fast'. Despite many summers spent in Scotland as a child, I have never, EVER heard ANYONE besides my mother saying 'go like the clappers'. I think she actually made it up, and just deluded herself into thinking it's actually a phrase in common usage. Blether, well...That's not a particularly uncommon word. But my mother.... She strings it out so long it sounds like 'bleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaathuuuuuur'. It's heinous, believe me. When I was a kid, I dreaded talking too much, because it meant my mother would call me a bleeeeeeeaaaaathuuuuur, and there's nothing I hate so much as.... Well, you get the idea. And I am not a blether! What? What are you looking at? Well, I'm NOT!

;-Z



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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!

[Frost]

I love the way the word 'TROYA' rolls off the tongue... I think it's the only Italian word I know.

[el tigre]

Just making it known that "goes like the clappers" is still in widespread use all over Scotland, that and Irn-bru

my favourite phrase incidentally would have to be "the man's skinny white ass moved back and forth like a fiddler's elbow"

Just so you know.

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Couldnae hit a coo in the arse wi a banjo if uh wis huddin it by the tail. :�
ICQ#106427315

[Socar MYLES]

Mmm...Irn Bru...I miss that.... *smak*

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My old man's a dustman
'E wears a dustman's 'at
'E wears gorblimey trousers...
AAAAAAAAND....
'E lives in a council flat!