Calvary is the hill Jesus was crucified on.

Of course not. He has aids.

That is funny on no fewer than 29 levels.

I did not know that. You, girlie, have successfully fought ignorance.

It’s deliberate with many Republicans since Eisenhower. They want to sound like they fit in.

Poison is ingested.
Venom is injected.

Snakes are venomous. Spiders are venomous.

Plants are poisonous.

Humus - biological matter in soil
Hummus - a middle eastern dip (no, not Khamenei)

Sometimes you need capital to build a capitol.

What if you eat the snake or spider?

You spelling nitpickers are whiny loosers. Really, why does a mispelling effect you? Your like some school principle or something.

Hey, there… is that window seat taken?

Ticket to hell for one, please.

–golf clap–

Through: The boar bored his way through the bored core of the crowd.

Thorough: The boar was extremely thorough in goring to the core of the crowd.
Thank you, thank you.

I’ll be here all weak.

Cartooniverse

Humerus: Bone from mid-arm to wrist.

Humorous: A cause for hilarity or gaity. Laughter-producing.

  • Smacking your humerus is sometimes quite humorous*.

The pile of gold that a dragon guards is a “hoard.”

The army of Orcs fighting the dragon is a “horde.”
Crap fantasy writers, please take note.

twitches

You must have some extremely strange anatomy. It’s possible that the bones from mid-arm to wrist are the ulna and the radius, and the humerus is instead the bone between the acromioclavicular joint and the elbow. But heck, what do I know?

Also missed the darned post #73? :smiley: But thank you for joining in in solidarity! :cool:

Is that a very feeble joke or just poor reading comprehension?


FARTHING, n.

    1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states. It is becoming obsolete, with the old denominations of money.

    2. Farthings, in the plural, copper coin.

    3. Very small price or value. It is not worth a farthing, that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing.

    4. A division of land. [Not now used.]

    Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.

[Webster](http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/farthing)

I cite the old version of Webster here because most modern dictionaries do not include the last definition. However, it will be familiar to readers of Tolkien (as there are four Farthings in the Shire, he is probably riffing on both meanings one and four). Farthing coins were still in circulation in Britain in the 1960s.

<----- Cracked up. Does that make us a solitary duet ?

Indeed, what do you know- you’re a fish. Make no bones about it, you work for scale and if you haddock preference you’d have been born a lobster.

:smiley:

( I sit corrected, anatomically and informationally. Ignorance and bizarre physiologies stamped out !! )

As an example of correct usage, if you’re around G then Z would be a farthing and que would be a half farthing.

They need places for the horses’ asses to go to church on Sunday.

You win some, you loose some. A lot of people like to play fast and lose with the language.

Penultimate just sounds more impressive than ultimate. Nine out of ten people couldn’t tell you the difference between decimate and devastate.

This stuff does, at some fundamental level, bug the hell out of me. I try to console myself with the following, not from this board:
Originally posted by James Nicoll:

Originally posted by fleetmouse

My fellow prescriptivists, lost causes may be the only ones worth fighting for, but I’m afraid that the truth is, as far as usage goes, best expressed by Rorschach: it’s not locked up in here with us, we’re locked up in here with it.

Hey, look at that! I’m bleeding from my ear!

I take no credit–I got schooled by someone else on the Dope and am passing it on. But it is cool–

restaurer - Fr. to restore
restaurant - gerund restoring
restaurateur - restorer