This is a spin-off thread. FairyChatMom (Snickers to the cool kids) had a post that led to this thread.
It’s all her fault. She planted the seed in my head.
So… The FairyChatMom Kinda Icky Word-A-Day Calendar would look something like this…
August 21
Coprophagic
August 22
Decubitus
August 23
Saponification
August 24
Pustulosis
August 25
Hyperostosis
August 25
Demulcent (this word doesn’t mean anything gross, it just sounds icky)
This is really just a list of icky words. You don’t even have to say what they mean. I think I’d rather you didn’t. If someone wants to know, they can just look them up. It might be better that way.
-Rue.
My fault?!?!?
I make a post in jest and all of a sudden I’m accused of being icky? I miss in an attempt at humor and you tie my name to ickiness?!? Is that all I mean to you?!? I’m crushed… I’m weeping as I write this… I’m readying myself for a good pout, but let me just say that you’ll be hard pressed to get any persiflage out of me, by golly.
<contemplating the destruction of my Rue DeDay Fan Club Membership Card…>
Since tardive falls on my birthday, I am greatly interested in its meaning. But can only find “late onset” on the web.
What am I missing. Gross me out, Unc!
Snickers, I didn’t want all the glory for this thread. I thought you deserved as much credit as I could give you. My formal appology is in your e-mail. I can only hope you forgive me.
-Rue.
Credit, huh?? Well, I suppose it’s better than being voted “Most Inarticulate” as happened to several of my classmates eons ago, but in the future, I prefer credit for more noteworthy accomplishments - like, I dunno, “Most Chocolate Consumed in a Single Sitting While Soaking in a Hot Tub by Candlelight” - There’s a credit to covet…
Forgiveness pending e-mail…
tar·dive adjective
Having symptoms that develop slowly or appear long after inception. Used of a disease as in:
tardive dyskinesia
A chronic disorder of the nervous system characterized by involuntary jerky movements of the face, tongue, jaws, trunk, and limbs, usually developing as a late side effect of prolonged treatment with antipsychotic drugs.
Sound like fun?
August 29th - Suppurate (Don’t look it up if you like to stay in cheap hotels - it will change your travel habits).
I don’t have any icky words to share but I do have the Onion page a day calender. Today is the second half of yesterday’s top story
Family Dog Suspected Cause Of Miniature Chuck Wagon Disaster
…According to an FMSA report released Monday, the crash-which resulted in the deaths of the chuck wagon’s
miniature driver and four passengers, as well as the loss of more than one pound of hearty Chuck Wagon-brand
gravy-flavored dog-foo cargo and a team of four miniature draft horses-is in all likelihood attributable to the presence of one or more pet dogs in the kitchen at the time of the accident.
here’s a quote from today
"The old saw about how ‘the great taste of Chuck Wagon stops dogs in their tracks has taken on grim new overtones in light of these findings.’
If you would like to know what your birthday headline is
I will be happy to look it up for you. (unless your birthday is between Jan 1 and today. I tear off the pages.)
Also, I have to add that I opened this thread because I ALWAYS open threads started by Rue DeDay.
Oh, sure, don’t look in the box, Pandora. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
You knew we had to look. Actually, I don’t quite get the connection to cheap hotels, would you elucidate, please?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Okay, I laughed at the play on words, but that’s just sick!
Doh!
[sub]Ok, so I am not familiar with that particular motel chain, and I would have to mispronounce the word in my head, but clever, might clever.[/sub]
August 29 - adipocere
August 30 - allochezia
August 31 - ambeer
September 1 - anorchous
September 2 - bdellatomy
September 3 - bdolotic
September 4 - bescumber
September 5 - blennorrhea
September 6 - blissom
September 7 - bolus
September 8 - bromidrosis
September 9 - bromomenorrhea
September 10 - byental
September 11 - fimicolous
September 12 - teratoma
September 13 - trepannier
September 14 - sootikin
September 15 - fecolith
Hey! What’s wrong with “saponification?” I find it quite lucrative!
I used to post a word of the week on a classroom chalkboard. I’ll add some from that list, plus one I found recently (by experience, but I’m not telling which one):
September 16 - desquamate
September 17 - bastinado
September 18 - immerde
September 19 - clonus
September 20 - bullae
September 21 - quat
September 22 - jejunostomy
September 23 - sprue
Can we have holidays? I’d like to designate May 10 as “Orchiopexy Day.”
September 24 - Copremesis
September 25 - aceldama
September 26 - algophilia
September 27 - lexiphanic
September 28 - ozostomia
September 29 - haruspex