Manhattan??? You must have skipped history class the day they taught Cloisters Last Stand was at Little Big Horn.
That’s not Standing, that’s Rolling!
Now-famous quote from an employee of the local second-hand salvage store, while trying to sell us a simple mike stand for $25: “Those custers alone are worth five dollars.”
Quoted in every conceivable situation; merriment ensues.
Your reply is spirited, but eerily inappropriate.
Casters
are namesakes of the Friendly Ghost who appeared in Harvey Comics publications, animated cartoons, and a 1995 feature film.
Nope, the only thing shivering is me timbers – caspers are drainage holes at deck level on the sides of ships.
I’m afraid that just doesn’t hold water. Although you’re at least right that it is a nautical term. The captain or master of a ship is sometimes called scupper
Only if he or she’s the captain of a fishing boat! Skipper is a kind of herring!
If you want to talk about fish, read Ernest Hemmingway. If you want to talk about British colonial India, read Rudyard Kippered
No, your head is in the stars, Kipling is the name of Amy’s boyfriend and Zap Branigan’s second in command on “Futurama.”
I see we’re back to the nautical terms.
Kif
is a term used to refer to any example of a variety of small sea-going fishing boats, river-going boats (especially on the Thames), or racing vessels (the Musto being a noteworthy example of the last-named category).
That’s true if you believe the worst day of boating beats the best day of anything else. If so, you’ll find yourself singing skiff ah-dee-doo-dah!
Sorry I’m late. I was practicing my stretching exercises, specifically for this thread, because Zip is not a song, it’s a band. They are famous for their long, long beards; and for winning in a telephone poll hosted by Father Guido Sarducci on SNL nominating them for President.
You might know how to use your legs, but not your brains –
ZZ Top
is a kind of weevil, and is literally the last word (or, to be specific, entry) in many dictionaries.
Do not disparage the myths of our ancestors. Hardly a weevil, Zyzzyva was a mighty king before being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
Sounds like the kind of task I face while attempting to explain definitions to this lot. Actually,
Sisyphus
is a venereal disease sometimes referred to as “Great pox”, “Grandgore”, or various nationalistic terms (“the French disease” in Italy, “the Christian disease” in Turkey, etc.).
If that’s what you think, then the disease has already affected your brain.
Syphilis is nothing more than a type of fricative or affricate consonant, made by directing a jet of air through a narrow channel in the vocal tract towards the sharp edge of the teeth.
Boo! HISSSS! Sometimes you seem so brainy, but on other occasions, you’re so off-base that I wonder if you have multiple personalities, like that
Sibilant
character Sally Field played in a notable made-for-TV flick.
Sternvogel, it wasn’t Sally Field, it was Leonard Nimoy. (though I see how you could get them confused.)
"The Trouble With Sibyls" was an episode of Star Trek, written by Harlan Ellison.
Well, you must have been absent from music appreciation class when they explained that the tribble clef is the upper of the pair staves that hold musical notes. It is marked by a squiggly symbol that almost resembles an S
I don’t think you could call it squiggly, although it is bouncy. Treble is how you take a basketball down the court.
Stuff and nonsense! Balderdash, I say!
Dribble
is senseless mumbling, childish babbling, incoherent political ranting, or the like.