# MOIST (heh)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659 "2008-04-16T22:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/81 "2008-04-17T16:56:35Z")
This thread made me laugh so hard my boss leaned out of the door of her office to see if I am okay! Office. ooofffffiiiiccceee. officeofficeofficeofficeoffice. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/82 "2008-04-17T17:36:45Z")
> **[moist — definition, examples, related words and more at Wordnik](http://wordnik.com/words/moist)** > > All the words > **[Women Hate The Word Moist](http://marylynnformation.blogspot.com/2007/11/women-hate-word-moist.html)** > > Wanna make a woman squirm? Just say the word "moist". According to a survey by Salon.com , it's the word women hate the moist...I mean most.... ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/83 "2008-04-17T18:19:57Z")
The band [Moist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moist) has said that they chose the name because they knew people would react oddly to it - it creeps people out. Unfortunately that wiki doesn’t say that, but I’ve read it before or heard it from them in concerts. I love the word Wronskian (and I don’t really mind calculating it in ODE, either!). Wronskian. Wronskian. So much fun. And recocgnised by Firefox’s spellcheck, too, although Firefox doesn’t recognise “recognise” or “spellcheck”. I hate the word “navel”. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/84 "2008-04-17T18:43:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] ETYMOLOGY: Middle English moiste, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Latin musteus, juicy) of Vulgar Latin [/QUOTE] Very vulgar Latin if some currents uses are to be believed.. I’m laughing my butt off here, and beginning to be squicked out by the word moist. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/85 "2008-04-17T20:24:55Z")
I have a favourite word. That word is “eviscerate”. Doesn’t it just sound so nice and sharp and shiny? Ev-issssssc-er-ate. You can eviscerate someone, then papple in their moist and steaming guts. Papple is a fun word too. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/86 "2008-04-17T20:41:21Z")
**SNOOD.** Just like that. Big and red and snood. Snooooooooooooood. Also, some French words are funny. _Poubelle_. It means “garbage” and it sounds best when pronounced like the French guards in _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. _Pamplemousse_ (grapefruit) is funny, too, particularly if you pronounce it in the same accent and with the same cadence as Hans & Franz’s famous line. With the pause, clap and point. Just because it’s completely non sequitur. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/87 "2008-04-17T20:42:18Z")
Moist is bad. Slacks is worse. Moist slacks is the baddest bad there is. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/88 "2008-04-17T20:45:01Z")
Moist taint mucus. Nope, pretty sure I’ve never strung those three together before. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/89 "2008-04-17T21:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] _Pamplemousse_ [/QUOTE] I have been wondering for far too long what [pampelmousse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320480&page=2&pp=40&highlight=pampelmousse) was (post 14). Sounded like some vaguely obscene combination of a moose, manties and acne. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/90 "2008-04-17T21:15:40Z")
vagiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiina. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/91 "2008-04-17T21:18:21Z")
I hate moist, panties and womb. They always made us sing that word in Christmas carols at school - we were children for god’s sake! 🙂 Word that really doesn’t exist for me - onion. oniononiononiononiononiononion. Ohhh, I just got dizzy… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/92 "2008-04-17T21:23:55Z")
[MOISTEST!!](http://www.goantiques.com/scripts/images,id,838632.html) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/93 "2008-04-17T21:24:24Z")
I’m officially hardened to the word moist now. Way to ruin it for me! A buddy of mine loved to use the phrase ‘Hoisted by your own petard’. The first time he said it to me, I replied with, “At least I wasn’t moistened by my own petard!” He just stood there dumbfounded for a few moments before telling me that it didn’t make any sense - then burst out laughing. To this day, being thwarted by your own evil plan = getting moistened by your own petard. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/94 "2008-04-17T21:24:45Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Moist taint mucus. [/QUOTE] One of these helpful pieces of advice might apply to you: 1). Lord loves a workin’ man. 2). Don’t trust whitey. 3). See a doctor and get rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/95 "2008-04-17T21:52:03Z")
Inigo - How are you able to get away with these extremes of pointlessness (I mean that in the nicest possible way) while other people get their meaningless threads closed. Yeah I know that’s rich coming from me, but some of your threads (the ones I notice) are making my threads seem informative and useful. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/96 "2008-04-17T22:07:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] Inigo - How are you able to get away with these extremes of pointlessness (I mean that in the nicest possible way) while other people get their meaningless threads closed. Yeah I know that’s rich coming from me, but some of your threads (the ones I notice) are making my threads seem informative and useful. [/QUOTE] It’s art, man! People _needed_ a nice moist thread to put their posts into. I sensed it, I obliged. At other times, the word of The Mycon answered the questions of many, or people needed a lysergic twist to their imaginations with “wouldn’t that be great…?” Or maybe it’s just the sheer bulk of pointlessness that allows some to get past The Skipper. To tell the truth, I was seriously considering starting a _Harry Potter_ TV party at your house instead. But Tonks makes me moist to the point of distraction and, well, that’s the way of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/97 "2008-04-17T22:11:29Z")
Why does the idea of dopers partying at my house ring a tiny bell in my head? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/98 "2008-04-17T22:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] Why does the idea of dopers partying at my house ring a tiny bell in my head? [/QUOTE] Well, it didn’t help that we pretty much blew out your house, torched the neighbors’ fence and ate their dog before you even strolled in & out of the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278666). ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/99 "2008-04-17T22:22:18Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Well, it didn’t help that we pretty much blew out your house, torched the neighbors’ fence and ate their dog before you even strolled in & out of the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278666). [/QUOTE] No wonder the bell was tiny - four and a bit years ago, and not quite Harry Potter. 😃 \ edit: stupid (edit: nice not stupid at all, don’t hit me) American mm-dd-yy. It was the first of oct not tenth of Jan 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659/100 "2008-04-18T00:43:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] I have a favourite word. That word is “eviscerate”. Doesn’t it just sound so nice and sharp and shiny? Ev-issssssc-er-ate. You can eviscerate someone, then papple in their moist and steaming guts. Papple is a fun word too. [/QUOTE] No, no, no–defenestrate. I love the word defenestrate. Can someone use all the words of choice here in a sentence? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moist-heh/445659.md?page=6)