What work? I work in a library. To look through those dictionaries all I had to do was TURN AROUND.
And why do I need to be a genius to say your post was STUPID?
Of course, neither one of us can “win”.
I’ll say I knew it was a joke (a hoax if you will) all along.
You’ll say I’m lying.
And round and round we go.
I just call your post STUPID again and leave it at that.
Watch your phraseology!!
<Jon Stewart> Oh, SNAP!!</JS>
How about ginormous? It’s a beautamous word.
There was no jumping. The word was misspelled in the article. I looked it up under that spelling, and found no listing in either of my dictionaries or at dictionary.com. I tried to check facts, and found none. Many thanks to those who corrected the error of abcnews.com.
There was no backpedaling. Taking new information into account, I formed a new opinion on the use of the word. I still think it was just a pompous fathead using jargon when a simpler word would have done better.
To those who think that describing symptoms having nothing to do with the malady in question is something that people would do… why in the world would you talk about symptoms NOT germane to the subject at hand?
Why the fuck would you be talking about symptoms of chickenpox if someone comes to you with PTS? Oh, I know, because you’d make a lousy doctor.
Riiiiight. So you mean the place has nice signs, but poor sign design? Or nice signs with poor layout? Or nice signs but poor placement? Just say what you mean. Be clear. Signage is a bullshit word. Or are you going to try and defend the idea that the signs are good, but with a bad design?
DrDeth, I like blocking quotes from other sources, even ones I link to. It makes it clear that it comes from a source other than myself. :wally
mrrealtime, I take it you have never seen the cromulent episode of The Simpsons. People do this in real life, too. Go listen to some hip-hop if you don’t have enough examples of this in your own life.
King Of Soup, nice job on that one, mate.
King of Soup, I obtain muchly in the modality of applausage!
What the hell are you even talking about?
Medical jargon may be irritating or unclear to people who aren’t used to it, but those words exist for a reason - because doctors need special language for things that ordinary language can’t describe. If you don’t understand the context in which a particular piece of medical terminology might be needed, it’s probably because you’re not a doctor. Damn, kid, you got a big head on you.
Then, in all seriousness, I’m somewhat relieved. It was just meant as a light-hearted joke. The thought of you or anyone else running around to look through all those dictionaries seemed like WAY too much work. A somewhat “mean” result, although I never meant to be “mean.” Just playful.
You don’t, Einstein. 
(I noticed that yu did’nt DEENY beeing a genious. 
)
Since you obviously have SOME brains, maybe I don’t need to direct you to a dictionary to find out the meaning of “sarcasm.”
But there’s no point in having a big war over this. I only meant to rather gently respond to what you called me. Saying that I could not come up with any intelligent response to you, sarcastic in itself, and then calling you a genius were meant to be as gentle as a butterfly on your shoulder, at least by comparison to your very kind remark. (Ooops, I did it again.)
[But, granted, this IS the pit, so it’s not in a forum where it wouldn’t fit at all.]
There’s nothing to “win” here. Look, speaking of libraries, I have a recollection that may help you feel better. Some time ago, I came across various “alts” about pranks, capers and revenge.
One of the first two mentioned in its FAQ that there was no such word as “gullible” and I was halfway to a dictionary stand before I stopped dead in my tracks and said to myself, NOW WAIT A MINUTE!
(The line was repeated in Good Night and Good Luck and also on this thread. I thought that since it was in the movie it may have been floating around since the 50’s AND also that people here would be less likely to be fooled by it.)
Well, at least you are now only calling my POST stupid, which is an improvement.
Let’s just call it a day. I only wanted to have some fun. We don’t have any “history” and I have no reason to be angry with you. And I wish you well.
True Blue Jack
Quit Updikeing. You missed the joke. End of story. Your continued prevarication does not reflect well on you character.
A poem edited for the OP
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Bolding mine.
You meant whose, right?
I hate Gaudereanisms.
Bravo, Bippy.
Ah, sorry about this, but I just thought, ‘gyre’ is a real word (“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer” - Yeats), and ‘gimble’ is as well, though not as a verb.
Those little things there on your keyboard, look like this “”? Try those. 
The problem with using QUOTE blocks is that when we quote you we can’t quote your cite, which is soemtimes important.
That would be a subject for an entirely different pit thread. And an ultimately futile one, as this practice is all too common on the SDMB, and thus unlikely to die out.
“Her visage scorched him as she spoke:
‘There are,’ she said, ‘a kind of folk
Who have no horror of a joke…’”
Gem of a post.
And the battle lines reform, as Frank lends his assistanceage to Snowboarder Bo. I do that too, and do not intend to stop. It is a simple and effective way to set off those things I said from those I did not say, whether I am quoting a poster, CNN, or my Aunt Fanny.
I seem to recall, back in the day, that one would get multiple embedded quote tags - like a lot of other messageboard softwareness. These days vBulletin not only does not do this, but also doesn’t do a search within any quoted textification.
Anyway, further to the Jabberwocky thing, I reckon ‘gimble’, as a homonym for ‘gimbal’ - a ship’s compass mounted in such a way that it can rock multidimensionally - is actually rather a good neologism for a (presumably) little creature that spins and (presumably) trundles and rocks about.
I empath for you, Snowboarder Bo. No fun comes from railing about something you have failed to look up. Folks with dictionaries will beat you about the head and shoulders with cites, and you will be up to your patellas in quotes before you can draw a breath.
At times, it is good to grumble to yourself, and not bleed on their dictionaries. I wish you well.
Actual, I think Snow P should start a camp. Fight back again verb waste: all those waste sylls can be reclaim by Snow P by drop unnecess sylls from everyth he says.
"Save the syll!"
Perh Brig Bard could gener some interest by help you?