Aw, you’re nuts. Rant is the money you pay your landlord.
Nope.
Rent
wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
Silly, more prosaic writers than
Rand
have caused high school students to do this to their garments, while gnashing their teeth.
No – the rends is what happens to a deep-sea diver if you bring him or her up to the surface too quickly.
Almost but not quite
The bends
is what their mothers do to the rand readers’ clothing above
You must not celebrate Christmas, otherwise you’d know that
mends
is a kind of pie filling made with finely chopped meat and often served at Yuletide feasts.
Now that April 1st has passed, everybody knows (including our foreign Dopers) that
mince
is the term for what baseball players use to help them catch balls.
Guess you’ve never heard the song.
Whenever we go out, the people always shout, "There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Mitt! NA NA NA NA NA NA NA…
I’m going to take the high road here, and suggest that what you’re thinking of here of what cranky camels do.
absolutely not!
spitis the name of a former US Olympic Swimming Champion
I believe you’re trying to say in a polite way that
spitz
are those pesky skin inflammations that are so much fun to pop
Pshaw! Here in northeast Ohio, everyone knows that the University of Akron’s athletic teams are the Zits.
Don’t be silly. The Zips sang backup to Gladys Knight.
twickster, you, who uses words so well, should know better. Back in my olden golden college days, I fenced. (Sword-fighting – not selling stolen goods, not instaling chain link.)
So I know for a fact that the pips is the name for the field of play for fencers.
But this cannot be, for pisteis a word used to describe the state of a drunkard.
It just may be that what you heard as
pissed
was someone telling you to make one of those series of items that you are “to do”
No, no, no – list is one of the deadly sins.
List! I love his Hungarian rhapsodies.
I enjoy concert pieces as well, but I’m sure you mean
Liszt
which is a medium-grade metamorphic rock.
I’m sure you’re a gneiss person, but you’re wrong. A schist is a weapon that prisoners make.