therapist
if the kerning is a little off. Anyone remember typewriters? I had a portable Smith-Corona I inherited from my grandmother with a narrow lowercase r, and an e that listed left just a hair.
(Thanks to the Book of Lists, which I treasured since it was published around 1980…until this other book by some dude named Cecil Adams came out about seven years later.)
pianist (pronounced PEE-uh-nist)
pea
country
Prego
succor
cummerbund
titular
Balzac
Lake Titicaca
Gobbler’s Knob
angina
Kiek in de Kok
Spotted Dick
Great Tit (Parus major)
cock-horse
Cock-a-leekie soup. If you know what I mean.
shih tzu
barometer
My wife and I jokingly insult each other whenever we drive by their headquarters.
“Upsher-Smith!”
“Oh yeah, well Up-SHER-Smith!”
Finicum.
??
Just about anything in French (why do you think Gomez liked it so much?). In high school, we decided that the dirtiest term was “changement de vitesse.”
gear shift (which I suppose could be used suggestively in English, too
What about “Je suis fatigue”?
In the past year I’ve taken up learning the violin and mandolin (same string arrangement) and my wife still snickers whenever I mention plucking or bowing the G-string. Or when I refer to “my instrument.”
I never watched it. Did you by any chance mean the character played by this guy?
Yup.
At least you’re not playing the organ.
Coxsackie virus
Coccyx
I love that.
“I’m getting urges in my areas.”
Stopcock