“Air on a G-String” always sounds to me like Music for Flatulent Strippers
absquatulate
All the Shi’ites in Djibouti live around Lake Assal!
Who needs a hobby
Like tennis or philately?
I’ve got a hobby!
Rereading Lady Chatterly!
– Tom Lehrer
Succor
As in: The power went out and while the hospital was plunged into darkness the nurse hastened to the operating room where her succor was appreciated by all the doctors present.
and
Not phonetically but visually, I just can’t look at the word “therapist” without getting the giggles.
Did you ever watch Arrested Development?
“Hey, you don’t really think I wished for a 10 inch pianist, do you?”
Years back, when I was taking a statistics class at Columbia, the professor could always count on peals of laughter any time he said the data on his graph was “homoscedastic.”
That reminds me of an anthropology prof of mine who, when describing ancient tools, always stopped and grinned when he came to “stone hoes.”
Purloin.
Sounds like a cat fell into someone’s crotch.
And another candidate from the rude-sounding clothing category: ascot. Can you guess where that is worn?
Cumshaw, a nautical term meaning a gratuity or “greasing of the palm.”
Invaginate, meaning to turn inside out.
Vaniqa, a prescription medication, doesn’t sound dirty but sure looks it.
Didn’t see this one: Spermology
What does a spermologist collect?
Trivia!
Vigorish
I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned Princess Anne’s well-known favourite swear-word …
“Horlicks”
(A proprietory brand of hot drink)
Aww, what a shame a great thread has to die, still so much puerile wordplay left unexplored.
Did we not get:
debrief?
It’s right up there with “defrock” in my book. My parents are Jamaican and still call a dress a frock, so you can imagine my astonishment when I saw this one.
Names: Hugh Jardon, Heywood Jablomey, Iva Bigun (Benny Hill), Mike Hunt
“Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?”
Dick Trickle. (A race car driver. Honest.)
Frump.
Fromage.
Funiculus.
Vermiculate.
Osculator.
Fractious.
Succulent.
Lubricious.
Spelunking.
Remonstrate.
Grouper.
Scrummage, scrimmage.
Cuneiform.
Dictation, dictaphone.
Mopery.
Crepitate.
Fop.
Fracas. “She was shot in the fracas, and the bullet is in her yet.”
Too lazy to check whether masticate and matriculate have been mentioned.
Oh well, I guess this will be my last post, I was kind of saving this one:
pineal gland
“It’s true, guys really do have their pineal gland in their heads.”
In use the word differs from the one it resembles in stress only, (un)happy(?) coincidence that the words for “tail” and “pine/pine cone” were so similar in Latin?
Oh well, lot’s of laughs, folks.
Calpis!
Chappaquiddick!