# Words you LIKE hearing
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 30, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841 "2000-05-30T01:11:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/21 "2000-05-30T20:10:41Z")
I really like the sound of fusilage. Just a cool word.
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### Author:  [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/22 "2000-05-30T20:12:27Z")
Syzygy and fastidious are, bar none, my two favorite words. I’m still working on a single, casual expression that incorporates both.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/23 "2000-05-30T20:18:46Z")
Oooo I have loads of favorites. Sepulchre. Brobdingnagian. Toothsome. Retinue. I love it when someone uses “disinterested” correctly.
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### Author:  [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/24 "2000-05-30T21:38:48Z")
Ditto on popemobile and mellifluous. I also like the sound of the words/phrases Zimbabwe, summer afternoon, wind in the willows, puff-a-lumps, phosphorescence, luminous, tiramisù (with the accent on the last syllable), persimmon, the Sea of Tranquility, and moo cow.
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/25 "2000-05-31T06:05:57Z")
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> > **Bad, bad, Shayna. Go to your room until you can behave with a modicum of decency and respect.**
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> Better yet, go to _my_ room and let Mrs. O and I deal with you for a while. 😃
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When I first read this, I misinterpreted what you meant by “Mrs. O” (So THAT’S the latest synonym for it these days, huh??)
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/26 "2000-05-31T06:14:35Z")
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> I’m not sure how it happened, but somehow, in the course of a tirade this weekend, I used the word “jackanape”. That got some interesting looks, to say the least.
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“Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the
jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a
hundred pound on’t: and then a whoreson jackanapes
must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine
oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.”
William Shakespeare, CYMBELINE, Act 2, Scene i
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/27 "2000-05-31T07:17:05Z")
Eclipse, ecliptic, equator, equinox, Hawaii, chymotrypsin, Pacific, grace, pineapple, assassinate (!), Montreal, peace, slender, hospital.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/28 "2000-05-31T07:18:49Z")
Oh, and “quark.”
“_I_ like to say _quark_! Quark quark quark quark!” - Calvin and Hobbes
I think it was Dorothy Parker who said that the two most beautiful words in the English language are “cheque” and “enclosed”.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/29 "2000-05-31T16:23:27Z")
Every time I read a topic where a great one-liner pops into my head, I scroll through the replies and, sure enough, someone’s already said it. I finally got to a thread before anyone else could state the obvious. Go Me! hehehehe
Monster104 quote:
**Now I’ve been honored with Shayna having an orgasm in one of my threads! Hot damn, I’ve been getting lucky lately.**
Happy to oblige, darlin’! Any time! 😉
Olentzero quote:
**Better yet, go to _my_ room and let Mrs. O and I deal with you for a while.**
Don’t tempt me, Olent. I just might have to take you up on that! 😉
UncleBeer quote:
**I must say Shayna is fast becoming a favorite of mine.**
OMG! And from a Moderator, no less! I’m so flattered. aha, eat your heart out. UncleBeer, you’ve been a favorite of mine for a long time already! May I add that to my sig line now? 😃
Oh, and **DRY** , I think Olentzero meant exactly what you think he meant by Mrs. O. There really is a Mrs. O, and I was just invited to a 3-some. Hehehehe
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### Author:  [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/30 "2000-06-01T05:55:11Z")
Slickery
Nipple
Sex
Spung
Poing
There are more, but then again, he’s only been gone for 10hours, not that I’m counting or anything… 😉
Shayna, you beat me to the punch again! Darn it, girlfriend! 😃 Is that what you’re doing instead of reaching for one of those cancer sticks? I can see why you’re doing so well with not smoking! 😉
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/31 "2000-06-01T12:10:37Z")
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> Oh, and **DRY** , I think Olentzero meant exactly what you think he meant by Mrs. O. There really is a Mrs. O, and I was just invited to a 3-some. Hehehehe
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Nope. Thought “O” meant…well, you know…not a real person…
“Why Mrs., and not Mr.? Why not just ‘THE BIG’?”
As for a threesome, I invited you to one first, AND WITH GRACE–in the goofing off at work thread.
Must have been what I said in the Protest thread, huh/ ☹
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/32 "2000-06-01T13:22:18Z")
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-like-hearing/20841/33 "2000-06-01T13:23:01Z")
Discipline… Just makes me feel good inside…
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