In honour of the linoleum, I have just adopted the word 'Punctuation' for a year.

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Cryptic? That's positively machiavellian!

Does this mean you have changed your name to Punctuation and how does the linoleum come into this?

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That is pretty cool! Are words expensive pets to keep?

I haven't had mine long enough to know. It seems to be a nice and orderly one though. I'd recommend adopting fracas as it doesn't play well in a group.

<Imagines the possibilities of clothing a word>

<Wonders if sleeves are necessary>

I'm adopting 'excipit', because I can...

Ha!!! "The" is available!

That's my act of non-paying charity, by the way - telling you all that so that you can scramble for it, heheheh. An act of paying charity (and word sponsorship) may follow.

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work is a vampire that sucks me dry
which is a metaphor
but still the reason I stuck a chair leg through my manager

Someone already swiped pigeon so i've had to settle for juxtapose. Not that i mind. Don't want to be giving my pet word a complex.

you can still get 'thursday" and 'next' should you want to!

I got wheelbarrow

I have oubliette

This is me

Golly, is there a cure?

For what?

Oubliette sounds a pretty serious thing to have.

I think it's the terminal stop down Memory Lane...

Oh, so it's not that strange second lavatory bowl in a posh bathroom then?

I had thought it was only a minor ailment caused by excessive oubelling.

i stand (squat?) corrected

Somehow paying 20 quid to keep someone else's anklebiter away from me seems a good price.

the adopt-a-word campaign reminded me of the Goons and 'The Regents Park Canal' episode wherein Griptype-Thynne invented the word 'Help' and charged anybody 10 pounds (I think) for the use thereof.

It was one of the better programs.