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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 24, 2008 03:20PM

Pillow: The sound made by someone being crushed by a comedy polystyrene pillar.

Define: Scrumpy.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: August 24, 2008 04:28PM

scrumpy: adjective describing the look of something which has been scrumped - especially when applied to cars. (C.F. Red Dwarf, ?Season 2?)


Define tailor

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 25, 2008 09:03AM

Tailor: A voyeur of story telling

Define: Voyeur

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 25, 2008 09:18AM

Voyeur: Someone who goes (from Spanish).

Define: Castle.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-129.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 25, 2008 09:39AM

Castle: The French version of "Who can solve a problem like Maria?"

Define: camera

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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (194.203.72.---)
Date: August 26, 2008 12:31PM

Camera: The Chimera's more photogenic cousin.

Define: Discotheque

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.162.233.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: August 26, 2008 12:39PM

Discotheque: a place for storing lurid clothes, frizzy hair and The Bee Gees

(I will be killed for that by mrs. SkidMarks)

Define falsetto

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Cordwangler (136.173.62.---)
Date: August 26, 2008 12:47PM

Falsetto: a synthetic or plastic etto

Define: patent

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.162.233.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: August 26, 2008 12:50PM

patent: an nmate n a hosptal

Defne wallpaper

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 27, 2008 10:28AM

Wallpaper: Someone who wallpaps.

Define: Scandal.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: ibborobb (194.203.72.---)
Date: August 27, 2008 12:08PM

Scandal: Egon, go to page 4, do not pass go, do not collect £200.

Define: Othello

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 28, 2008 12:25PM

'othello: greeting from a hot country eg: G'day

Define: Fossil

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 28, 2008 02:46PM

Fossil: The war cry of ancient barbarian hordes as they emerged from their communal retirement camps.

Define: Indefatigable.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 29, 2008 02:04AM

Indefatigable:

1) a state of being able to be 'indefat' which is an obese Japanese cartoon state;

or

2) a male bovine of extraordinary endurance


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define: erotic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: splat21 (195.33.121.---)
Date: August 29, 2008 11:31AM

erotic: the nervous twitches leading eventually to total disintegration experienced by exceptionally debauched followers of the cult of eros*


*definition courtesy of the rather tardy Mrs Whitehouse

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define meritocracy



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/29/2008 11:32AM by splat21.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 30, 2008 03:55AM

Meritocracy: Rule by Scouts

Deife : Mediocraty

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.253-199-25.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 30, 2008 11:59AM

Mediocraty: A figurehead businessman


Define: Segue

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.sns.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: August 31, 2008 10:55AM

Segue: A South American tree noted for the manner in which specimens arrange themselves in geometric patterns.

Define: Prophecy.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: August 31, 2008 02:06PM

Prophecy: A phecy who works for money

Define package

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-129.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 31, 2008 05:10PM

Package: Date stamp on a parcel

Define: Calendar

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and outright winner of the 3 time winner of the Ffestival Dodo Feeding competition.
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