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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 28, 2012 09:52AM

Emergency... the unexpected appearance of a toe from foot covering legwear


Define LADDER

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 28, 2012 11:31AM

Ladder: ( lad 'DUH)

A concise expression intimating the superiority of the gentler sex.

Define: gender

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: March 13, 2012 06:05AM

gender: a thing that causes a hen to happen, as in 'engender',

or

perhaps a female look as in the male 'having a gander'



Define: altruistic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 13, 2012 10:23AM

altruistic - the act of giving away a mint tin to someone in need

Define: Donate

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-179.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 18, 2012 10:16AM

A sweet, fried, sugar coated pastry containing no nuts and made in a nut free environment but which cannot be guaranteed to contain no nuts.

Define coconut



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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: March 21, 2012 04:23AM

coconut:rare arborial creature that exists or else someone would have had to invent it by selective breeding of coffee bushes and rightwing politicians.

As it floats on the tides and has no apparent control of its destiny but has infected all the environments it can it has become a pest.


Not to be confused with the product of a palm tree which provides a cooling drink, a nutricious feed and something to imitate horseies galloping.


define (but not exclusively): nut case

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: March 21, 2012 04:23AM

coconut:rare arborial creature that exists or else someone would have had to invent it by selective breeding of coffee bushes and rightwing politicians.

As it floats on the tides and has no apparent control of its destiny but has infected all the environments it can it has become a pest.


Not to be confused with the product of a palm tree which provides a cooling drink, a nutricious feed and something to imitate horseies galloping.


define (but not exclusively): nut case

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: March 27, 2012 12:24AM

Nutcase - a suitcase only a madman would use.

Define - insanity

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: March 27, 2012 10:44AM

Insanity - A brand name fast acting head lice treatment

Define Treatment

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: March 29, 2012 06:16AM

Treatment - something really nice to freshen your breath after dinner.

Define - indulgent

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: March 29, 2012 08:39AM

indulgent: where one can find the vital organs of a boring man.

Define anatomy

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-176.btcentralplus.com)
Date: March 29, 2012 09:44AM

Anatomy...line fom a song of a gnatophile

eg: Gnat o' my heart and a gnat o'my own etc

Define mosquito

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: April 03, 2012 01:18AM

mosquito - By the way, I'm not doing this whole praying-in-a-holy-building thing anymore. It's so passe

Define - incidentally

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: April 03, 2012 08:43AM

Incidentally: notable event in the life of a friend

Define friend

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 03, 2012 04:20PM

Friend- What Fraust was trying to summon

Define Goethe

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.networking.otago.ac.nz)
Date: April 04, 2012 02:04AM

Goethe - 49ers!

Define - rahrah

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-180.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 04, 2012 03:26PM

Rah rah... how to laugh at backward people without being offensive

Define genius

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 04, 2012 10:55PM

Genius - rather like a gene

Define chromosome

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 05, 2012 11:18AM

Chromosome - Something like chrome.

Define - imitation

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 05, 2012 11:30AM

Imitation - a new cat induction ceremony involving protective hand coverings.

Define induction

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