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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: April 13, 2012 06:59AM

Bloke: that paragon of animals who in form and movement is like a god.

Describe underachiever.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.mobile.telecom.co.nz)
Date: April 13, 2012 12:53PM

<I am strong,>
<I am invincible,>
<I am Bloke.>

Underachiever: anybody who has not achieved the status of "Bloke."

Define: humility

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 13, 2012 01:18PM

Humility: the degree to which a tune can be hummed.

Define earworm

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd-bam-2.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 15, 2012 11:37AM

Bob 'Oskins playing Saruman summoning Grima.

Define Istari

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 15, 2012 09:42PM

Istari - the eyes of any Beatles fanatic.

Define - devotion

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-181.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 16, 2012 10:27AM

Devotion... the act of mutilating a voting paper


Define election

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 16, 2012 11:19AM

Election: the selection process for university teachers

Define teacher

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: April 16, 2012 07:12PM

Teacher: what the teapot sits on

Define: hearth

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: April 16, 2012 08:38PM

hearth: where one can find the homeh

Define forced

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 17, 2012 08:57PM

forced - what you have to do when the door is stuckd

Define - jamming

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 18, 2012 12:39PM

Jamming: the use of preserve or jelly in the place of butter to help remove your hand when you try to clean out the bottom of a priceless vase.

Define contrived

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 20, 2012 08:20AM

contrived - the excuses a jailbird make when they are seen behind the wheel of the wardens car...

define - motorist

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-186.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 21, 2012 09:25AM

Moto wrist... repetitive strain injury occurring after repeatedly lifting large cups of Americanos in service stations

Define leadfree

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: April 21, 2012 10:13AM

Le Ad Free: French non-commercial television

Define non-commercial

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd-bam-2.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 21, 2012 09:44PM

Sergeant Edwin Robert Cial : non-com ER Cial

Define sergeant major

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.catv.broadband.hu)
Date: April 23, 2012 08:22PM

Sergeant Major: A very large ant dressed in heavy fabric?

Define: Tantamount.

It is now really hard to resist looking at the long list of things we have defined! Lymond never knew what he was about to start!

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: April 23, 2012 08:27PM

tantamount - the horse of the Lone Rangers sidekick.

define - hi ho

<The sheer amount of stuff we have defined aside, I just love the sheer tangents these definitions have created.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 23, 2012 09:48PM

Hi ho- the tool the giant used to tend the beanstalk

Define legume

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-186.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 24, 2012 09:15AM

Le gume ... a sticky vegetable soup from French Equatorial Africa.


Define colony

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: April 24, 2012 09:29AM

Colony - Rather like a bowel

Define gut

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