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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (92.23.15.---)
Date: August 05, 2008 08:28AM

<Thread causality crisis>

<Danger danger danger... exterminate!>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Cordwangler (136.173.162.---)
Date: August 05, 2008 10:36AM

cavort - from German "das K-Wort" (the K-word). Unfortunately I can't think of a sufficiently rude word in German that K might stand for.

Now define: sumo

Does that resolve the causality crisis?

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (92.23.15.---)
Date: August 05, 2008 11:08AM

<causality crisis averted>

<ping>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: LeonardQuirm (---.dur.ac.uk)
Date: August 05, 2008 03:38PM

Sumo: What Homer'll do when he discovers his beer's been being watered down for all those years...

Eesh, and I'm not even a Simpsons fan. Why did I come up with that?

Define: Hyperbolic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.207.12.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: August 05, 2008 03:52PM

hyperbolic: what £$%&>?<>?&* uses to %%%%%%% *&!! and make ??<$%€%%^&!

PLEASE NOTE :only the pure in heart will be able to read the above without it being overwritten with non-alpha characters

define tortology

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 06, 2008 03:23AM

tortology: scientific study of rich chocolate cakes




Define: omnibus

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 06, 2008 08:54AM

Omnibus: Gods (plural) favourite transport.


Define: Mandatory

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.7.147.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: August 06, 2008 11:08AM

Mandatory: a urinal (have we had this before?)

Define telephone

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Cordwangler (136.173.62.---)
Date: August 06, 2008 11:19AM

telephone: a Yorkshire pachyderm

define: humungous

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 06, 2008 03:53PM

humungous: A variant of goose, reputed to have intelligent and capable of passing itself off as a person by the use of clever cloth disguise.

define: Play.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 06, 2008 05:39PM

Play: A type of wooden board sourced from free range trees

Define: Pentium

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: JungleKatt (---.int.bellsouth.net)
Date: August 06, 2008 11:06PM

Pentium: A rare tropical flower that exudes a sap that causes extreme forgetfulness.

Define: Tropical

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 07, 2008 03:54AM

tropical: something of current interest and discussion that has not had the arse kicked out of it.


Define: autoclave



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2008 03:54AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 07, 2008 12:06PM

Autoclave: American automatic carwash

Define trainspotting

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: LeonardQuirm (---.dur.ac.uk)
Date: August 07, 2008 12:17PM

Trainspotting: the art of trying to paint large dots on the side of trains. Maximum points are achieved if this is done while the train is moving.

Define: Define (depending on the answer, this could change the game completely!)

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 07, 2008 12:40PM

{anybody up for the third definition of define? Skids? maybe you can achieve even more modesty!}

Define: From the German: Def Ine or deaf one, for those who get run down because they don't hear the car comming.

Define: Antidisestablishmentarianism

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: EgonSpengler (92.18.67.---)
Date: August 07, 2008 01:02PM

Antidisestablishmentarianism: The process by which concepts are articulated into longer and longer words until they acquire so many syllables that they must be entombed.

Define: Pseudonym.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.40.161.84.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: August 07, 2008 01:54PM

Lymond, after your good self, I am the most modest person on the Fforum and I defy anyone to be as humble as me

Pseudonym: something disguised as a lab rat

define corpulent

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 07, 2008 02:24PM

{well of course Skids, If I wasn't so modest I'd be perfect}

Corpulent: the act of slimming down an army at easter time.

Define: Toblerone

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: August 08, 2008 03:15AM

Toblerone: Swiss concept of exporting their mountains as mini replicas made of chocolate. Like Switzerland contains nuts.




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Define: retroactive

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