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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: March 25, 2010 01:20PM

MMmmmmmm, LOVE marshmallows! Ate way too many last night. <smiles and takes another> Thank you!

<Eyeballs pieS and debates chances of selected pie being apple or peach, or having been made by someone who likes curry. (shudder) Decides "what the hey" and selects a piece from a front pie and looks for a fork.>

Stick: what you throw when you want the dog to come find you.

(alt: a tick on a S, but that was just too gross near the pies)

Define: session

<finds a seat, feeling a bit less nervous> <still wondering where the forks got to, and if anyone will notice me eating pie with no fork>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: March 25, 2010 05:00PM

As you have probably spotted, most of the pies are marked with an "S" to indicate that they are small and hence small enough to be hand-held and eaten like a cupcake, so no forks are required and we try to keep sharp things away from most of the inmates here.

The larger pies, marked with an "S" as they are substantial, have been cut into slices to make eating easier, although the soggy ones (yes, you've guessed it) can still be messy. Do be careful, though, about selecting a pie from the front until you know whether when I put the pies out, where I was stood and so which is the back........

Spotting that you were posting from Tennessee was easy: your part address (alongside your name on a post) of ...asa.utk.edu indicates University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: March 25, 2010 06:42PM

Ahhhh, sharp things. Got it. I'll stop looking for forks, and will laugh at any need for a knife...

<nibbles at pie cautiously. unsure of flavour, grateful for lack of curry.>

I understood how my address would give my location away, just was not expecting that my address would show anything identifiable to people in this group. Especially not immediately, although with "immediately!" as part of the subject of the thread, I don't know *what* I was thinking. At any rate, all I can figure out is New Zealand and Australia.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: March 25, 2010 09:24PM

<Tastes a pie and determines that it is too salty. Helpfully marks it with an "S" and puts it back.>

<Tastes another pie and likes it so much, decides to claim the whole batch for herself. Marks each one with an "S" for Susan.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: March 26, 2010 08:55AM

<is grateful that MuseSusan didn't mark the pie with "MS" as I would then have to return it to a a department store, or at least describe it as "Not just a pie, but.....">

Session: Search Engine Strategies used in the Priory of Sion

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Define Brown

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: April 01, 2010 07:01PM

Brown: the color of a perfectly toasted marshmallow.
alt: the color you are looking for when the UPS man is supposed to be bringing your new toy but isn't here yet.

Define: tomorrow

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: April 02, 2010 01:04AM

tomorrow: yesterday of the future

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define midnight

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.opera-mini.net)
Date: April 02, 2010 06:34PM

Midnight. Around the belly area of sir lancelot du lac
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Define: henceforth
<selects a pie, finds that it is stale, carefully marks it with an 's' and puts it back. Pies of this nature also carry a 'ps' or pre-slobbered>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2010 02:15AM by Lymond.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: April 03, 2010 07:06AM

Henceforth: A concluding interjection which usually follows an explanation of one's ranking in a competition, as in: "I didn't win the International Arboreal Llama-Shearing Competition because Jack, Mary, and Arnold did better than me; henceforth."

Define: adjective

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: April 03, 2010 07:08AM

<Tries one of the pies Lymond had marked as stale and finds it not stale at all, but rather too soggy. Sees that it has already been labeled appropriately, however, and puts it back.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: April 03, 2010 08:53AM

Adjective: style of coding designed to create Browser Pop-up Blockers.

Define: susurration

< Seeks sustenance, sceptically sniffs suspect savoury. Slightly scorched skinny sides, stuffing seems somewhat soggy. Seasoned small sauerkraut sausage? Simply saveloy skin scraps? Skips sauce, sadly sequestrates serving, seizes second similar sample, scratches surface, smells. Surprise, strong sweet scent! Smiles, samples. Somehow slight sick sensation, strength sinks. Sudden scare, sees shadow, screams shamelessly! Swiftly scarpers.>


Sorry.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Lymond (---.hudd.cable.ntl.com)
Date: April 04, 2010 02:19AM

susurration; to work out what other people are getting out of their food coupons

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Define: benefit

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: annie (---.lnse1.win.bigpond.net.au)
Date: April 13, 2010 10:07AM

<simply sensational!!>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2010 10:08AM by annie.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.asa.utk.edu)
Date: May 13, 2010 03:01PM

benefit: The advantage to going to a fund raiser on someone else's dime.

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Define: burrito

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: May 15, 2010 05:31PM

burrito: a very small pack animal

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Define hangover without reference to my waistline

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.197.138.7.threembb.co.uk)
Date: July 14, 2010 10:08PM

Hangover: a severe punishment for a cricketer who fails to score after 6 balls (8 in Australia)

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define bread-box

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: July 15, 2010 03:38AM

Bread-box: an exciting sport in which two baked goods vie for the chance to knock each other out. If one fails to rise, the other is declared the winner.

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Define: mothball

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: July 15, 2010 09:12PM

Mothball: Another exciting sport or game, the rules of which have been put away long ago, to be retrieved in some indeterminate future. Thence the expression "mothballed".

Define: Finder's fee.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.197.164.59.threembb.co.uk)
Date: July 19, 2010 06:01PM

Finder's fee: half of the speach by a giant searching for an Englishman
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Define golden goose

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: July 19, 2010 06:20PM

<wonders what "speach" might mean>

<wonders what Skidmarks' definition means, regardless answer to previous question>

<admires Skidmarks' inventivity, regardless answers to previous questions>

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