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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: January 12, 2012 04:45AM

Mousetrap: The gangsta lyrical stylings of Mouse. T, currently star of Law and Order: Skirtingboard Unit

Define: Unit




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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: January 12, 2012 06:36AM

Unit - I certainly am, for not thinking of the above response.

(Brain starts singing da-dum da-da-da-da-doom-dum....)

Define - dodo

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: January 12, 2012 07:30AM

Dodo: an animal which encourages you to act, not try. Now extinct.

Define Muppet

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 14, 2012 12:40PM

Muppet... Wow gosheroony mu my absolutely favourite greek letter



Comes between lamda and nu. Well I never.

Define acropolis

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: January 15, 2012 11:37AM

Acropolis: the city of scaffolding

Define: Scaffold

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: January 15, 2012 12:11PM

Scaffold: a structure which supported Lily the Pink. (Thank you very much)

Define poet

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: January 16, 2012 06:09AM

poet: small feminine po.


[for some reason I also have been thinking of Scaffold and 'Lily the Pink'! Is this morphic resonance or a confusion of synchronicity?]


define: Jung

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: January 17, 2012 12:46PM

Define Jung? I'm aFreud I Kant.

Define: diagnosis

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 17, 2012 05:24PM

An unhealthily sexual interest in diagonals ( see The collected wishful thinks of the great philosophers pp one to six hundred)


Brilliant non explanation of Jung by Misty.



Define alley

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: steeljam (---.range86-144.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 21, 2012 01:36AM

A friend in the side street.


Define: Complimentary

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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Marit (159.190.251.---)
Date: January 24, 2012 10:02AM

Complimentary: Nourishing, but remarks about its foul taste are unavoidable

Define: Brussels sprouts



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2012 10:04AM by Marit.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: January 24, 2012 01:37PM

Brussels sprout: A time traveler named Barry

Define: Armageddon

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: January 24, 2012 04:25PM

Armageddon: A musical about the afterlife of the King

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Define ranking (Yes, I know: we should be seeing him & Lady Raygun in 10 days time!)

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Violetmoon (---.hsd1.tn.comcast.net)
Date: January 26, 2012 07:38AM

Ranking: A system of setting things in logical order, which is theoretically possible outside the Fforum realm. Not real likely around here.

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Define: Gander

- and OB, you should, sometime. Never is an awfully long time.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: old boiler (---.range81-151.btcentralplus.com)
Date: January 26, 2012 09:40PM

But I did!!!! I took a gander at what the goose was doing and it was utterly repulsive. How could it bend it's neck so far under. UUUGHH'



Define parsons nose.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: processdrone (---.wlms-broadband.com)
Date: February 04, 2012 05:36PM

Unit -
To take a jumper & deconstruct it into a single ball of wool

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Complimentary -
From “Compile” and “Mental” so complimentary means to asses how mad someone is. E.g. “I showed Professor Creighton my invention for removing butter from hedges & he was very complimentary.

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Gander
To be more enlightened and at peace than Ghandi

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Parsons Nose
from "Parse" to analyse and "no" a refusal. Parsons Nose then is a refusal to analyse"
e.g. Timmy opened his mouth to show me what he was chewing but I parsons nose
(damn that wasn’t easy I just wanted to break the spell really)

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Define Telescopic

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 06, 2012 03:15AM

telescopic: the time period which grows when holding on for a response from a telephone company. cf: eternity


define : etenity



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/06/2012 03:15AM by bunyip.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (---.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz)
Date: February 06, 2012 04:15AM

etenity: Having the "r's" drop out of your life forever.

Define: Communication

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (---.xdsl.xnet.co.nz)
Date: February 06, 2012 06:20PM

Communication - The act of inducting your pet moggy into the Catholic faith.

Define - feline

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.plain.net.au)
Date: February 07, 2012 06:11AM

feline: in chemistry and geology - a streak of iron, not to be confused with domestic activity when the steam iron goes 'phttt' all over your nealy ironed pleated shirt.

define: phttt

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