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Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: June 20, 2012 11:35AM

Uncoordinated: the sort of bar that doesn't serve @#$%& American beer (Coors).

Define @#$%&

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: June 20, 2012 12:25PM

By now we all know CR's intention was:

Uncoordinated: the sort of bar that doesn't serve c h e a p American beer (Coors).

Define c h e a p

<Hands up all those who knew I was going to do that.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: June 20, 2012 12:26PM

@#$%&: tea in the keyboard

Define c h e a p

posted same time as Misty Cat so edited to include c h e a p



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2012 12:28PM by SkidMarks.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: June 20, 2012 12:42PM

<some bad bunny used a naughty word - sorry!>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: June 20, 2012 02:27PM

C. heap: shortened version of @#$%& heap, meaning a pile of unwanted rubish, frequently, but not exclusively footwear. Even in its shortened version this term is considered so offensive by some that it is often replaced with the following symbols: @#$%&.

Define: manure

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: June 22, 2012 07:57AM

manure - the first version of the thighbone, eventually replaced by the more stylish and functional one we have now.

define - sexist

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: June 22, 2012 10:08AM

Sexist: A thtrange mythtical religion on the planet Lithp, where dithiples known ath Thibilants thtate their thure and thertain belief that there ethithts a lingual-palatal thound thaid to add a twenty-thitht thound to their twenty-five character alphabet. Thucks to be them.

Define lisp.

<I lisp - not too noticeably.>

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: June 24, 2012 12:50AM

lisp - a list that takes extra concentration to read...

define - scrawl

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: June 24, 2012 09:28AM

Scrawl - Along with sbutterfly, sbreaststroke, one of the sOlympics sswimming events.

Define sponsorship.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-168.btcentralplus.com)
Date: June 24, 2012 11:06AM

Sponsor's hip...a repetitive strain injury caused by repeatedly putting one's hand into one's rear pocket in search of money for friends performing weird feats in the name of charity.

Define succour

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: June 25, 2012 02:15AM

succour - something P T Barnum had an excess of.


define: Barnum

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Ian (---.41.251.213.threembb.co.uk)
Date: June 25, 2012 08:25AM

Barnum: A polite expression for drunken. As careworn is to haggard, barnum is to pi$$ed.

Define - Careworn.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: June 25, 2012 01:28PM

Careworn: a threadbare Care Bear

Define threadbare

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: June 25, 2012 08:20PM

Threadbare... an empty ward-robe


Define nudist

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Ian (---.41.251.239.threembb.co.uk)
Date: June 25, 2012 08:37PM

NUDist: Someone opposed to National Underwear Day (5 August this year).

Define - Opposition.

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: Eoink (---.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: June 25, 2012 09:03PM

OP position - the very top of the thread

Define forum

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: June 25, 2012 11:01PM

for um - labelling a gift for someone whose name you can't remember.

define - amnesia

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: June 26, 2012 07:06AM

Amnesia: the forgotten continent

Define forgotten

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: mycroftstwin (101.98.138.---)
Date: June 26, 2012 08:49AM

for gotten - Battle cry of the lesser known German emperor, GottenitintheStrudel.

define - monarch

Re: Define that word! immediately!
Posted by: OB (---.range86-177.btcentralplus.com)
Date: June 26, 2012 04:26PM

Monarch...a rarely seen architectural oddity: an arch with only one supporting side.


Define ruin

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