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martle
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« Reply #150 on: 12:36:52, 21-12-2007 »
Quote from: Baz on 12:28:15, 21-12-2007
baffoon

baffoon: low-pitched woodwind instrument played with a lisp.
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« Reply #151 on: 20:57:26, 21-12-2007 »
quote from t-p
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I hope your stomack is better.

sto A Danish project SprogTeknologisk Ordbase
mack heavy duty refuse truck

So stomack A Danish heavy duty refuse truck?

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« Reply #152 on: 21:03:32, 21-12-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 12:36:52, 21-12-2007
Quote from: Baz on 12:28:15, 21-12-2007
baffoon

baffoon: low-pitched woodwind instrument played with a lisp.

Touché martle - but still played touché?

Baz Grin

P.S. Surprised you did not know the correct spelling of "lithp" though!
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« Reply #153 on: 21:08:46, 21-12-2007 »
Quote from: trained-pianist on 17:49:34, 21-12-2007

I am planning to have a good Christmas time here in this nice board room. It is good to take opportunity to rest when there is a quiet time because there will be hectic and busy times too.


board room A quiet place where completely undisturbed rest is normally found.

[Oh yeh!? Pull the other one!  Grin Grin Grin]
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« Reply #154 on: 22:53:28, 21-12-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 12:36:52, 21-12-2007
Quote from: Baz on 12:28:15, 21-12-2007
baffoon

baffoon: low-pitched woodwind instrument played with a lisp.

Or alternatively...

baffoon: (a) a puzzled jester (b) a monkey puzzle tree
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« Reply #155 on: 23:26:45, 21-12-2007 »
diving force - the compulsion to submerge, e.g. expressions of sexual or culinary desire.  Wink
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« Reply #156 on: 09:00:48, 22-12-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 23:18:04, 21-12-2007
in less licentious times than ours (such as Wagner's), this was a social norm, and a principal diving force behind concepts of transcendental love.

principal diving force

The French Underwater Musical Foreign Legion - a group of love-lorn men who have turned to sub-aqua activities "to forget".  The Ordre was founded by Sir Launcelot "Of The Lake" (where he used to practice with a snorkel & flippers attached to his armour), but they soon extended their activities to offshore and coastal waters, sublimating their own romantic disappointments by righting those of others. One of their most famous capers was boarding a boat on which the young bride of King Mark was being ferried, and slipping a love-potion into the care of her maid. Subsequently they devoted themselves to assisting shipwrecked operatic characters to shore (Ariodante, Robinson Crusoe et al).  Not all of their rescues were successful, and they brought the body of an unfortunate spinster of Liverpool, Eleanor Rigby, to shore, who was thereafter known as La Belle Dame Dans Mersey. Their tacit role in operatic plots has been celebrated by modern opera producers who have staged entire operas (viz THE QUEEN OF SPADES) in frogmen outfits in their honour.


IDOMENEO, Staatsteatr, Bregenz, 1987
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« Reply #157 on: 09:36:05, 22-12-2007 »
Fabulous, Reiner! That's put a smile on my face, probably for the whole day.  Cheesy
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« Reply #158 on: 10:19:59, 22-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 21:37:23, 21-12-2007

Ah, but have you heard that Christmas this year is in jeapordy, due to Industrial Action amongst the elves over a Demarcation Dispute?

Jeapordy, (n): An inability to pronounce French surnames correctly.
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« Reply #159 on: 19:01:44, 22-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 13:45:33, 22-12-2007
piece of mind

piece of mind: a musical work disproportionately beholden to the intellect rather than the muse.
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« Reply #160 on: 19:32:54, 22-12-2007 »
I fear I shall not look back on these as my golden days Wink
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #161 on: 18:24:24, 23-12-2007 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 17:42:48, 23-12-2007
I don't want to go into the details but I rise to the bate.
bate: Shakespeare scholar turned in late middle-age to the elucidation of dates on which Falstaffian gluttony is considered permissible in different parts of the world
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #162 on: 18:54:41, 23-12-2007 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 18:24:24, 23-12-2007
Quote from: Don Basilio on 17:42:48, 23-12-2007
I don't want to go into the details but I rise to the bate.
bate: Shakespeare scholar turned in late middle-age to the elucidation of dates on which Falstaffian gluttony is considered permissible in different parts of the world

Nonetheless I believe Don B's learned orthography there is correct Wink
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« Reply #163 on: 21:40:07, 23-12-2007 »
Quote from: HtoHe on 18:08:13, 22-12-2007
materpiece
materpiece: work of art with a thematic content focusing on platonic female love (cf. Paterpiece, focusing on platonic male love)
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« Reply #164 on: 22:05:34, 23-12-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 18:14:37, 23-12-2007
mispelt

mispelt: a word giving a graphic demonstration of its own meaning.
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