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...I should have made clearer that the mysterious world which I was suggesting men enter only at their peril is that of advising ladies on which hats they, the latter, should or should not wear at weddings. Even the most carefully planned and tim'rous wee comments oft gang awry...
tim'rous wee ( colloq.) An outward movement sometimes involuntarily made when confronted by dominating high-society ladies who demand an opinion upon the hats they are wearing. |
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« Reply #376 on: 03:35:54, 18-01-2008 » |
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it's not that I don't know how to [...] , it's just that I have a slightly convoluted system which involves [...] a stroke in one place and reinserting it in another, and I sometimes forget to do the reinsertion.
Have you considered a legal change-of-middle-name to from "is" to "two times a night, memory allowing"? Or how about " 'two times' times"? (or would two 'times', consecutive or otherwise, be a bit much?)
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« Reply #377 on: 22:56:42, 18-01-2008 » |
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tim'rous wee - shy bladder
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« Reply #378 on: 00:47:31, 19-01-2008 » |
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horizonatal pupils - trainee midwives caught napping on duty
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« Reply #379 on: 10:08:00, 21-01-2008 » |
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AmericamAn optical recording/transmitting device aimed at the transatlantic continent (often the bit between Canada and Mexico).
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« Reply #380 on: 10:24:40, 21-01-2008 » |
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tim'rous wee - shy bladder
and ros, your message brought up this banner today: She Pee. Female Wee Tool
No more squatting. Women can now pee standing up easily & discreetly
http://www.shepee.co.uk |
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« Reply #381 on: 21:41:25, 21-01-2008 » |
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...We still have an interesting stash of Romanian leu, Hungarian forints, Turkish lira and Cypriot pounds from our autumn outing. (The last being totally redundant since 1 January when unoccupied Cyrpus joined the euro zone.)...
unoccupied Cyrpus ( fig.) A female neutered cat that is thenceforward destined to remain barren. |
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« Reply #382 on: 01:16:29, 22-01-2008 » |
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Like others' here, my brain regularly tunes itself into the "Mortifying Moments"
When your parents find a black gown and hair straightener hidden under your bed. |
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« Reply #383 on: 18:08:40, 22-01-2008 » |
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Please bear in mind the other meashes here - I feel sure they will help.
Meashes: ( plural noun): Sean Connery's collective appellation for Pixie and Dixie. |
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« Reply #384 on: 20:29:04, 22-01-2008 » |
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Snoek - <sno, ek, orig. "Snow, heck">. "Oh dear, frozen precipitation". Tommo |
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« Reply #385 on: 20:35:53, 22-01-2008 » |
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 The Snoek, Tommo  (Not the one with the beard, the thing he's holding.) |
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« Reply #386 on: 21:57:04, 22-01-2008 » |
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H&N Might be 'hear and now', but might also be 'hoon', ampersand-interpretation allowing. That's how I read it just a few minutes ago anyway.
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« Reply #387 on: 23:48:23, 23-01-2008 » |
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. . . a camera is a stromentum it seems to me, something to palpably grapple with to get a sense of productivity. stroma (n): the dense colourless framework of a chloroplast and certain cells stromatolite (n): a sedimentary rock consisting of layers of fossilized algae Stromboli (np): an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, famous for its active volcano strombuliferous (a): bearing fruit spirally twisted strome (v): to wander around idly stromentum (n first cited in 2008): something with which palpably to grapple stromperie (n): the practice of harlotry productivity (n): what may be sensed in the course of or subsequent to a palpable grappling with stromenta |
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« Reply #388 on: 13:10:05, 24-01-2008 » |
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A knight who's as bad at jousting as he is at chatting up the queen.
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« Reply #389 on: 16:52:49, 24-01-2008 » |
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Richard, Well I guess you are saying that if a definition doesn't have a quote originator, it's pretty likely to be Tommo......... Tommo PS Common Sense - there doesn't seem to be an awfullot of it around nowadays, and I seem to remember it was quite useful.
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