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Author Topic: The R3OK glossary  (Read 19107 times)
George Garnett
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« Reply #75 on: 16:56:22, 06-12-2007 »

 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Ruth.

Haven't you seen octopus glaziers carrying sheets of glass? They can do things with those suckers on both sides of a pair of French Windows simultaneously that make your eyes pop out on stalks.
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Baz
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« Reply #76 on: 21:18:35, 06-12-2007 »

Yes.  I had tea with big Jean Sibelius last night.  He elaborated fascinatingly on the grey clouds of his fourth symphony and said if I didn't like Finland he would strategically place a piano on the end of my nose whilst letting loose some mythical swan.  Yes.  Fascanating chap.  Tomorrow, it's breakfast with Bruckner again.

fascanating: adj descriptive of the fascination to be derived from a deliberately poorly-conceived scansion, as in (e.g.)

There once was a man from Japan
Who wrote verses that never would scan.
When asked why that was
He said "It's because
I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I possibly can"


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« Reply #77 on: 21:48:37, 06-12-2007 »

Suddenly
With a clarinet, or as if with one.
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Baz
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« Reply #78 on: 13:57:27, 07-12-2007 »

Michael Tippett was of course one of the English homosexualist school...

homosexualist n one who believes that the number six remains the same no matter how many times it is multiplied or divided.

homosexualist school a place of higher learning where one spends up to three years learning exactly how the number six remains the same no matter how many times it is multiplied or divided.
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« Reply #79 on: 14:33:52, 07-12-2007 »

Homosexualist. "One entry found." Only one? Merriam-Webster is perhaps being a little coy here? Wink
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« Reply #80 on: 15:30:41, 07-12-2007 »

Homosexualist. "One entry found." Only one? Merriam-Webster is perhaps being a little coy here? Wink

Let's see what usage examples our good old OED can give:

1931 A. EILOART tr. Heyer's Hypnosis xiii. 204
It should be considered that a homosexualist thus suggestively transformed for weeks or even months, marries..within that time.

1933 H. WILLIAMSON Gold Falcon i. 19
His book..proving..that Hamlet should be played as a homosexualist in vain love with Horatio had just been published.

1961 Innocent Moon v. 100
Even Jesus.. according to Nordau..was a homosexualist and should have been locked up.

1971 Southerly XXXI. 84
He consigned me to the lavatory-cleaning brigade together with a group of homosexualists.

What lofty fellows you associate with, Mr. Grew!
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« Reply #81 on: 22:20:36, 07-12-2007 »

Nothing in the world that can`t be sorted out by having a good long cold shower, carbolic soap and porage.

porage n an advancement of years so great that normal bodily functions can only be restored with the aid of a long cold shower and carbolic soap.
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« Reply #82 on: 22:35:21, 07-12-2007 »

Nothing in the world that can`t be sorted out by having a good long cold shower, carbolic soap and porage.

porage n an advancement of years so great that normal bodily functions can only be restored with the aid of a long cold shower and carbolic soap.
Oh, I've only just realised what that meant!

I actually thought Mort was just talking about some sort of herb or something I'd never heard of. <doh>
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« Reply #83 on: 22:41:41, 07-12-2007 »

Nothing in the world that can`t be sorted out by having a good long cold shower, carbolic soap and porage.

porage n an advancement of years so great that normal bodily functions can only be restored with the aid of a long cold shower and carbolic soap.

2.  Referring to a state of irritation or agitation resulting from the absence of a readily available
    chamber pot.
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« Reply #84 on: 22:54:38, 07-12-2007 »

Nothing in the world that can`t be sorted out by having a good long cold shower, carbolic soap and porage.

porage n an advancement of years so great that normal bodily functions can only be restored with the aid of a long cold shower and carbolic soap.

2.  Referring to a state of irritation or agitation resulting from the absence of a readily available
    chamber pot.

3. A non-U description of the spillage caused by having too many cold showers before eating porridge.
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« Reply #85 on: 15:06:59, 08-12-2007 »

I had tea with big Jean Sibelius last night......Yes.  Fascanating chap. 

Fascanating: slapping buttocks with a bundle of elm or birch rods with an axe in the middle
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« Reply #86 on: 17:31:33, 09-12-2007 »

peeing and poohing
Strange transformation whereby a mouse enters a toilet and emerges some time later dressed as a bear.
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Thank you for the music ...


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« Reply #87 on: 19:46:11, 09-12-2007 »

Mustn't lose track of these!
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Blootered

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« Reply #88 on: 08:35:58, 10-12-2007 »

Podged, Blootered, and Needleblip:

1. A firm of solicitors specialising in claims associated with R3OK.

2. colloq. A term to refer to the 3 moderators of R3OK, who save you from having to resort to aforementioned solicitors.

N.B. It is unclear which name is to be attributed to which moderator.

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« Reply #89 on: 08:42:17, 10-12-2007 »

Whitlocked

to be found in an intellectually compromised state, street cred in the gutter

( Wink sorry, t_i_n, couldn't resist it...)
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