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I was going to put a sticker on my window, in the sense that people put up "Monte Carlo" and such...but it was going to say "Insolent Beast" in refference to the way my car acts...
Scurrilous Beast... I'm not so sure it has that nice ring...
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Even the non-omniscient (semiscient?) would realize how scurrilous it is to attempt a hijacking of the word of the day thread. Some rules were meant to be broken. Some were meant to be followed like Spring follows Winter. -5 to trebz for violation of the natural order of things.
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I plan to spend Easter Sunday helping a friend containerize the most recent 30 years of his life. Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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Casbah \KAZ-bah or KAHZ-bah\ (noun) 1 : a North African castle or fortress 2 : the native section of a North African city Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Having teleported into the middle of the Casbah, her first impulse was, unfortunately, to disguise herself as a rare species of Rhino. Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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I'm getting tired of doing this whole "Word of the Day" thing, so I'm ending this right now. Fron now on there will be no more new words, and I will be deleting this whole thread soon, probably in the next day or two
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Dobies idea to end the thread could be a hyperbole solution to other people attempting to steal his thread.
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Whether or not ending this thread is Dobie's "April Fool", I, for one, am almost psychotically inspired by his mind-bending dedication to this thread.
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The Word of the Day for April 1 is: Rube Goldberg \ROOB-GOHLD-berg\ (adjective) : accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply :characterized by such complex means Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The programmer's code was such a Rube Goldberg that it took the company 500 person hours to figure out that all it did was turn off the lights in the men's bathroom at random intervals. Many a suit was happy to see the program deleted. Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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Damn it! There's Bob gettin' all Rube Goldberg on me again! Can ya tone it down for us mis-educated foke?
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The Word of the Day for April 2 is: facsimile \fak-SIH-muh-lee\ (noun) 1 : an exact copy 2 : a system of transmitting and reproducing graphic matter (as printing or still pictures) by means of signals sent over telephone lines Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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We should probably have a facsimile of this thread in case, like the 1,000 post thread, it disappears.
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The Word of the Day for April 3 is: indubitable \in-DOO-buh-tuh-bul\ (adjective) : too evident to be doubted : unquestionable Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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We should indubitabilitly have a facsimile of this thread in case, like the 1,000 post thread, it disappears.
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The Word of the Day for April 4 is: garble \GAR-buhl\ (verb) : to distort the meaning or sound of Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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It has always struck me as odd that stutterers practice with marbles in their mouth to produce speech which is less garbled.
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