confection • \kun-FEK-shun\ • (noun) *1 : a sweet food or fancy dish prepared from a variety of ingredients; also : candy 2 : a piece of fine craftsmanship
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Triskaidekaphobia is the reason many high rise buildings do not officially have a 13th floor.
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The next month when there is a Friday the 13th is September, so triskaidekaphobes can rest easy until then.
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It is rather exhilarating to find out that it is 4/18/2002. Especially since I have some major projects due by today. Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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The race of the Hobbits originated when their first ancestors enlisted the aid of a gynecologist instead of a gynecologyologist, and the medicine he gave them caused them to have haploid children, which is why the race of Hobbits thereafter were called "Halflings." (And you thought it referred to their height!)
Oh, I'm supposed to use the word. OK, shortening "gynecologyologist" to "gynecologist" is an example of haplology, though also, arguably, the scientific explanation for the origin of Hobbits should also be allowed as an alternate definition.
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Had they caught the breast cancer sooner, it wouldn't have lead to the ecdemic tumors in her lungs.
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"Once the Earthians achieve star travel, the human plague will be ecdemic. The time to act is now!" – Message intercepted by SETI. Officially dismissed as random static. A few experts point out that it was in English, so must have been intended for our reception, which indicates this is the work of interstellar pranksters just trying to get a rise out of us.
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As the sound decreased and the shaking quit, I realized I was quite effectively sealed in under tons of earth. Deep in the underground with no way out. No light penetrated the tunnel and I felt as one with anopsia. I turned from the heap and blindly followed the tunnel hoping for some source of light to convince me this was only temporay.
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Perfidy (PUR-fi-dee) noun 1. Deliberate breach of faith; calculated violition of trust; treachery 2. The act or instance of treachery (From the Latin perfidia for treacherous)
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It used to be considered the highest act of perfidy to usurp the role of posting the next word of the day. Now that Dobie is gone, however, it's just a huge help!
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A couple goes to the resturant. The wife turns to the husband and asks "Orihon the list or not?
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Oh, it's the story of an amphigory That was more gory than amphi. About a man cooking meth in his home ....something something...yah he was stoned.
...and so on, I don't have the energy for meter at the moment.
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Look, I don't care if you can distill Kant's works into three pithy paragraphs," said the warden, expectorating on to and across my conspectus.
"Your categorical imperative won't get you far when the prisoners begin to riot. You better learn the architectonics of creating sublime cusine out of government cheese and stale bread or we're going to have a serious critique on our hands."
*Sigh*
How did I get myself into yet another recreation of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
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"Bespectacled, bearded and balding, Mr. Chkhartishvili is faintly ill at ease about fame. For years, he earned his living translating Japanese literature and working on what he still considers his magnum opus, a gloomy book entitled `The Writer and Suicide.' His idea of a good time is to stroll around a cemetery." Guy Chazan, Roll Over, Dostoyevsky: Serious Russian Writers Reinvent the Thriller, The Wall Street Journal, Feb 25, 2002. Posts: 7083 | Registered: Nov 2000
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