Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Pashmina

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Pashmina: Persian wool.
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Quote of the day: "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." Saint Thomas Moore
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Aperçu

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Aperçu: Clever insight
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Quote of the day: "A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings." Stanley Kubrick
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Earwicker

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Earwicker: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, (HCE, Here Comes Everybody, Has Childers Everwhere), principle character in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, by others; junk, by most; interesting and unusual.
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Quote of the day: "Often he who does too much does too little." Italian Proverb 
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Syllabub

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Syllabub: Spiked milk drink or dessert.
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Quote of the day: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." Jonathan Swift 
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Mumble

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Mumble: Speak indistinctly.
Bumble: Move awkwardly.
Fumble: Drop the ball.
Humble: Modest.
Hummus: Messed up chick peas.
Jumble: Word puzzle.
Rumble: Noise, fight.
Scumble: Mess up paint.
Tumble: Fall.
Gumble: Round bubble gum, Sometime partner of Couric.
Gamble: Risk, partner of Proctor.
Gimble: Department Store, Antagonist to Macy.
Grumble: Bitch about partner or antagonist.
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Quote of the day: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." William G. McAdoo
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Guernica

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Guernica: Small town in Spain carpet-bombed by Nazis in WWII for no strategic purpose other than terrorism and practice. Immortalized by Picasso.
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Quote of the day: "When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up." John Scalzi,
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Tenderloin

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Tenderloin: Cut of meat, red-light district.
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Quote of the day: "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." Spanish Proverb
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Spondulicks




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Spondulicks: Money, from a greek word meaning vertebra, possibly from the appearance of a stack of coins.
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Quote of the day: "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women." Muhammad Yunus
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Tuner

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Tuner: One who tunes, device for finding frequencies.
Tooner: with -ville; comic site featuring trolley.
Crooner: Sloppy singer.
Kahuna: Hawaiian leader.
Tuna: Food fish.
Petunia: Cartoon pig, flower.
Mooner: Marlon Brando.
Sooner: Oklahoman.
Spooner: With -ism; word confusion.
Swooner: Teen-ager with spooner, due to crooner. (obsolete)
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Quote of the day: "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not." Epicurus
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Lame

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Lame: Weak, crippled.
Lamé: Metallic weave.
Dame: Female knight.
Fame: Widespread but usually fleeting attention.
Game: What you got.
Mame: An Eisenhower.
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Quote of the day: "Don't set your wit against a child." Jonathan Swift
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Whist

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Whist: Card game.
Schist: Type of rock.
Cyst: Blob.
Dissed: Sneered.
Hissed: Disapproved a performance.
Kissed: Approved a performance.
List: Lean to one side.
Mist: Fog.
Wrist: Location of CTS.
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Quote of the day: "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it is his duty."--George Bernard Shaw
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Batten

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Batten: Wooden slat inserted into pockets in sails to give them shape. In a storm, hatches to the hold could blow open exposing the cargo to the weather. Battens were used to secure them by sliding the slat through metal loops, hence the term, "Batten down the hatches!" (Always shouted). Other similar uses.
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Quote of the day: "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."  Bernard M. Baruch
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Pilchard

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Pilchard: Long sardine, idiot.
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Quote of the day: "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."  Agnes Repplier
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Penuche


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Penuche: Fudge. (July 22 is National Penuche Day in the United States. Mark your calendar)
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Quote of the day: "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."  George Bernard Shaw
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Quote

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Quote: Cite, citation.
Quit: Stop.
Quite: Very.
Cute: Oogey Woogey.
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Quote of the day: "If you refuse to be made straight when you are green,
you will not be made straight when you are dry." African Proverb
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Snood

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Snood: Hair bag.
Snerd: Dummy of Edgar Bergen.
Snide: Derisive, contemptuous.
Snade: Part of Larsen E. Whipsnade, W. C. Fields character.
Snored: Made nasal sounds while sleeping.
Snared: Caught prey.
Snoozed: Slept lightly.
Sneezed: Ah-choo-ed.
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Quote of the day: "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."  James Gordon, M.D.
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Canuck

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Canuck: Canadian.
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Quote of the day: "It is better to suffer an unjustice than to commit one." Socrates
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Buntline

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Buntline: Ned; novelist, gun-toter, six-shooter by that name, a marine hitch.
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Quote of the day: "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." English Proverb
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Brux

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Brux: Grind the teeth.
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Quote of the day: "I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none."  Ben Shahn
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Lorax

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Lorax: Cartoon character; environmentalist, ID for lumber company. Opposite of Truax and Onceler.
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Quote of the day: "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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