ameliorate
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
heh insufferably tempted to just post what these words all mean as they come up, which would garner huge sb action
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha I am right there with you on that
― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
thread of not using Google
― uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
but i mean seriously who doesn't know what ameliorate means
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^ sb
I thought ameliorate was what you do on yelp
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ameliorate = a lecture given by an acne-ridden teenager
― uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a site for grading disappearances over the atlantic
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
uh...pacific?
yeah pacific
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
get your dead American female pilot deaths straight
mine was better
― uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get yours
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
hey there's fuck all evidence that earhart died over the pacific, lay offa me
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
a mealy orate
― uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
mealy = acne ridden??
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
a me a li or a te
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
(sound of music sequel)
well sure, but she certainly didn't die anywhere near THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
land, survive, float, starve
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a helluva CSI: 1920's episode waiting to be written right there
darragh's post would work better if the word was spelled atitanicorate
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
eh 1930's.
1940 by the time she'da starved, maybe. anyway, that's not important.
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
darragh's posts would work better if there was a 'fact' equivalent of spellcheck
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
it's called google iirc
― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
know your oceans, read your blogs
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
you want to integrate google factchecker, talk to keith.
best you go through tuomas tho
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I used "felicity" today, then had a moment of doubt and decided I should have said "facility". But they totally can mean the same thing!
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
fellacity
― uh is that miseplled? (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
is that like dudetown
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's one:
I can't seem to find the correct definition of the term "cosmic joke", which I understand relates to something specific, as opposed to well, gags about space aliens.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ayn Rand used this (very minor part of the plot) of The Fountainhead to explain a "cosmic joke":
Keating reads a book by Lois Cook, and reasons that it must be very deep indeed, since he doesn't understand it. Keating meets with Lois Cook. She makes him uncomfortable; he tries to compliment her on her book, but she replies that it's tiresome to be understood by everyone. For her house she wants something ugly, simply for the sake of going against what is thought to be beautiful. Keating (an architect) tries to object, but takes the commission. When it is built, (a syndicated critic named ) Toohey refers to it as "a cosmic joke."http://www.bookrags.com/notes/fou/PART19…
It was a joke on Keating because Keating didn't understand what had happened, but Toohey did.
hilarious imo
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that was the only definition I could find, but it seemed rather contrived and WTF to be honest.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
what makes you think it is a thing? did you read the rest of that yahoo answers page?
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
late on this but: always assumed excelsior was the stan lee ref which in turn I think ref'd the longfellow poem
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought a cosmic joke was something in the vein of a Kafkaesque mockery at the hands of the universe at large.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
choate/inchoate
― altered dominant (get bent), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
x-postYeah, kind of a Depeche Mode "Blasphemous Rumours" thing.
"...But I think that God's got a sick sense of humorAnd when I die I expect to find Him laughing."
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
here's Scalia's take on choate
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E3D91339F930A35752C0A9669D8B63
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
assay!
― gucci magnet (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
scalia needs a slap if that's where his attention is during arguments
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 12 April 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
slap!-
'don't interrupt me when my sentence is inchaote, beyotch'
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Monday, 12 April 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wile e chaote