"costive"
look it up
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)
I did. It brought me here.
― Simmer 1 Tire Tread or Dead Crow for 15 minutes (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)
from an anthony burgess review of a book by thomas m disch - the entire quote is "But, hearing his costive borborygmi, we can't help wishing for a copy of the long-out-of-print ''Don't, Mr. Disraeli,'' by Brahmas and Simon, in which the comic potentialities of the whole Victorian scene are unblushingly exploited."
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)
From costner
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71902NKSBJL._SL500_AA240_.gif^^^this book is invaluable to all you sesquipedalian orators
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)
That reminds me, I'm gonna go grab some cheapo taqueria food for dinner, see if I can't work up a little costive borborygmi myself. Will report back.
― crusty but benign (kenan), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
Or... not.
'Costive' used in a sentence:
"After eating five of the 49 cent hot dogs John, a cost-conscious Costco customer, became costive."
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)
Anybody else noticed people starting to use "existential" in a new (wrong) way lately? -Similar to the way "beg the question" started morphing several years ago.
― B'wana Beast, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 01:47 (seventeen years ago)
costive
― wilter, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)
otoh costermongers are but rarely costive, as their wares are held to be fluxion inducing.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)