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By: Words in the News, Words You Can Use : clusterflock

Words in the News, Words You Can Use : clusterflock — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:02 +0000

[...] New York Times included a story featuring one of those words. This week the Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work [...]

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:43:51 +0000

I love you, Daryl. I almost posted the same thing, but I figured only you would know what the hell I was talking about.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:41:33 +0000

Huh– Kumquats make me think of W.C. Fields

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:34:32 +0000

Kumquat makes me think of persimmon.

Damn. What’s happened to me?

By: India

India — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:12:28 +0000

There’s a Chinese restaurant somewhere (in Queens, I think?) called Poon’s Fan Fan, which my ex-boyfriend—something of a connoisseur of dirty—used to say was perhaps the dirtiest name he’d ever heard.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:38:33 +0000

When I was doing my Honours, we would have fortnightly meetings to discuss our progress. One guy had an odd, but not uncommon manner of speech whereby his “th” sound was a “fff”. Thus, “think” was “fink”; “thought” was “fought”; “Thursday” was “fursday” and so on.

The thing is, the main thing talked about at these meetings was the progress of each person’s thesis. Seriously, this guy would (seemingly unaware) be talking about “My faeces this.. My faeces that… Your faeces is really interested… I’ve been struggling with my faeces all week”.

So much time was wasted trying to get this guy to say something rude. And now I can never use that word without conjuring up this guy, and I wish that it would stop.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:09:41 +0000

Jonathan, I’m actually embarrassed for myself.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:41:43 +0000

Does the fact that I’m shocked—seriously: shocked—that you’re twenty-four comments in here and no one has mentioned the kumquat say something about me and my, uhh, world view?

Really, though. I read this post in Google Reader and said to myself, “The first three comments. Someone in the first three comments has said ‘kumquat.’ ” Sheesh. Such grown ups at the ‘flock…

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:36:40 +0000

Fecund makes me think of singular poop. Theses makes me think of plural poops.

That is all.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:32:37 +0000

crenalate is a word that always comes up for me when I’m thinking of words beginning with CR–. For some reason it always reminds me of pouring coarse sugar, instead of the design it refers to. Maybe it’s because I once built a castle out of sugar cubes.

flocculant always reminds me of many children swimming (too literal, I know–sorry).