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  • #16
    Back about 5 food service companies ago, the people that ran our cafeteria at work used to serve a soup call Chicken Cheddar Chowder.

    I never ate it, but it's fun to say
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    • #17
      I've always got a giggle out of the word onomatopoeia. The spelling and pronunciation seems at odds with the meaning.
      Also addendum ever since I had a customer refer to it as an 'add and end them' (and then spell it like that in an email). She said it was because it was the sheets where they add some things and end others.
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      • #18
        Quoth Bardmaiden View Post
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        • #19
          Phenomenon.

          Say that word to yourself a few times. Then watch this...

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          • #20
            For me, it's 'saucy'.
            Not only does it roll off the tongue, it comes from when I had to read Romeo and Juliet in high school and someone calls someone else a saucy boy. So every time my then 6 yr old brother would act up, I called him that. He would get insulted because I would burst out laughing.
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            • #21
              There are so many words that I find amusing. Antidisestablishmentarianism has already been mentioned. I like to say lepidopterous insect and made up yet funny word arachnicide.

              And I'm surprised no one has posted this song yet from Doctor Demento: http://https://youtu.be/cMfmzEpvW-g

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              • #22
                Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
                Pork.

                Don't ask me why. I just find the word hilarious for some reason.
                Pork.

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                • #23
                  Not so much word as descriptive phrase: cock smoking dick biscuit.

                  I'll be retiring it, though, because it was a thing between me and my now deceased best friend, and it breaks my heart to think it, much less say it.
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                  • #24
                    Quoth Erinesque View Post
                    And I'm surprised no one has posted this song yet from Doctor Demento: http://https://youtu.be/cMfmzEpvW-g
                    That link doesn't work. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfmzEpvW-g

                    Yiddish has lots of good funny words that sound exactly like what they mean. Shmendrick, kibitz, schlemiel, etc. Now I fancy a bagel with a shmeer.
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                    • #25
                      Quoth TheSHAD0W View Post
                      Phenomenon.

                      Say that word to yourself a few times. Then watch this...
                      Perhaps you mean this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g
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                      One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
                      The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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                      • #26
                        I love the old MAD MAGAZINE standbys.... Potrzebie, Veeblefetzer, and Furshlugginer (damn, sounds like a weird sort of funeral home, doesn't it? Or maybe a law firm?).

                        Potrzebie is just non-sequitur and utterly random.

                        Veeblefetzer is something I use as a placeholder for something I can't recall the name of due to a mental fart. "Hand me that... um,... that blue and yellow veeblefetzer over there, willya?"

                        And furshlugginer is a suitable replacement for an expletive. I was pleased to see its use in Disney's HERCULES. Phil: "...that furshlugginer heel of his!"

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                        • #27
                          Quoth CyberLurch View Post
                          I love the old MAD MAGAZINE standbys.... Potrzebie, Veeblefetzer, and Furshlugginer (damn, sounds like a weird sort of funeral home, doesn't it? Or maybe a law firm?).

                          Potrzebie is just non-sequitur and utterly random.

                          Veeblefetzer is something I use as a placeholder for something I can't recall the name of due to a mental fart. "Hand me that... um,... that blue and yellow veeblefetzer over there, willya?"

                          And furshlugginer is a suitable replacement for an expletive. I was pleased to see its use in Disney's HERCULES. Phil: "...that furshlugginer heel of his!"
                          Potrzebie is actually a Polish word, though.

                          And Donald Knuth (the Computer Science guy) actually used it once in an article that was actually published in MAD. "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures".

                          It's quite funny.

                          Google, at one point, had a Potrzebie calculator.

                          Another one I find funny is "meemaw" and/or "mimi" for grandmother. Although I had cousins who had their children call another cousin "mimi" for some reason...
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                          • #28
                            I always had a soft spot for widdershins. Its opposite, deasel, isn't nearly so interesting.

                            I like words that hardy ever get used that mean something simple. Pulveratricious, absquatulate (which I always think someone made up), and callipygian are all struggling to find their way into my writing.

                            One of the criticisms I read of "Fun Home" complained that Alison Bechdel kept the critic running for a dictionary.

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                            • #29
                              Quoth Ben_Who View Post
                              absquatulate
                              I just encountered this word for the first time the day before yesterday, when I was watching a Let's Play of "We Happy Few."
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                              • #30
                                Quoth mjr View Post
                                Potrzebie is actually a Polish word, though.
                                Isn't it part of a word? I read something about the origin; the Mad Mag guy was somewhere that had Polish products, and there were some instructions or something on a package, and they started with a word like Potrzebie, but somewhat longer. I think...
                                “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
                                One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
                                The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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