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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.
Pain and suffering are inevitable...misery is optional.
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.
Can't reason with the unreasonable.
The only thing worse than not getting hired is getting hired.
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.
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.
Unseen but seeing oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv 3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
“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
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!"
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...
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.
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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