[OT Words] Skiddledee Bee Bop

[Dingleberry]

Embiggen: to improve.

(It's a perfectly cromulent word.)

 

[Sir Hawkeye]

Pedantic--using too many big words that you don't seem to know the meaning of....

(I suppose I'll really look like an ass if my non-dictionary definition is wrong... )

Pedant: 2a. One who parades his learning b. one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge.

Pedantic: 2. Narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned.

Moving on...

Confrube: To hopelessly disorder or ruin unsalvageably.

Technically, I made that word up. It's my bid for immortality through etymology.

Gerent: One who rules or manages

 

[Sixchan]

Well, someone's got to mention it, so why not I?

Antidisestablishmentarianism - n. - The belief system of those who are opposed to destruction of the current order.

Specifically in usage, it refers to people who don't think the disestablishment of the Church of England is a good idea.

Reasonably well known, also, as the longest word in the English language - although there are other words in English that are longer, such as:

floccinaucinihilipilification - calling something worthless.

There's some lung disease that's longer than that, but I couldn't remember even the first few letters to try and look it up. I had to dig around on my hard drive for flocc..., too.

*beams with pride*
*takes a deep breath*

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

 

[Dark Eternal]

*beams with pride*
*takes a deep breath*

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

I'll bet you can't say that five times fast.

Of course, I'll also bet that I couldn't tell whether you had or not after hearing you try....

 

[Sixchan]

I'll bet you can't say that five times fast.

Of course, I'll also bet that I couldn't tell whether you had or not after hearing you try....

*takes another deep breath*

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.



I memorised it years ago out of the Guiness Record book. I'm a fountain of useless knowledge, and can even say "Tatsu-maki-sen-pu-kyaku". (Who recognises that? Someone must, surely)

 

[Zappo]

I'm a fountain of useless knowledge, and can even say "Tatsu-maki-sen-pu-kyaku". (Who recognises that? Someone must, surely)

To which the only answer can be HADOKEN!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

To which the only answer can be HADOKEN!

Drat, you got there first.

This is not a word, but it is the greatest Sports Newspaper Headline of all time.

To explain (and this does require some explanation) there is a professional soccer league in Scotland. The two biggest teams are Glasgow Celtic, and Glasgow Rangers. Both win the league a lot, have enormous amounts of fans, and are generally very successful. They have the nickname "Celtic".

Inverness Caldeonian Thistle are not a big team, at least not currently. They do not win many things, they are not quite so blessed with trophies, and they don't have so many fans. They have the nickname "Cally".

A few years ago, Celtic were beaten quite soundly at home by Inverness Caldedonian Thistle, and a brilliant newspaper editor came up with this headline:

"Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious."

Say out loud a few times, and then add um diddle iddle diddle um diddle i! after it, and you'll get it...

 

[Sixchan]

Drat, you got there first.

This is not a word, but it is the greatest Sports Newspaper Headline of all time.

To explain (and this does require some explanation) there is a professional soccer league in Scotland. The two biggest teams are Glasgow Celtic, and Glasgow Rangers. Both win the league a lot, have enormous amounts of fans, and are generally very successful. They have the nickname "Celtic".

Inverness Caldeonian Thistle are not a big team, at least not currently. They do not win many things, they are not quite so blessed with trophies, and they don't have so many fans. They have the nickname "Cally".

A few years ago, Celtic were beaten quite soundly at home by Inverness Caldedonian Thistle, and a brilliant newspaper editor came up with this headline:

"Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious."

Say out loud a few times, and then add um diddle iddle diddle um diddle i! after it, and you'll get it...

*pulls out large machine gun*

I'm going to *politely* ask you to never mention that again. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.