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There's a small link to the right of the word of the day, under the definition.

I did.

Happy Bissextus Urrbody!!!

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I have one of those, except it's not a vintage Beemer, like the one in the picture.

We have one too. My wife spotted it up on the lift this afternoon, presumably getting the exhaust system welded.

We made the perhaps foolish decision to put $3k into a $1.5k car yesterday. Love that car and want to get another 100k miles out of it. I took it in with a 16 item repair list, and they added two items to my list. It's OK though, we talked it over and took about 6 items off my list of 16.

Quite often it's the right decision to spend money on them. It's not whether to spend $3k on a 1.5k car, it's whether to spend $3k on this car or $20k on another car.

It was time to do the timing belt. That's a big one and is making a statement. So you might as well do some other needed things.

Timing belt... That's one of those things that you can't function without, and is cheaper to fix before it breaks. And where it lives in a lot of engines makes the replacement of others stuff "in the neighborhood" much cheaper than if you had to make a special trip for just that part. They are often equally old..

Yeah. The timing belt, or "are you feeling lucky, punk?"

We maybe could have gotten 5 more years out of it, or maybe 5 more days. 20 year old car with 125k miles. But having to call a tow truck from god knows where by the side of some road when the engine suddenly dies and won't start up again regardless of how much I crank it would suck. And then towing it to some unknown rip-off shop and having it be kind of urgent to get it fixed in a hurry. Maybe having to rent a car to get home. Buy a hotel room for a couple days while they do the work. Ugh. I feel like they have made movies about this kind of scenario. And then I meet the wife of some powerful business man in the one bar in the little desert town where I broke down, and after having an affair with her, everyone wants to kill me. But I can't leave because my car is still in the damn shop.

Much better to do it now.

I'll say this for you, glatt. You do not lack imagination.

I like that about you.

U Turn!!

Quirky flick, man, quirky flick.

glatt is really Sean Penn? :eek:

Succussion

(sə-kŭsh′ən)

1. The act or process of shaking violently, especially as a method of diagnosis to detect the presence of fluid and air in a body cavity.

WTF??


from The Free Dictionary

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Turns out I was being succussed all my life...Who'd a thunk it?

Face it, you can't beat the classics, cool is always cool. :haha:

That's bollocks. Wicked was in use in the 80s. And I'm pretty sure awesome was in use earlier than that shows.

Well, that list is just bogus.

Possum-on-a-gumbush ain't on there anywhere.

And neither is bogus.:neutral:

They aren't showing when you used it, they're showing when it was cool to use it. :p:

Some handy words for things you've felt but couldn't describe for lack of a word.

1- Amae: Japanese word, “leaning on another person’s goodwill,” deep trust that allows a relationship to flourish.
2- L’appel du vide: French term for, “the call of the void,” an unnerving, shaky sensation of not being able to trust one’s own instincts.”
3- Awumbuk: From the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, “emptiness after visitors depart.”
4- Brabant: The fun of pushing someone’s buttons, to see how much you can tease them until they snap.
5- Depaysement: Being a stranger in a strange land that’s equal parts exhilarating and disorienting.
6- Ilinx: A French word for “the ‘strange excitement’ of wanton destruction.
7- Kaukokaipuu: The Finnish recognize the emotion of a feeling of homesickness for a place you’ve never visited.
8- Malu: The Dusun Baguk people of Indonesia know, “the sudden experience of feeling constricted, inferior and awkward around people of higher status.”
9- Pronoia: a kind of paranoiac in reverse. You suspect people of plotting to make you happy.” The “strange, creeping feeling that everyone’s out to help you.”
10- Torschlusspanik: From German, torschlusspanik means “gate-closing panic,” a word to summarize that fretful sensation of time running out.

Manner born vs Manor born...

So that's what the pirates are saying.

pernicity
n. swiftness, quickness, agility

discoverture
n. the state of not having a husband

supersalient
adj. leaping upon

desponsate
adj. married

And its opposite: coverture - the legal status of married women.

It means covered by their husband - her debts are his debts, her legal identity is his legal identity.

FIFY ;)

I don't get it

That's because you aren't married. You don't have to be worried about being smothered, controlled, dominated. ;)

I still don't get this:

or this - which is what I see when I capture the writing:

??? You don't see, "It means smothered by their husband - her debts are his debts, her legal identity is his legal identity". ???

Nope - Just a red 's' and then if I highlight the text I see 'And it
It by t'


Very strange.

Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
There is nothing wrong with your screen.
Do not attempt to adjust the picture.
We are controlling transmission.
For the next hour, sit quietly and we will
control all that you see and hear.
You are about to participate in a great adventure.
You are about to experience the awe and mystery
which reaches from the inner mind to – The Outer Limits. :haha:

How are we supposed to read for comprehension anything that's not contemporary? And if it's an updated old manuscript, how do we know that guy/gal knew what they were doing?

Seems cromulent

Chicken guisard.

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I occasionally use the word "irregardless" when I'm being facetious. I may have to stop doing that as it seems the word actually means serious business:

[BOLD MINE]

It still ain't no good English. Saying it's ok in certain dialects is tearing this country apart. :crone:

Irregardless, it stays in the dictionary.

Here's the full explanation for those who not only want to be edjumacated; but, can also handle the truth:

Bullshit, English is rain, it does it’s work all over the land in words. The river is draining the excess rain, the river is a sewer. The river doesn’t change the rain, the rain changes the river.

Yet you started that post with vulgar slang instead of conveying your sentiment in an educated language. It seems that nonstandard English found in dialects is a step up from vulgar slang which would be unredeemable if rain; because, rain only falls down, it doesn't go up. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (IDIC) — beauty, growth, progress — all result from the union of the unlike. Always remember and never forget that bit of wisdom from the '60s. That way the river, the rain, can all become water under the bridge, irregardless.

Vulgar? What The Fuck?

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It's a curse, I tells ya, a curse...

Brilliant

Spoonerism much?