Thursday, June 16, 2005

Fractured Etymology No.8

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( The Pointmeister realized that he hasn't shared any words from his dictionary since April. Here are a few more gems from that tome. )
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  1. Broker - what you will be if you invest unwisely in the stock market
  2. Coincide - the edge of a dime
  3. Compost - already written; past tense of compose
  4. Conspiracy - scamming Blackbeard out of his treasure
  5. Contour - when a new prisoner is shown around the facility
  6. Countermand - when wait-staff in a Deli is ready to work
  7. Dismay - as opposed to last May
  8. Feline - where you stand for hours to pay your auto registration
  9. Flagrant - a patriotic homeless person
  10. Hardware - a helmet
  11. Larceny - being a fan of The Far Side comic strip
  12. Marina - a female marine
  13. Oxymoron - that dude who sells Oxy cleaner on TV infomercials
  14. Past tense - go by a campsite
  15. Piston - much, much worse than pistoff
  16. Posture - a picture of one's backside
  17. Rectum - what happened to the two cars in the head-on collision
  18. Transparent - a mom or dad who is in and out of the house
  19. Upstart - the letter "U"
  20. Violence - more than one fiddle

( When you least expect it, the Pointmeister will share some more of special words wih you. )

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4 comments:

  1. Oh, my! My "Dictionary of the Moment" (DotM) will take note. I may need to put out a 3rd edition soon.

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  2. THOSE ARE GREAT! I especially like Larceny. I'm a huge one. And Oxymoron - that guy drives me nuts. Can't he speak in a normal voice? He's always yelling!
    Did you notice that I got you a couple of new readers???? You can thank me later, gater.....schmike!

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  3. I have one more for you, maybe you've already heard it. It's homogeneous - a very smart gay person. hahahahahaha I just LOVE these things.

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  4. Anonymous7:42 PM

    Thanks all. By the way you DID notice that this number 8! Yep, there are seven other lists of 20 words each in my "Fractured Etymology" series.There are 4 in Feb., 1 in Mar. and 2 in Apr. Must have forgotten about it during May.

    _Mike

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