The Word of the Day

This is a word that must be pronounced very, very carefully or else someone might mistake it for a bad word and you might get into big trouble.

As a kid, if I had blurted out a word like this someone probably would have told me to go wash my mouth out with soap.

mafficing head hurts?   do you know how golf got its name? all the rest of the four letter words had been used.......

So I'm reading this book on anti-gravity, it's impossible to put down

Lotlot is correct, "Mafeking Night" sounds like a thinly-veiled hip-hop obscenity.....

English has not been taught in Public Schools, in this Country, for over fifty years ... That is why the Reading skills of so many Americans are so abyssmally poor, and embarassingly retrograde ... a large portion of that problem is the result of our Guilty White Liberals handing out Degrees and Teaching Certificates to EEOC Candidates in the name of Racial Equality ... in the process we have learned that indigents, of ALL Races, don't want Equality at all ....... what they want is an advantage, and someone else to pay for it .......
 
How's that "Hope & Change" workin' out for ya ???

My Grandpa was there and had a medal to prove it.
A word - Ululation.

Hard to do, MISS HAZEL ... with tongue in cheek !!!

It's Friday all day long.................................much maffiking this evening......................
 
HAZEL......................that word has always creeped me out.............................
 
Morning LOT, BERT, & RY........& IVAN....................so good to see your name here again!

 Haha....Lotlot, that reminds me of a certain destination in Thailand which Australians love to go but many are afraid to pronounce...that's Phuket.....except it is pronounced poo-ket
But my word of the day is "koro" which, may not have widespread use,  but is just too interesting. It s the fear of one's penis disappearing
 
and the inspiration is from the book I am reading..."The Great Singapore penis panic" by Scott D Mendelson, a research scientist and psychologist.  As recent as only 45 years ago, hundreds of men in Singapore rushed to the hospital, some with clamps, others with a lucky red string, mostly though, with just a firm grasp of their hand or that of a frightened family member...all to stop their wayward penis from retracting... ...I can't decide if I should laugh or cry...
    

Tallywackershrinkification results in falsetto shrieking resembling classic Four Seasons or the chorus of Good Vibrations or Bohemian Rhapsody.

SF, that seems hard to grasp.

Kinky and Billy Bob on Imus Show at 8:35 EDT this morn.

A guy, a perfectly harmless, devoted to his wife kind of guy invented a word to describe the space, when there is one, between the very uppermost thighs of a woman.
You're standing, let's say behind her where staring won't be noticed, the light is just right and you notice, primarily because you are staring, that at the bottom of her crotch and top of her legs, there is an opening through which light and air may pass but no perfect linguistic construction to describe it. Then what?
Well, you make up a five letter word so plausible sounding that most people think you discovered rather than created it and before you know it has, with the addition of ing, become a functional, positive adjective: "The best _ _ _ _ _ing hot dog I ever ate."
It has, not surprisingly, remained local in its usage but has spanned generations… of juvenile minded males,
Personally, I have always been so devoted to the backside of a bare knee that words fail and Olivia, I believe it was, provided a grossly clinical term for it that sounded like it would only come up when something had gone  wrong.

SF ~
There may be something to the fears of asian men. A man in a bar after a commando had been obliged to go home early and in pain as a result of hasty zipper work, woefully observed: "Mine looks like a button on a fur coat and is never in any danger."
It was very quiet for a while.

http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/winnebago/koro.cfm

ChefDeb ~
I'm telling.

(giggle)

Taps. Sounded for the first time 150 years ago in July of 1862,
to signal lights out for the Union encampment at Harrison’s Landing, VA.  Composed by General Daniel Butterfield and
first played by Oliver Wilcox Norton. The word is said to be derived from a Dutch
word meaning to shut off the beer tap and send
everyone home, much like our own use of the term last call, somewhat appropriate considering how the bugle
call is used at funerals and memorial services.

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

Hazel, since my dog is part wolf her ululations are heard thoughout my entire little village when she howls at the fire truck siren.
 
I think those men you are reading about SF needed good isostasy on the way to the hospital.  Don't you?   Best word I could find for the predicament.

Hazel, I learned ululation in my middle eastern dance club years ago.  My zaghareet is pretty good for a white girl from Utah, if I do say so myself.
 
I'm reminded of a Southern Californian restaurant that served delicious Vietnamese food. Pho King.  They sold t-shirts that said "So Pho King Good", and if I remember correctly their radio ads were banned for sounding too much like obscenity.  Geez I could really go for some pho right now, it is pouring buckets out.

I'm simply pleased to know JP reads at least one thing I read -- Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day.
 
More later....duty calls

Stoney would that word of Olivia's be the popliteal fossa?  I'm partial to olecrenon process when it comes to anatomical terms...sounds like a Greek wrestling move.

Reading about Mafeking and the movie The Little Princess with Shirley Temple came up in my head. I remember her running around shouting Mafeking is Relieved!  Must have been the original celebration.

Reading about Mafeking and the movie The Little Princess with Shirley Temple came up in my head. I remember her running around shouting Mafeking is Relieved!  Must have been the original celebration.

Oops!  Sorry.

There's a sandwich shop in the neighborhood that sells wonderful Italian Beef sandwiches. You can get them dry, wet, or dipped (depending on what you want done to the bun and the roast beef juices).  They sell T shirts saying I Like Mine Wet...

I believe it was Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark aka Iron
Man in The Avengers who spoke the words her quim somewhere in the unraveling
script of the movie.  I don’t remember
the context, I do remember that I looked to my wife and asked did he just say her quim?  She nodded
affirmatively.  It is not a word one will
use or hear every day.   A merkin for her quim is a phrase
oft bandied about by those who bandy about such phrases.  I know that it always makes me proud to be
Amerkin whenever I hear the phrase bandied.

SF ~ There is a Thai restaurant in Atlanta known by that handle.  The food is exceptionally good and the name is most often pronounced with a french aroma...Foo-kay.  

Remember when trains had congenially opposing seating that permitted or encouraged face-to-face conversation?
A pleasant woman seated across from me (a lecturer at Marquette) figured out where I fit in high school by what I was reading or trying to read.
Without asking if I cared, she told me her favorite word in the English language. "Settle: To come to rest; to colonize; to pay up an account; to finalize an estate; to ease into the night."
I jotted that down in the margins of the book I still have.
She'd had four older brothers who doubled up in two bedrooms while she'd had her own and her parents, theirs.
At meals, they were permitted to speak of the events of their day only when asked and boasting was frowned upon… literally. Their mother would scowl for effect.
When or if that failed to work, she would caution: "Settle," and they would.
Her oldest brother, having turned eighteen, objected and found his clothes and personal belongings in luggage with an envelope out on the front stoop. There was some money and a note that she imagined to have said: "write if you find work."
He joined the navy and order was restored.
I thought it sounded…"arbitrary."
She laughed and explained that it had seemed orderly and natural but that she didn't plan to raise her children, if some came along, in that way.
I have thought of her every time that word has come up for the last fifty-two years.
She had blue eyes.

I thought GOLF was for Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden...

...and you would send us off today without telling (1) the five letter word and (2) the title of the book?  I don't mean to pry...but it's not only for me...

Stoney~ Racounter in residence   .    an honour (a bow to Haze) not lightly bestowed.   and, as a bonus, a lifetime free pass at the coin operated mirror.

(and wouldn'tcha know....it's racounteur)    *sigh*

Wuz them raccontour things, is that one o' them wildlife tours where folks take pictures o' critters?

I usually feel lime a brought a knife to a gun fight when it comes to wordplay in this neighborhood.

One of the features that i really appreciate about digital books is that all i have to do is tap on a word and i have immediate access to it's definition as well as to relevant web pages.

Happy Friday to all. Blessings to Ivan who has already blessed us by his renewed presence amongst us.

Be very well

I do not feel lime, I feel like....... I need to watch were i'm walking more carefully.

PL, I feel like a coca-cola with lime, so I guess I feel like a lime ;)

A squeeze of lime in a glass of with a couple of ice cubes floating on sone Yukon Jack sounds like the right way to close out the week. Maybe Floyd is delivering the YJ cask to the club car of TheSepia train, or maybe even Chateaulin tonight...

*oy some.

Is it typos free friday?

I Marjorie, I have golf shorts and tees....I'm all uniform and no talent, but I drive a mean golf cart.

Penn--you're better off than me. I don't venture out on the links.  I'm just not coordinated.

I M ~ wear khaki, it goes with anything.

Did someone say the secret word…Button?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=vQee1i2ZW0A

Stoney,
Did you watch Kerry Wood pitch his last strike out? The fans and his son showed their love, and the players showed their respect. Bittersweet.

I and my beloved wordsmith father kept an adjunct dictionary of sorts over the years, and "maffick" would be in the "maofitch" family. For example:

"Hey Jim, you don't look well. Whatsa maffick you?"

OR

"Hey Pop, I've figured out what the maofitch my car."

Stoney, that word you were speaking of, the top of the lady legs...from the time I was old enough to know or care what it might be named, all my buddies (and I) simply referred to it as "The Promised Land."

PL ~
Yeah, I had a little something in my eye there.

You guys are pretty randy for a bunch of old retirees! I mean that in a very nice way.

Home --That's my word for the day. We got in from our trip to Tenn. about 1:30 this afternoon, and even though we were only gone 5 days, it is good to be home.

I enjoy seeing America from the local roads instead of the interstates: backroads all the way back, down 411 past farms, cornfields, pastures of cows, tidy houses set back from the road, and small towns' courthouses and Main Streets.

Paolos - I enjoyed the Groucho outtakes...! Proves you don't have to be crude or nasty to be funny....innuendo does very well on its own! People are a great show.

Camera zooms in on Citizen Tommy on his front porch swing named "Nocandu" as his spirit prepares to soar away for the weekend. He holds an empty can formerly balanced on his Orson Wells wannabe belly. The lips move slowly as he whispers softly "Morebud." and a shaky finger points toward the iced down six pack. There is no secret meaning. He is just thirsty and yearns to wet his whistle.

The time has come for me to Wish the Entire Village a Great and Enjoyable Weekend !!!!!!!
Good Friends, Good Food, Good Wine, Family and Whatever Makes You Happy !!!
Be Safe and Be Well ... Unlax and Forget About Work Till the First Day of The Week .......
Enjoy Yourselves and Renew ... Eat Too Much, and Have a Drink or Two ... It Will All Be Waiting For You On Monday .......
 
To the Tribe:   a GOOD SABBATH !!!!!!!
 
I Wish You All a Sabbath of Joy, a Sabbath pf Peace, and a Sabbath of Rest .......
 
"All Your Children Shall Be Taught by The Lord, and Great Shall Be the Peace of Your Children ..."
 
May Our Rest Be Pleasing to Him Who Made The Sabbath For Us ... Let Us Be Glad and Rejoice in It ...
 
 
Blessings Upon You All .......
 
 
IVAN

Thank you Ivan and may blessings be showered upon you, your family, your krewe and your newly rebuilt computer.  To echo Miss Park, with your return and your Friday blessing all is right with the world once again. 

Miss MooseL ~ It is a well kept secret, but those North Georgia highway backroads are some of the best and most scenic in the country.  It sure beats driving by the midwest cornfields.

X2 what Paolos said. Those very roads are calling to my lovely bride and her adoring hubby.

Thank you Ivan, one of my favorite Isaiah verses. 
 
I think it is appropriate that todays topic should be what it is and I should also read today this article on cnn...
 
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/world/meast/france-pm-name-embarrassment/?hpt=hp_t2
 
I mean we had a president who was known as Dick, the french are just barely catching up.
My word of the day is one I came up with after a conversation with a coworker about how frustating it was that everytime we wanted to do something outside the weather intervened: Precipifoiled, to have an outdoors pursuit spoiled, or foiled if you will, by the arrival of precipitation, or by the lack of precipitation.  As in "We were going to go hiking but it started to snow, precipifoiled again!" or "We were precipifoiled in our effort to go snowboarding because there wasn't enough snow at the resort"

IVAN  -  with many thanks and Blessings upon you and yours on your Sabbath.

Actually, i find the corn and wheat fields at certain times of the day to be very beautiful and inspiring in their own way. Especially when they are tall and the wind is making them wave and swirl, rise and fall . If you stop and listen, it is hypnotic.

There are many hills that don't have to rise too high for you to see miles and miles of a mighty fine tapestry.

The glaciers left a different kind of vista in its wake. We make do with what we have.

I do appreciate the majesty of the mountains, forests, deserts and oceans too....very much. I can usually get detoured down a scenic highway, road,or path whatever state i may be in....and that can be taken both ways don'tcha know.

I believe Ma Nature designed it this way to help us remember.....

 Autodidact~ Self taught ((Recently learned from JaxZ's bio.) 

Ineptocracy - totally inept government or poorly-functioning governing body.

paolos ~
The five letter word is cultish, and local to one part of one side of one small Upper Midwestern town.
Oddly, it sounds like something else until you know. Then, it sound like that.
The book was The Red Badge Of Courage in a language that I had not mastered then or ever.

RoadYacht ~
My head was so turned that I would never have noticed the spelling.
Thank you.

Ummgawa ~
Good point.

George Hall ~
If there were a manualdidact, I'd have a handle on that.

Peckerwood- What Uncle Mac called me when I got stuck at the top of his mimosa tree. Whistlebritches- What he called me when I slipped and slid down rubbing all the hide off my forearms.Poorbaby- What mom said when she picked me up and hugged me  

Still searching for the Gestalt Me- The sum total of all my names- All words are me and I am all words-It's just a matter of time- But as Chicago sings- Does any body really know what time it is?

time travelers don't care

see todays pix