amatory: expressing love  etymology: from Latin amātōrius, verb conj. of 'to love'

bevy: having many varied & large in quantity grouping/ often people or birds, can be any large quantity of items gathered together -- etymology: c.1430, collective noun of quails and ladies, from Anglo-Fr. bevée, of unknown origin. One supposed definition of the word ( Read more... )

The world of toasts & cheers: Skol Vikings is quite apropro as Skol is Norwegian/Danish in origin - I also hear Prost, Cheers, etc just in greetings or other formats - usually the word means or infers : happiness, health, prosperity, or other nice stuff like that.

( linguists, etiquette, and such about toasts )

I think wit is seeing what is ridiculous in a tragic or out of control situation, and calmly stating it without dressing it up. It's like, opening the curtains on the windows, to shed light on what you see before you, that everyone else feels is going on but refuses to turn around and look at, and acknowledge ( Read more... )

so we had knock knock jokes w/our breakfast - it's interesting how my 3 year old daughter extrapolated the concept / formula ( Read more... )

So yesterday I told Athena in the car (as I had promised to discuss the topic w/her as she has been naughty about it at her dad's house drawing on herself & walls, etc) So I say to her - "Hey honey, good job this week writing on only what's right for pens: I've noticed you've been very good about that!" and she smiles and says "high five mom!" and ( Read more... )

this site is fun. :D


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Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. secretariat score: 8
2. seattle slew score: 6
3. ruffian score: 6
4. ( Read more... )

a·wry Pronunciation[uh-rahy] -adverb, adjective
1. with a turn or twist to one side; askew: to glance or look awry.
2. away from the expected or proper direction; amiss; wrong: Our plans went awry.
[Origin: 1325-75; ME on wry. See a-1, wry]     A*wry"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.]
1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true ( Read more... )

Ballycumber (n.) One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.
EDIT : I was trying to recall what a Ballycumb was ... and I couldn't recall, googled & found this - referenced to Douglas Adams & now cited as a slang/colleq. term - anyhow had to cite reference

I cut out some definitions, some word-history - will put behind cut tags so they post isn't long ;) EDIT: Ok I'll "uncut" just a couple choic outtakes, hee hee.

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