"I drove down the windy road on a windy day."

Gravejumper
 

http://i.imgur.com/riB8rF0.jpg "I always thought a gravejumper was a serious cardigan. But then I found out it's me!!"

"You may see a rainbow in May."

Cleave. A useful word, meaning to stick together. Or to split apart...

Once in a blue moon, out of boredom, I'd right up a fake run report for the dispatcher to have to process later that night. One time I had Big Bird going off his meds and jumping off Mr. Hooper's store, insurance via the autobahn society.

Well, one of my favorites during halloween was to write one about acephalic equestrian engineers. Headless Horseman.

BAHAHAHA too good to fix. Autobahn / Audubon. ROFL.

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester.....:)

A whole lotta Robin or Cardinal redbreasts IMHO & serious cleavage BBY
 

An inspiration there! diet of worms https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._in_spring.jpgvs Diet of Worms https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...1%81%D0%B5.jpg trying to curtail Martin Luther's 95 Theses ( a real can of worms) @AndyJWest:

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Cleave. A useful word, meaning to stick together. Or to split apart...

Would certainly describe Henry VIII to a 'T': He married Anne of Cleves (cleave unto:huh:) and then immediately divorced( Cleave apart:doh:) her; beheading his minister Cromwell into the bargain; Cleaving head from shoulders...."I liked her before not well, but now I like her much worse." He described her as having unpleasant body odour and sagging breasts" ie her 'cleavage' didn't suit his royal taste!:O: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...he_Younger.jpgAnne outlasted all Hank's wives-one tough kraut!:up: and unlike wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard-both beheaded... No further serious 'cleavage' issues ensued!

"I was in the bow of the ship when an archer, with his bow, introduced himself, with a deep bow, and also introduced his daughter, who had a blue bow in her hair. At his point, a violinist joined us, with his instrument and its bow, but i has to leave due to another engagement, so I asked their pardon, since I had to bow out..."

One of my exes was studying Japanese at university and was bothered by the similarity of some words in the language. The most commonly cited example is hashi: depending on the context, inflection or accent emphasis, hashi can mean either "bridge", "edge", or "chopsticks". I used an example of the English word "bow" similar to to one above to show her such soundalikes are common in all languages...


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Factoid and it's descent into meaninglessness.

The “-oid” ending in English is normally added to a word to indicate that an item is not the real thing. A humanoid is not quite human. Originally “factoid” was an ironic term indicating that the “fact” being offered was not actually factual. However, CNN and other sources took to treating the “-oid” as if it were a mere diminutive, and using the term to mean “trivial but true fact.” As a result, the definition of “factoid” is now hopelessly muddled and it’s probably better to avoid using the term altogether. Thanks CNN.

http://i.imgur.com/GHgZrQU.jpg "Oooph! Mein hemorrhoids are most definitely real..."

A factoid is still something else than a fact, only Fox news treats it as such :O:

No you are right, the meaning has changed. But a factoid as i understand has now become a fragment or a small part of some complex fact (?)

And the junkyard or scrapyard, has become a recycling park :haha:
The Ministry of war is now the Ministry of defense, and so on.
I guess Miniwar has turned to Minideaf, then.

Orwellian Newspeak in full swing.

The word sophisticate, and its derivations, also has been redefined to mean its opposite. Originally, sophisticate was used to describe something false, tampered with or defiled; it now describes something, or someone, of a worldly, educated, or highly fashionable status...

Oddly, one other word, from the same root, still retains the original meaning of the root: sophistry, the use use of false or misleading arguments or deceptive actions for the purpose of deceit...

So, in the vein of the above post, is Fox News sophisticated or sophistry?... :D


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"Gross" originally meant large, or great; slowly came to mean overly large or obese, so much so that it meant disgustingly obese. Now people use "gross" to describe anything disgusting or sickening.

That reminded me of something that happened to me a couple of decades back. There is a large building complex in downtown Los Angeles and it had a multi-level underground retail/restaurant mall. On the very lowest level, there was courtyard where they would sometimes put on entertainment and it had bench seating arranged around the central court area. I had just started a project in a nearby building, so I went to the mall, bought a good-sized lunch at one of the restaurants and decided to eat down at the courtyard. I was eating and reading a book I had brought along when I started to get the uneasy feeling someone was staring at me. I looked around to the front and the sides and saw no one watching me. Then I turned around and saw, through a storefront window, a large group of people seated in a meeting of some sort and many of them were staring at me with rather a bit of animosity. I looked up and read the sign above the storefront's door. I had the apparent bad luck of eating my good-sized lunch in front of a Weight Watchers store while a meeting/class was in progress...


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Classic :)

Actually it's the German word for "big". Though we spell it "groß".

"I sent my résumé hoping to find a job and resume working."