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Posted: 6/14/2002 5:39:10 PM EDT

niggard

\Nig"gard\, a. Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

Posted: 6/14/2002 5:46:31 PM EDT

[#1]

You know, a hardware store in Wisconsin that offers many different types of bird seed used to call the finch food niger seed, but too many people mispronounced it and now the pc guys have it spelled nyger. People really need to learn how to speak the English language properly.

Posted: 6/14/2002 5:48:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Why do I see this going to hell in a hurry??

Posted: 6/14/2002 5:51:40 PM EDT

[#3]

Diversity

Wood

Ass Clown

Bulshevik

Texan

Diflucan

FDisk

DonR

Wienner

[;)]

Sgtar15

Posted: 6/14/2002 5:53:07 PM EDT

[#4]

Don, your post reminds me of a bumpersticker that I saw last week:

"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"

Could be the topic of so many threads. . .

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:06:13 PM EDT

[#5]

DonR, you probably recall the great hullabaloo last year over the department head (I think it was in D.C.) who had the audacity to have a strong command of proper English and used the word "niggardly" to describe the budget they were forced to live with. An under-educated fool, who obtained her job through quotas, raised a huge stink and had the man fired. When the truth of the situation was revealed, she reacted by plunging blindly forward, undaunted. Other idiots joined her. The man had over 20 years on his job. I believe he no longer has his job. Perhaps someone has a more accurate recounting of the story. It is truly outrageous.

Edit: 308Wood, what kind of dictionary uses a word to define itself? Mr. Webster would be unhappy.

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:08:00 PM EDT

[#6]

FSCK

Masticate

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:13:15 PM EDT

[#7]

Bushmaster
Krispy Kreme

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:18:47 PM EDT

[#8]

I certainly don't want to push the limits, but my understanding of the etymology of the word 308 mentions, and that of the extremely offensive word that he makes a not so subtle reference to are unrelated.

Again, don't want to risk membership, but in many ways, the origin of the word "gyp" is far more racially offensive. Again, I would never use, or even mention, this word, but in an academic discussion of language such as this.

The man's name was Howard, beekeeper. If my source (web reference to the New York Post), is accurate, then the NAACP responded to the incident:

"NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond opined that the precipitous acceptance of Howard's resignation was ''niggardly'' on [DC Mayor] Williams' part."

Don, am sensitive about sounding offensive, or even of approaching the line upon which I hesitate to approach. I will delete this post immediately upon your request, even at the risk of sounding like an obsequious weenie. . .

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:27:21 PM EDT

[#9]

Nah, hell you guys are doing just fine without my advice. Ob...what?? [;)]

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:42:11 PM EDT

[#10]

This is funny:
[url]http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/drlang003.html[/url]

Teachers please tighten your seatbelts; this is going to be a disturbing read. You will just have to forgive the old Doctor. Remember that he is a professional linguist who sees language as a physician sees the human body, as an incredibly sophisticated palimpsest of systems—sound, meaning, grammatical categories, vocabulary, each with its own rules, each with its own relationship to all the other systems. When Dr. Language sees English bleeding from any injury, he must try to treat it, no matter how frightening the wound. Let us begin by observing the symptoms.

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Posted: 6/14/2002 6:49:02 PM EDT

[#11]

exacerbate

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:52:27 PM EDT

[#12]

formication.

lebrew

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:54:50 PM EDT

[#13]

A body of water:

Lake Titikaka

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:57:01 PM EDT

[#14]

masticate - people do it in public all the time. They do it when children watching. They even teach their kids to do it at a young age.

Posted: 6/14/2002 6:59:03 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
The man's name was Howard, beekeeper. If my source (web reference to the New York Post), is accurate, then the NAACP responded to the incident:

"NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond opined that the precipitous acceptance of Howard's resignation was ''niggardly'' on [DC Mayor] Williams' part."

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I guess I can applaud, for once, what the NAALCP was [b]trying[/b] to do, but their silly misuse of the word is a bit disturbing. [V]

Posted: 6/14/2002 9:43:38 PM EDT

[#16]

Mastication

Schick

Posted: 6/14/2002 9:53:18 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
A body of water:

Lake Titikaka

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Highest navigable (SIC) lake in the world....

Scott

P.S. I have [b]NO[/b] idea why you can't sail on higher lakes, so don't ask....

Posted: 6/14/2002 10:02:41 PM EDT

[#18]

farding: to apply makeup

"The woman was farding while driving."

Posted: 6/14/2002 10:14:26 PM EDT

[#19]

Brings to mind the story of the politician, way back when, who called his opponent a homo sapien and accused his opponents sister of being a practicing thespian.
I liked the story in grade school anyhow.

Posted: 6/14/2002 10:18:18 PM EDT

[#20]

KUMQUATS

Posted: 6/14/2002 10:34:46 PM EDT

[#21]

twattle
pussywillow
gash

...I'm disgusting myself...

Posted: 6/15/2002 12:47:50 AM EDT

[#22]

Priapism
Priapism is the occurrence of any persistent erection for more than four hours duration in the absence of sexual stimulation. Priapism is named after Priapus, the Greek god of fertility, and the son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. He was apparently an ugly, satyrlike man with enormous genitalia. He was the god of gardens, bees, goats, and sheep. According to the story, Priapus had a huge tongue, a fat belly, and his penis was so large that he was restricted to the position of scarecrow in the fields.

Most erections due to sexual stimulation never approach four to six hours. Priapism is not associated with sexual excitement, at least not initially, and the erection does not subside after ejaculation. Priapism can occur in all age groups, including newborns. Most cases of priapism are clustered between two age groups: between the ages of five to ten and twenty to fifty years. Priapism constitutes a true urologic emergency. Men often joke that they wish they could have a permanent erection, but in reality, men are extremely miserable when this actually happens.

Posted: 6/15/2002 1:50:42 AM EDT

[#23]

Philatily.

edited to add:

And by extension,

A Philatilist

(look it up)

Posted: 6/15/2002 2:00:38 AM EDT

[#24]

stamp collector? right?

how about-- hole watch, i'm certified to do this.

Posted: 6/15/2002 2:11:30 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
stamp collector? right?

how about-- hole watch, i'm certified to do this.

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Yep. When I'm feeling trollish, I will tell somebody I'm heavily into philatily. They either laugh or look at me veeeery strangely.

-legrue

Posted: 6/15/2002 4:08:18 AM EDT

[#26]

Tittle.

Posted: 6/15/2002 4:16:07 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
A body of water:

Lake Titikaka

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Highest navigable (SIC) lake in the world....

Scott

P.S. I have [b]NO[/b] idea why you can't sail on higher lakes, so don't ask....

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I think they mean it's the highest lake that you can sail to or from. Other lakes may be higher, but their outlets may be too shallow, narrow, rocky, etc, to navigate.

I read a book once called "The Incredible Voyage," or something like that, about a Brit who sailed all the way around the world, including from west to east across South America. I think he was the first person to cross South America in a boat.

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