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July 22, 2005

Friday 5: Wonderful Words

Today's question comes from Gord:

What are your five favorite words (in any language), and why do you like them so much?,

Ah... I've been remiss here lately, but here's one that at least won't require too much navel gazing.

  1. Pants: It works so well in so many little jokes. It's funny just about everywhere. "Have you tried pants?" "I find your lack of pants disturbing." "Use the Pants, Luke."

  2. Snorkle: It just sounds too funny to be a real world, like something you say when sneezing in the middle of a hiccup.

  3. Grok: It filled such a nice gap in the English language, not just by recognizing the gap, but by creating it.

  4. Spoo: A Centauri staple. It's great precisely because we don't know what it is.

  5. Sadomasochisticnecrofecalbestiality: This was a word we invented in college. I'll leave its meaning as an exercise for the reader. Mostly though, we used it in a take-off of a classic Mary Poppins song:

    Sadomasochisticnecrofecalbestiality,
    When you stop and think of it, it really is quite nasty!
    Sadomasochisticnecrofecalbestiality!
    Sadomasochisticnecrofecalbestiality!
    Dum diddle diddle diddle dum diddle di,
    Dum diddle diddle diddle dum diddle di!
    ...

Other Friday Fivers can be found perusing their dictionaries here.

Meme by Dan at July 22, 2005 08:52 AM

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