What is Digg?148 Comments
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -3/+1571. Aglet: The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. Bibcock: A faucet with a bent-down nozzle.
3. Brassard: A cloth band worn around the upper arm. It often bears an identifying mark- like the one with a swastika that Hitler wore.
4. Bretelles: A pair of ornamental suspender-tlike straps that go from the belt on the front of a dress over the shoulders to the belt in the back.
5. Duff: The decaying organic matter found in a forest floor.
6. Harp: The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
7. Hemidemisemiquaver: A 64th note. (A 32nd note is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
8. Kick or Punt: The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added srength to the bottle, but lessens its holding capacity.
9. Phosphenes: The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically, the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
10. Piggin: A small wooden pail with one long stave used as the handle.
11. Quarrel: A small, diamond-shaped pane of glass, like that used in lattice windows.
12. Sam Browne Belt: A leather belt for a dress uniform. It is supported by a light strap that passes over the right shoulder. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police wear them.
13. Solidus: The oblique stroke used between words, or in fractions, as 7/8. It is also called a diagonal, seperatrix, virgule, shilling, sland, or slash.
14. Tang: The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
15. Tobies: The small pottery hugs, mugs and pitchers that are used for ale. A toby is shaped like a stout man with a cocked hat, a corner of which serves as the pourer.
16. Zarf: A holder for a handleless coffee cup. - Grova, on 03/27/2008, -3/+76I just want a girl to touch the Tang on the end of my Bibcock.
- thefreshjive, on 03/27/2008, -0/+65Lol, who here closed their eyes really hard and tried to see the phosphenes when they read #9?
- BestJaxx, on 03/27/2008, -1/+32You want her to touch the projecting prong on the end of your curved faucet?
- elhaf, on 03/27/2008, -1/+26Site is down, so I'm guessing aglet is on the list.
- curtosrules, on 03/27/2008, -1/+25thank you
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -2/+22Oh snap, Kick or Punt. I always wondered why they had those on the bottom of wine bottles.
- salculd, on 03/27/2008, -1/+19That sounds pretty hot to me.
- BingoPower, on 03/27/2008, -0/+15Me. And then I drove in to a tree....
- hackertamer, on 03/27/2008, -0/+15It sounds like one hand clapping.
- roomforpanic, on 03/27/2008, -0/+14The difference is drugs.
- frooo, on 03/27/2008, -3/+17I usually just make my own names up for stuff.
Although its quite difficult to explain to someone the variations between a Thingamabob and a Thingamajig
I suppose its like Psychology and Psychiatry :) - Cerebron, on 03/27/2008, -0/+13Not until the year 2000.
- doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -1/+13Ok, I knew three of those... but I thought Duff was a beer.
- erinspice, on 03/27/2008, -0/+12Actually, it depends on the time and the tempo. A hemidemisemiquaver (64th note) could be very long if the tempo is slow enough or if a short enough note gets the beat like in 64/64 or 64/256 time. Theoretically speaking.
- moletimer, on 03/27/2008, -0/+11¡ǝsɐǝld ɹoɹɹıɯ
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -2/+13Pot, meet kettle.
- VenDrake, on 03/27/2008, -0/+111. Duff (n): Things or objects around a person with a cold. e.g. "When my node is runny I take dis duff to get rid of my code."
- sephiroth965, on 03/27/2008, -0/+9It's always on these stupid lists. I was thinking the exact same thing before I read the comments.
- rtcrooks, on 03/27/2008, -0/+9much appreciated.
- Pillage, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8Aren't these all just Sniglets?
- elhaf, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8By comparison, "flight of the bumblebee" is 16th notes. It's all relative anyway, depending on tempo and time signature. Now if we could just figure out where the bumblebees went.
- AKBryant54, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8They have internet in cars now?
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8Don't forget taint.
- Gustomucho, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8Both brassard and bretelle are French words, brassard is arm-band, bretelle is strap (strap isn't as specific though)
- Vindicoth, on 03/27/2008, -2/+8I see what you did there, you were saying that he was surfing the internet too and not getting laid! But in a much more subtle way, unlike this.
- isntreal, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5A+
- jonathantneal, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5http://www.jonathantneal.com/music/upto64.mp3
- ziptnf, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Record number of diggs for a dead server
- Radan, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Er, no? It's NOT a Rick Roll.
- lmhoward, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5Got to love those bretelles.
- Matthew386x, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3And I've thought my dad made up the name for those ever since I was 5. I feel so disillusioned.
- Timmyftw, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Its scary that you think if its not on google its BS. google has a power that no one should have.
- TnTBass, on 03/27/2008, -1/+4Naw, I prefer to surf the internet rather than get laid. Work, however, only lets me do one of the two.
I also figured I would get dugg down because diggers would assume I meant them. Either that, or it wasn't very funny. I'm kind of banking on the latter... - Wolfwoodxlv, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Its Separatrix not Seperatrix.. might want to double check your spelling when the whole highlight of the article is on these not-so-common words.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Dugg down for just mentioning Tom Cruise.
- talonstriker, on 03/27/2008, -2/+5here ya go folks:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2F ... - deose, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3No Tittle? The name of the dot in the lower case letter i.
- macwisdom, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3OK what does a Hemidemisemiquaver sound like?
- rtcrooks, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3The Sam Browne belt would look great with a Thom Browne suit.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Only in flying cars.
- pauleric, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2You didn't make those up! Just like I didn't make up doohickie and whatchamacallit. Now if you had said frastagram, prongdiddle or piddlethromper, I might believe you.
- soil, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2interrobang: ‽
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang - secrity, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Wikipedia lists the reference for "aglet" being:
Picken, Mary Brooks: The Fashion Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, 1957. (1973 edition ISBN 0308100522) - doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I've heard the term "Get off your duff and....", but I don't think I've heard it outside that context.
- PeterODactyl, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Not very.
- jordanleegauci, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2add my wife to the list. I didn't know she had a name
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2You forgot Wangdoodle and Viscious Knid.
- BufordT, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Joomla is a land salmon, wow I had no idea. Wait a minute what's a land salmon?
- secrity, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2The Sam Browne belt is occasionally worn with jeans when going to a leather bar or other leather event. The shoulder that it is worn over usually indicates whether the wearer is top or bottom.
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