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- Innagadadavida, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31No, it doesn't.
- Bluth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32I don't #$%!*^&+@ believe for a second these are real words.
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24It's like reading the Scrabble dictionary!
- Pandaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2010-13. JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana - vinesun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Ugh, it smells like spraints in here.
- mistergosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front
ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.
LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl.vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
;P - amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1630. SPRAINTS
Otter dung. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12OOOOOUCH!! I just hit my minimus against the leg of my bed.
- cardyology, on 10/12/2007, -0/+101. Aglet - the coating on the end of a shoelace.
Anyone see that film from years back called Repossessed? It was a naked gun spoof of the Exorcist. They explain what an aglet is in that cos its the family's surname. Genius. - IcyStorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Google the things and you'll actually get the definitions.
Such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarf - CptCancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@riquiscott
You're completely oblivious to what he's referring to, aren't you? - sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+935. LATHESAND - A common wanker.
- EnjoyTheFact, on 10/12/2007, -0/+731. TANG
The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
...yeah, sure. That's it. - NinJar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8wow that was so random @_@ lol im brain dead now
- Murphys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Estire- The perforated portion of a dispenser box that is removed to allow dispensing.
ie, the cut-out on a Kleenex box. - kylerk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I already knew number one from the podiobook: The Curious Education of Epitome Quirkstandard. Supposedly, the entire industrial revolution was caused by the agelet. People used to live in 1 room houses, and when anybody came home late from work, they would wake up the whole house undoing the velcro of their shoes, thus the invention of the shoelace industrialized the word because it is nearly silent.
- zeno60, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10If the guy stole these words, then yes ... it does.
- rawdog79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)"
I think I read that in a Dr. Seuss book.. - Ahnotahm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm gonna have to call you on this one.
According to Wikipedia, velcro was invented in 1948. The industrial revolution was around the late 1700's to mid 1800's, if I'm reading it right.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution )
I don't know what a "podiobook" is, exactly, but I think you paid too much for it. - Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Meaning of Liff, by Douglas Adams
http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html
none of these terms are in common usage (or found in any reputable dictionary), but they're good for a laugh - sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4TAINT = the space between your butthole and your balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_(slang) - Mimorox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I knew aglet as well. I also somehow knew hemidemisemiquaver from math class, and tang, from somewhere.
I always feel weird when I know things from something with the title "...You Never Knew..." - maram500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dugg for being a good read.
I knew what at aglet was, but I had never before wondered what to call the doddles used to denote swearing in comic books and such. Some of these words are completely foreign to me: octothorpe and rowel, for example.
I think I must now write a poem with at least four of these words in it. - Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about philtrum? The philtrum is the midline groove in the upper lip that runs from the top of the lip to the nose.
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Curious that they mention tang but not clevis. A clevis is the part that a tang fits into.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Ahnotahm,
From Podiobooks.com:
"This peculiar comic novel concerns two men and a woman and looks at how they came to be where they were when they met and the effect that meeting had upon them.
One man is Epitome Quirkstandard, a benighted aristocrat in the Wodehousian tradition whose staff have abandoned him to go and fight in the First World War and who discovers the taste for learning - especially when he attempts to make his own breakfast.
The other man is Mr. Crepuscular, a man who has written a multitude of educative pamphlets that he kindly rents out to Quirkstandard. As an illiterate scamp he ran away to join the circus, but through a series of unlikely adventures he ends up as a wise quasi-Buddhist who understands that sometimes the circus just isn't the right place to be.
And the woman is Quirkstandard's aunt, Penelope Penultimate, a beautiful but severe lady of mature years who spent the majority of her life abroad taking parties of teenage girls on adventure holidays, with no insurance.
The story comes to a head when she issues an invitation to the men to come to her cottage in the country for the weekend. When they do so all manner of storylines come together, leading to unexpected revelations, arguments, jealousies, tensions, parlour games, picnics and nudity. Oh, it's so exciting.
Along the way the book is filled with historical and biographical asides as it covers the broad sweep of life from the sawdust circuses of the 1860s, through the Amazon Basin of the 1890s, right up to the ultra-modern trench-warfare of the 1910s. It is discursive and meandering in a way that makes it a particularly diminutive descendant of Tristram Shandy or Three Men In A Boat or something akin to Douglas Adams without the science-fiction. Some people like this sort of thing.
The author, A.F. Harrold, is a prize-winning performance poet, comedian and Englishman. More can be discovered at
www.afharrold.co.uk." - nick34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2TANG
A crappy wanna be Kool-Aid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_%28drink%29 - LostOnion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2a star?
- HoLLoW14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow those sound like someone just made them up...interesting though
- vidorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+222. PEEN
The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
Well duh that explains the name Ball Peen Hammer now. - selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ferrule! Thats the name of the little metal band that hold the eraser on the pencil... I can tell you that without reading the article, is that sad? Oh well, I'm a bit of a pencil freak:)
- tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
- phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sixty-ni.. oh, damnit!
- ewy99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Meaning of Liff is what I thought of right away. That and Snigglets(Rich Hall).
- sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My favorite(Who would think these had a name?):
23. 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. - RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2He didn't say the book was factual, just what he read.
They had shoes with no straps, then straps on shoes, then laces, then velcro. - TwinSigma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A pretty poor description of an armseye (it's spelled with an E, not A). The armseye is specifically the hole left in the torso of a garment where the sleeve gets sewn on... boiling it down to "the armhole in clothing" makes it just sound like a stupid name for the sleeve, which it isn't.
- lathesand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+136. SANTORUM -- synonymous with SEMBETU
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heartily recommend 'Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words'. An excellent resource for padding one's vocabulary with impressive-sounding words.
- Dipsomaniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, the septum is the divider *inside your nose, between the nostrils, and columella isn't just an architectural term.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/columella - urbanight23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah, the aglet. My friends and I ended up on a quest one year to determine what the thing on the end of your shoelaces was. I think that was the only one that I actually knew though.
- madhaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its actually a bad definition. You use the peen side to strike stuff too, its called peening. Its a cold working (non-heated) method used to splay the metal out a bit. The round ball gives it a nice smooth finish without scratching the metal up.
- itsonlyme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone know the real name for a Christmas Tree topper?
- jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hemidemisemiquaver. I knew that one!
I think the spot in between the nostrils is called a septum. A Columella is an architectural term. - Dpack1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always thought the plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace was called a Fluglebinder... Though i might of just watched Cocktail one too many times.
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+120. Octothorpe:
What the damn hell? - Kayn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We use dragees on ginderbread men and for eyes on other cookies.... lol.
- 67Cowboy, on 12/15/2008, -0/+0The wheel in a spur is called a ROWEL; there are several types, saddle bronc riders and ropers use smaller than a dime with short smooth teeth, bareback bronc riders use a slightly larger rowel approximately the same circumference as a nickel also with short teeth and a square hole in the center for sound effects, bull riders usually use a five point rowel the size of a quarter, cutting horse people use two basic types of rowels: smoothies which are designed to not disturb the hair and rock-grinders which usually are the same size 1 1/2 inch circumference but have points that are easier for the horse to feel. Most spur makers use steel rowels, but higher quality spur makers use brass or bronze !!
- ProfessorRiffs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dude has no sense of hammers.
- mrsovar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hahaha
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