Thursday, June 1, 2006

WHO DOESN'T LOVE A GOOD P-A-R-L-O-R GAME? Maybe it's just too many years spent playing Balderdash with my family as a kid, but one of my favorite aspects of the Bee's online word listing is figuring out what the definitions of all these facocta (can ya spell that, Samir Patel?) words really should be. A few from Round 4, Interrupted:
  • Impapyrated: Having had surgery to implant an ancient Egyptian scroll under one's fourth rib.
  • Malaguena: Those be some bad bat droppings.
  • Welkin: The relatives who are still here with us today.
  • Hydrochore: The work done by the pool boy. (Alt.hydrochoreographer: the subspecialty of certain choreoanimators, involving choreography for Nemo and his friends)
  • Pathognomonic: Evincing all the symptoms of being transformed into an iconic lawn ornament wearing a red hat.

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