....after I started reading at 4yo,I voraciously ripped through anything with pages...
I love when I run directly into a word Ive never used, and because of the context, it makes perfect use sense, and it's even eloquently descriptive and even slightly demeaning.
Truculent.
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Carry on.
Yesterday I borrowed your truck.
Today you came looking for the truculent.
Bravo.
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Here's the next word for you Mr bovine......
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Dictate.....
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Check please?!?!?!?!
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Goodnight!
Seems to be a higher level of truculence here lately.
truculence
I first heard this word used in the movie?ÿThe Black Shield of Falworth, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
I'll keep that one for the next time I get into a heavy game of the "Minister's Cat".... 😉
Jeepers...the movie title is a mouth full by itself!
I learnt a new one too!
Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
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Be still my heart...
Dictate, huh??ÿ That's tough.?ÿ But, if you had said dictator..........................
The story goes that a fellow was told he had to go with his wife to some Halloween party, but, he really did not want to go.?ÿ She demanded that he go.?ÿ At the last minute before the time to go he still had no costume.?ÿ She insisted he come up with something NOW.?ÿ As he headed to the bedroom to change he made a stop in the kitchen.?ÿ A couple of minutes later he appeared in the living room stark naked except for a length of cord wrapped around a potato and also wrapped around a part of his anatomy.?ÿ He told her he was going as a (you guessed it).
First heard that story many, many years ago.?ÿ That was about the same time I heard a similar joke about an African-American fellow who didn't want to go to the Halloween party.?ÿ He appeared in the living room stark naked with a 1 x 4 wedged in his lowest orifice and announced he was going as a fudgesicle.
Probably the worst costume of all time was seen by an acquaintance of mine in Houston in 1987.?ÿ Somehow the fellow had acquired a cardboard tube used for concrete forming.?ÿ He put on a diaper and wedged himself inside the tube.?ÿ When he was asked what he was supposed to be, he announced he was Baby Jessica.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baby-jessica-rescued-from-a-well-as-the-world-watches
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I'm a junkie for telling old jokes.?ÿ I can't help myself...so hear goes.
Te' Jean (pronounced "Tea Zawn") was a poor Cajun boy.?ÿ He struggled with in school.?ÿ The English lesson for the week was over words that began with the prefix "de".?ÿ On Friday each student was required to stand in front of the class and recite using at least three words having the prefix "de".
Friday morning came and the teacher called on unprepared Te' Jean.?ÿ He stood in front of the class wide eyed and scared.?ÿ As he read all the words on the board three came to him, defense, detail and deduct.?ÿ
He announced to the teacher, "De tail of de duck went over de fence last"....?ÿ ?ÿ
Anyone remember the Our Gang and Little Rascals episodes on TV??ÿ There was a scene where they are in a school room and the teacher is having them use vocabulary words in a sentence.?ÿ I think it was Stymie who was given the word, isthmus.?ÿ He thought for a bit and then said, "Isthmus be my lucky day."
One day is Seventh Grade we had a substitute teacher who was a sweet little old lady until she asked me to use the word, participant, correctly in a sentence.?ÿ My sentence was:?ÿ I do not know how to spell participant correctly.?ÿ She was not impressed and warned the remainder of the class not to follow my example.
I was told I was obstreperous.
When I asked what that meant, the teacher said "Look it up in the dictionary."
I asked how to spell it, and was told "You'll figure it out. And while you're at it look up its derivative."
I mumbled "Crap, that's two words I have to look up now!"
