AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX, and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate’s academic hood.
MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is ‘asleep’.
OCTOTHORPE - The symbol ‘#’ on a telephone handset. Bell Labs’ engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
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.
PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy’s spurs.
SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
H/T DML
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Things you never knew had names....
How Well Informed Are You - OK, Folks, here are the answers!!!
I know you all have been dying to have the key...well, here it is, courtesy of Shelly who just sent it to me.
Here is the painter's website with his list of names and the images he copied from:
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Pink slips......by Rico
Short of mass hangings, or going the Fwench route and bringing back the quillotine, there REALLY is only one solution for the situation we're in today...PINK SLIP THE POLITICIANS!
These monkeys need to be log-dropped (voted out of office) on a massive scale. Throw the bums out!
It has become very clear...crystal clear...that the survival of a viable "We The People" in the face of barking-mad and mean-as-a-snake career politicians are the table stakes. It is them or us.
As gratifying as it would be to shoot them, hang them, and then burn them (in any order as long as all three are accomplished)...voting them OUT of office and giving THEM the PINK SLIPS so many of you are now receiving must be done.
VOTE!
NEVER FORGET! NEVER FORGIVE!
Time to plant the Spuds....
...we will be planting spuds for the next couple of weeks. It shouldn't affect posting too much.
Picture from
Sharon Rose Farm
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Light News.....
Up to 200 mosques in Mecca may be facing the WRONG way for prayers. So they have been pointing their asses at Allah!!
'Torture' brothers suspected of previous attacks. Lock them and their parents up.
Home Office in new pornography embarrassment. No wonder they are a shambles they are all watching porn all day.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt anchors in Stokes Bay near Portsmouth. Too much to hope it is here to remove Brown.
Barack Obama: US 'will never be at war with Islam'. Already is!
N Korea test justifies our missiles, says Iran. No. It justifies an airstrike.
Poll reveals huge public backlash over MPs' expenses. Sack 'em all. Time for fresh faces, preferably ones with IQs bigger than their shoe size.
Pentagon unveils large cuts to defence budget. As predicted. Obama wants to neuter America. Both the US and Uk need to expand their military's 'cos trouble is brewing.
A spark that may light the Sudan tinderbox. The UN is about to get a whole lot more blood on it's hands.
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I apologize Obama!........by Rico
I must apologize to the COTUS* Obama!
I was so horribly wrong. It is scant comfort that the media was also wrong (that is what they do best...get it "wrong" whether accidentally or on purpose).
To even 'think' that Obama was genuflecting to the King of Saudia is scandalous! (Though NOT as much so as a friend of mine who suggested that our MOTUS** was actually preparing to give the good King some oral pleasure.)
NO. I WAS WRONG I SAY TO YOU ALL!!!!!
Obama was merely assuming the proper position when preparing to talk out of his ass (this time sans teleprompter).
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
note: Where POTUS used to be the acronym for President of the United States, I am torn between two better descriptors for Obama.
* COTUS - Commissar of the US
** MOTUS - Metrosexual of the US
Sounds familiar.....
Fresh out of business school, the young man answered a want ad for an accountant. Now he was being interviewed by a very nervous man who ran a small business that he had started himself.
"I need someone with an accounting degree," the man said, "But mainly, I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for me."
"Excuse me?" the accountant said.
"I worry about a lot of things," the man said.
"But I don't want to have to worry about money. Your job will be to take all the money worries off my back."
"I see," the accountant said, "And how much does the job pay?"
"I'll start you at eighty thousand."
"Eighty thousand dollars!" the accountant exclaimed, "How can such a small business afford a sum like that?"
"That," the owner said, "is your first worry."
H/T DML
