Equus wrote:It has been said (Milton Berle? George Burns?) that words with p's and k's are funny. "Pickle" is funny, "mango" is not. "Poughkeepsie" is funny, "Boston" is not. Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano is funny; Mt. St. Helens is not.
That was from an episode of Star Trek where Data was being taught stand-up. By, like, Joe Piscopo. (Yeah, he'll show up as a seminal commedian some 300 years down the line.)
Ooh. Seminal.
Words also sound funnier if they sound like a curse word, or sound dirty.
Pickle Weasel is a cool combo!
So, did child of the light use absquatulate today?
It's the word
doorkey
I challenge anyone to look into a mirror, point at your reflection and say the above word ten times without laughing.......
Prizes to be announced at a later date...................
joe
mmmmmm, would those be door prizes?
Oh yes i did TWICE!!!
someone said something dumb and i said "Sorry sir, but i must absquatulate!" (as to argue).
And I was leaving from lunch and I said "sorry ladies, but i must absquatulate!''
It was cool, thanks for the word!
I'm not sure you have the meaning down, though.
I thought it meant to argue, and to leave in a hurry.
Where am I wrong?
Well, Titicaca might have bad memories for Child, but there are plenty of other funny place names out there. As Red Peters sang:
I Wanna Polka Polka
(Grenga, Stevens, Johnson)
The Ivan Offelcockich Orchestra
See that girl with the pretty red dress on,
I wanna polka.
I love the way she spins and twirls,
I wanna polka.
Oh how I wish that she'd look my way now,
Then I could polka.
I'd love to feel those pretty little curls,
How I wanna polka.
We took a little trip down to Love Canal (NY),
So I could polka.
but we stopped in French Lick, Indiana
No time to polka!
Intercourse Pennsylvania was my destination
wanted to polka.
But she left me down in Blue Ball PA,
Never got to polka.
bridge:
well I went up to Maine to Bangor
then I went down to Florida to Tampa
but when all is said and done
I'd rather polka.
We spent sometime in Flushing NY,
I had to polka.
She said not until we get to Hygiene CO,
then maybe I could polka.
I said first let's stop at Moorehead Jersey,
before I polka.
Things got salty in Saline Michigan,
Never got to polka.
She said let's go to Bonesteel, (SD)
now there's a place I'll polka.
but it went Askew in Mississppi,
Didn't know if I could polka.
Climax MI was our destination,
She wanted me to polka.
but I had to make a stop in Crappo MD,
I lost the urge to polka.
bridge:
well I went up to Maine to Bangor
then I went down to Florida to Tampa
but when all is said and done
I'd rather polka.
French Lick, Love Canal
Blue Ball, Moorehead
I Wanna Polka
Bonesteel, Intercourse
Climax, Crappo
I Wanna Polka
Tampa, Flushing
Hygiene, Saline
I Wanna Polka
Gaysport (OH), Gayhead (MA)
Gayville (SD), Mudlick (KY)
I Wanna polka
(instrumental jam out)
=Me because of Titicaca
=Me because of the funny polka
funny. I always put more emphasis on this def:
v : run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.
But, I looked it up online and there was to argue and to leave in a hurry! And also to die. Did you read the etymology? Shakespeare liked to make up words!
Didn't read the etymology.
[Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean "to go off and squat elsewhere".]
Regional Note: In the 19th century, the vibrant energy of American English appeared in the use of Latin affixes to create jocular pseudo-Latin "learned" words. There is a precedent for this in the language of Shakespeare, whose plays contain scores of made-up Latinate words. Midwestern and Western U.S. absquatulate has a prefix ab-, "away from," and a suffix -ate, "to act upon in a specified manner," affixed to a nonexistent base form -squatul-, probably suggested by squat. Hence the whimsical absquatulate, "to squat away from."
Sounds like something that could be put to good use while camping. If you're polite.
Drizzle has me giggling. Drizzly grizzly. but that needs an eastern european accent in play, does that count?
Nice!
I wish I could make up words.
Doobooylaktate!!
Dag - I think it's funny with and without the accent.
Child of the light, when you are a reknown playwrite, you too can make up words.
