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What is the funniest word in the English language

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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:52 am
PatioDog
PatioDog, now you are getting nasty. Them's fightin words and the crazy Ausies will be after you with their dayglo boomerangs.
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BumbleBeeBoogie
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patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 10:06 am
Dayglo? I had no idea...
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 10:14 am
I think boomerang is funny... and didgeridoo, but
I nominate the word, were.

Were... were... just say it a couple of times. It is weird and hardly means anything... something in the past... and then just a to be word, not really anything at all. Why doesn't it have an "h" in it? Maybe at the beginning... it doesn't make sense to me.

I'm also attracted to the name "smith" with a "P". Psmith. Whenever I'm bored I can have fun getting silly trying to pronounce it. Is there anybody whose name is really Psmith?
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 10:34 am
I have no idea, but you can have Pew or Pugh which is from the old Welsh "ap Hugh", meaning "son of Hugh"

Similarly, Prichard and Preece (ap Rhys)

Sorry, that's not very funny.

Maybe you could have a Pshaw?
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patiodog
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 10:48 am
Hmmm, that's quite nice, as the only heirs that GB Shaw produced were "pshaw" and "tsk".
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 12:16 pm
Piffka wrote:
Psmith. Whenever I'm bored I can have fun getting silly trying to pronounce it. Is there anybody whose name is really Psmith?


Now I've checked, and there is no entry for Psmith in the South Manchester Telephone Directory.
There is however, one Psaila, one Psalka, and one Pschenitischnyj. Yes there is.

McTag
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 12:30 pm
Urine is funny, and also has pun value, i.e. "urine trouble."
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 12:49 pm
That's interesting about the Pew/Pugh and the Pritchards, etc. But... Pschenitischnyj! Gee whiz, how do you pronounce that?

I just googled psmith and there is a guy whose real name is Peter Smith... he calls himself psmith. That's as close as I could find.

Urine... Urinology... Uranus... awful words, all.

How about ilk? I think that's a strange word and I've been trying to work it into my conversation.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 01:01 pm
Ilk is good, how about gnu?
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 01:24 pm
gneiss, and greywacke
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 02:08 pm
Uhmmm, nice~! There are lots of good geology words. What about the Vishnu Schist?

Gnu... Emu... I like those three-letter words, too.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 02:12 pm
I've always liked Bonobo, Schnauzer and Poodle.
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 02:18 pm
Schnauzer is especially good.

How 'bout plink?
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 02:20 pm
I think Plinko (TM) from The Price is Right (is that the right show??) is funnier.
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Child of the Light
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 05:31 pm
Porno
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 05:39 pm
cavfancier wrote:
I think Plinko (TM) from The Price is Right (is that the right show??) is funnier.


I dunno... doesn't ring a bell. In Scotland they have plocks... a plock is a little droplet of an island.
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Child of the Light
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 06:03 pm
Yes, that is right. I know because everyday that I used to miss school, I'd watch P is R just hoping they'd play Plinko. It was a fun fun game.
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 06:42 pm
vagina

It seems that one of Arnold Schwartzenneger's (oh that's a good one too)sexual transgressions was described as a "bizarre vagina request." Hmmm, or should that be purse?
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Child of the Light
 
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Reply Fri 3 Oct, 2003 09:52 pm
Helicopter
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Portal Star
 
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Reply Sat 18 Oct, 2003 02:38 pm
http://www.terminalpacketloss.com/hosted/The%20Vestibules%20-%20Bulbous%20Bouffant.mp3

This has many funny words in it. Like "bulbous bouffont."
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