Aww Thanks Noony.

The kids argueing got so annoying I finally had to intervene to make them stop.

trace

The crook vanished without a TRACE.

Replete.


Cheers,
John

After 75 HJT logs, I was replete of details and exhausted from the effort.

sagacious

One must be observant, insightful and thoughtful, possibly even shrewd, to be able to pose sagacious answers to questions.


myopic

Myopic thinking won't get you very far in this day and age.

Paranoia

Just because you experience paranoia doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

ulterior

I suspect there must be an ulterior reason why you were out so late last night.

continuity

Even though my counselor had narcolepsy I stayed with him for the sake of continuity.


poppycock

Hooey! Don't try and tell me that! It's all poppycock!

irascible

The elderly woman became irascible when the store refused her check.


picnic

Let's all go on a picnic.

plaza

I live near Wedgwood Plaza.


cornucopia

The centerpiece for the Thanksgiving table was a straw cornucopia with fall apples, berries, nuts, and squash spilling out onto the table.

resonate

Cheers,
John

May the holiday season resonate with good cheer and laughter.

participate

Would you like to participate in a discussion about politics?


negotiate

The prosecuting team refused to negotiate with the defense.



Biblical

The preacher laced his sermon with Biblical quotations.

mendacity

Cheers,
John

It would be false and a lie to state that I had ever before used the word mendacity in a sentence.

(Great word there JGWEED!)

fardage

After a laborious search, I found the meaning of fardage to be the wood at the bottom of a ship to keep cargo dry.

http://phrontistery.50megs.com/f.html


plumage

In addition to keeping cargo dry, fardage can also serve as extra ballast.


tautological


John

Two for the price of one: (tee-hee)

"It might rain tomorrow and then again it might not" is an example of a tautological proposition presenting unnecessary redundancy. If it does rain the birds' plumage will get wet.


Mandil

Does anyone ever wear a mandil these days?

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/Mandil

hypochondriac

My neighbor is a total hypocondriac.

~ I would just like to add that the lunar eclipse tonight was abso-tively gorgeous. Did anyone else get to see it? It was big, beautiful and very orange. I saw it at about 10:30 or so (EDST). And so eerie. hehe

And as of 11:41.. it has gotten blood red now. It is so strange looking. It is even more red now than earlier.

Totality.

It is difficult to know the totality of the candidates' agendas because of their need to use hot-button issues.


quiver



I missed the eclipse...I was too tired and actually forgot to go out and look, even though I was on top of what time it was. Glad you enjoyed it Pandy. An awesome experience I had was watching the geminoid meteor showers all night in December of '95, in the back of a hatchback with a good view.

The indian took an arrow from the quiver on his back. ( Guess he was an indian quiver, LOL).



Aspic


John

I don't buy canned hams, because I don't like to scrape all the aspic away.
(Though it makes good Jello!)

balustrade

The balcony had a high balustrade to prevent people from falling to the floor below.


Rodomontade



Cheers,
John

In a great show of rodomontade, the Turkey strutted, spread his feathers, and gobbled loudly thus vaunting his prowess as a suitor.


quist

First light images from the new QUick Infrared Survey Telescope (QUIST) were obtained on December 10, 1995 by Mark Metzger and Doug Clowe.........Obscure

For some people, having a stuffed quist instead of turkey is a celebration, however obscure the bird might be to others.

concensus


John

It's our consensus of opinion here on the "right coast" that we'll award the "Quist" prize to JGweed. We loved hunting and eating the "Quist" doves in England and Eastern Europe. We were not aware of the obscure acronym "QUIST". So thanks, Scarlett for providing us with something to research.

tuareg

Some anthropoligists drove a VW Touareg to reach the tuareg, an African aboriginal tribe which they wished to study.

toccata


John

The Tuareg's are a Nomadic berber people living in the parts of Sahara that covers Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Gamin
For you Koan http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/quist/

There are several places in the city where gamin will stop you and beg for money;these young people are often runaways from poor home situations.

Cheers,
John

gourmand

The Resturant Critic was very successful having been a true gourmand....... Sapiential

I saw a homeless lad, a Gamin, purportedly in S.F., and a supposed master of the Jews Harp though he was no toccata of the organ or the piano.

//Once again - a two for one - tee-hee//

(I lived for almost ten months among the Tuareg People in the late '80's)

WOW!

BING-BANG - THREE ON THE SAME MOMENT?

I'll take "Sapiential"... From the wisdom as provided by God to enlighten all mankind.

bight

When sailing on Lake Michigan, a bight can serve is a temporary harbour against strong winds.

Enigma


John

A Codename for a cypher process, "Enigma" is still majorily a classified system: or like a "Koan" is a puzzle to most.



savin

Parts of the savin bush apparently have medicinal properties.


numskull

Yes, I do have a numb skull tho' I'm not a numskull. But not because of having been beaten by the savin bush fronds. (SAVIN made the first real PC. About the size of a refrigerator +/-.)

cordite

As I'm no numskullI think I may have pieced together the puzzle of Koan

If so, then PM me M'Lady Scarlett.

And if your submitted word is "Koan", then:

If the "Bard" was a Zen student, the quote would be...

"To an, or not to an, that is the ko-an".....

You are the first to present the question!


And as such, the sought for next word is "Mu".

If Sartre were Japanese, he would have written "Being and Mu."


---what does the japanese cow say?
---MU

John


astrolabe

jgweed, you do not comprehend the real meaning of "MU". (But keep working on it.)
(A Japanese cow only says uum, uum....

But no matter, since one must have a compass first, only then could one even begin to appreciate the usefulness of an astrolabe - a much more rudimentary instrument than a primitive sextant as rarely used today.

(Did I mention I'm an ex-sailor of 30+ years - or have you all figured that out already.)

Filigrees

Astecticly speaking I lean more toward the minimilistic, approach as fillagree's of any sort are to me nothing but, gaudy and overbearing. ...~Kung-An~

Mao Se Coe Scarlett,

Kung-An, tho' a revered form of an ancient exercise, it has been majorily replaced by the more popular Tai Chi form.


Wicket

//Where's your PM to me dettailing who, or what I am? Tee=-hee//

regards (umai` se Coe Scarlett)
~Koan

Surrounding the old house was a white wicket fence.

(For Halloween, something wicket this way comes.)




Fundamental

The fundamental('s) of a koan is to short-circuit as it were the habitual thought processes of the mind and to realize an intuitive understanding of what is (rather than what we think is).
~Facetious~

Facetious is a facetious word. LOL I had a hard time figuring out a sentence for facetious. Probably because it makes me feel so facetious trying.

blarney