You say Tomato, and I say alot of people used to think it was a poisonous fruit
(the leaves and stem are)

Mash

A popular song around Halloween is "The Monster Mash"

Sign on store window: "Each individually wrapped luscious hazelnut comes with a romantic note"...valentines special !!

chronic

My Brother has a chronic cough from smoking

labor

It was quite common in my university break to take a job to pay the next semester's tuition even if the work involved a lot of labor; however it seems in the 21st century this option is less than appealing

critical

There's been a few times when I thought my head was going to reach critical mass

contraption

When I carved my first bow, my poppa said "I don't think that contraption is gonna get ya a rabbit or the "hare" off my head"!!

snowball

The last wedding I went to with "free beer" at the reception , it lasted about along as a snowball in hell

Tap

I always wonder about these articles where information was acquired via a wiretap???



connection

I used to think a T1 connection would be cool

Traditional

On Thursday we will all be enjoying the traditional thanksgiving turkey dinner with our families!

radar

I always liked "Radar" from M*A*S*H TV show

Hmmmm....noone, a word?????

Amazing

One of my little ones favorite sayings when I do a slight of the hand trick which my father taught me; is "Amazing!!!!

credible

The users of this forum as so in Credible.

Promiscuous

rats are some of the most promiscuous and diseased animals to be found

unbelievable

"Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy."
Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes

amorous

After having the dog "fixed" we no longer had to worry about any amorous strays

resurgence

Resurgence the ability to ignore and carry on.


polypropylene

they make socks frompolypropylene

carcinogenic

Asbestos is a carcinogenic agent.
(I think that makes sense. )

tubercular

If you're a Lunger (as in tubercular) and don't seek treatment for your Tuberculosis, you have a better chance of dying than living , and living aint going to be much fun.

narcoleptic

Narcoleptic Youth is a punk rock band from Southern California.

advantageous

It can be advantageous to have the sun at your back

fortitude

"Extolling patience as the truest fortitude." Milton.

serendipity

I wish I was predisposed to being affected by serendipity on a regular basis

Abyss

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.
Frederic Nietzche

overreach

One should endevor not to overreach One's grasp

peculiar

If a person diverts in any small way from what maybe considered the norm members of the general populous may consider them peculiar!!

shy

I tend to shy away from anywhere where I might get stuck in a large group of people (I hate shopping)

squall

Squall Leonhart is a character from Final Fantasy.

carefully

The church is close and the road is icey.
The bar is far, but I will walk carefully.

Russian saying!

Shallow

Good water does not come from a shallow well

revisit

On many occasions when I seek advice in several forums regarding an issue with my computer I have to revisit them in order that I get the solution correctly in my mind!!

garnish

I remember on of the first time I saw parsley on my plate at a Restaurant and frowned at it ,only to be told "relax it's a garnish, you don't have to eat it"

familiar

I love to go out to a restaurant in the summer and sit out doors and listen to that old time familiar rock n roll!!!

Custom

Custom is second nature.
Aristotle

environment

Every human has a fundamental right to an environment of quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being"

- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm

greensleeves

Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady Greensleeves .

lyrics, Vanessa Carlton

Crooked

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

cinnamon

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.”

Alice May brook 1941

Strap

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Steven Wright

stoop

Tempting but I could avoid it...
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

John Bright

Loins

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
Luke xii. 35.

speck

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
Brian Greene

forgot your new word...

Oops... redneck

You might be a redneck if...
You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

continental

If continental speciation is promoted by temporarily insular conditions the demography and genetics of founding populations may be of importance.
Peter R. Grant

Overcoat