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Offline Joel

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #180 on: December 17, 2010, 05:27:24 AM »
what happened to this thread?
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #181 on: December 17, 2010, 01:39:03 PM »
Quote from: PR_Joel on December 17, 2010, 05:27:24 AM
what happened to this thread?

Nuthin'.

I either wait for more replies/participants to at least TRY to post a sentence using the word - or post a story about using it "in the wild" - or eventually get around to posting a new word.

Give it a try Joel and then I'll post the next new word!

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #182 on: December 18, 2010, 12:19:49 AM »
the whole constabulary is chasing me!  :o
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #183 on: December 19, 2010, 11:12:36 AM »
Quote from: PR_Joel on December 18, 2010, 12:19:49 AM
the whole constabulary is chasing me!  :o

Why?!?

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #184 on: December 21, 2010, 11:58:08 PM »
because i stole all their cookiezzz!!!  :winkgrin:
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #185 on: December 22, 2010, 05:04:30 PM »


...That's good enough for me!  (You Cookie-Thief, you!)  :winkgrin:

New word then!:


Guignol2  [Geen-yol]


–noun
an entertainment with sensational or horrifying dramatic intent; also called Grand Guignol


French 'punch'; Grand Guignol 'Great Punch' was Paris puppet theater





Franz Kafaka's The Metamorphosis
 makes excellent use of Guignol
to deliver it satirical message.


Good luck with THIS one over the holidays!  :muah:


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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #186 on: December 27, 2010, 02:37:16 PM »
Hard... err....

The play used Guignol2 effectively to deliver it's message of being charitable on Christmas. (omg i basically copied you mxy!!)

Err.... The clown used Guignol2 to SCARE ME (how scary are clowns these days?).

My attempt, but I failed at it :P.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #187 on: January 05, 2011, 01:18:50 AM »
I went to see the guignol2 with some friends of mine and we were all quite scared and we never saw one again.

hope that was good enough for ya mxy!
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #188 on: January 06, 2011, 01:51:33 PM »
Okay, let's keep the word-ball rolling this year!:


spe·cious [ spee-shuhs ]


–adjective
1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
3. Obsolete . pleasing to the eye; fair.


1350–1400;  ME < L speciōsus  fair, good-looking, beautiful, equiv. to speci ( ēs ) ( see species) + -ōsus -ous





Once while in a meeting with a CEO and staff discussing corporate business process strategies I called out one person's position as being a "specious argument," at which point everyone stopped and the VP said "What does that mean?" to which I replied "something that sounds good, but lacks any real benefit."  After a short pause they agreed, the position was killed and the discussion turned elsewhere.
(But they never looked at me the same way after that....  :winkgrin: )





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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #189 on: January 06, 2011, 02:48:46 PM »
i was very specuious when the whole class got 100% on their tests
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #190 on: January 06, 2011, 06:45:30 PM »
Quote from: bfm_Zeek on January 06, 2011, 02:48:46 PM
i was very specuious when the whole class got 100% on their tests

'Sounds like you mean suspicious instead?...  ::)

Try another one....

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #191 on: January 06, 2011, 08:45:41 PM »
The song was good, but the lyrics were specious at best.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #192 on: January 06, 2011, 09:09:47 PM »
The 100% the student got on his English test was specious until he found that there had been a 50 point curve.
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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #193 on: January 07, 2011, 08:20:42 AM »
Tanxs1 doesn't know what specious means.

:P

Omg nao I gotta think of a real one. Errr......

Can't think :( .

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Re: Mr. Mxy's Word Corner
« Reply #194 on: January 07, 2011, 12:51:49 PM »

If you want specious excuses and arguments, you have to look no further than the Unban Request board.

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