ok, im interested in the pachyderm thing now, and just a little bored (hell, there's no credit in my phone, so im surfing hte net!!!) I just did a search using hte word pachyderma and found an interesting site http://www.dancingaboutarc.com/lists/vocablist.html I've included the relevant segment below GARRET
_______________________________________________ EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY WITH ROCK LYRICS: by Peter Gorman The following are actual words that were used in rock songs, written by songwriters who presumably knew what the words meant when they wrote them. On the other hand, most listeners won't recognize these words when they first hear them, and that's why we're here with this list. The definitions are courtesy of the Oxford American Dictionary, with a little help from Webster's 1. Pachyderm . Definition: a thick-skinned animal, especially an elephant or a rhinoceros. It is derived from the Greek word for thick-skinned and dates from 1838. When was it used? -- Joni Mitchell sang "I know you've got all those girls coming on/hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm" on her 1976 song "Blue Motel Room." Based on the dictionary definition of pachyderm, I have no idea what the lyric means. Hanging on your thumpin' rhino? Frankly it sounds kind of dirty, in a "Tusk" sort of way (see Mac, Fleetwood, 1979). What rhymes with it? -- Mitchell used "germs," avoiding the complications of rhyming beyond the last syllable; "tell them you got germs," she sings. I think "manicure" would work, or the simpler rhymes of "learn," "squirm," "firm," and "worm." Given these choices, "tell them you got worms" would have packed the most punch. Use it in a sentence -- My pachyderm must be asleep or something. _________________________________________________
