For avid Douglas Adams fans, you'll all be pleased to know that a beyond the grave addition has been made to the W section of the dictionary.
It now reads as follows: WOKING (participial vb.) Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for. WOODMANSEY (adv.) The aghast horror experienced by users of mass communication systems (typically automated email systems used in the late 20th and early 21st century) when one of users of such a system does the electronic version of 'going postal': '... oh no, John's been booted because he's gone woodmansey today' '... don't open the email today as someone's gone woodmansey...' WOOLFARDISHWORTHY (n.) A mumbled, mispronounced or misheard word in a song, speech or play. Derived from the well-known mumbles passage in Hamlet : '...and the spurns, That patient merit of the unworthy ...takes When he himself might his quietus ...make With a bare bodkin? Who ....woolfardisworthy To grunt and sweat under a weary life?' Regular readers of The Meaning of Liff will notice the addition of Woodmansey as an adverb. Previously defined as the buffer zone hamlet between north Hull's council estates and the market town of Beverley, Woodmansey now joins other definitions in the famous alternate dictionary which takes place names that serve little purpose and uses them to define the more important things in life. Of particular entertainment value is the end of the H section which reads as follows: HULL (adj.) Descriptive of the smell of a weekend cottage. HUMBER (vb.) To move like the cheeks of a very fat person as their car goes over a cattle grid. HUMBY (n.) An erection which won't go down when a gentleman has to go for a pee in the middle of making love to someone. -- Steve Mosley http://www.darckense.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!!
