Steve

What are you smoking? (and where can I get some please?) :-)

Or have you been at the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters again?

Steve G

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Subject: [LU] NON-LU: STOP PRESS: The Meaning Of Liff

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.



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Steve Mosley
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