'kin 'ell - you mean it's real then? Maybe I should find a quiet corner for a "smoke" this evening.........
________________________________ From: Brendan Osborne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 December 2007 13:54 To: Steve Gillen; Steve Mosley; list leedslist Subject: RE: [LU] NON-LU: STOP PRESS: The Meaning Of Liff Steve This is what you're looking for..... http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:46:02 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LU] NON-LU: STOP PRESS: The Meaning Of Liff > > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mosley > Sent: 11 December 2007 13:33 > To: 'list leedslist' > 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. > > > > -- > 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!!!! > > _______________________________________________ > 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!!!! ________________________________ Need to make secret plans about Christmas? Download Windows Live Messenger for free! Click here! <http://get.live.com/messenger/overview> _______________________________________________ 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!!!!
