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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #315 on: February 04, 2016, 07:14:55 AM »
  Has anyone mentioned "eldritch"?  It bears repeating.  Cthulhu bless H. P. Lovecraft!  :cthulhu:

Yep, we use it a fair amount at home!
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #316 on: February 04, 2016, 08:52:46 AM »
The  :cbc: is well versed in eldritch lore!    :zombie:
"Some books are to be tasted.  Others to be swallowed.  And some few to be chewed and digested."  --Sir Francis Bacon

"Civilization exists by geologic consent.  Subject to change without notice."  --Will Durant

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #317 on: February 06, 2016, 08:34:42 AM »
The  :cbc: is well versed in eldritch lore!    :zombie:

  "The Rats In The Walls" was one creepy story, made quite an impression!  :hide:
"I'm finding a lot of things funny lately, but I don't think they are."
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #318 on: February 06, 2016, 08:38:36 AM »
Haberdashery.
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #320 on: March 16, 2016, 08:54:20 PM »
curmudgeon
A good monarch is a treasure. A good politician is an oxymoron.

My brain is both uninhibited and uninhabited.

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #321 on: June 13, 2018, 03:52:31 AM »
miasma.

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #322 on: June 13, 2018, 04:05:16 AM »
Snollygoster :  an unprincipled person like a politician.

That's a good un.

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #323 on: June 13, 2018, 04:39:56 AM »
miasma.
That one always reminds me of someone.

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #325 on: June 13, 2018, 03:18:07 PM »
miasma.
That one always reminds me of someone.

Here??  :zoinks:
:laugh: No, Sand from WP. Recalling he used the word in a poem, mental miasma was the phrase. It just stuck for some reason. Think he's dead now.

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #326 on: June 13, 2018, 09:43:40 PM »
Surreptitiously

Dog-whistling

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #327 on: June 19, 2018, 08:49:47 PM »
Munted - slang word used here for broken.
Mildly Cute in a Retarded Way
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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #328 on: June 19, 2018, 11:00:34 PM »
Bodacious :headbang2:
Crazy, I'm halfway to crazy
Suicide would waste me
Homicide would break me
Tongue tied and tied to the tongue
Tongue tied and tied to the tongue
Oh, is life as bad as dreams
I guess that's just the way it seems

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Re: Odd or Unusual words you like, but rarely get a chance to use.
« Reply #329 on: June 20, 2018, 01:25:39 AM »
miasma.
That one always reminds me of someone.

Here??  :zoinks:
:laugh: No, Sand from WP. Recalling he used the word in a poem, mental miasma was the phrase. It just stuck for some reason. Think he's dead now.

Seriously??  I liked Sand!   :'(