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Message board > WOD for 6/2/2011
WOD for 6/2/2011
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Mar0919
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WOD for 6/2/2011
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OK.....ready?!?!?!? The word for today isssssssssssssss:
floccinaucinihilipilification (isn �t it just absolutely awful? LOL)
I can �t even pronounce it, so here �s the suggested pronunciation, sounds more like a tongue twister!!!
pronunciation: flockə-nowsə-nəhələ-pələ-fək-ation.
Everybody knows the rules of the game, so just get you imagination rolling!!!
Have fun!!!
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6 Feb 2011
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maryse pey�
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OUPS !!!!
Let �s try !
flo for flowerbed
c for Cinderella
ci for circus
nau for nautical
cin for cinema
i for impossible
hil for hilarious
ip for ipsilon
ili for ILIPHANTESCNOUS
ification for growing more
Now let �s write the story :
Once upon a time in a flowerbed where Cinderella used to sleep dreaming at the circus which theme was nautical cinema - she was of course foreseeing the future because this idea was impossible at this very epoch - the flowers were hilarious and then took the ipsilon shape in a very ILIPHANTESCNOUS rigidity and this was amplified by Cinderella �s laughs...
Have I been clear enough or would you like a picture ?  |
6 Feb 2011
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Mar0919
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Maryse, you DO have a vivid imagination! LOL! very nice job!
let �s see what our colleagues come up with!!! |
6 Feb 2011
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alexcure
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;-) I �ll try not to read Maryse before I write my story so as not to be influenced by her imagination ;-)
My umpteenth floccinaucinihilipilification!
I have been always against floccinaucinihilipilifications! You might wonder why... Well, if you had to experience the umpteenth one in quite a short period of time you �d pity me at once.
Tomorrow I am leaving for FLOrence, if you think it �s my vaCATION you close to the truth but although it sounds fantastic, romantic and so on it is not so funny as it can be imagined at the very beginning.. Well, without any doubt I will have my cin CCIN time with my nice Italian friends having absolutely fantastic dinner with a glass of wine some time after my floccinaucinihilipilification.... Before, however, I will have to travel 17 hours on an uncomfortable coach via AUstria (if the people on the coach are nice I can experience a cin CIn toast even there... but as I know life I will surely have a NIHILIstic company... anyway if I don �t have to take any PILI to reduce my inevitable headache it will be good. After the journey I will need an intensive FIsical therapy... such as jogging along the river Arno ;-) for at least a week (which could be quite nice provided I don�t catch a cold during my floccinaucinihilipilification ;-).
Now you know why floccinaucinihilipilifications are nothing pleasant, nothing to be envious about, really...
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6 Feb 2011
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maryse pey�
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Hi Alex,
What a bad travel indeed !! Maybe you can go to Venice instead of Florence ? You will travel faster and more comfortably... I swear... Lol !!! |
6 Feb 2011
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imanito
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OMG! I must be floccinaucinihilipilificating !  |
6 Feb 2011
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Mar0919
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 Imanito! Come on! give it a try!!! |
6 Feb 2011
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imanito
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I know ! But the first thing that I thought about when I saw the word was "I must be hallucinating" so hallucination is synonymous with whatever it is ...you know ...floccinaucinihilipilification
PS: I have a pic ...I�ll PM it to you  |
6 Feb 2011
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Mar0919
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loved your pic, imanito! |
6 Feb 2011
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FunWithWords
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I don �t quite remember who, but I think someone (probably famous) described the word �feeling � thus:
Feeling is a feeling that you feel when you feel that you �re feeling a feeling that you �ve never felt before !!!!
Borrowing inspiration from this, I �d say
floccinaucinihilipilification
must be something that happens when something or someone floccinaucinihilipilificates
(In other words, this is WAY above my head.)
(Okay, I �m ducking for cover NOW !!!!)
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6 Feb 2011
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