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Message board > "Word of the Day", 10/02/2013, Revisited
"Word of the Day", 10/02/2013, Revisited
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ldthemagicman
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"Word of the Day", 10/02/2013, Revisited
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Dear Members,
Today�s �Word of the Day� is:
�Misodoctakleidist�
Let�s have your definitions.
Sensible or senseless; worthy or worthless; tasteful or tasteless; useful or useless; arty or artless; cheerful or cheerless; thoughtful or thoughtless; brainy or brainless; stylish or style-less; careful or careless; weighty or weightless; pitiful or pitiless; valuable or valueless; humorous or humourless; soulful or soulless; pointed or pointless; meaningful or meaningless; cirro-nimbus or cirro-cumulus; Les Douglas or Des Lugless; more and more or less and less � � � �
Well, you get the idea, don�t you!
Les Douglas | |
10 Feb 2013
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Matthew@ELSP
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"Miso..." is a soup in Japan,
"dockta..." is a doctor in the east end of London,
"klei..." is that stuff we make pots from, you know earthenware and-the-like,
and "...dist" is "showed me disrespect" heard in American TV shows.
So, �Misodoctakleidist� is a doctor who puts (soup) paste in clay pots in a disrespectful manner in the east end of London, whose shows are then aired in America, isn �t it? |
10 Feb 2013
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douglas
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At first look on would think this word had to do with the Heinrich Heine University �s revocation of German Education Minister Schavan �s PhD--but that is not so.
Today is Rosenmontag-the high point of German Fasching (carnival)--the key to understanding the meaning this wonderful word. The Fasching tradition involves people dressing up in costumes and "playing the fool" one last time before the beginning of lent.
These days the trend for women is to dress VERY provactively(cheap). Some of these costumes truly leave a person speechless and that is where the word misodoctakleidist finds its place in our English language.
One fine Rosenmontag a young Englishman was suffering from a toothache (perhaps a result of the overly-sweet schnapps he had partaken of at a parade on the previous day). In great agony, he headed to his dentist. He really liked this dentist because she was young and extremely attractive, but a highly skilled dentist as well.
In route to the dentist �s office, our young Englishman spotted an attractive German reveler and wanted to try his German language skills by complimenting her on the (apparently 3 sizes too small) dress she was wearing. He remembered that the proper sentence would be: "Ihre Kleid ist wunderh�bsch."
While attempting the compliment he realized the beautiful seductress before him was actaully his dentist and was left speechless with the realization. It came out something like this:
"Miss...Oh! Doctor!--your Kleid ist..." Our poor Englishman then stood speechless, gawking at this beautiful creature that would soon be sadistically subjecting him to unimaginably painful injections and drillings |
11 Feb 2013
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cunliffe
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@ Douglas - I hope our young Englishman needs a root canal filling and three extractions.  |
11 Feb 2013
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elderberrywine
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I think Douglas needs this treatment the way he treats us poor Germans!
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11 Feb 2013
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isa2
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A German couturier hating doctors thus designing ugly, chokingly green outfits.
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11 Feb 2013
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douglas
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>>Elderberrywine-I see no mistreatment of the Germans here, I absolutely love Fasching and the statement of freedom that it makes and, being a red-blooded, breathing man, I enjoy the risque costumes as well. |
13 Feb 2013
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