If the night starts crepitating around me, I'm going to bed and pulling the covers over my head until it stops.
The whistling accompanies the crepitating rather than creates it. At least that's how I comprehend it.
Bohunk noun OFFENSIVE ~ NORTH AMERICAN an immigrant from central or southeastern Europe, especially a laborer. • a rough or uncivilized person.
My son and his best friend were a shoulder to shoulder unit throughout junior high, high school, and beyond, till death did them part far too young. They invariably and cheerfully referred to themselves as the Mick and the Spick.
I crushed an All in the Family marathon not too, too long ago. Followed by a Jeffersons marathon. They would NEVER air that shit today. Don't know if they even dare air the reruns on TV Land without some heavy cherry-picking of episodes.
I didn't learn that word today, but very recently. Anemoia The combination of the Greek words " anemos" , 'wind' + "noos" 'mind'. Anemoia is a psychological corollary to anemosis, which is when a tree is warped by strong air currents until it seems to bend backward, leaning into the wind. It is used to describe when a person feels nostalgia for a time they haven't lived in. Nostalgia for a time you've never known...
Yeah, I posted the Robin Hood: Men In Tights theme song on another thread yesterday and winced at the level of harmless recreational homophobia in it. Hope no one was offended, it was relevant to the discussion at hand.
In the 60's and 70's movie and TV studios and record labels had guts. They pushed boundaries, explored real-world situations, and encouraged creative choices from their artists, unlike the creative vacuum of political correctness they all maintain today. Not all of them of course, some were still trapped in 50's-style Leave it to Beaver morality, but some did push the boundaries. Are cable shows still bold? Are are they all being ground down as well? Haven't had cable in a long time.
It's interesting how some words evoke others. This reminded me of "anemone" which comes in animal and plant varieties and was a favourite of teachers desperately seeking a tricky word for spelling tests at school. Of course, they are completely different words in meaning.
Bucolic bu·col·ic /byo͞oˈkälik/ Learn to pronounce adjective relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life. "the church is lovely for its bucolic setting"
Sounds like a mix between bulimia and cholic. I may have a thing or two against living in the countryside...
Lol, I can't really argue with that. In fact somehow it has a puking sound to it. One of those words that doesn't sound at all like what it means.
Invultuation: Etymology From Latin invultare (“to stab the face of”), from vultus (“face”). Noun invultuation A form of witchcraft piercing a wax or clay image of a person in order to harm them.
More specifically, someone from Bohemia. And I'll thank you not to insult my father's mother's people.
First learned this word from the opening to Jack London's The Call of the Wild which begins with the poem Atavism by O'Hara: Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I recently read Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on camp". Still a bit confused about the difference between kitsch and camp. (Some of the definitions are - seeing the world in terms of style rather than content, or a failed seriousness, or a good taste of a bad taste)
