WELCOME to Tuesday May 29, 2012. Many a Funny Word – Spoken in Jest
The longest word in the English language. According to folk-lore Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the dictionary, it means being against separating church and state. However, floccinaucinihilipilification, a word found in the Oxford English dictionary since 1800, is one letter longer. Strange but true, this word means estimating that something is worthless!
While the Oxford English Dictionary has even longer words such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, these are compound technical words and many people discount them. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched.’
We think that “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. Let us know if we are wrong!
The word “listen ” contains the same letters as the word “silent”. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles’s full name is ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula’ and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, ‘L.A.’
The name for Oz in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence ‘Oz.’
The longest common word that you can type with just the left hand is probably ‘Stewardesses’, however there is the obscure but longer: ‘Aftercataracts’. With the right hand the longest word is Phyllophyllin. (Lolypop comes close, but as Groucho Marx would say: ‘no cigar’)
To ‘testify’ was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
The combination ‘ough‘ can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all ‘A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.’
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning ‘containing arsenic.’
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Have a great Tuesday people,
and whatever you do, don’t forget to LAUGH IT UP!
Peace I am outta here, Eucman!
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“A new report suggests that Christopher Columbus may have secretly been Jewish.
What tipped historians off was Columbus’ diary entry where he described his journey
to America as ‘a real schlep.'” -Conan O’Brien
“If women have excessive belly fat and a muffin-top, it can
be fatal. Especially if you mention it to her.” -Jay Leno
“A lot of people say they use Facebook to reconnect with old friends. No thanks.
If I’m not friends with you anymore, there’s probably a reason. And that reason
is I owe you money.” -Craig Ferguson
G U A R A N T E D T O M A K E Y O U L A F F….
In honor of Memorial Day, the teacher I worked with read the Constitution to her third-grade class.
After reading “We the people,” she paused to ask the children what they thought that meant.
One boy raised his hand and asked, “Is that like ‘We da bomb?'”
Friday’s Movie Trivia of the day!‘How much movie trivia can you answer?
What movie is this quote from??? “It’s, you know, it’s like a surprise, but don’t worry, it’s nothing embarrassing. Not anything like baton twirling or anything.”
Answer: Miss Congeniality! In this scene, Gracie Hart (Bullock) took some of the other girls in the Miss United States pageant out for a fun girls night at a local nightclub in order to semi-interrogate Miss Rhode Island, a suspect in a nefarious bombing plot at that very pageant. Hart was asked about her talent to which she said it’s “not anything like baton twirling.”
She shouldn’t have said anything…Miss Rhode Island’s talent was baton twirling. In the end, Miss Rhode Island won and Miss New Jersey (Hart) was runner-up, even though she was an undercover FBI agent and too old to compete. The bombing plot was foiled, and Rhode Island performed her routine with flaming batons. “Miss Congeniality” was a big hit for Bullock, taking in over $200,000,000 in the box office and resulting in a sequel set in Las Vegas. It didn’t fare as well; critics loathed it and it only earned half the money.
Tuesday’s Movie Trivia of the day!‘How much movie trivia can you answer?
What movie is this quote from??? “Well for me, the worst way would be for a bunch of old men to get around me, and start biting and eating me alive.”
Friday’s Quizzler is……….
The following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an animal or insect.Try to figure it out.
1. Zeal, Gel, 2. Neat, Help, 3. Boa, Luff, 4. Bow, Mat, 5. Evil, Owner
ANSWER: 1. Gazelle. 2. Elephant. 3. Buffalo. 4. Wombat. 5. Wolverine.
Tuesday’s Quizzlers is……….
The following quotes are all by none other than Yogi Berra himself. Can you figure them out? They all use the same code.
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EX ZVUGHS ZVUHU EQ XG LECCUHUXDU TUZAUUX ZVUGHS KXL BHKDZEDU. EX BHKDZEDU ZVUHU EQ.
TKQUTKFF EQ XEXUZS BUHDUXZ OUXZKF. ZVU GZVUH VKFC EQ BVSQEDKF.
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