So I’m working and I hear this guy use the word ‘afterneath,’ as in “there is some stuff afterneath this other stuff.” I’ve never heard that word beforeneath now.
MadMania
Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: May 2009
There is an infrequently used word that describes someone who is stingy or miserly. You logophiles out there probably know the word I am talking about. For the rest of you, here it is: niggard If this word is new to you, it has no racial connotations. After the definition, the New Oxford American Dictionary […]
n. the epithet ‘jerk’ when pronounced with a non-rhotic accent; rhymes with ‘buck.’ Example: “Pahk the cah in the Hahvad Yahd, ya juhk.”
I wish to apologize to the people who sat behind us at the spring concert at the middle school. It was quite rude of us to schedule and play a concert right in the middle of your conversation. My only regret is that we didn’t pick a more intuitive location for a concert other than […]
We had been out of town for a couple of weeks due to a death in the family, and as we heard later, our daughter’s best friend took the absence kind of hard. Finally one day she sat down mopily and said: “I’m friendsick.”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine isn’t really that great of a movie. It doesn’t stink like X-Men 3, but it doesn’t rock like X-Men 1 & 2. The movie has a number of completely superfluous characters who, if you removed them from the movie, wouldn’t change the plot one bit, Gambit and The Blob being the most […]
My husband finds some of the best websites (and gets me hooked on them) and I will share them all with you. www.neatorama.com I love this website because it updates several times during the day and the posts are very interesting. Not every post is something that I am interested in but about 80-85% of […]
The McDonald’s I get my coffee at frequently gives me a discounted senior coffee. I figured it was because they liked me, or they just like rewarding their frequent fliers, not because of all the gray in my beard. But some time ago I was at a McDonald’s in downtown Kansas City and they gave […]
Several years ago a friend of mine was eating some chips. His five year old son (who was supposed to be getting in bed), came up behind him. “Can I have some of your chips?” “No.” His son paused for a few seconds and then said: “The Bible says you have to share everything.” My […]
According to my Aunt Carol, my grandma used to curse people. You know, as in the hex kind of curse. When my aunt got married, Grandma made this proclamation: “You will never own a home as long as you are married to him.” According to my aunt, the curses always came true. I didn’t see it […]