Smoke on the Horizon... oh s**t! (OT)

From: Mike van Bokhoven <mike_at_ambientdesign.com>
Date: Wed Feb 18 07:39:09 2004

> >Big, huge, gargantuan, monster arrays of dipped silver mica caps?
> >Seriously, I think you just have to change them often, eg. decadely.
> >(That's a perfectly cromulent word.)
> <Grumble ... google ... online dictionary ....not there .... try
> another...oh, great, gotta pay for that one...sigh>
> "Decadely" I accept, it makes sense by analogy with "weekly".
> But "cromulent"? Communication is not being served. Got a synonym I
> can look up?

It's used only by people who have intentionally embiggened their vocabulary.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cromulent&b=1
Oh, and while we're at it:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Embiggen

Both are extremely useful when talking about old hardware, as you might
imagine.

M.
Received on Wed Feb 18 2004 - 07:39:09 GMT

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