Phrases/words that you love

[Beef Oven!]

I like the word continuum very much, especially because it really rubs up people who prefer the world to be fragmented in all sorts of ways that help maintain the status quo.

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought it meant an expert (in the field in question)?

From the context, Don, I think you may be right!

[Don Petter]

From the context, Don, I think you may be right!

If so, I'll celebrate with my favourite word - ovipositor!

[Nick Armstrong]

If so, I'll celebrate with my favourite word - ovipositor!

You do and you'll clean it up yourself!

[Serial_Apologist]

If so, I'll celebrate with my favourite word - ovipositor!

I think this demands an eggsplanation.

[teamsaint]

If so, I'll celebrate with my favourite word - ovipositor!

Nice way to celebrate.

make mine a Frescobaldi...... My favourite name.

( apart from ,temporarily, Tadic).

[Beef Oven!]

Nice way to celebrate.

make mine a Frescobaldi...... My favourite name.

My favourite name is Boninsegna. The great Italian striker from the 70s. He's 71 now.

[teamsaint]

My favourite name is Boninsegna. The great Italian striker from the 70s. He's 71 now.

Yup, great name. 71 ? Strewth.
Actually all italian footballers have great names.
And skill.
And looks.

B******s.

[Don Petter]

Nice way to celebrate.

make mine a Frescobaldi...... My favourite name.

Too strong for me at this time of night! I'll just have a small glass of Wynton Marsalis.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think this demands an eggsplanation.

- "one who puts eggs in boxes"?

[teamsaint]

- "one who puts eggs in boxes"?

thankyou Prof Branestawm.
Incidentally, one phrase that annoys, wrong thread I know, is " Your Inbox is full".

[Joseph K]

A particularly loathsome locution of recent provenance being that of ending a statement ,of fact in the interrogative?

Isn't this thread for the opposite of all things loathsome?

Cool thread. I didn't know it existed until now.

Words I like:

flâneur

empyrean

numinous

ennui

moiety

plash

anfractuous

atrabilious

[kernelbogey]

crepuscule - allegedyly [?] the most beautiful French word.

[Serial_Apologist]

crepuscule - allegedyly [?] the most beautiful French word.

Not on your Nellie!

[Pulcinella]

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