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    The Word of the Day

    Someone signed me up for a word of the day email about a decade ago. I haven't brought myself to unsubscribe and usually just delete it as most of the words are so obtuse that they'd never be able to work their way into my normal conversation.

    That changed today. This week's theme is 'words that appear rude but aren't'.

    Cue Elmo: The word of the day is....

    ulous

    (KRAP-yuh-luhs)

    MEANING:
    adjective: Sick from excessive drinking or eating.

    ETYMOLOGY:
    From Latin crapula (drunkenness), from Greek kraipale (hangover, drunkenness). Earliest documented use: 1540. Also crapulent.

    USAGE:
    “He was feeling crapulous after drinking and wasn’t thinking of anything much when he went early to the beach.”
    Jim Williams; The Argentinian Virgin; Quartet Books; 2009.

    See more usage examples of crapulous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.


    I have been feeling quite crapulous since I drank my body weight in Woodford over the holidays. And who knew crapula was a legit Latin word?


    ETA: What's with the poop emoji? This is serious language learnin here.
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    One of my friends signed me up for cheese of the month. For Jan it is Consider Bardwell Farm Barden Blue.

    The newest cheese in Consider Bardwell's line-up, Barden Blue's buttery flavor and bright, golden hue can be traced to the best raw, local cow's milk delivered each morning straight to the cheesemaking room. The carefully controlled bluing, which lends the cheese its ever-so-slight peppery edge, comes about as a result of the cheesemaker's attention to quality and detail.
    "timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    One of my friends signed me up for cheese of the month. For Jan it is Consider Bardwell Farm Barden Blue.

    The newest cheese in Consider Bardwell's line-up, Barden Blue's buttery flavor and bright, golden hue can be traced to the best raw, local cow's milk delivered each morning straight to the cheesemaking room. The carefully controlled bluing, which lends the cheese its ever-so-slight peppery edge, comes about as a result of the cheesemaker's attention to quality and detail.
    I would get completely crapulous eating that. I love me some blue cheese.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    I got signed up for Jelly of the Month by my employer rather than the usual Christmas bonus.

    For a little heat during the coldest time of year, this month's jelly is http://www.blueridgejams.com/Jalapen...Preserves.html
    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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    The word of the month is Ya'll.
    In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).

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    Hey y'all, let's drink some brown water and make Wednesdays crapulous again.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by From_the_NEK View Post
    I got signed up for Jelly of the Month by my employer rather than the usual Christmas bonus.
    Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.


    I wouldn't mind a cheese of the month club, though. The local Wegmans has an awesome cheese selection, and I've really started to focus on seasonal releases - there's something cool about seasonal stuff that feels somehow more connected to things. Part of the reason I think it's weird to have strawberries in the wintertime, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by From_the_NEK View Post
    I got signed up for Jelly of the Month by my employer rather than the usual Christmas bonus.
    This is why Trump got elected.

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    That Barden Blue is great, had some on a cheese slate at Foam last month.

    NEK, better the Jelly Club than a donation to the Human Fund.


    The weather today is crapulous.
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    "If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?

    "I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
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    Quote Originally Posted by From_the_NEK View Post
    I got signed up for Jelly of the Month by my employer rather than the usual Christmas bonus.

    For a little heat during the coldest time of year, this month's jelly is http://www.blueridgejams.com/Jalapen...Preserves.html
    Damn. Vibes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel View Post
    That Barden Blue is great
    How does it stack up against the Jasper Hill Bailey Hazen Blue? I know that is some very tasty cheese.
    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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    Quote Originally Posted by From_the_NEK View Post
    I got signed up for Jelly of the Month by my employer rather than the usual Christmas bonus.
    That's raw. Ask the employer for KY Jelly instead. For the next time he wants to give it to you dry.
    I see hydraulic turtles.

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    Boucher Bleu from up in Highgate is the best.

    Try the Danby aged goat cheese from Consider Bardwell with a glass of red wine in front of the wood stove on a winter evening. Mixed company suggested.

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    snol·ly·gos·ter
    /ˈsnälēˌɡästər/

    noun INFORMAL•US

    a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.
    "snollygosters must be thrown out of political office and other positions of power"
    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


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    That's funny. There used to be a great bar in Boise called the Interlude. They had a dictionary in the middle of the bar, whenever I'd go in, I'd open a random page in the dictionary and use that as an icebreaker in a new conversation.

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    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


    Kindness is a bridge between all people

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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    Hey, I started a thread about that.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Hey, I started a thread about that.
    but did you start it with coddiwomple?
    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    but did you start it with coddiwomple?
    Admittedly, no. But it came from a place of utter intolerance of peoples' benightedness.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    Story of my life right there.

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    Anybody can learn a new word. But my brother invented a word that now can be found in the dictionary. Embiggen.

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    That's cool, I once stumbled across a site for a club or society of neologist. Too bad I can't remember it.

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    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


    Kindness is a bridge between all people

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    Anybody can learn a new word. But my brother invented a word that now can be found in the dictionary. Embiggen.
    Very cool. Not so much the word, but that your bro wrote for the Simpsons.
    I guess he’s the more talented son

    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
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    That’s a legit word.

    Fucktastrophy
    Fucktarded
    Fuckstorm
    Fuckshow

    They’re all legit.
    . . .

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