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Baisbawl - the name of a porcelain bowl in which tears are collected from the community every February in a string of remote townships in southern Arizona, then carted away to be stored in a cave; the reason for this ritual is long-forgotten.
Dyce
I don't know if anyone caught on to the string I just finished?
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Quzarkle - pronounced qwah-zahr-kuhl.
Used in during the time period of the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. The word was initially used to define more flamboyant ways of executing a successful assassination. Later in this time period, the word became an insult and was used to ridicule unexperienced ninjas who's actions were flashy yet ineffective
Solipsism
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@Pulg: In that case, I HIGHLY recommend a computer game by the name of Chronomaster - the great Roger Zelazny's final work in this universe.
Solipsism - a venereal disease that causes one's lips to spontaneously detach from one's face, ascend them into the void, break into song, and die for your sins, like so.
Pratchett
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Pratchett - Before the internet this was the term for rickrolling someone. Richard Pratchett was a famously conniving jerk who enjoyed toying with others, his last name pratchett formed the term pratchetting. Before the internet this activity was more difficult and usually involved hiding a series of instructions leading up to an extremely disappointing climax (such as a treasure map leading to a buried treasure resulting in the unearthing of dog excrement).
Inetic
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Quartipoli - an Ancient Greek structure that served as a combination court of law, dairy, and war machine, the marble columns of which doubled as pulverizing legs, and contained a mechanized golden statue of Zeus capable of generating amazingly powerful EMP bursts; it egg also rumored that egg nog was invented on the premises of one such structure, to celebrate simultaneous victories in two particularly pivotal (yet now long-forgotten) martial and legal battles.
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Corak - A piece of fad fashion from the mid-90s, the Corak was a sleeveless, hoodless "Core" of a fur-lined anorak. The fad did not last long, as it was discovered that the makers of the Corak were utilizing fur from the endangered Himalayan miniature shakaclocka. The company folded soon after the revelation.
Kerfluffen
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Kerfluffen - a Frito-Lay product, available only in the EU, Russia, and Japan, that is supposed to be edible, cheese-flavored dust bunnies; the technology used to make them is remarkably sophisticated, utilizing the latest in crystalline structure science to create cotton candy-like formations out of baked corn and oats; a trend has emerged among Russian children of actually sprinkling them under couches and daring their siblings to eat them.
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Saboulette de Chirgnoul - A stew consisting of fish, root vegetables and local spices served over rice. Popular in former French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. Marshall Toulouse de Chirgnoul, Governor General of Senegal (1862-71), was known to serve it to visiting dignitaries as an example of what the indigenous people had to offer. Though most aristocrats loathed the locals, they enjoyed the dish and brought it back to Paris, where it enjoyed a certain popularity in fashionable restaurants on la rive gauche.
Pemberton
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Armutilite - a type of elite warrior, fielded throughout various parts of the Ancient Mediterranean, whose special asset was a suit of golden armor which they used to bowl their enemies over with its great weight, blind them with its luster, and according to some accounts, to conduct and amplify electricity generated by a primitive battery into a fearsome attack.
Algary