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Azkaban - an ancient Turkish variation on the Charleston

Bagyetugyuul

Scarab Sages

Bagyetugyuul - the 73rd spirit of the Ars Goetia, left out of modern editions because there's nothing He can offer a magician that can't be accomplished far more easily by using one of Ron Popeil's inventions.

Cabal


Cabal - Cab driver named Al

NOLA

Scarab Sages

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NOLA - The independently-acting shadow of a mystical robot kaiju named ALON; the two form a team in battle, where their signature trick involves ALON firing red-white plasma bolts in one direction while NOLA fires blue-black void bolts in the direct opposite.

Verdry

Shadow Lodge

verdy- a elderly batman impersonator who is known to scream "I'll get you my pretties and your meddling kids too". promptly arrested on April 27, 1945 for public indecency and unlawful senility

baisbawl

Scarab Sages

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?


Can't say I did...

Dyce - the Greek goddess of ducks.

Qnaak


Qnaak - Author Richard A. Knaak after he ascends to join the Q Continuum

oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

Shadow Lodge

oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang- ancient greek for EE OO AH AH TANG TINK WOOLY WOOLY BIG BANG

quzarkle

Grand Lodge

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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

Scarab Sages

@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

Grand Lodge

I can't believe you made me watch that:
that was strange, and I'm pretty sure they were dead before they floated to the cross

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).

Here is a video demonstration

Inetic

Scarab Sages

Inetic - the kind of energy that powers the amazing Clarke's Law-fulfilling technology employed by the Chariots of the Gods aliens that visited the Incas.

Suschitzky

Sovereign Court

Suschitzky - The Canadian term for fresh meat - more specifically when a new player joins a team, their is a right of passage involving a severe beating on the ice. Originates from the prefix sushi and -itzky a common prefix Canadians/hockey players attach to words unknowingly.

Shpadoinkle

Scarab Sages

Shpadoinkle - a cybernetic prosthetic that some clowns replace their feet with to increase their pratfalling abilities to superhuman levels.

Doinkle-Doinkle-Zwiee

Grand Lodge

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Doinkle-Doinkle-Zwiee - The respective names of the costumed dwarfs who frequent town squares to demonstrate themes of friendship, proper hygiene, and following orders to onlooking children.

Quartipoli

Scarab Sages

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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.

Caneghem


Canaghem: given name of the nephew of a former Prime Minster of Israel. Translates loosely as "Fish Salad"

Scrumtrulescent

Scarab Sages

Scrumtrulescent - a candy bar made from chocolate, soft fondant, peanuts, melon syrup, and human pus.

Zelazny


Zelazny - Stage name for Link and Zelda during an ill fated attempt at Gangsta Rap.

HerMerGerd

Shadow Lodge

hermergerd- a rare disease with makes people's eyes get bigger, sing opera tunes and die laughing

oompaloompa

Scarab Sages

Oompaloompa - A polka-'80s rock-big band fusion band from Switzerland that specializes almost exclusively in performing for Swiss banking industry functions; needless to say, its members are all filthy rich.

Sheltem


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Sheltem - a sort of sentient gas that Canadians have inside them instead of internal organs.

Bahagnuur


Bahagnuur - An ancient Norse fish god that was reputed to have such powerful fins that it would annually leap from the Arabian Sea all the way to the rivers of Finland to spawn.

Shakaclocka

Scarab Sages

Shakaclocka - a Nepalese air-shark and servant of the gods that spends most of its time flying around on various unguessable errands, occasionally showing up to verify to worthy individuals that they are, in fact, ubermenschen.

Corak


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

Scarab Sages

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.

Varn


Varn - A brand of yarn with surprisingly sophisticated acoustic properties. Varn could reportedly be fashioned into a scarf which would play Vivaldi when grasped in one hand and spun in circles over one's head.

Modronstein


Modronstein, Constantin (1838-1891) aka: "The Mad Maestro of Prague" - A well known and respected conductor who engaged in a killing spree of symphony patrons in the late 1880's. Also, a town in northern Bohemia.

Portnoy


Portnoy - what the Reverend Ian Paisley would have said if you'd offered him an insufficiently Protestant fortified wine.

Humbert

Shadow Lodge

Humbert- a pharmaceutical company based in Scotland, whose focus is making edible, nutritious kilts

Edwardenshtoffemalism


Edwardenshtoffemalism - A personal code by which Edward Enshtoffemal lives his life. He finds it so rewarding that he's written a book about it. $9.95 on Amazon.

Tulshmay


Tulshmay - A slang term for cocaine from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Randarak


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Randarak - nickname for twin cities along the border between the Mars colonies of Arkansas and Alaska: Rand, AR, and Rand, AK.

Kandorian


Kandorian [khan-dore-EYE-an]
adjective
1. of or pertaining to edible subterranean fungi
2. similar in appearance to fungi

That kandorian smell is getting stronger; we must be close.

The knot on your head is almost kandorian.

Blentress


Blentress - A woman known to use a blender in all culinary endeavors.

Shartoum

Scarab Sages

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Shartoum - a strange martial art developed and practiced in the Umayyad Caliphate, which contemporary science remains at a loss to explain, wherein practitioners were said to be capable of fighting and killing from a distance using only their shadows.

Sorpigal


Sorpigal - a souvenir from Paris' red light district.

Saboulette de Chirgnoul.


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


Pemberton - A rarely-used unit of measurement, originally used when measuring marble gravel. It equated to 1347.15 kg.

Pembroke


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Pembroke - A colloquialism in Victorian England indicating that one had no more marble gravel with which to patch the dirt roads used at the time.

Xagyg


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Xagyg - both a non-standard sex act popular amongst natives of the positive energy plane and a brass instrument only played by nuns. This has lead to some HILARIOUS!!!! misunderstandings in a near-infinite number of sitcoms popular in Sigil

Armutilite.

Scarab Sages

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


Algary - A form of augery using Algae as the catalyst (as opposed to, say, entrails)

Loopering


Loopering- a form of genital piercing applied to the loope.

Frinscariot


Finscariot- Like Judas Iscariot but friendly.

Numator

Scarab Sages

Numator - a somewhat-Evil-but-mostly-just-silly corporation that manufactures animate, semiintelligent, murderous paper plates.

Portsmith (NOT a person who manufactures harbors or fortified wine, but something totally different)


Portsmith - a subdivision of Portsmouth Oregon

Nivmizzet


Nivmizzet - a nautical term for the dirtiest part of the second mate.

Granglers.


Granglers - nontraditional cockney slang referring to elderly neo-pagan nudists.

Them granglers'll be runnin' round Stone 'enge, chiddlin' dere turnwollys, an' makin' a right fumply menace come Satuhday next.

Turnwolly

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