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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday as it left a New York
publishing house.
According to the Associated Press, witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed!
Cirque du So-What
(25,921 posts)Then I'm gonna catch and kill an adjective in honor of Mark Twain.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)unblock
(52,181 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,732 posts)unblock
(52,181 posts)I'm no so fluent in getting images to show up in posts. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not....
BumRushDaShow
(128,732 posts)Harker
(14,008 posts)or dog any dingos.
BumRushDaShow
(128,732 posts)or bug the bugs.
Harker
(14,008 posts)or whaling on the whales.
BumRushDaShow
(128,732 posts)nor poop on any pigeons (unless they pooped on you first).
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Wednesdays
(17,337 posts)There are no words...
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)True Dough
(17,296 posts)all declined comment on this story.
NNadir
(33,511 posts)...the rise of Google.
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)For those that remember
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...
Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this tobacconist's, it is scratched.
Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco... um... cigarettes (holds up a pack).
Hungarian: Ya! See-gar-ets! Ya! Uh... My hovercraft is full of eels.
Clerk: What?
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lame54
(35,279 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)sdfernando
(4,929 posts)Apparently the driver was distracted. Not knowing English very well, he was looking up the meaning of the sign he saw as he left the publishing house "Yield to Oncoming Traffic"
SCantiGOP
(13,868 posts)All of the thesauruses died millions of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,257 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)or chuckle, giggle, guffaw, ...
packman
(16,296 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Synonym rolls.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,112 posts)and ohm myyy what a long run on scentance . love it.
matt819
(10,749 posts)I knew what was coming. I didn't want to chuckle. I refrained for a moment from chuckling. I even chuckled at the comments.
Marcuse
(7,471 posts)Blue Owl
(50,331 posts)n/t
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)---- ten syllable German word for this.
lame54
(35,279 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)But how can we make hay of this occasion?............
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Giggles, laughs, guffaws, amusement, merriment, and cheer.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)The person who'll be most effected by this will be George F. Will, who goes through at least one thesaurus per week.
Without a thesaurus, he can't do that marvelous trick of his, where he eats a thesaurus, and shits an opinion column.
Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)Iggo
(47,546 posts)lastlib
(23,197 posts)Thesaurus--there's just no other word for it.