Best Noun Ever POLL

[saltpoint]

Below are nine nouns. Choose among the nine your favorite noun. A tenth choice is offered for rogue nouns of your choosing.

Wildly exuberant and unpredictably associative remarks are welcome following your vote.

TIA

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. rhubarb

What other noun even comes close to being both
a colorful vegatable and a brouhaha in baseball?

[saltpoint]

2. Indeed. A good choice, A-Schwarzenegger.

You have the spirit of the thing.

[Raiden]

3. Democrat

yup, it just doesn't get better

Runners Up---

Progressive
Liberal
Socialist
Secular
Agnostic
Nirvana
Dharma
..............

[saltpoint]

4. 'Democrat' works just fine. Yes.

Like others on your list, too. The last two especially.

[Richard Steele]

5. You forget DICK! It's an amazingly versatile NOUN!

It's a nickname for "Richard"...DICKs span the scale from YORK to NIXON...

It's slang for "schlong"...
(sheer POETRY "slang for schlong" is;...
Let that gal marketing the Crustacean Exoskeletons near the beach try to say THAT ten times FAST, lol!)

It means "interact", as in: "Don't dick around with that."
(oops, VERB form...nevermind!)

AND it's slang for 'nothing', as in:
"You don't know DICK about words that are slang for "schlong"!

So, I humbly submit that MY noun is bigger than your nouns.

[saltpoint]

6. Your noun is mighty impressive, no question.

It's just the right noun for a POLL like this.

There was a race car driver a while back named Dick Pohl, I think. Junior High must have been a contentious experience for him.

A cousin of mine used to go to a dentist named Harold Dick. This is true.

Sometimes I wonder why parents don't have more foresight when they choose their kids' names.

[Richard Steele]

7. RACE CAR DRIVER, you say? "Dick Pohl" is NUTHIN!!!!

You are obviously not a NASCAR fan, or you would have been aware of a driver named...


(brace yerself, take a DEEP breath...)


A top NASCAR driver named...(I F*cking KID you NOT):

"DICK TRICKLE"!

See for yourself:http://www.dicktricklefanclub.com/

WHAT can I say? TRUTH is stranger than....well, lots of stuff, really...

DICK is STRANGER than FICTION!

(EDIT: I need to retract my title statement. After 5 minutes and a cigarette, I gotta say that the name 'Dick Pohl' is pretty darn FUNNY!)

[saltpoint]

9. Oh my. This man must have a great reservoir of patience.

I hope he does anyway.

It almost sounds like a character the writers for SOUTH PARK would create.

[fortyfeetunder]

8. rectal crevice

the one word equivalent...starts with a ends with e

[saltpoint]

10. We read you on that, Houston.

Yeah, it's a noun alright.

My association of that word trends toward certain members of Congress generally and Republican members of Congress specifically.

A very useful noun indeed.

[fortyfeetunder]

11. Other terms

If I can't say my favorite noun, I tone it down and use these also: Anal orifice or GI-sphincter

[The Magistrate]

12. Nimrod, Sir, Is An Old Favorite Of Mine

Excellent sound to it....

[saltpoint]

14. Have to agree. The sound is sturdy and adventurous and uses most of

the muscles of the mouth to deliver. A very good choice.

[Midnight Rambler]

13. Mountebank

I've thought that word was great ever since I saw that SNL Celebrity Jeopardy sketch where Sean Connery calls Trebek a mountebank.

[saltpoint]

15. 'Mountebank' is a humdinger.

I'd like to see the Washington press corps begin to use it a LOT more than they currently do.

:thumbsup:

[LostInAnomie]

16. Skeet

skeet-skeet-skeet

[saltpoint]

20. We'll take it.

:hi:

:thumbsup:

[Seabiscuit]

17. Fusion. I keep seeing it everywhere these days. May not be a good thing.

[saltpoint]

21. It's a great noun. "I got no problem with it."

Hi to you, Seabiscuit.

Keep on rockin in the free world.

[Huckebein the Raven]

18. Wankel Rotary Engine

[saltpoint]

22. I'm with the camp that says you're allowed to jam adjectives together --

-- to make one part of speech -- a noun -- and if any grammarians say different, I'm calling in an air strike on their damn houses.

Hi, Dark_Leftist. The Wankel Rotary Engine is so good it should probably have a thread all of its own.

[unhappycamper]

19. fuck

Don't believe me? Listen up:

http://www.slhacker.com/downloads/fword.wav

[saltpoint]

23. Undeniably, it's a noun. It's a verb when it wants to be, too.

And is easily transformed into a one-size-fits-all adjective.

A very nimble noun, no question.

[unhappycamper]

27. It's SO much more than that. Did you listen to the audio clip?

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

35. I KNOW it's more than that, unhappycamper...

But this is kind of a family show and I'm trying to keep from getting this banned as a sex thread!

O8)

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[trotsky]

24. Syzygy

A killer word (literally) for hangman. And it describes a celestial event, so it's cool.

[saltpoint]

36. And very cool at that.

It's a word that combines dignity and wonder with mischief and fun.

Love it.

[jmowreader]

25. Oh, come on. The best noun ever is PAYCHECK!

[saltpoint]

37. Truly spoken.

It's made a lot of weekends go a lot better, too.

[realisticphish]

26. Sally Field

o, you said nOun :evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

39. O god there she is.

The perkiest nun ever.

And you're right -- I asked for it: (NoUN).

:)

[dajoki]

28. bullshit

mostly what we hear and read anyway. besides it's fun to say, try it.

[saltpoint]

38. The first time I tried it outloud to a teacher was to a math teacher

in 7th grade.

It was NOT a terrific strategy, but it felt good to register my discontent anyway.

I was grounded for a week.

In retrospect, looking back, uh....I'd do the same thing, only I'd say it much louder!

[billyskank]

29. I like Russian word for "potato"

but I can't spell it. :cry:

[saltpoint]

34. Dan Quayle can't spell it in English, so don't worry, billyskank.

We'll accept any version you offer.

We're damned flexible, we are.

[progmom]

30. serendipity

me like.

[billyskank]

31. I'm also very fond of the thing itself.

:)

[progmom]

32. yup.

it's a good thing.

[saltpoint]

33. A good one, progmom.

One of tghe under-used words in the language, too. Thanks.

[Lannes]

40. Art

[saltpoint]

41. Art is the key to my own noun heart, Lannes.

It opens all the doors to realms I want to spend time in.

Very nice choice.