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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:54 PM
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Can you think of an adjective named after a person?
I thought of three...

Caesarean
Machiavellian
Kafkaesque

:party:
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:54 PM
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1. Clintonian/Clintonesque
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:56 PM
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3. Good one! how about this...
BUSH LEAGUE!
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:55 PM
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2. hmmmm here's three
Edwardian
Elizabethan
Victorian
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:57 PM
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4. Ruthian
Used a lot in baseball.
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 08:57 PM
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5. Reubenesque. n/t
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Lubernaut Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 09:02 PM
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6. Gaudy
after architect Antoni Gaudi?
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 09:04 PM
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7. Bushist.
:puke:
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 09:11 PM
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8. Hitlerific?
that would be an oxymoron.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 09:19 PM
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9. not to mention
Goebbelseque! :hi:
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:40 PM
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10. Dickensian
what do I win?
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Zenlitened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:42 PM
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11. Orwellian
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:43 PM
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12. Spoonerisms. eom
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:43 PM
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13. Got 2 more
Herculean
Sisyphean

they don't have to be real people, do they?
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:36 PM
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27. no they don't
Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 11:37 PM by Tom Kitten
I'm in a Jovial mood.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:54 PM
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29. I guess saturnine fits with that...
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:59 PM
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30. definitely...
in fact a Saturnine sounds positively Dionysian!
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:02 AM
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32. Which is somehow related to bacchanalian... :)
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:15 AM
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37. that's all Greek to me.
Let's Rome on!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:43 PM
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14. napoleonic
toynbeeesque
quixotic

verb:
bowdlerize
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:44 PM
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15. Jeffersonian. Victorian. Georgan. Platonic. Hamiltonian. Reimannian.
Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 10:46 PM by NNadir
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:46 PM
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16. Khantian. Nietzschian. Daliesque. Ruebenesque. Wellesian.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:47 PM
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17. Mr. T-ish
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:49 PM
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18. Bowdlerized
Named after a dickwad who decided to take classics and pull all offending language out of them, as well as other material. The right should claim him as their patron saint of censorship!
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:51 PM
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19. Another is mesmerize eom
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:52 PM
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20. MATCOMish. SOtericesque. progmomish. Underpantsish. trofish.
GOPisEvillian. Bouncy Ballriffic.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:54 PM
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22. You forgot Redstonian.
Or would that be Redstonesque?

Redstone
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:57 PM
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23. Redstonian, I think!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:59 PM
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24. But how do we pronounce "Rabrrrrrrish?" I think we'll need
a Scotsman who can really roll his Rs.

Redstone
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 10:54 PM
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21. Newtonian
Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 10:57 PM by AbbeyRoad
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:15 PM
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25. Marxist-Leninist. Maoist. Stalinist. Churhillian.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:17 PM
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26. Pythagorean.
;)
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 11:41 PM
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28. Nobelian
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:01 AM
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31. another good one
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 12:02 AM by Tom Kitten
a Pulitzer post!

on ed...you win a Prize!
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:02 AM
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33. Pavlovian
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:13 AM
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36. ding ding ding!
you hit the jackpot!
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:04 AM
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34. Rovian.
ewwwww
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 12:05 AM
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35. Pasteurized
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 01:20 AM
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38. Bogart
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 01:22 AM
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39. Crazy ............
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 02:11 AM
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40. Sadistic, platonic, chauvinistic
Orwelian, draconian, darwinian.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 02:18 AM
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41. Cubist
after Jean-Paul le Cube
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