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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,545 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 08:59 AM Aug 2019

A 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!

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A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday as it left a New York (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2019 OP
I'm gonna burn a thesaurus in memory of that joke Cirque du So-What Aug 2019 #1
Ha! Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2019 #31
Reminds me of that San Diego zoo sign: unblock Aug 2019 #2
Here is that image... BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #8
Thanks! unblock Aug 2019 #11
I had to use a browser function to get the actual image file name BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #14
Mustn't badger any badgers... Harker Aug 2019 #21
And you certainly shouldn't hound the hounds BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #23
No flipping of birds... Harker Aug 2019 #38
Nor should anyone slam the sloths BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #40
Awesome! ✌🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2019 #32
I am stupefied rurallib Aug 2019 #3
😏😂 Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2019 #33
Someone stole my thesaurus Wednesdays Aug 2019 #4
Ba dum tssshhhh!🥁 Floyd R. Turbo Aug 2019 #34
Merriam-Webset, Oxford and Collins True Dough Aug 2019 #5
The thesaurus was a wonderful thing to own before... NNadir Aug 2019 #6
Oh, the memories... Dave in VA Aug 2019 #7
a la Monty Python BillyBobBrilliant Aug 2019 #9
The Hungarian Phrase Book lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #18
My nipples explode with delight lame54 Aug 2019 #36
Why thank you! lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #37
More details: sdfernando Aug 2019 #10
Trump just tweeted that this was fake news SCantiGOP Aug 2019 #12
Haha! lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #16
+ classof56 Aug 2019 #17
There are no words ... nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2019 #13
I shouldn't laugh lagomorph777 Aug 2019 #15
The Great Thesaurus packman Aug 2019 #19
😂😂 Duppers Aug 2019 #26
What does a thesaurus eat? Bob Loblaw Aug 2019 #30
What a syn(onym)! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2019 #20
what . no predicates ? runnn predicates .! AllaN01Bear Aug 2019 #22
I saw it was a post from FLT matt819 Aug 2019 #24
In other words.... Marcuse Aug 2019 #25
The bookstore that was to receive the shipment was really at a loss for words Blue Owl Aug 2019 #27
Floyd R. Turbo, how dare you! Anon-C Aug 2019 #28
I'm sure there's a single zentrum Aug 2019 #29
I have no words lame54 Aug 2019 #35
I was totally bumfuzzled by this event. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #39
Thanks for the chuckles GeoWilliam750 Aug 2019 #41
HA HA!!! At first, I thought you were being theserious. C Moon Aug 2019 #42
George F. Will seen scrambling to rescue as many as he can. TrollBuster9090 Aug 2019 #43
he does like those big words Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #45
Forsooth and incontrovertibly so! nt TrollBuster9090 Aug 2019 #46
lol. Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #48
lol Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #44
Bookmarked! Iggo Aug 2019 #47
Thesaurus--ain't they 'xtinct?? lastlib Aug 2019 #49

Cirque du So-What

(25,909 posts)
1. I'm gonna burn a thesaurus in memory of that joke
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 09:20 AM
Aug 2019

Then I'm gonna catch and kill an adjective in honor of Mark Twain.

unblock

(52,126 posts)
11. Thanks!
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:34 AM
Aug 2019

I'm no so fluent in getting images to show up in posts. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not....

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
18. The Hungarian Phrase Book
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:17 AM
Aug 2019
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/phrasebk.php

...
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?
...

sdfernando

(4,927 posts)
10. More details:
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:32 AM
Aug 2019

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

(13,867 posts)
12. Trump just tweeted that this was fake news
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:41 AM
Aug 2019

All of the thesauruses died millions of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
24. I saw it was a post from FLT
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 12:20 PM
Aug 2019

I knew what was coming. I didn't want to chuckle. I refrained for a moment from chuckling. I even chuckled at the comments.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
43. George F. Will seen scrambling to rescue as many as he can.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 07:31 PM
Aug 2019

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.

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