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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
(25,909 posts)Then I'm gonna catch and kill an adjective in honor of Mark Twain.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)unblock
(52,126 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)unblock
(52,126 posts)I'm no so fluent in getting images to show up in posts. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not....
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)Harker
(13,988 posts)or dog any dingos.
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)or bug the bugs.
Harker
(13,988 posts)or whaling on the whales.
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)nor poop on any pigeons (unless they pooped on you first).
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)rurallib
(62,387 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)Wednesdays
(17,321 posts)There are no words...
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,545 posts)True Dough
(17,255 posts)all declined comment on this story.
NNadir
(33,477 posts)...the rise of Google.
Dave in VA
(2,035 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
(35,268 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)sdfernando
(4,927 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
(13,867 posts)All of the thesauruses died millions of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)or chuckle, giggle, guffaw, ...
packman
(16,296 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Synonym rolls.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,009 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,016 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
(7,446 posts)Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)n/t
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)---- ten syllable German word for this.
lame54
(35,268 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)But how can we make hay of this occasion?............
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)Giggles, laughs, guffaws, amusement, merriment, and cheer.
C Moon
(12,210 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,953 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
(32,423 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)Iggo
(47,537 posts)lastlib
(23,168 posts)Thesaurus--there's just no other word for it.