100 Most Beautiful Words
All I need do is post this and step back ...
Dalliance
Demure
Dénouement
Imbroglio
Ingénue
Insouciance
BWAAP!
'Ace' Baddeley in uppity mood, coming over commentical as is his wont.
Quoth:
"Enough of this wordery.By the Cresta of Cremutius Cordus! One arbre-evading slither down a snowy slope and these Generation Silvers are suddenly "'Nuff off verbal wankery - Pah! Where's that woman? Carrie, onward to Base Camp 3.What about Jason and the argot?"
Where we's going we don't need sleds!"
Carrie [for it is she]:
"Sweetie darling, is that really wise?"
[Note how accurately the poet captures the voice and dulcet tone of Madame Ace]
"Extroadinary achievement. A triumph of oldie agility made a paean to snowboredom thanks to the author's genius for distilling the latent dullness from each dramatic slide.Watch out for cameo appearance by Silvio Berlusconi coming a cropper atop his customised board, 'Rosebud Jailbait' (€2000 + blingy necklace, from a high school near you)
Worth borrowing only for its marvelous portrayal of The Wife.
Humdinger of a role for Ms Streep, but Central Casting will be hard pressed to plumb the depths of its Rolodex to come up with feckless enough an 'Ace' Baddeley." ~
TLS (incorporating Dun Sleddin')]
THE BEST OF BADASS
Coming soon ~ a dedicated page to all the sassiest of Sinbad's super submissions.
The lad sends in corrective comments and often clever links ...
I shall be pooling them so all YOU lot have to do is log in here to the Confulminator, click on Badass and voila, the good stuff.
First off ~
"On words again. I'd forgotten this MP sketch Good and Woody"A propos de quoi, I in turn was reminded of this amuse-bouche.
5 comments :
What about ugly words? Is it their meaning, construction or sound that makes them so?
That, Grasshopper, is for YOU to decide. Discuss.
i would think sound. i had a workmate who would freak at 'moist'.
and do u remember jamie lee curtis who got turned on by italian - in that cleese movie. kevin thingy starts reciting dishes which is all he know - tagliatEHlle, bolgnAYzee, prosciutto,etc
by which time the comely jamie has dropped to his knees and is tugging at his cod piece.
Enough of this wordery. What about Jason and the argot?
http://gogreece.about.com/b/2011/01/03/ancient-greek-dialect-found-alive-well-in-turkey.htm
On words again. I'd forgotten this MP sketch "Good and woody...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T70-HTlKRXo
wonderful! im going to start a page of Best of Badass and plonk your excellent suggestions in. that way people can head for corfucius - 'oh my god, youre not going to *that* wankery, are you?'
'certainly not! But he has this wundahful page of that chap baddeley's reahlly good URLs - make his Confartarse page look utterly wet.'
'brill. darling, we know baddeley don't we?'
'of course we do - clever donnish cove, snowboards with silvio'
'thats him'
and from me ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x44-YXrqPZI
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