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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
(25,970 posts)Then I'm gonna catch and kill an adjective in honor of Mark Twain.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,574 posts)unblock
(52,309 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,393 posts)unblock
(52,309 posts)I'm no so fluent in getting images to show up in posts. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not....
BumRushDaShow
(129,393 posts)Harker
(14,033 posts)or dog any dingos.
BumRushDaShow
(129,393 posts)or bug the bugs.
Harker
(14,033 posts)or whaling on the whales.
BumRushDaShow
(129,393 posts)nor poop on any pigeons (unless they pooped on you first).
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,574 posts)rurallib
(62,444 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,574 posts)Wednesdays
(17,402 posts)There are no words...
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,574 posts)True Dough
(17,314 posts)all declined comment on this story.
NNadir
(33,541 posts)...the rise of Google.
Dave in VA
(2,039 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
(35,317 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)sdfernando
(4,940 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
(13,873 posts)All of the thesauruses died millions of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,281 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)or chuckle, giggle, guffaw, ...
packman
(16,296 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Synonym rolls.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,359 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
(7,506 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)n/t
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)---- ten syllable German word for this.
lame54
(35,317 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)But how can we make hay of this occasion?............
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Giggles, laughs, guffaws, amusement, merriment, and cheer.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 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
(32,472 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Demovictory9
(32,472 posts)Demovictory9
(32,472 posts)Iggo
(47,564 posts)lastlib
(23,272 posts)Thesaurus--there's just no other word for it.