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Doc Fission
Sep 10, 2011



I do a lot of effort OPs and then run out of steam quickly. This is a low-effort thread for me to showcase how many words I don't know, in particular words that have to do with canyons or guns or scalping a guy. Each word will get its own post so you too can luxuriate in my ignorance. I will also not look these words up so feel free to mansplain them to me or provide a helpful visual aid.

OK, I'm opening the book now. See you soon :clint:

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affray

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diphtheria

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shellalegh

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cant cook creole bream posted:

That's a nasty infection with cold-like symptoms. I had a shot against that a few months ago. Around here you get that in the same syringe as hepatitis, polio and tetanus. My arm was sore for days.

Oh yeah, now it sounds familiar. I wonder if it's a mandatory school immunization here in the States. And if that vaccine can also give me 5G connectivity.

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Imagine you have a guy. Then you add another one. Both are called "Jake". This is a set of those.
Having looked it up, it's an old word for an outhouse.

Smartass :j: Luckily this is a thread for people to be smart in.

Except me. I can be as dumb as I please.

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Probably a bastardization of the German town of Osnabrück. Just replace the bridge by a castle, I guess.

Is this a town you just knew about already?

(In seriousness, thanks for playing :shobon: I'm really enjoying the book!)

Doc Fission
Sep 10, 2011



The Voice of Labor posted:

this thread is going to be, like 80+ pages

Buckle up folks. It's a grand tour of buffoonery.

More words to come later. I got distracted cleaning the kitchen and buying jeans online.

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Doc Fission
Sep 10, 2011



cant cook creole bream posted:

Just in the context of this thread. Of course I look stuff up to actually understand things.
But here it is better to make blind guesses, or actually flaunt some semi-obscure knowledge.
If it was about looking up dictionaries Doc Fission could do it themselves.

This post is correct.

Looking up words and/or circling them to go back is kind of a momentum-breaker that doesn't work so good for my peanut brain. OTOH it takes less than a minute for me to hop on the SA app and post in here and I think it's interesting to see what other people already have in their smart guy arsenal. Plus I think I will absorb the learning better through other people's explanations.

To that end, thanks to everyone who is taking a shot at filling in the knowledge gaps here. Together we will win the Cormac McCarthy spelling bee, take home the cash prize and save the community center!

Doc Fission fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Apr 25, 2021

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Doc Fission fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Apr 27, 2021

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