über-harshed? Sesquepedalianism at its finest.SQLGeek wrote:Y'all are harshing my mellow.
Edit: Oh buttersticks....Drew already said that. Now my mellow is über-harshed.

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über-harshed? Sesquepedalianism at its finest.SQLGeek wrote:Y'all are harshing my mellow.
Edit: Oh buttersticks....Drew already said that. Now my mellow is über-harshed.
The Annoyed Man wrote:über-harshed? Sesquepedalianism at its finest.SQLGeek wrote:Y'all are harshing my mellow.
Edit: Oh buttersticks....Drew already said that. Now my mellow is über-harshed.
Hmmm, a word that is what it describes...The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
A word that is a foot-and-a-half long; a very long word.
Zackly!sjfcontrol wrote:Hmmm, a word that is what it describes...
I try.The Annoyed Man wrote:über-harshed? Sesquepedalianism at its finest.SQLGeek wrote:Y'all are harshing my mellow.
Edit: Oh buttersticks....Drew already said that. Now my mellow is über-harshed.
SQLGeek wrote:
Do you know how disappointed I was when I found out that antidisestablishmentarianism was no longer the longest word in the English language?
I hear that's going around in Iceland and Europe these days.sjfcontrol wrote:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisSQLGeek wrote:
Do you know how disappointed I was when I found out that antidisestablishmentarianism was no longer the longest word in the English language?
The Annoyed Man wrote:I hear that's going around in Iceland and Europe these days.sjfcontrol wrote:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisSQLGeek wrote:
Do you know how disappointed I was when I found out that antidisestablishmentarianism was no longer the longest word in the English language?
Which would be a case of hypersesquepedalianism.sjfcontrol wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:I hear that's going around in Iceland and Europe these days.sjfcontrol wrote:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisSQLGeek wrote:
Do you know how disappointed I was when I found out that antidisestablishmentarianism was no longer the longest word in the English language?
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When applied to the airline industry, it's turbopneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
People look at me funny when I carry a violin case.MoJo wrote:You carry a Tommy Gun? In a violin caes no doubt.
The Annoyed Man wrote:Dude, years ago when I lived in California and was still roadracing motorcycles, I worked in a motorcycle accessory shop to support my racing habit. We had a regular customer who was a stunt man. His son was a stunt man too. Our customer's name was "Peter Gun." His son's name was....
....wait for it....
"Tommy Gun."
For realz.
Yep, but with two "n"s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunnsjfcontrol wrote:(Wasn't Peter Gun a Private Investigator?)
I think these every day objects are a much more practical way to disguise weapons:KD5NRH wrote:People look at me funny when I carry a violin case.MoJo wrote:You carry a Tommy Gun? In a violin caes no doubt.![]()
Maybe I should learn to play the violin someday.
Or stop carrying the case at low ready.