Surprising words not accepted

[dannyb]

Quarter the radishes and saute them in brown butter and capers.

[floppers]

I get headaches from sugar. I get headaches from no coffee. I just found out that the reason that Lala (offspring 4) doesn't like jelly snakes, and Killer Pythons, is not because of the snake thing but because of a saliva thing (she got everyone at basketball to get a properly fitted mouthguard to avoid her saliva disgust)...turns out, that her 3rd grade teacher had a party trick, and could tie a knot in a lolly snake with her tongue...one afternoon, maybe as a "treat", she tried to instruct the class on how to do that...LaLa didn't mind the theory, put the practical session (25 kids in the class), grossed her out, and she still isn't over it.

There is a thingy about corriander/cilantro on boredpanda, just so you know you aren't alone. It's spring here, we have grown a very lot of radishes. I don't know why. Or What to Do with them.

[bwt1213]

Is not chocolate October a thing? Everyone seems to be "giving up" chocolate....I don't get it..

There are a rather lot of people who really, really, REALLY like chocolate. I like some chocolate things. I like M&Ms. I like Snickers, especially if chilled. But chocolate ice cream is vile and hot cocoa isn't much better. Hot chocolate topping on a sundae ruins it. So, "giving up chocolate" wouldn't be much of a deal for me. I'm not big on most sweets, anyway. On the other hand, butterscotch is wonderful and caramel is nearly as nice. I prefer either of them to anything chocolate.

When I go out for dinner, I eat the salad last. For me, that's dessert. I don't like to finish the meal with anything sweet. Often enough, I'll skip the cake and pie and ice cream entirely. If only I didn't like potatoes, pasta, and rice so much I wouldn't have a weight problem at all. But right now it's summer and I can eat lots of tomatoes fresh from my garden. I've lost ten pounds in the last ten weeks and haven't had a speck of chocolate, nor any ice cream, nor any cake, nor any pies. I don't miss any of them, either.

So, maybe I could say I've "given up chocolate". For me, it's not hard at all. "Giving up" coffee would be even easier, since I haven't had any of that stuff for more than 50 years. Only giving up cilantro would be easier still, since I find it very easy to avoid stuff that tastes like soapy aluminum foil. With a persistent bitter coppery aftertaste, besides, that lasts for several days. What was it Julia Childs said about cilantro? Ah -- "take that vile stuff away". Yup. She knew what she was talking about.

[floppers]

Is not chocolate October a thing? Everyone seems to be "giving up" chocolate....I don't get it..

[2cute]

And, in further incoherent ramblings of someone who should have gone to sleep approximately two hours ago, I always remember the Miner 49-ers because of....

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Yup, Scooby Doo. (Shaggy voice: "It's the Miner Forty-Niner!")

And, speaking of Scooby Doo, BoggleOtaku: is there something wrong with Fred's head in your avatar, or is it just late in the evening?

No, I have not been imbibing, not my groove, but I do admit that I have not had any chocolate in 4 days and I am suffering.

Please feel free to return to the actual topic of the post at any time. I am ... off the rails.

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I think I saw that show. You know you can still see those shows on the internet. I believe it was this very same show I just watched like last month, how ironic. They were going to a music festival, ran out of gas & ended up @ some haunted house. The Miner Forty-Niner was the owner trying to scare them away. It was something like that. I love how the show is named after the dog. He's so cute and smart.

So you were going through chocolate withdrawal. For a major binge later this month? Its hard to give up something you enjoy. I gave up eating cheese regularly about 4 years ago. @ first it was really hard, though when I ate it again it made me really sick. Ever since, its not so hard. I do still eat it on pizza of which I have every once in a while. It gets easier. Hang in there!

[BoggleOtaku]

I finally remember. It's the Puzzle Baron moonlighting with the gang incognito to help with Wordtwist. Fred is on call for word traps, of course.

[BoggleOtaku]

Impressed, Currerbell, true Scooby Doo aficionado and observer of minute details!

Indeed, Fred's head is replaced with a cool Fred look alike.

I'm sure there is a fantastic reason but can't remember why.

Fun fact: The San Francisco 49rs are named for the 'miner forty niner's', which were in turn so named because during the gold rush they moved en masse to California in 1849.

And, in further incoherent ramblings of someone who should have gone to sleep approximately two hours ago, I always remember the Miner 49-ers because of....

Miner copy.jpg

Yup, Scooby Doo. (Shaggy voice: "It's the Miner Forty-Niner!")

And, speaking of Scooby Doo, BoggleOtaku: is there something wrong with Fred's head in your avatar, or is it just late in the evening?

No, I have not been imbibing, not my groove, but I do admit that I have not had any chocolate in 4 days and I am suffering.

Please feel free to return to the actual topic of the post at any time. I am ... off the rails.

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how do you build on a base that has no legitimacy?

Dear Naboka,

Is that not one of the great questions of any civilization?

Peace,
cb

[BoggleOtaku]

Anyway, I was suprised by something. And now I feel underfulfilled.

[BoggleOtaku]

Or maybe it was UNDERFULFILLED... I should have posted right after the game, my apologies.

[BoggleOtaku]

Thanks for the examples. It prompted me to look through lexicus and realize I misremembered the word. I think the word I tried was UNDERFULLNESSES and UNDERFULLNESS, which aren't in lexicus, whereas OVER- variations are.

[dannyb]

Propane tanks are underfilled to allow for expansion. Bags of snacks seem underfilled because of settling. Classrooms were underfilled to allow for social distancing.

[BoggleOtaku]

Is it not possible to UNDERFILL. Seems like it would add symmetry to OVERFILL, but I can't say I have ever used the word myself before, but I would like the option. For example, it might be tempting tell my wife that I underfilled her gas tank to artfully explain that I forgot to stop by the gas station.

[bwt1213]

I recently had a board where "sureness" and "surenesses" were accepted. "Unsure" was also accepted. But "unsureness" and "unsurenesses" were not. And now that I'm typing all this, the spelling checker is objecting only to the "nesses" words and accepts everything else.