(n.) a polygon of twelve faces
like my ex! thank you, i'll be here all night
(1712-1778) – French philosopher, author of Social Contract
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(also: jean-jacques rousseau quotes)
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The same as scarabaeus.
He fell by his own hand
Beneath the great oak tree.
He'd traveled in a foreign land.
He tried to make her understand
The dance that's called the Saraband,
But he called it Scarabee.
He had called it so through an afternoon,
And she, the light of his harem if so might be,
Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see,
All frosted there in the shine o' the moon —
Dead for a Scarabee
And a recollection that came too late.
O Fate!
They buried him where he lay,
He sleeps awaiting the Day,
In state,
And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan,
Gloom over the grave and then move on.
Dead for a Scarabee!
—Fernando Tapple
(also: scarabaeus)
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He fell by his own hand
Beneath the great oak tree.
He'd traveled in a foreign land.
He tried to make her understand
The dance that's called the Saraband,
But he called it Scarabee.
He had called it so through an afternoon,
And she, the light of his harem if so might be,
Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see,
All frosted there in the shine o' the moon —
Dead for a Scarabee
And a recollection that came too late.
O Fate!
They buried him where he lay,
He sleeps awaiting the Day,
In state,
And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan,
Gloom over the grave and then move on.
Dead for a Scarabee!
—Fernando Tapple
(also: scarabaeus)
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In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
(also: america)
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(also: america)
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(adj.) randy, baby
The highly comical sound that an 80's Sci-fi gun makes.
Can also be the following sounds.
"PEEEEW PEW PEW PEW"
"PEW PEW PEW"
Can also be the following sounds.
"PEEEEW PEW PEW PEW"
"PEW PEW PEW"
(n.) basically a small pork chop.
v.t. To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
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n. Learning—particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popular myths and superstitions. In Baring-Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages the reader will find many of these traced backward, through various peoples on converging lines, toward a common origin in remote antiquity. Among these are the fables of "Teddy the Giant Killer," "The Sleeping John Sharp Williams," "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust," "Beauty and the Brisbane," "The Seven Aldermen of Ephesus," "Rip Van Fairbanks," and so forth. The fable which Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl-King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "
Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers."
(also: Rockefeller)
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Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers."
(also: Rockefeller)
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one whose spending is not thrifty
(n.) a straw human acting as a piece of autumnul decor, as well as to frighten corn thieves away from corn. it operates on the same principle as the panopticon; the corn thief cannot be sure if the scarecrow is a real human capable of reprisal or simply a sack of hay. the uncertainty eats them alive from the inside until they destroy themselves.
compare gargoyles, similarly created as symbols of fear to ward off evil
compare gargoyles, similarly created as symbols of fear to ward off evil
(n.) a new movement full of lush greenery, biomimicry and hope for the future.
from thesis (naiveté) to antithesis (grimness & hopelessness) towards synthesis (informed & embodied hope).
(also: hope)
(also: biomimicry)
(also: utopia)
(also: climate crisis)
(also: eco grief)
(also: eco anxiety)
(also: dystopia)
(also: cyberpunk)
(also: thesis-antithesis-synthesis)
from thesis (naiveté) to antithesis (grimness & hopelessness) towards synthesis (informed & embodied hope).
(also: hope)
(also: biomimicry)
(also: utopia)
(also: climate crisis)
(also: eco grief)
(also: eco anxiety)
(also: dystopia)
(also: cyberpunk)
(also: thesis-antithesis-synthesis)
Helping you with historical methods and solving problems that are useless
family is some blood-related -most of the time- humans believing that their love is unconditional
n. [1.] The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. [2.] The kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from Ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See NONSENSE.
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(n.) someone of high rank or prestige, or someone whose delusion of rank and prestige needs to be indulged; a muckety-muck
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join