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# Today's word is Floccinaucinhilipillification. A big kiss goes
to the b3tan who tells me what it is. That is all.
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:12, archived)
# it's a word
that everyone used to use on that wordy quiz show (not countdown)
the one presented by Paul Koia
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:13, archived)
# Yeah, but what the hell does it mean?
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:14, archived)
# It's Sanskrit for thread wasting.
Possibly...
(Stig Biffy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:14, archived)
# FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
The action or habit of judging something to be worthless
(like this thread! ;P )
Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant "of little or no value". In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili.
As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck -fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:15, archived)
# Ah. Thank you. I shall use it where posible whilst working.
Especially in my morning meeting with a crap architect.

Edit: Want a big kiss?
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:17, archived)
# er
no thanks!
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:20, archived)
# Can I have one instead?
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:22, archived)
# slut!
;)
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:23, archived)
# Certainly. No tongues though.
Mmmmmmmmwwwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhh!

I said no tongues
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:23, archived)
# *slurp*
*dribble*
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:27, archived)
# Wow! Let's do that again!
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:32, archived)
# Hee hee
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:33, archived)
# me love you long time
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:34, archived)
# 2minutes 15 seconds
is not "long time"

;)
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:48, archived)
# It is for a mayfly...
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:53, archived)
# 0.15% of its life
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 9:10, archived)
# how ironic
a word for useless things that is itself useless.
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:22, archived)
# i can beat that
pneumoniultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
edit: /rummages. ahh here
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:16, archived)
# sounds
contagious?
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:18, archived)
# Which is a bit suspicious cos it has 'microscopic' and 'volcano'
in it. It's a lung disease innit?
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:18, archived)
# sure is
from microscopic silicone dust particles
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:21, archived)
# Out of volcanoes?
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:25, archived)
# i think "volcano" just refers to
the shape of the disease cell. could be wrong, though
but what is zyzygy? i forget
edit: haha found it! syzygy - the lining up of three celestial bodies
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:26, archived)
# It's either an astronomical term meaning the point between
planet and a star where their respective gravitational pulls are equal (I think) or a sensor rig which transmits meteorological data from a kite to a field station, according to Google. Pxyzyzygy is a character froma book called Superfolk I read years ago...

Edit: Or Is It an astronomical term describing two orbiting bodies in either opposition or conjunction to one another?
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:31, archived)
# Nice piccy!
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 8:36, archived)