'Tomfoolery'
We all know the word, but how many of us are able to work it into regular conversation?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:31, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Me, for one.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

I second this
but then I generally sound as though I have crawled out of a long obsolete dictionary
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Try using 'tommyrot' instead.
It's new and improved.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:43, Reply)

'balderdash' is superior, I find.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:47, Reply)

Utter bilgewater and you know it.
In fact, a total taradiddle.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Horsefeathers and poppycock.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:58, Reply)

PIFFLE.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Turbo shit.

(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

You win.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 17:51, Reply)

As though you'd woken up in bed with Samuel Johnson?
With categorically no recollection pertaining to the events of the lunar sojourn just past, yet with a vastly enriched command of your native lexicon?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Indubitably.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I sincerely hope you were drawing on your pipe as you published that missive.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:48, Reply)

I confess I was actually knocking the little blighter out on the fireguard at the time.
I was smoothing my prodigious whiskers, though, if that helps, and nursing a balloon of post-prandial cognac?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:49, Reply)

prandial coital
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 17:27, Reply)

coital partum
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 17:39, Reply)

With a stormy countenance
borne of the aural assault of simpletons and mudlarks
( Kroney, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:50, Reply)

And yet with a satiated sensation of a heightened knowledge
not merely of words but of every collocation that could be used to describe the night before
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:53, Reply)

Now that, I do not doubt.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:43, Reply)

I like horseplay,
but enough about my private life.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:44, Reply)

*chortle*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:46, Reply)