home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:46098 misc.test:15694 alt.cascade:3758
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov!kludge
- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.cascade
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:17:24 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <1jp6mkINN84u@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- References: <8189@skye.ed.ac.uk> <joshua.727540296@coombs> <21JAN199316291826@cc.utah.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov
-
- In article <21JAN199316291826@cc.utah.edu> rsr4936@cc.utah.edu (Reay, Robert S.) writes:
- >In article <joshua.727540296@coombs>, joshua@coombs.anu.edu.au (Joshua Geller) writes...
- >{<CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >
- >{}>% An antonym is two words that are spelled the same but have opposite
- >{}>% meanings. No examples exist in English
- >{
- >{}>$ No, that's an antelope. An antonym is someone who hasn't got a name.
- >{
- >{}># No, an antelope is when your mom's sister runs off with the postman, and
- >{}># _Anton Nym_ was an (unsuccessful) musical comedy by Fedor Dostoevski and
- >{}># Dave Brubeck. The word you want is `antimony'.
- >{
- >{}>& Antimony is money you have to pay your ex-wife. You're thinking of
- >{}>& `anemone'. As in "Love your anemones."
- >{
- >{}>You are high. Anemone is when have too many white blood cells
- >{}>I think you mean "antipathy".
- >{
- >{no, weenerbrane, that's an italian salad. you mean antigone.
- >
- >Grow some language skills, will 'ya! Antigone, as everyone knows, is the
- >state of your mother's sister after you put a snake in her bed. If you
- >knew what the hell you were talking about, you would mean "antipasto."
-
- No, that's part of the Italian Communist platform. They are definitely
- antipasto, but on the other hand, they are provolone.
- --scott
-