The Arms Dictionary

[Deleted member 473]

wurzel: where did Hellen go?

 

[Deleted member 473]

yordim: you lack intelligence!

 

[Deleted member 473]

fathometer: DNA test.

 

[Deleted member 473]

woolage: is certain to get older.

 

[Deleted member 473]

elide: that male told a falsehood.

 

[Deleted member 473]

olivet: Popeye's girl consumed.

 

[Black Hole]

Arbiter: German learning to speak Zomerzet.

 

[Deleted member 473]

normalcy: (US and reporters in the US only) the coast after a storm surge has passed.

 

[EEPhil]

I was thinking of all those words Mike has been coming up with that are new to me!

I knew that.

 

[EEPhil]

cabriolet: A cheese taxi covered with milk.

 

[EEPhil]

oxymoron: a person failing a degree course at a top UK university.

 

[EEPhil]

cameron: 1) the video recording device is active.
2) a person failing a degree course at another top UK university.

 

[prpr]

fixated: mend child's bear

 

[EEPhil]

gated: a differently oriented bear.
slated: to kill a bear.
wanted: a lonely bear.

 

[EEPhil]

Slightly off topic:
Q: Which idiot wrote a program for a steelworks and thought castrate was a good variable name?
- castrate: the rate of metal casting in a steelworks.
A: Me. And I didn't even notice it at the time.

 

[Black Hole]

We had a PA (in the days somebody else did the typing), who put one too many 'e's in "tests". Boy did she turn red when we explained what it meant!

 

[RobH1]

Lavatory: Hot MP

 

[EEPhil]

We had a PA (in the days somebody else did the typing), who put one too many 'e's in "tests". Boy did she turn red when we explained what it meant!

Bit like one of those people who used to write to Terry Wogan. Mrs Tickle. Tess to her friends.

 

[prpr]

Which idiot wrote a program for a steelworks and thought castrate was a good variable name?

Did you not even use Camel Case? castRate?
I wrote a module that ended in "...SEx" some years ago. No-one has ever commented, so presumably the case stuff worked OK.

Bit like one of those people who used to write to Terry Wogan.

Togs, tygs and (members of) twits.

Mrs Tickle. Tess to her friends.

Miss Tickle.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I wrote continuous function on the board in my early days. In fact, my first year as a lecturer. After repeating it several times, I decided to abbreviate it to cont fun, and became aware of a few suppressed giggles. I hadn't closed the top of the o.