Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian

Category Archives: Humor of Sorts

Some funny and some not so funny things I have come accross


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Requiescat in pace – RIP

My Desktop PC

Trip to computer heaven

Dying a slow death


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Obscure words explained 67. – Flâneur

FLÂNEUR

From the French, flaner

An idler or foppish, man.

Shows disdain for work


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Obscure words explained66. – Deipnosophist

DEIPNOSOPHIST

A good dinner guest

Great conversationalist

They don’t eat their words


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Obscure words explained 64. – Spoonerism

SPOONERISM

Letters are transposed

Blushing crow for crushing blow

name from Miss Spooner


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Unusual U.K. Place Names 13. – Dull

DULL

There’s a place called Dull

in Scotland It is twinned with

Boring Oregon


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Obscure words explained 56. – ipso facto

IPSO FACTO

By the fact itself.

One who is caught red-handed

commiting a crime

 


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Obscure words explained 48. -turophobia

TUROPHOBIA

Mice don’t have it

Nor does the photographer

One, two, three,  say Cheese!


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Obscure words explained 45. – barbigerous

BARBIGEROUS

bearded not shaven

way to live a long safe life

never a close shave


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The Queen of Mean

Leona Helmsley

is she perhaps Trump’s mother?

Both from the same mold