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shock and horror
Post by John Prigent   » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:37 pm

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The other night I was watching a TV quiz. The question was to name any word that ended 'ium'. Radium, uranium, all the usual suspects came up - but nobody said 'handwavium'!

Cheers, John
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Re: shock and horror
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:55 pm

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John Prigent wrote:The other night I was watching a TV quiz. The question was to name any word that ended 'ium'. Radium, uranium, all the usual suspects came up - but nobody said 'handwavium'!

Cheers, John


Was "Unobtainium" used?
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Answers! I got lots of answers!

(Now if I could just find the right questions.)
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Re: shock and horror
Post by Imaginos1892   » Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:53 pm

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Weird Harold wrote:Was "Unobtainium" used?

Yup, in Avatar!

How about Administratium and Bureaucratium?
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Re: shock and horror
Post by pappilon   » Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:43 am

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Imaginos1892 wrote:
Weird Harold wrote:Was "Unobtainium" used?

Yup, in Avatar!

How about Administratium and Bureaucratium?



Oh yawn, the tedium of it all.
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The imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy.
Ursula K. LeGuinn

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Re: shock and horror
Post by cthia   » Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:33 am

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Imaginos1892 wrote:
Weird Harold wrote:Was "Unobtainium" used?

Yup, in Avatar!

How about Administratium and Bureaucratium?
pappilon wrote:Oh yawn, the tedium of it all.

Wonderful input. Tedium is a premium.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: shock and horror
Post by pappilon   » Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:57 am

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cthia wrote:Wonderful input. Tedium is a premium.



Oh, we're playing that game? Ok! His honorarium for attending the cranium symposium created an opprobrium of odium."

Double points for the alliteration?
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The imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy.
Ursula K. LeGuinn

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