I took this photo a few weeks ago. Apparently they were gassing up on the way to a poker game.
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Category Archives: Humor
Pegacorn EP
1. Mounting the Horned One (1:54)
2. Bearer of the Snakeshell Horn (1:29)
3. Sired in the Maze (1:57)
4. Hound of the Aegean (1:34)
5. The Seer of Tartarus (3:27)
I’d like to thank Juan Neguereula for designing the excellent logo. The photograph that the cover was based on is the Chimera of Arezzo, taken by Wikipedia user Lucarelli and released under the wikimedia commons license.
Semi-useless WOTD: defalcate
3/15/2008 found through Dictionary.com
defalcate: to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one’s care
In his haste to get into the nightclub and start imbibing green-hued beverages, Harry soon found himself defalcated by a little man dressed like a Leprechaun, who turned out not to be the valet parking attendant after all.
Semi-useless WOTD: sciatherical
3/08/2008 found through The Phrontistery
sciatherical: pertaining to measurement of time by shadows; belonging to a sundial
Jimmy’s Sundial was inundated with repair requests from clients whose
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sciatherical
instruments were off because of the recent daylight savings time change.
Semi-useless WOTD: obaceration
3/01/2008 found through WWFTD
obaceration: of shutting someone’s mouth
Just as Stevenson was starting to ask her out for the fifth time that night, Samantha interrupted to ask him where he got the red dress from his myspace picture, a remark that lead to his immediate obaceration and departure from the party, and it was rumored to have prompted his sudden move to Saskatoon
Semi-useless WOTD: nugatory
2/15/2008 found through A.Word.A.Day
nugatory : Of little value; trifling; ineffective
Charles took off his coat and put it across the mud puddle for his fiance, a chivalrous, though nonetheless nugatory action, as this caused his companion to fall into a three-foot deep sink-hole after stepping on his jacket.
Semi-useless WOTD: pinchbeck
2/15/2008 found through Dictionary.com
pinchbeck: something counterfeit; an imitation
Carley didn’t need an expert jeweler to tell her that her boyfriend’s engagement ring was a knock-off, as the “gold” turned her fingers green and the pinchbeck diamond started to melt in the humidity.
Semi-useless WOTD: quantal
2/08/2009 found through Meriam-Webster
quantal: relating to, or having only two experimental alternatives
Daryl’s career, and quite possibly his survival, was quantal of him perfectly landing a fifty-foot jump over a shark tank full of rabid badgers on a specially modified, nitro-powered unicycle; the fact that he had agreed to do it while carrying a basket of poisonous snakes lead some to believe that this would probably be his last stunt either way.
Semi-useless WOTD: malacissation
2/01/2008 found through Luciferous Logolepsy
malacissation: the process of making something soft and pliable
Gwen screamed as she scraped the grimy dish that she had left soaking all morning, as it did not seem to show any signs of malacissation to the two-week-old crust of petrified macaroni that lay clinging the sides of her favorite casserole dish like barnacles on a ship’s hull.
Semi-useless WOTD: cacozelia
1/25/2008 found through WWFTD
cacozelia: studied affectation in diction or style.
After learning that some of his former classmates had gone on to become doctors and lawyers, Nelson sought to impress everybody at his high school reunion with a speech that was an exercise in cacozelia and featured no less than ten obtuse allusions to pre-classical literature, a dozen phrases in Latin and Greek, and a peppering of incomprehensible acronyms and technobabble.