Atsugi
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- Joined
- Jan 11, 2011
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- Lost a loved one
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- 12/2010
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- State
- FL
- City
- Orlando
I love new words, but I can never use them--no one understands them.
INTRACTABLE PROBLEM = can't practically be solved. For instance, a math problem that is theoretically solvable, but it would take a million computers a thousand years to do.
My current favorite: IDIOPATHIC: Literally, "my own suffering" now meaning "I dunno." Example, I lost an inch (of height) since my younger days, and no one knows why, so I have IDIOPATHIC HEIGHT LOSS.
When someone keeps talking to me, droning on and on, about their own diseases, I say: "That's undoubtedly an intractable idiopathic gonococcal-tubercular complex. I wouldn't even mention it to my PCP, just do the uvular aspirin rub therapy for a couple days. Fix you right up."
One day at work, I asked the guys in the break room where a man's uvula was. A range of emotions went around the room, but no one had an answer.
INTRACTABLE PROBLEM = can't practically be solved. For instance, a math problem that is theoretically solvable, but it would take a million computers a thousand years to do.
My current favorite: IDIOPATHIC: Literally, "my own suffering" now meaning "I dunno." Example, I lost an inch (of height) since my younger days, and no one knows why, so I have IDIOPATHIC HEIGHT LOSS.
When someone keeps talking to me, droning on and on, about their own diseases, I say: "That's undoubtedly an intractable idiopathic gonococcal-tubercular complex. I wouldn't even mention it to my PCP, just do the uvular aspirin rub therapy for a couple days. Fix you right up."
One day at work, I asked the guys in the break room where a man's uvula was. A range of emotions went around the room, but no one had an answer.