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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday as it left a New York
publishing house.
According to the Associated Press, witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed!
Cirque du So-What
(29,732 posts)Then I'm gonna catch and kill an adjective in honor of Mark Twain.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)unblock
(56,198 posts)BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)
unblock
(56,198 posts)I'm no so fluent in getting images to show up in posts. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not....
BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)Harker
(17,786 posts)or dog any dingos.
BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)or bug the bugs.
Harker
(17,786 posts)or whaling on the whales.
BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)nor poop on any pigeons (unless they pooped on you first).
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)rurallib
(64,688 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)Wednesdays
(22,605 posts)There are no words...
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,913 posts)True Dough
(26,674 posts)all declined comment on this story.
NNadir
(38,051 posts)...the rise of Google.
Dave in VA
(2,285 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)For those that remember
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...
Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this tobacconist's, it is scratched.
Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco... um... cigarettes (holds up a pack).
Hungarian: Ya! See-gar-ets! Ya! Uh... My hovercraft is full of eels.
Clerk: What?
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lame54
(39,771 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)sdfernando
(6,084 posts)Apparently the driver was distracted. Not knowing English very well, he was looking up the meaning of the sign he saw as he left the publishing house "Yield to Oncoming Traffic"
SCantiGOP
(14,720 posts)All of the thesauruses died millions of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,948 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)or chuckle, giggle, guffaw, ...
packman
(16,296 posts)
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Synonym rolls.
NRaleighLiberal
(61,857 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,498 posts)and ohm myyy what a long run on scentance . love it.
matt819
(10,749 posts)I knew what was coming. I didn't want to chuckle. I refrained for a moment from chuckling. I even chuckled at the comments.
Marcuse
(9,010 posts)Blue Owl
(59,111 posts)n/t
Anon-C
(3,440 posts)zentrum
(9,870 posts)---- ten syllable German word for this.
lame54
(39,771 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,782 posts)But how can we make hay of this occasion?............
GeoWilliam750
(2,555 posts)Giggles, laughs, guffaws, amusement, merriment, and cheer.
C Moon
(13,643 posts)TrollBuster9090
(6,129 posts)The person who'll be most effected by this will be George F. Will, who goes through at least one thesaurus per week.
Without a thesaurus, he can't do that marvelous trick of his, where he eats a thesaurus, and shits an opinion column.

Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)TrollBuster9090
(6,129 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Iggo
(49,928 posts)lastlib
(28,277 posts)Thesaurus--there's just no other word for it.