vocabulator

n. The part of the human brain responsible for storage and, more importantly, retrieval of all the words learned over the course of a lifetime.

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Vocabulator failures, in which the correct or perfect word ( le mot juste ou parfait), which may have spent years collecting dust in the less-travelled regions of a surgeon's mind, is badly routed and ends up dangling uselessly at the tip of his tongue, can be both annihilatory and devastative.

by gnostic3 November 24, 2022

albertan

n. Proudly ill-informed redneck willing to blindly ignore science while the bodies pile up

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Masks don’t never work; it’s in the bible. A true albertan would know that.

by gnostic3 May 04, 2021

quilled

v. To have one’s skin punctured repeatedly by a cumbersome but well defended porcupine or, by extension, to be skewered by an opponent in sports or business.

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Texas tech totally quilled those Zags tonight. The Bulldogs won’t sit straight for weeks.

by gnostic3 March 30, 2019

bernier

adj. Less knowledgeable, less adept in debates, generally sillier or untrustworthy.

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These political leaders get bernier every week.

by gnostic3 September 06, 2019

beaverpox

n. Infectious disease first identified in lonely sexually ambiguous Canadian fur trappers. Currently sweeping the globe it is found primarily in moist low-lying regions. A lotion containing maple syrup has been found to be ineffective in containing its spread but is quite tasty.

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You got the beaverpox there Henri?

On no! That be just where my thong be pinching me.

by gnostic3 May 30, 2022

Jasper

place. Rugged Canadian park full of pointy mountains and deep slot canyons that both provide delightful vistas and chances to lose a limb. Bears, hungry and ornery 24/7, compete with bighorn sheep and rutting elk for handouts from misguided tourists. Avalanches of snow and skiers in winter and rock in summer often flatten the frankly decaying townsite but a thriving gravel-extraction industrial plant working on the mounds of tailings from the failed gold industry and moraines from the failed glacier industry are turning things around. The recent anti-masking truck convoy passing through the park amused many of the smaller marmots and almost made up for the total lack of after-hours entertainment for which the tourists, bone-tired after long treks into the jasperiffic hinterlands, thirst.

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A tourist in Jasper recently smeared honey on her child in a mis-guided attempt to attract bears.

From out of Canada?

They’re awaiting the DNA results. Kind of messy.

by gnostic3 January 29, 2022

double toque day

n. Freezing cold winter day.

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She looks like a double toque day there all right. I can’t feel my knees.

by gnostic3 December 26, 2021