Suddenly and without warning, I think of a contest: use all ten of these words in a single sentence. Michele already has one pretty good example, except she uses a few sentences. My question is, how many of those words can you squeeze into a single sentence--one that actually makes sense, and doesn't contort the words?
100 geek points for each word you get in, with score doubling for every word you get beyond five. Bonus points for style will be granted at the whim of the judge. Minimum 100 points for all reasonable attempts.
Note: I did it myself and managed to jam eight of them into a coherent sentence. I won't ruin the fun by showing it to you, but I know this can be done!
* Update * What, nobody wants to play? Here's a hint on how to start:"It seemed serendipty smiled upon us the day that the persnickety flibbertigibbet caused a kerfluffle with her startling onomatopoeia."
See, that's five. Can you do better?
I'll Assume we can conjugate and decline any of the words...
Well, I didn't, but do what you must. ;-)
Well, I've tracked back my entry to your site. I've shown you mine, I wanna see yours. *wink*
I would have said "with her being so starlingly callygian", otherwise why would it be serendipitous?
The callipygian author and persnickety poet, the late Alfred Lord Tennyson was known to think of Sunday’s as a discombobulated day on which to juxtapose onamatopoetic wordsmithings because the serendipitious plethora of non-defenestratable kerfluffian wordings generated flibbergibbety and anally retentive accusations.
I think I got em all:
Discombobulated after a recent defenestration, a persnickety professor of literature met and fell in love with a callipygian flibbertigibbet titlated by onomatopoeia, whom quickly forgave the kerfuffle caused by his juxtaposition of Hemmingway and Milton at an important conference entitled "Erotic Literature and Self-Loathing: A Plethora of Serendipity."
defenestration
serendipity
onomatopoeia
discombobulate
plethora
callipygian
juxtapose
persnickety
kerfuffle
flibbertigibbet
The persnickety flibbertigibbet, Miss Adelaide Brown (she of the callipygian figure), seems to experience a plethora of daily serendipity kerfuffle causing those who watch her antics in amazed amusement to recommend that she consider figuratively the art of defenstration when she is about to succomb to another attack of discombobulation brought on by her horror of onomatopoeia.
I forgot "juxtapose" one of my most favorite words. Can I have a do-over?:
The persnickety flibbertigibbet, Miss Adelaide Brown (she of the callipygian figure), seems to experience a plethora of daily serendipity kerfuffle causing those who watch her antics in amazed amusement to recommend that she consider figuratively the art of defenstration when she is about to succomb to another attack of discombobulation brought on by her horror of poetically juxtoposed onomatopoeias.
Since I can't think at the moment of a sentence to equal any of these, and since the comment box in "Yes Radio" has some sort of glitch in it that make comments impossible (every once in a while I see that here), I'm going to have to make an off-topic comment here. Sorry. Very sorry.
Dean wrote:
"Ever found yourself listening to the radio and wondering what the heck the title and artist of a particular song is -- and they don't say it? Or you miss it?"
Happens to me all the time. This is very, very much like that wonderful question you asked earlier about books I love that no one else reads. Which also happens to me all the time. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one in the world who has this experience -- and then Dean has the same experience. Wow!
Thank you for that -- and for finding a practical solution for it.
Fixed that comment thing. That does happen sometimes, I don't know what the cause is.
Dean:
Thank you! OK, then, please delete my irrelevant comments in this thread.