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Great list. I've never used any of those in my books but am considering inserting "callipygian" when the opportunity arises. 
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We should be well acquainted with "kakistocracy" since we're living with it at present. I agree with Jack, we could use a bit more "callipygian" in our life, lol. Good list. Take care. Vern
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Well, yes, there are tens or hundreds of federal and state kakistocrats issuing regulations by tha acre, neither understanding nor caring to understand the people who must bear the yoke of the regulation. This includes the Washington DOT geniuses who never get cold, wet snow and who do not understand that we need deFROSTING (max HEAT) and not just defogging (dry air) on our windshields.
I'd like those dimwits moved to International Falls, Minnesota so they can learn. Though I suspect they really belong in Frostbite Falls.
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This morning, feeling frobly-mobly, I was overwhelmed with dysania, but I knew I must get moving. After my shower, I was overcome with shivviness, thanks to a gift to myself. Though I want to write more on my new novel, I most likely will perendinate because I’m caught up with news of our kakistocracy and can’t unglue my eyes from the TV this morning. So I presume I will be grufeling today since we have snow on the ground and I am reluctant to go outside. I feel philogrobilized, but that can’t be, so I will watch the news and sympathize with the grumbletonians as they jeer the snollygosters and ultracrepidarians. I hope my phone doesn’t ring because I am not into twattling today.
(OMG! My spell-check is working overtime!)
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Marilyn Johnson wrote:
This morning, feeling frobly-mobly, I was overwhelmed with dysania, but I knew I must get moving. After my shower, I was overcome with shivviness, thanks to a gift to myself. Though I want to write more on my new novel, I most likely will perendinate because I’m caught up with news of our kakistocracy and can’t unglue my eyes from the TV this morning. So I presume I will be grufeling today since we have snow on the ground and I am reluctant to go outside. I feel philogrobilized, but that can’t be, so I will watch the news and sympathize with the grumbletonians as they jeer the snollygosters and ultracrepidarians. I hope my phone doesn’t ring because I am not into twattling today.
(OMG! My spell-check is working overtime!)
What, you didn't include "callipygian" in this ensemble? Okay, my editing suggestion is to just throw it out at the end of the para with "... into twattling today while admiring my callipygian self in the mirror." Or such, lol. Take care. Vern
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Marilyn Johnson wrote:
Words
Why am I late this day? I am no slugabed, nor was I philogrobilized, but here’s the truth of it, without twattling.
A pleasant winter’s night of grufeling under a pile of warm blankets was interrupted foully last night as I envisaged living in a kakistocracy. Shamelessly, the top snollygoster came before the people to deny the accusations leveled against him, not the least of which was putting his unwelcome hands on whatever callypigian peg puff crossed his path. He harangued us with his self-deluded history of imagined good works and, just to be on the safe side, cast the blame on his associates. Alas! When I awoke, I found it was all true.
I have never been one of those grumbletonians, but the uhtceare of this realization hung over me like a fog. In shivviness, I stewed over the Lanspresado’s abligurition for some time. The man is a fudgel, incapable of controlling his cacoethes. He has always been a political groke, desirous only of prestige and power.
Do not think me an ultracrepidarian when I say he must go!
Suffering from extreme dysania, I decided to perendinate the day’s work and went back to bed. Living in this country has left me frobly-mobly.
They're still good words--very cathartic! JP
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j p lundstrom wrote:
Marilyn Johnson wrote:Words
Why am I late this day? I am no slugabed, nor was I philogrobilized, but here’s the truth of it, without twattling.
A pleasant winter’s night of grufeling under a pile of warm blankets was interrupted foully last night as I envisaged living in a kakistocracy. Shamelessly, the top snollygoster came before the people to deny the accusations leveled against him, not the least of which was putting his unwelcome hands on whatever callypigian peg puff crossed his path. He harangued us with his self-deluded history of imagined good works and, just to be on the safe side, cast the blame on his associates. Alas! When I awoke, I found it was all true.
I have never been one of those grumbletonians, but the uhtceare of this realization hung over me like a fog. In shivviness, I stewed over the Lanspresado’s abligurition for some time. The man is a fudgel, unable to control his cacoethes. He has always been a political groke, desirous only of prestige and power.
Suffering from extreme dysania, I decided to perendinate the day’s work and went back to bed. Living in this country has left me frobly-mobly.
Do not think me an ultracrepidarian when I say he must go!
They're still good words--very cathartic! JP
ROFL! Good one, J P! Did your spell-check do junie-flips??
