[LMB] Re: OT: Perfectly cromulent words
Mark Allums
mallums at tyler.net
Mon Oct 30 06:06:25 GMT 2006
Jean Lamb wrote:
> We're _Simpsons_ fanatics around this house, and have borrowed some
> vocabulary...such as the phrase 'a perfectly cromulent word' (from
> context, that means a properly fitting and appropriate word even if it
> Looks Funny).
I have some favorites. One is "contraption". I don't know why, but it
strikes me a bit funny-looking. It may be a /You Had To Be There/ sort
of feeling.
--Mark Allums
Mmmmm ... chocolate-covered cromulence
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