[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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