h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

INTERSTITIAL . . .

in*ter*sti*tial (adjective)

First appeared 1646

1 : relating to or situated in the interstices

2 a : situated within but not restricted to or characteristic of a particular organ or tissue -- used esp. of fibrous tissue

b : affecting the interstitial tissues of an organ or part

3 : being or relating to a crystalline compound in which usu. small atoms or ions of a nonmetal occupy holes between the larger metal atoms or ions in the crystal lattice

(N) "Se*ques*tra*tion" - i'Seizure of property' ii 'To separate.'

N) "Se*ra*gli*o" - 'A large harem.'

(ADJ) "Pu*sil*lan*i*mous" 'Lacking courage: cowardly. Very small or weak.'

Clive

I especially like "seraglio".

But can you imagine the shame if one of the attendees at said seraglio described the session as Pusillanimous?

Clive

That would, indeed, be a bad thing.

But, if a sententious shaveling showed up - still in his nonage with an approbious attitude - he might decide that this was his chance to act as the spiritual pintle of these people, he might glance about and think, 'oh, the anthropophagy!' and 'cast away this callipygian calamity!' Then, whether with histrionics or using vituperation, he would probably work to sequester the seraglio. But then from a corner might rise a gruntled homunculous (assuming that not everyone in participation would be feeling pusillanimous) - he might become grandiloquent and begin to fulminate. If his speech was less on the frugal side and more toward the fructuous, we might see that same said shaveling experience an ohnosecond - then begin to cachinnate and inspect more closely the furbelow (if not the merkin itself) of his (now defunct) mental escutcheon and this new, bewitching, bacchanalian kismet. One would marvel, if given the chance, at the speed with which the devout might go from an antidiluvian curmudgeon to a priapic oenophile!
Please forgive any catachresis in this priapic persiflage.

ooh, no, I meant PREPRANDIAL persiflage! NOT priapic.
so sorry.

Matt

Impressive! But for those of us who don't have time to go and check each and every word against the ever-growing WOTD rosta, would you mind terribly repeating that again in the vernacular.

Clive

gosh, I hardly know myself! but basically it was something like "didja hear the one about the priest and the harem, he went into the harem to shut down that kind of carnal activity but was seduced and changed his mind completely and is now living the life."
started as a small reply to your comment, but I got a little bit out of control.

Ah! I re-read it an with that tit-bit of information it made more sense. Thanks.

Clive

synchronicity -- (noun) the coincidental occurence of like events at the same time that don't seem to be causally related, used especially in the psychology of Carl Jung

mellifluous -- (adjective) literally flowing with honey, normally used to describe a pleasing voice