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

You're my GOLDFISH!?!?

Now it all makes... No, it doesn't make any sense.

At least I don't have a cat... Otherwise I'd lose a good conversationalist... goldfish. ((Is conversationalist even a word?))

It is now!

Truely (I think this is actually a real word... Weird...)? You mean, I can make my own words? Well, I've been using twonk as an insult... But if it becomes a real word, then I'll actually be insulting people when, in all honesty, I'm not that sort at all. I get angry for a moment, then it just... disappears. Which is highly iritating when I need to be outraged... Oh well.

Twonk is a great insult. Sounds staisfyingly close to something a bit ruder and rolls off the lips nicely. Can be said with a sneer, which is always an advantage with insults.
But I had heard it used thus before you mentioned it, so I think it has to count as a real word.
I can understand your frustration with the evaporation of anger when outrage is appropriate, but I guess if it was important enough it the anger would hang around a bit longer looking for an opportunity to be Really Useful. And being chilled is probably better for your blood pressure.

BTW "Truely" is indeed a new word. "Truly", however, has been around for some time!

One of the things that annoys me is when I think of something that someone else has already thought of. Squib (Before, I thought they were talking about a damp squid!), Squangos (Q.U.A.N.G.O. is in the dictionary. Not exactly the same, but no huge leap of the imagination either, is it?), Twonk... Also, the idea of a tunnel under the Atlantic to link Europe to America with a magnetically-suspended, high-speed train...
I wasn't confident using truly. Didn't look like a proper word... Then again, does laager (A circle of wagons. There are other meanings, but this is the main one.)?
As for blood pressure, all the rage (I just noticed "rage" is an anagram of "anger" without the "n".) in the word is insufficient to match the gunk that's probably clogging my arteries.
Just looked in a dictionary for twonk. It's not there, but I found "Tychism", which is the "theory that chance controls the universe". However, it's not exactly a new dictionary... Made around 1976...

I do seem to like these large posts once in a while... Anyway.
Nearly forgot to state: I am going away to Scotland for a week.
That is all. Mainly because I can't think of anything else right now...

I never claimed it was in a dictionary, just that I'd heard it used before in a similar context.
Why would anyone want a tunnel ect ect linking Europe and America? I'm happier knowing that there's a vast expanse of ocean keeping any antagonistic parties apart (she says, carefully avoiding labelling any particular nationality!).
Have fun in Scotland.

Scotland was fun. Well, visiting the Dewar distillery was fascinating. The Glasgow Science Centre was... boring, really, apart from the planetarium, which was cool. And the IMAX thing about the International Space Station. Loch Lomond and Loch Ness were... boring, really. Erm... what else... Stirling Castle was a disappointment. The Museum of Scottish Lead Mining (Called something like that, anyway.) was quite interesting. The best thing I probably did was buy a little book, called The Wit & Wisdom of Tommy Dewar.

Some of the "Dewarisms" I'll share with you, so you can share them with others, and so on, until everyone's lives are enriched. Hopefully:
-If we are here to help others, I often wonder what the others are here for.
-Only women and governments are allowed to change their minds.
-The man with a political bee in his bonnet often gets stung.

There are many more, so if you want to read them, try and find them on Google or similar, or go to Dewar's World of Whiskey near Aberfeldy and you can buy it yourself for £2.50! Or plead me to give you more...