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

percolated

cabootle
bloated
perfunctory
p**sage
kissage
hugage

pissant (real word..so if anybody moderates that I'l be very unhappy)

Kirtle

(rhymes with Myrtle, which was my
grandmother's name. I had an uncle
who thought Myrtle was a hilarious
thing to name anyone....)

Quodlibet

(Happens to be the name of a totally
plagiarised musical piece by the
incompetent composer P.D.Q. Bach)

Fuqua

(Name of a legitimate company. I have
no idea if it is pronounced in a funny
way, though I hope it is )

Furze

(Something you'd find in a meadow or heath,
I guess.)

Smeg

A word made up to be the official swear word of the future in Red Dwarf but which is actually now the name of a fridge company.

And along the same lines.

Zarquon.

Smegma...from which smeg was derived...is a real word...it means...well....the definition in Grays Medical Dictionary is something along the lines of 'white substance that builds up under the foreskin'..i define it slightly differently....Nobcheese.
Which leads nicely to my next two words for consideration of the board:
Foreskin
Nobcheese

Smegma...from which smeg was derived...is a real word...it means...well....the definition in Grays Medical Dictionary is something along the lines of 'white substance that builds up under the foreskin'..i define it slightly differently....Nobcheese.
Which leads nicely to my next two words for consideration of the board:
Foreskin
Nobcheese

twice (before Scruff jumps in)

Crotchety
Burbages
Snag
Umbrage
What is smegma for? Or, like the wasps, is it devoid of purpose.
Quest for today: I found a model of the Human Eye in a toy shop, one which you assembled from bits. It was 'educational' and had the parts listed on the box. Apart from cornea, iris, etc. it had something with an incredibly amusing name, which I swore to faithfully remember. I've forgotten it. It was something like the 'Botranics of Zoole'... can't find anything like it in Gray's.
In my copy, I spilt tea on the pages when finding out the purpose of... (wait for it) the spleen.

I'll probably get moderated for this, but... smegma is a viscous, white secretion of the male pubic regions, with a tendency to accumulate beneath the foreskin.

Women have it too, in our case it's formed somewhere under the clitoral hood...
...no moderation, since we're talking like doctors.

Does it actually do anything, though?

We do indeed... it's intended as a form of lubrication, I believe.

What, another one?
How can there be so many lovely words for general body parts (meninges, canals of Nuck, phalanges etc.) but genital ones are mostly hideous. Except 'labia', which is a lovely word and would make a nice name but for the obvious reason.

No, I think it's merely the association of the genital names. Plus the genitals tend to have very functional names - eg. 'mons pubis' is telling you precisely what it is, whereas 'glomerulus' or 'Golgy bodies' (I kid you not) are rather more... inventive.

Labia... very similar to 'Lamia', I think - and she was evil. Ish.

I don't find genitals that bad, as long as they're not bothering me.
Which ones are Golgy bodies? Glomerulus I like. Lovely word.
Lamia is also a pretty word; I think originally she wasn't that bad, but was subverted by Victorians. (see poem, name of which I can't remember.) Besides, she had a good reason for being slightly tetchy.
Scaly, snakelike skin? Relieved by T-Gel.

If you like oddly named parts of the body, then the isletes of langerhands (not sure about spelling) are brilliant. They sound like a place that Tolkein made up. Also the alternative (and slightly less rude sounding) to genitals, genitalia is quite a funny word. Also on a completely different tack, how about smaugusboard (I have no idea of the spelling).

Tin Tinabulation is also an interesting (if not funny)phrase. I wonder if anyone knows what it means (I do, but I wonder if anyone else does).

I don't. Please enlighten us.
Still looking for the ' 's of something', part of the eye... where are the isletes? Genitalia is amusing, it sounds like an alien species.

"The Invasion of the Genitalia!!"

Scream as they destroy cities
Cry as little Tommy loses his dog
Laugh as Bill Gates gets eaten by a giant Clitoris

Rama

I am Genitalia man,
Left as a baby in the wild jungles of Elbonia and raised by a three foot testicle. I have the power to make you itch...and it really hurts when i kick you.
Not exactly superpowers i admit..but its better than nothing.

Anyway, Fanny pack is a funny word/phrase..its the american slang for bumbag apparently.
Merveatron
Ok..I admit i made it up now..but it still sounds funny.
I'm gonna give one of my kids the middle Name Labia now...Imagine it....Nikita Labia Allsworth
hehehehehehehehe

tintinnabulation is about as onomatapoeic as they come ... it's the ringing of bells ... do I get a prize?

Chipmunk's another funny word, although I don't suppose Chip 'n' Dale are laughing.

Jaffa Cake, philharmonia, porridge, plasticise, chicken coup, spam ... there's loads!