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The return of Number Six's Word of the Week
Number Six Started conversation Jun 7, 2004
Smorgasbord.
A brilliant way to describe a huge choice of anything...
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Jun 7, 2004
? ? ?
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AlexAshman Posted Jun 7, 2004
To be honest, I always thought people were talking about the Smore gas board... 
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Geggs Posted Jun 7, 2004
It is a fine word. I suspect Scandanavian origins.
Geggs
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Number Six Posted Jun 7, 2004
It means a huge Swedish cold buffet. 
I like it because you can use it to imply an amazing range of choices - for example if you're in a bar full of attractive ladies you can turn to your mates and say "Blimey, what a Smorgasbord!"
Although I do like the idea of Swedish people having to ring up the Smor Gas Board if their cooker's on the blink.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 7, 2004
Norwegian to be precise. Literally a large cold collation.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 7, 2004
Simupost. I'll bow to your knowledge Six, I'd always thought it Norwegian.
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Number Six Posted Jun 7, 2004
It probably is Norwegian - I've no factual basis for saying Swedish...
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Jun 7, 2004
Just a stab in the dark eh six 
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Mu Beta Posted Jun 7, 2004
...which is a pretty good description of the best way to eat a smorgasbord.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jun 8, 2004
Stop it, you're making me hungry
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Number Six Posted Jun 15, 2004
Well, this week's word is 'Quipped'. Definitely one of my favourite verbs, and judging by the way you lot carry on, probably quite popular with your good selves.
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rev. paperboy (god is an iron) Posted Jun 16, 2004
Though you might like to peruse this list of favorite words
http://www.m-w.com/info/favorite.htm
"callipygian" is definitely a favorite, much more refined than 'cute ass'
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Number Six Posted Jul 28, 2004
Swashbuckling. Or if you happen to be a baddie rather than a goodie, Buccaneering. I think it's the same thing, it just depends on how the person doing it is seen...
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Geggs Posted Jul 28, 2004
Hello there Six, how's things?
Geggs
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 29, 2004
Technically speaking 'swashbuckling' is merely behaving/dressing in a flamboyant manner, you could call Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen swashbuckling, although there may well be plenty of other things you'd rather call him. Buccaneering on the other hand has the rather more precise meaning of piracy, particularly against the Spanish.
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DonQuixotic Posted Jul 29, 2004
I thought buccaneeering was a half-step above outright piracy, since it was technically condoned by the government. Although I always picture the pirates as being better swashbucklers.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 29, 2004
That would be a privateer, really. Buccaneer is just a nicer word than 'pirate'.
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 29, 2004
Isn't Richard Branson a privateer?
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Geggs Posted Jul 29, 2004
An entrepreneur, surely?
Geggs
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The return of Number Six's Word of the Week
- 1: Number Six (Jun 7, 2004)
- 2: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Jun 7, 2004)
- 3: AlexAshman (Jun 7, 2004)
- 4: Geggs (Jun 7, 2004)
- 5: Number Six (Jun 7, 2004)
- 6: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 7, 2004)
- 7: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 7, 2004)
- 8: Number Six (Jun 7, 2004)
- 9: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Jun 7, 2004)
- 10: Mu Beta (Jun 7, 2004)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jun 8, 2004)
- 12: Number Six (Jun 15, 2004)
- 13: rev. paperboy (god is an iron) (Jun 16, 2004)
- 14: Number Six (Jul 28, 2004)
- 15: Geggs (Jul 28, 2004)
- 16: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jul 29, 2004)
- 17: DonQuixotic (Jul 29, 2004)
- 18: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jul 29, 2004)
- 19: Mu Beta (Jul 29, 2004)
- 20: Geggs (Jul 29, 2004)
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