As you may know, part of my job (as decreed by the Zemblan government) involves finding out stuff about things and imparting that stuff about those things to other people. I deal in cold, hard facts. Substantives! Concrete truths that will not be denied! Here are some of my recent discoveries:
1. If one should find oneself flipping through the cable channels and come across a 1980s classic comedy such as Bull Durham, Pretty in Pink, Say Anything, or Caddyshack, one should drop everything and watch it. No one can say this is a bad idea.
2. One ought never attempt to procure food from the cheesesteak place on campus: it is staffed by two white trash ladies and a giant idiot man-child whose culinary techniques involves the fondling as many french fries as possible and then wiping his hand absently across his scrofulent, clammy brow.
3. The funniest word in the world is bubo. The worst word in the world is nugget.
oooooh… scrofulent.
Nugget is only a good word when it’s combined with ‘date’.
And sewage makes you squeemish?
This may be a karma issue.
Is being scrofulent a more severe condition than scrofulous? Like, the final, putrid stages of scrofulosis?
These days, an even nastier word than ‘nugget’ is nugent. As in Ted. Nougat, auf der anderen Seite, evokes quite pleasant feelings.
As a guy movie, ‘Caddyshack’ has still to be outdone.
I’ve always found “moist” a discomforting word.
I like “moist”. It’s better than “chafing” anyway.
I don’t like the word “Cher”. Wait a minute, I guess that’s a person and not a word.
Still don’t like her though.
worst word? “ointment.” though i suppose some might come in handy for that scrofula.
“moist” is also bad, and is a member of the least appealling phrase in the english language: “moist feet.”
My vote for worst goes to “mucus.”
If proprietary names are permitted, the world’s worst word is anusol.
in the last week, both bull durham and say anything have come on cable (thank you, amc!) and i have dropped everything to watch both.
Moist is bad too–really bad. Euuuh.
Mel, I had this horrible fear when I saw your name on the recent comments list that, when I clicked over here, your comment would be along the lines of “Nuuuuuuuggs….I got some daaaaaaannnnnnk nuuuuuuggggs in my nuuuggg jaaaaarrr….” Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the movies!
Also, after further reflection, I have decided that custard might actually be the Worst Word Ever. Man, do I hate custard.
Flog: if proprietary names are permitted, then I nominate oramorph for the “good” column.