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Originally posted by martin:

Punishable how?

I just fucking finished telling you how.

By death in Sweden.

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:

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Originally posted by martin:

Punishable how?

I just fucking finished telling you how.

By death in Sweden.

Yeah, but how? Would they børe you to death? Tax you? Death by Volvo & Saab? Drunken beatings with twigs and sticks?

Three Words: Ikea Swedish Meatballs.

There is no greater torment known to god or man.

"I'll move the end table, I swear, just please please, for the love of god and man, get that meatball away from me."

*cough*

falintoi: Medieval torture employed during the Inquisition whereby the accused is unhinged with alternating sessions of sophistry, leeching and pastries. The most common confession rendered by such cruelty was, “The Lord is my rubber baby buggy bumper!” which at that time, of course, made no sense at all.

falintoi - plural form of falint, noun

Multiple instances of deep-rooted beliefs which are subject to failure upon scrutiny, exposure, experience, wisdom or education. Derived from a truncated combination of the words "fallacious internalization."

The belief that being piss-drunk will make a person more attractive to the opposite sex is a serviceable example of a falint.

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Yeah, but how? Would they børe you to death?

....ohhh god that was funny.... ow.... sheezus....

After much deliribnation...
MeanOldMan Wins for the injection of the shear horror of it all (not just because he heard the Buck Dharma switch flip)!

A new word if you please MOM

Wow... it's been awhile since MOM won a round... wait... HAS he ever won a round?

Hrm....

Anyway, congrats, 'Man! Ya done good!

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HAS he ever won a round?

he won the opener, and then decided that defrosting two chickens at the same time thereby shorting out the power of his woodland cabin with the line up of impoverished children buying weapons oot the back for wooden nickels was just more important than claiming his winnings.

JEROME!!!!!!!

you rang, Sir?

that's Your Etherialness to you, goddamnit! Jerome, you EVER, admit a man onto the grounds by the name of Oldman, i'll render every last drop of water from your feeble human body in the most painful fashion i can think of. GOT IT?

as you wish, Your Etherialness.

fetch my smoking jacket, you worm. and bring me the displacer beast.

yes, Your Etherialness.

The new word is ploonter.

The ploonter is a small flowering plant indigenous to the Amazon basin. The name is a rough (and inaccurate) phonetic translation from the original p'ah-tar.

While various native peoples use the plant to augment several different frog based poisons, it is perhaps best well known for being the last so-called ethnobotanical product discovered by the ill-fated Dr. Jack Wymen.

Dr. Wyman, known I'm certain to my esteemed colleagues as being the co-discoverer of the anesthetic properties of Juin-Juin Qua, had already endured the affronts of the Maritime Scandal at Harvard and had settled into a lucrative if not exactly fulfilling career as an ethnobotnist for Merck. In September of 1977 during an expiation led by none other than the up-and-coming Dr. Prius (then the youngest tenured professor at the LSE), Dr Wyman happened upon a hitherto unknown climbing plant with distinctive yellow and orange flowers. When he brought a sample back to the local shaman, he was honored to find himself being led to a sacred place in the forest where he was ceremonially bound and dragged to a clearing where a rabid sloth slowly tore at his belly until he bled to death.

His final discovery, however, lives on as the key enzyme in McDonald's newly formulated no animal and no transfat French fry oil.

ploonter, noun, 1. Scottish usage, in animal husbandry, a rounded, wooden rod used to train sheep to suppress their gagging and biting reflexes.

And I can say that because I'm part Scottish, ye ill-fickit gaberlunzies.

After reading Split's entry, I won't even TRY to compete. Wow.

ploon ter n.

1. A device, essentially a simple rod, employed to measure the depth of peat bogs.

2. A man who repeatedly loses boots by having them sucked off his feet while attempting to cross peat bogs. Often used as a generic insult: "You complete, utter, tremendous, earth-shatteringly stupid ploonter."

ploonter Describing an object that is improved by being destroyed. Grandma gave me a ploonter figurine of a kitten dressed in desert camouflage.

Ploonter n.

1. A morally flexible woman employed to service a platoon of soldiers.

2. A platoon of such women.

3. The commander of a platoon of loose women.

4. The sound a Swede makes when sneezing.

Some real eyebrow-raisers here.

Get stuck in, folks. Deadline for submissions: 0500 Zulu (Greenwich/UTC) 27 March 2005.

For its sheer verisimilitude, I declare RobW's entry the winner. It actually sounds like it could be a word in the Australian language.

I am humbled by this endorsement...

My suggestion:

troplan

tro plan adj.

Describing a word or phrase which appears at first glance to have multiple, subtle meanings, but turns out on closer inspection to be meant to be taken at face value.