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Kurmudgeon Kat
Filed 3/22/23
Filed 3/20/23
“Oh dear. Looks like your father has brought work home with him again.”
Filed in Gag Cartoon Gallery 9/23/22
Weary the Cynical Dog
Filed 3/15/23
Filed 3/13/23
Doctor Killjoke
hover on art to kill joke
Filed 3/10/22
Quickies
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Filed 3/8/23
Talking Heads
Filed 3/6/23
Mouseover to open book
Filed 3/3/23
Brain Tweezers (Mit Dr. Sigmund Fraud)
Filed 3/1/23
Betterize Your Fauxcabulary
First comes…
Feelosophy: Set of half-baked beliefs that make you feel virtuous and superior.
Justified by…
Nincomproof: Argument so incoherent and divorced from realty only the gullible and overeducated believe it
Leading to…
Wishteria: A pandemic of wishful thinking belief in a feelosophy.
Containing many a…
Psychophant: Crazed fanatical follower of a crazier fanatical leader.
Precipitating a…
Howl Movement: Working on the premise that the louder you shout it the truer it is.
Resulting in…
Kooktopia: Basically, the inmates running the asylum.
Filed 2/27/23
Quickies
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Filed 2/24/23
Weary the Cynical Dog
Filed 2/22/23
Quickies
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Filed 2/20/23
Family Friendly Fun Friday
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Refiled 2/17/23
This quiz is all about words that… which… of… uh… there is no theme in this word quiz. But they are presented in alphabetical order, so there is that for what it’s worth. And there is a pretty animated pic at the top, too, as well, also, in addition, to boot. Only from terrycolon.com, the site that gives you more.
Click on text to select or change your answer. Double-click to unselect.
dastard
foible
imperator
pismire
zetetic
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(d) dastard (dăs′ tərd) Base coward; poltroon; one who performs malicious actions in a cowardly, sneaking manner.
(b) foible (foi′ bəl) 1. Weaker part of a sword blade toward the point. [2. Minor weakness or failing of character]
(a) imperator (ĭm′-pər ā-tər)
1. Absolute or supreme ruler.
2. (Imperial Rome) emperor.
3. (Republican Rome) a temporary title accorded a victorious general.
(d) pismire (pĭs′ mīr) Ant; emmet. (now go look up emmet)
zetetic (zə′ tĕ-tĭk) Proceeding by inquiry.
Scoring
5 — Da ta-da da!
4 – Close but no cigar
3 – Getting colder
2 – Not even close
1 – Booby prize
0 – Prize booby
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Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 2/15/23
Quickies
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Filed 2/13/23
Thinking off the Rock
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Filed 2/10/23
H.L. Mencken once said, “The older I get the more I realize there is no wisdom in age.” On the other hand, there is humor in it. And you can quote me on any of the following.
Terry’s Top Seven Things to Realize when You’re Not Getting Old, You’re Already There
Filed 2/8/23
Kurmudgeon Kat
Filed 2/6/23
Friday Funnies
Filed 2/3/23
Quickies
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Filed 2/1/23
Boys in the Hoodie
Click on art to read through the cartoon panels
Filed 1/30/23
Brain Tweezers (Mit Dr. Sigmund Fraud)
Filed 1/27/23
Talking Heads
Filed 1/25/23
Quickies
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Filed 1/23/23
Click on cartoon to replay animation
After doing none last year, this is already the second word quiz of 2023. Might be a vintage year for vocabulary tests. Vintage, a word that comes from… ah, but that would be giving it away for some future quiz. Perhaps, maybe, could be, we’ll see.
This quiz is all about words ending in -oon, for no reason other than words ending in -oon are fun. Balloon, cartoon, spittoon, macaroon. Fun and tasty, too.
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dragoon
Walloon
poltroon
pantaloon
spadroon
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(d) dragoon (drə gōōn′) Cavalryman who fights on horseback and/or on foot.
(a) Walloon (wä′-lōōn) A member of a people of southern and southeastern Belgium and adjacent parts of France.
(d) poltroon (pōl trōōn′) Lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard; a fellow without spirit or courage; a dastard; a coward.
(b) pantaloon (păn′ tə lōōn) Commedia dell’arte character, usually a skinny old dotard wearing spectacles, slippers, and tight-fitting trousers and stockings. [Hence, pantaloons (with an S) loose-fitting usually shorter than ankle-length trousers]
(c) spadroon (spə′ drön) Light straight short sword (suitable for both cutting and thrusting)
Scoring
5 — Woo-Hoo!
4 – Oooh
3 – Oh, OK
2 – So-so
1 – Oh-oh
0 – Big fat O-fer
Click to close
Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 1/6/23
Below are seven actual questions actually put to actual tour guides as collected by Travel Industry of America. Mouseover each tourist in the pic and they’ll ask a stupid question in typical cartoon word balloon style.
Mouseover the tourists to get the stupid questions
Filed 1/18/23
Kurmudgeon Kat
Filed 1/16/23
Three in One Fun
Mouseover the tabs to see the “punchlines.”
Filed 1/14/23
Quickies
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Filed 1/11/23
Mouseover to open book
Filed 1/9/23
Haven’t done one of these in a long while, but what the hey, let’s revisit the old dictionary pop quiz bit fun. You say you don’t find the dictionary pop quiz bit all that fun? There’s a word for people like you, though you won’t find it in the quiz, so there. Ha ha, I’ll have my fun without you.
officious
peculate
anomie
subreption
plutocrat
Go to the word quiz page for the full interactive word quiz fun and excitement:
Filed 1/6/23
Top Ten Things That Didn’t Quite Happen in 2022
Filed 1/4/23
Talking Heads
Yep. The terrycolon.com robot moster has been at work behind the scenes retweaking or whatever the old site. No human input require. No human readership needed. The virtual future is now. Deal with it.
terrycolon.com New and Improvements for 2023
That’s it. That’s it? Yep, that’s all. Which is it, it or all? All of it. Sorry I asked.
And lucky you, 364 more days of the same sort of nonsense. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Filed 1/1/23