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Boys in the Hoodie
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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
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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
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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
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Filed 1/14/23
Quickies
Mouseover for punchline
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