Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Douglas Adams (author of "Space Edge Diner" series) wrote a book
    of sniglets, but I forget the actual title.  However, I do remember
    several entries:
    
    "abalene"  adjective describing the pleasing coolness of the other
    		side of the pillow.
    
    "phonenden"
    
    		the slightly embarrassing and nuisance necessity of
    		retelephoning someone with whom you were cut off during
    		the goodbyes and winding down of the conversation
    
    "papple"
    
    		what babies do to soup with their spoon
    
    "ely"	the first tingle of feeling you get as the first hint
    		that something is very very wrong
    
    There were other words that I forget, but I remember the meanings:
    
    . . .	a lump in the bedding, the repair of which requires
    		getting out of bed and largely remaking it
    
    . . .	that embarrassing time period between when two
    		of you walking towards each other down a long airport
    		corridor recognize each other and when you finally
    		get close enough to say something.   What do you do?
    		Smile the whole time ?  Count tiles and pretend not
    		to have seen the person yet ?  Yell HELLO from a hundred
    		feet away and start talking .?
    
    Anyone remember others ?
    
    Oh yes, there was
    
    . . .	the amount by which the pooled money differs (in the
    		negative) from the bill at a restaurant.  Usually everyone
    		quickly denies owing the deficit, with some claim like
    		"well, I just ordered the salad and the saltines, so
    		it isn't me"
    
    /Eric

    
    	[re .1]
    
    	The book was called 'The meaning of Lif', a small black tome
    	published by Faber & Faber in the UK. A friend of mine has it
    	but I have returned it, I will try to aquire it again and enter
    	some of my favourites. The basic premise was that all the words
    	were place names given new meanings...eg
    
    	Agglethorpe : A dispute between two pooves in a boutique.
    
    	Poncenby: To exit huffily from a boutique.
    
    	-nw-

    Re: .1  And I thought Douglas Adams wrote the "Hitchhiker's Guide
    to the Galaxy" series.  Is "Space Edge Diner" Osmanspeak for "The
    Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe"?
    
    Jeff.

    
    FURNIDENTS n. - The depressions left in a rug when you move a heavy
    		     piece of furniture.          
    

    
    
    
    TINKLEDEW (ting'kel-dyoo) n. - Condensation formed on urinal plumbing.
    
    LACQUER/W SYNDROME (lak'r dub'el-yoo) n. - Mental disorder causing
    an inability to pronounce the letter `R' and thus replacing with
    the letter `W'. Ex. "psst... You've got Dwagon Bweath!"

    re:.5
    
    One would think that it would be referred to as the Fudd Syndrome.
    
    --- jerry

we: .5,.6

    I don't get it.  I speak nowmally, and I never noticed anything wong
    with my speech.  Elmew Fudd always talk cowectly too--I can't see why
    evweyone thinks he is so funny.

Creche - the noise made by a Hanukah candle falling to the floor.

	Publush..	To publish embarrassing material.

    
    Surely a `publush' is someone who spends too much time in public
    houses*?
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    
    *  A public house being an inn or tavern, for those of you unfamiliar
       with where many of us in Britain spend much of our time! :-)
    

    sagan (n) - a very large amount of something.  More than a billion.

    
    Whoops.  Title of note 178.11 should be: -< Re: reply 178.9 >-
    
    That's the `pitfall' (:-) when using relative references rather
    than absolute ones!
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    

    I have a need for a word but I am not satisfied with what I have
    come up with so far.  Any suggestions?
    
    microblast (n) - the sound a plastic bag makes when it explodes in
                     a microwave oven because someone forgot to poke
                     a hole in it...

    Re .14 (Bob):
    
    microblast (n) -- party of one.
    
    

    Re .14 

        plastic blast :== plast ?
    jc

    
    For this situation, I use the word `mess'!
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    

    Re .3
    
    > Re: .1  And I thought douglas Adams wrote the "Hitchhiker's Guide
    > to the Galaxy" series.  Is "Space Edge Diner" Osmanspeak for "The
    > Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe"?
    
    Is "'The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe'" "good enough" for
    "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"?

    Nickle:  a pickled nit.  I mean....

    There was one - a monosyllable ending `-nth', I think - defined as
    something like `the amount of margarine spread on a Ryvita in a
    West End sandwich bar'.  Can anyone remember the name? Can anyone
    suggest an English place name that might have been defined that way?
    
    b

    If you are eating or of a sensitive nature please do not read on!
    
    From the meaning of life..
    
    
    
    Grimsby -> the globule of phlegm in the back of the throat that
    can never quite be removed....
    
    urgh!

    Re .20

    lumbercoid - resembling an earth worm

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    Perhaps my favourite book.
    
.19�    There was one - a monosyllable ending `-nth', I think - defined as
.19�    something like `the amount of margarine spread on a Ryvita in a
.19�    West End sandwich bar'.  Can anyone remember the name? Can anyone

    The place (or word) is Darenth, and is something like the amount
    of margarine which will cover a piece of bread to a depth of one
    molecule,  the legal maximum allowed in sandwich bars in Greater
    London.
    
    Ian.

.23�.19�              -< Back to `The Meaning of Liff [sic - double f]' >-

    While I'm here, the book is called 'The Meaning Of Liff' because
    it is a list of meanings for place names, and because it is almost
    'The Meaning of Life'.  Liff is indeed a place located just north
    of Dundee.
    
    Ian.

Re. The Meaning of Liff

I remeber this book especially for its definition of my home town of 
Beccles as "the little bits of bone in a rasher of bacon that get 
caught in your teeth". (I paraphrase slightly)

John 

    Coined by my brother this past weekend:
    
    grassoline - the smell of a lawn being cut with a gasoline-powered
    lawnmower