19-09-2023, 07:25 PM
(19-09-2023, 05:06 PM)R2x1 Wrote:Quote:Grand Master :Sometimes the moment is so perfect, . . .
" Doing the afternnon quiz today, I was reminded of the word Snollygoster."
I don't know if you have ever been disturbed in the middle of a complex task by religious hawkers and spruikers of the cloyingly sincere kind.
I was able to use your word in reference to their opening remarks about the Political Canvassing currently under way.
The total derailment of their carefully rehearsed spiel was a joy to every cockle of my heart. Thank you for that priceless gift, I very nearly demonstrated a ROFL in reaction to their facial expressions. I suspect the older lady considered i might have been blaspheming with an obscene phrase or word, while the younger one was certain. In spite of their age, they left at a respectable pace.
Nearly as satisfying as the scene many years ago where I eventually tired of their repeated "But you must believe in SOMETHING" phrase and replied that if they must know, I believed in reincarnation through cannibalism. (I'd had a while to think that over while they refused {politely} to leave.) But, I doubt that I'm on any list of people to contact for either pairing.
Now I can hardly wait for a door-knocking Snollygoster to call.
It would make my day.
BRAVO!! Well done! I SO wish I'd seen that.
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Some of those old words are excellent, these aren't bad.
https://expresswriters.com/amazing-obsol...ictionary/
I quite like slubberdegullion
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)