Thursday, June 24
From Matt's Dictionary
antigonize. noun. To annoy or irritate excessively by obsessively insisting on burying your own brother at all costs to health and/or sanity.
Rural Elektrafication Program (REP). noun (historical). An effort begun during the Great Depression (1929-1941) to give employment to destitute opera singers by providing denizens of the backwoods with free productions of the works of Richard Strauss. It was later abandoned (1953) because of lack of interest and because audiences kept requesting encores from Die Fledermaus by mistake.
zipp-a-lin. noun (obsolete). Metal clasp-locker device for balloons patented by Gummo von Zeppelin, the forgotten little brother of the famed aeronaut Ferdinand of the same name. After unsuccessfully being used unsuccessfully to close the flies on the trousers of the enormous anthropomorphic balloons used in the 1893 Mäcy's Thanksgiving Day parade in Berlin (one failure on an inflated replica of Frederick the Great left the great soldier pants-less and caused the German Empress and a large number of her retinue to faint), the entire project was abandoned. When suggested he use it on sweaters, he laughed mirthlessly.
antigonize. noun. To annoy or irritate excessively by obsessively insisting on burying your own brother at all costs to health and/or sanity.
Rural Elektrafication Program (REP). noun (historical). An effort begun during the Great Depression (1929-1941) to give employment to destitute opera singers by providing denizens of the backwoods with free productions of the works of Richard Strauss. It was later abandoned (1953) because of lack of interest and because audiences kept requesting encores from Die Fledermaus by mistake.
zipp-a-lin. noun (obsolete). Metal clasp-locker device for balloons patented by Gummo von Zeppelin, the forgotten little brother of the famed aeronaut Ferdinand of the same name. After unsuccessfully being used unsuccessfully to close the flies on the trousers of the enormous anthropomorphic balloons used in the 1893 Mäcy's Thanksgiving Day parade in Berlin (one failure on an inflated replica of Frederick the Great left the great soldier pants-less and caused the German Empress and a large number of her retinue to faint), the entire project was abandoned. When suggested he use it on sweaters, he laughed mirthlessly.
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