sorry, bilby--my inquiries re: hyeonmi have been fruitless. the literal meaning is 'puffy rice', but I can't quite figure out a slangy direction from there. 'dwenjang', for example (lit. 'soybean paste') means 'golddigger' or 'high-maintenance girlfriend' idiomatically, so you can see the connections are quite abstruse.

Dear Bilby,

I think you're awesome.

Cordially, ruzuzu.

Hey, I'm not exactly sure what a nutloaf is -maybe there's an American equivalent I might be familiar with? If it's a meatloaf substitute you're in search of, I do have a pretty good "neatloaf" recipe from a Vegan Kids cookbook, and you can use it as leftover for sandwiches.

I'm going to our local vegan fast food place tonight for the Philly "chick'n cheeze-steak" with vegenaise and a side of peanut oil fried fries. Nothing like really greasy, totally overpriced, vegan counter food when you're starving. :)

I played with your name. 

I'm curious if anyone has produced a list of all the monitor lizard species in Australasia. There's from left-field for you!

Fishing? Brilliant! Thanks.

thanks for adding to my list!!!!

Bilby:

storeen is the diminutive of stor (both o's have accents, but it's too early in the morning to mess with them on this tiny keyboard), the irish word for 'treasure', so 'mo storeen' means 'my little treasure'. bohreen is just a variant spelling of boreen, meaning a narrow road, or lane.

Hope this helps.

Whatever are you reading these days, big-ears? And are you really stuck on a heap o' guano?

it worked! *big hug*

Thanx bilby :) I noticed the Wikipedia icon a fraction of second too late (after I have posted the link). I wanted to delete my comment, but found only the "edit" option... is there an option of deleting one's own comment?

I assure you I was thinking of Wordie (and -ites) during my international romp

bilbycakes: you inspired me to update my FrogBlog banner. Thanks!

You've added over 15,000 words. That's impressive.

Thanks bilby! The wordometer clicked over to 20K about a week ago.

Hey Bilby, thanks for adding bogan!

Hey Bilby, thanks for adding bogan!

♥

Hola, bigears! Aquí zorrito, reporting from somewhere in the southern hemisphere, in the middle of a very long, skinny country, within view of the Andes.

bilby
Thanks so much for the details on the Milligan cite.
Alec

Bilby, you have a great Spike Milligan citation for "dog-end" and I would be deeply appreciative if you could supply just a wee bit more information such as edition and page number. Thanks so much
Alec

Just saw that. Thanks bilby.

Hey. Thanks for the welcome comment. (:

bilby, I miss you already. Hurry home!

I, like everyone else, suspect my neighbors of owning some of those fireworks . . . although "neighbor hater" would also be a great term for a really loud soundsystem. Here's hoping you've recovered satisfactorily from the star-spangled trauma :).

Thanks for the editing help!

Thanks for the hilarious contributions to the pyrotechnilogophilia . . . I would gladly salute a firework display involving hellzapoppers and star spangled bangers any day of the week :).

After Boris's little attempt to run away from home came to a premature end, he is ill-tempered and fretful. But I bet a little poetry zine from down under would cheer him up no end.

You wish :-)

Arcadia, is BS = Belle and Sebastian?

If it helps with the census-taking, I'm 100% non-vegan, and 90% eggs and milk. I think a good chef ought to be able to satisfy vegetarian customers, although that's entirely the chef's prerogative. A chef may very well decide to exclude people who don't like his/her style of food: that's the nature of the restaurant business. People who don't like Indian food shouldn't go to Indian restaurants, people who don't like nudity should avoid nude beaches, and people who don't like meat should stay away from places with minimal or no veggie options. Isn't it obvious?

With all the recent vegan-esque entries, I'm lost as to who else is vegan around here now. Any hints?

Oh yes, and I totally agree with your comment that it's BS when chefs make a big deal over cooking vegan meals. Sometimes I suspect omnivores just feel judged by the very existence of vegans and lash out accordingly, even if unprovoked.

Hi Bilby, Yup I am back and I like the fact that little has changed in here, and I see you're all still word-jamming-lovingly.

that would be the dumb pocket. d'oh

much improved, thank you. how's your...uh...not head, hopefully?

bilby: I bought an Australian-English, English-Australian dictionary today. I'm ready to communicate!

bilby: you have an astounding ability at finding amazingly fun stuff. Thanks for the pinch!

v. deceptive verse; the charming, bubbly rhythm doesn't show up in text form

filjan rhymes with ljiljan--"lily". You want filđan.

Now, imagine having a beautiful 'j' (e.g. Jaegermeister) in your name and having it butchered all around by the J-like-Judge English spelling convention TT.TT

Hi,
me again...
ADHD supplies me with constant annoying adventures. Figured out and fixed the mayhem, finally.
I luuuv alliteration.
Have a great day.
w

Hi Bilby,

Thanks so much for the wisdom.
I figured as much as soon as I saw the horrifying results of what I'd entered.
---not sure how to erase mistakes like that,
or who to tell about it.

I really don't want to have marred the landscape.
;-)
wenderful

Bilby you seem so cool..... you remined me of a dude named Daniel. I really liked him. You seem cool, and laid back, and careing. Thats the most sexiest things to me..... hope I'm not coming on too strong.... I've done that befor.(Thanx 4 caring when i dnt care 4 myslf)

Hello Bilby - thanks for the welcome - I'm still not sure about the etiquette of replies; does one reply on the same thread or what? Anyway, it's great to see someone else with an interest in Scottish words and I've got Under The Kilt tucked away in my area, so to speak.

in fact, we all aspire to bilbhood

I feel so unimpressive; I lack a kazoo, and I do not have 12,000+ words defined. Ha.

Let me know if you'd ever like to guest-write a FA comic strip. You're one of the funniest people I know.

Funny cartoon!
Did you write it?

Done!

Hi Bilby. I'm Polish :) (but currently in Surrey, UK).

Hi Bilby and thanx the nice welcome! I answered in MY profile comments already, but it seems more logical to write here so I deleted that entry... sorry for the confusion, I'm still learning the ropes ;)

Oh Dear.

We appear to have had a HILARIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING, such as sometimes happens on the interwebs. Because, when I checked the location of the mysterious PO Box in question on google maps, and found it happened to be situated right at the intersection of FOX Crescent, I thought for sure you were just taking the mickey out of me. Because I am by nature suspicious.

Oh well. Perhaps we can arrange visitation rights.

mea culpa. I am an idiotic, untrusting wretch.

And so 'tis done. Elsie stays on in Madrid with the charming Alex, with whom she can practice her French. The other animals were placed in their new home this evening (with a little cache of Jelly Bellys as an incentive).

The new foster parents expressed a little reluctance when it came to the less attractive animals, but were cooperative when I made it clear that it was an all-or- nothing deal.

I just hope you won't torment yourself in later life about the unique opportunity that you missed. Right now you could be chowing down on your lambchop (well, I guess not a lambchop, maybe a yummy ratatouille) under the soothingly baleful glare of Melmoth.

I guess you can always visit them on Flickr.

Dear Bilby:

Boris has told me that he would be honored to be the subject of an entry in your wee poetry zine. He and I discussed potential choices of pseudonym - he favored Ern Malley, but I told him I thought that might already have been used.

So I guess we should stick with my real name, or my blogger name.

I guess we can discuss details of the extensive antipodean book tour later. Boris has a definite liking for Fancy Feast. Myself, not so much.

Yours,

Foxy.

I love that a certain shy desert creature visits me every day, and brings along his wit, his poetry... and his Australianisms. xoxox

The final animal is entombed in his little packing grave, just waiting to burst forth on Easter morning to poop for the pooparazzi!

Can you guess what animal it might be, o my leather-eared companion? I think you can.

No, it's not a bunny wabbit.

È stato un piacere. Grazie a te per la fiducia. E ora... packing time!

Thanks for the welcome Bilby! I do enjoy browsing through this site.
P.S. I'll try not to be too irreverent and/or obtuse!

Umido, sporco, e cibo schifoso?

A settembre? Crap! Io torno a NYC a fine agosto.
Se ti va di passare a una conversazione privata, puoi usare Flickr mail. Sarò felice di rispondere nella lingua che preferisci.

;-) Just want you to know that the new notification email shows a preview of one's comments.
Take care. And in case you miss Italy, I'll be there for four months.

Everything OK, bilby? You sound tense.

Only two more dioramas to go, oh leather-eared one. Please start preparing yourself for the tapering off phase.

I know, I'm sad too. But also kind of relieved.

This week's animal is being fed and groomed in preparation for the photo-shoot.

My bilbical friend, I added today's false friend since you haven't added one yet. No offense meant, I look forward to reading yours tomorrow.

The animal confectionery dispensers are mounting the steps to the aeroplane, two by two, as they make their pooping way to the Iberian peninsula, to be picked up in the pooping pound at Barajas, mañana por la mañana. Oh, the fun we'll have! The places we can go! The imaginative combinations we can put together!

Only one more day.

I added you as a contributor. I'll add my next word on Saturday!

Hello Bilby,
I am in mid-Wales, Machynlleth. I used to live in Aberystwyth before - and in Cardiff.
Have you been to Wales?

Yes, there are dragons and goblins around. Diolch for your comment - yn hapus!

You are in Argyll? Fantastic!

Dear Bilby:

I hope you understand the lengths to which we are prepared to go to keep you regaled with diorama hilarity each weekend. At this point a transatlantic team is working round the clock to ensure no interruption in the planned diorama appearance schedule. Herewith an excerpt from a communication from one of my crack stateside animal wranglers:

a total of 5 animals and their poop bags have arrived. the *****'s packaging was damaged but he and his load, as it were, are fine, I've used some packing tape to secure him into his package. I've received my first pooping animal newsletter from this fine company and hope my clicking 'unsubscribe' did the trick. If I start getting animal sex spam, we'll know it's your fetish what done it, not the innocent vacas de Madrid.

When she writes "your fetish", of course, we know that it's your fetish she is really referring to. I am just the middleman here.

Warmly,

zorrito

Oh. When we tease the bilby.
When we tease the bilby.
When we tease the bilby.
WE DO IT OUT OF LOVE.

Big, sloppy, smoochy lerve.

Nite, nite, o antipodean one! Gotta go sleep.

Congratulations on reaching 12K, bilbykins!

Fausta sounds beautiful! Although it's the name of a friend of mine.

Dear Bilby:

Only one more day to go and, here at MOTP Diorama Central, preparations are really ramping up. I think you will find this week's diorama especially mooving.

I'd say more, but the wranglers tell me that Elsie is acting up, and I am needed on set.

Good Night, Bill B! It's bedtime here in Mad Rid.

thnx i have changed it to just me.

Only one more day to go! Hooray! Hooray!
Did you like the penguin video?

In the meantime, I have prepared a very special bizarre spheniscidine confectionery dispenser videorama and uploaded it to the interwebs:

bizarre spheniscidine confectionery dispenser videorama

It's coming, it's coming!

tick-tock; tick-tock
2 days and counting.....

Arrr, the rain in Iberia falls mainly on the bakedgoodseria. *gimbles deftly, thus avoiding the Madridsmannheimlichmaneuver*

Ragù.

Spirit Guide - I understand that this site is about sharing words, but the overall objective is unclear. I appreciate that a dictatorial usage policy on behalf of the site creators would reduce it's enjoyability but find the whole thing somewhat confusing. Do you just list words you like, or have something to say about? To what extent do people interact on here? Any general etiquette tips from the perspective of someone more familiar with 'flickr without the pictures' would be appreciated. I'm not so concerned with impressing people as not looking like a bozo.

Do you want to be my imaginary friend/tour guide?
I'm not really sure I understand this site. It's interesting though. I feel like my brain is atrophying less than usual.

Dos bilbís entraron en un bar y pidieron un mojito.
El barista les contestó: "Lo siento. Estamos en un bar y no en un bandicuterie".
Y los echó el gorila.

Pero después le echaron de menos al barista, porque eran unos bilbís muy monos.

You might like my first Tunie.

thanks for the suggestions on patterns. I will incorporate them as I weave words into patterns.

A big URL for a Big-Eared One? Stubborn critter!

Charging baby bilbies!
Charging baby bilbies!
(Bil-kindly replace your long URL on FA with a tiny url. Visit tinyurl.com).

Hi Bilby- didn't mean to spam 'doodacky' - have edited comment to make it more useful. Let me know what you think. Happy to edit again-

*sniff* I missed you, too.

:)

reads yours

Oh, but I hate that one.

I realized that a bit later. Still learning the ropes around here and trying not to drown in this logophilic wellspring. I'm guessing now that you're Aussie? Anyhow, it's a pleasure to make your cybernetic acquaintance.

What?? But my white spangled jumpsuit is at the cleaner's!

The Wordie circuit? *wondering who else is a player*

Wow, thanks for all the helpful hints re: Doric and Scots. You're obviously a major player on the Wordie circuit. And Scottish to boot. Lucky us.

I checked it out and left a comment. Thanks for roping me back in. I always miss this place!

bilby: I think an alias of Toon Monitor has issues with your underwear... but I'm not sure. I don't understand Norwegian.

Say it ain't so...

"NORTHERN Australia is facing a fresh wave of potentially catastrophic mammal extinctions, experts warn...

Dr Legge said about 1500 animals and plants were currently threatened with extinction in Australia, and 'critical declines' had been noted on pastoral and indigenous lands, as well as national parks.

Among the species at risk are the Northern Quoll, Golden Bandicoot and Bilby!"

Extinction looms as 1500 species in danger

¡Hola al marsupial con las orejas de cuero! Todos los planes estan in situ para la conquista iberica de Wordie. Esperamos solamente el señal. parole: bilbí.

zorrito.

G'day, bilby. Goodnight to me. Bedtime here.

I'm intrigued and inspired by this artist's work. Thank you!! I particularly like how his silhouettes double as word balloons. How many orphans did you clear?

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I left for the bottom of your page yesterday ;-)

O....M....G! That little league Improve clip was hysterical! Thank you! Mr. dontcry and dontcry jr. are going to pee themselves! Thanks, bilby!

bilby: I'll devour you last. You'll be my dessert.

bilby: I'm hunting for my next innocent victim right now. Just as soon as I find my frog mask...

bilby: thanks for being my cyber-bodyguard on FA.

Hey its sineater09, thanks for the heads up about myspace and I put it in there wrong try this one, www.myspace.com/Zurthra

My title is Here I am to lead

bilby: besides my latest sick puppy on FA, I'm also getting email from somebody named "Johnny Biggun".

Thank you for your generosity, bilb. <3

Language of the day on Forvo.

Happy Groundhog Day, everybody!

Jerk dormiens numquam titillanda.

Haha, I'm not exactly sure either. I just put down the first words that came to my head and gave it a title that linked them tenuously.

Merci :-)

Hey there, bilb!
I've deferred my uni course for the year and I'm working to support myself. The job is pretty awful, but it's better than no job at all.
Happily ever after comes later.

Translate, please!
Che belle labbra che hai! Sono rosso intossicante, rosso di sangue, rosso di mistero vecchio.
Also this comment was added:
"Mrs. Tubbsbottl thinks that those lips are less “misterioso”, than just plain pericoloso!".

Hey bilby,

Thanks for your comment on my Talk Like a Pirate list. Just found it!

:) Jen

That makes me tingle, bilby. Did you write it?

bilby, why don't you visit me anymore? I miss your comments on FA.

bilby! Leave your computer and enjoy your New Year's Eve!

Hey Bilby. Re: your comment on hate, I edited my original comment to make it clearer. I doubt however, that you're gonna find much 'joy' anyway. IPN-IEE stands for I Plus Not-I Equals Everything. I evidently forgot to add the acronym to my list back when I was on my Jan Cox tear.

YIKES!

BOO !!

Is this an irregular/half-price snowman, bilby? His top hat is askew. (I still love it... because it's from you).

Lucky you, bilby. Enjoy!

That means the same thing as vacation, no? Happy holidays.

I am officially ON LEAVE. I have worn the SILLY PAPER HAT at the office party. I have GLADHANDED the necessaries. I have ROSES to munch on. I take my FIRST BOW (but there's more, just be polite, ok?) and exeunt.

What happened to my beautiful roses? All that appears are stubby stems! (See Terms of Enfrogment for one of my roses).

-
-
-
-
(roses for bilby)

That's an option I hadn't noticed, but yes it worked, thanks. In another context, isn't it sort of sad, an option to "remove word from favorites?" It's like breaking up with a word you once loved. How can it go from being a "favorite" to being "removed"? So abrupt.

Well, I just now noticed that you left me a comment & a wonderful quote at that! Thank you.

Shall I hold you near my face and steal a kiss in your bilby fur? (Thank you for your beautiful message to Mitra, bilby. You are a charming man... no wonder I'm crazy about you).

Thanks for the redundant additions. When I get more time I'll sift through and add the jewels.

Three things:

First, thanks for pointing me to Treeseed's list. I started the Toys of the 80's one myself and there's a couple things I might lift from her's.

Secondly, that was a brave thing you did making mention to specific Wordies to commemorate your 10,000th comment.

Third and lastly, should I be offended I didn't make your commemoration list? Geeze, I thought we were friends!

Well, yeah. I wanted to see if you make a link to a list, and then the title of the list changes, whether the link still works. It does :-)

"Test"?

Test

Safely back under 10,000 again.

*gasps!*

10,000! Dear god, what have you done?

I only eat bilby cookies.

Sorry for leaving you alone with Ernesto, bilby, but it's bedtime here...
goodnight, and hopefully it will be better tomorrow.

Yes, but... did you notice its posthumous comment?

I just woke up, and I'm not exactly coherent, so all I'm going to say is Aaaawwww

Also, you must have posted that comment about ten minutes after I went to bed.

*is full of love for bilby*

In case you forgot to save it...

(You might need a Flickr account to view it larger)

I agree with all of your summations, and fbharjo in particular! Good on you, cobber.

Thanks, and congrats, bilbinator! (If I had all the vowels I'd be antimollusque.)

A beautiful 10,000 comment salute, pouched one. Very well done. Hey, what's that wet thing on my cheek...

Aw, shucks, bilby. *pats leather ears in a comradely sort of way* Congrats on babbling all the way to 10,000. A true and faithful Wordiean.

By the way, I have the six-word list. ;->

The first thing I did after reading this comment was print the page. In case you deleted it. :)

No doubt that your presence on Wordie gives it heapings of personality--funny and insightful.

Truly lovely 10,000th comment, 'by. And felicitations - you are currently single-pouchedly responsible for 8.3663105% of Wordie's comments! I feel so honoured to have been endowed with your only typo. :-)

Greetings all. It's past 3am and this will be my 10,000th comment on Wordie. As it's patently obvious I don't have a life, although I certainly have a pouch and that is the subject of MUCH ENVY, I shall devote this comment to my Wordie friends:
Sionnach - a miserable creature, my best friend. Doesn't somebody have a list for six-word stories? Although at first I was flustered by the fluff-tailed gaucho, I have since learned to co-exist with carnivorous, sheep-fetish obnoxion. I love him more than he will ever know. Because he ate me first.
Reesetee - a companion, comrade and goofball in all moments. True.
Chained_bear - I am happy when the bear is happy: we have shared poo. Is there a greater cause?
Uselessness - A pioneer. Perhaps your style influences me. Guthrie on Dylan? Pigeon on lamp-post? Tough call.
Dontcry - *hugs* *more hugs* *some tears for my 4 stillborn siblings*
Prolagus - Grande, grande. Prolagus is grand. Top pumpkin Flickr multilingual oblique humour dude par excellence,
Whichbe - A treasure, a chuckle that flits across a stormy sky. You are so talented.
She - She, somewhere, perfect for her perfect while.
Frogapplause - We were birthed together in the Universe of Souls.
Pterodactyl - Sublime and worthy.
Mollusque - I can't imagine Wordie without you. At all. Though your nick lacks 2 vowels, I won't hold it against you.
Plethora - Without Wordie I would never have met you. I salute your honesty, your endeavour, your startling self-reflection.
Oroboros - Your lists are superb. Without them I would have lost interest long ago.
SonOfGroucho - Sorely missed in recent times.
Trivet - Leaves little gems all over the place.
Asativum - A friend and brother.
John - John, John, what have you done here? Your forebearance begs legend.
Frindley - So knowledgeable in so many ways, I'm tempted to search for Frindleypedia.
Kewpid - A thoughtful trooper with many excellent contributions.
Pomegranate - A favourite fruit, always.
Skipvia - Offers glimpses of another life. Fascinating and 'childish' in the best kind of way.
Sarra - One day I'll make tea for you. Vegetarian tea ;-)
VanishedOne - A gentleman and a scholar, excelling at both.
Rolig - Hardy and thoughtful. I can't remember any Wordie who consistently puts as much effort into comments as you.
Lampbane - Pop-culture junkie, always interesting in a defiantly tangential way.
Fbharjo - I don't understand your words or comments. At all. This is becoming a kind of fascination for me.
Slumry - Come back. You know there's no life after Wordie.
Colleen - A leader in many ways. You inspired me to my first comment. That was a fair while ago. I'm always pleased when you drop in from time to time.
Yarb - Funny, perceptive, irreverent and downright unhelpful. This is the ultimate compliment.
Gangerh - A fun-loving guy who put up with a lot of my nonsene. I dips me lid.
Acoustics - The fact that 'Pretty Dots All In A Row' has such longevity is testimony to you, indeed to all 'lesser' Wordies, of your perceptiveness. Capital!
Qroqqa - A craftsman whose posts are always well-considered. Much have I to learn.
Palooka - I have great respect for you and your lists are a source of constant joy and sustenance. If I could change my nick to palooka-bilby in your honour, I would.
all the rest - sorry if you're not on this list :-( It is my fault, and entirely my fault, that I have yet to know you 'in person'.
Send all complaints to palin@president.org

I AM THE BILBY! I HAVE LEATHER-EARS! BITE ME!

Oh! My name! I only just now transplanted it into Google. This is me too, I think: שָׂרָה

So there's hope for all those other silent Wordies!

I know you became active on Wordie a week or two after I did, so I inferred you were around the one year mark. Could you have been quiet for eight months??

Didn't you keep your registration email? I know exactly which day I registered.

Your oldest few comments now say "12 months ago".

Happy Wordiversary, bilby!

Three tags? I dunno bil...that's getting up there.

bilby, i am weeping with joy at my (work) computer terminal at your entries on basil's list... thank you for brightening my day... :)

big ":)"

!

Is that something of your own you've just posted? It felt unseemly to ask this on that page.

I'm really enjoying the poetry citations Bilby, keep them coming.

I've posted quite a few citations today of 'old fashioned' poetry. Predictably they come from a book published in 1957 (no, I'm not that old!) which I picked up at a lawn sale last week for 20 cents. It is 'Favorite Poems Old And New', Selected For Boys And Girls By Helen Ferris. But it's the sort of compilation that was collecting dead insects in the musty corners of the library when I was a lad. These books, too twee by half for modern for modern tastes, are being jettisoned freely. The copy I picked up in fact bears a stamp which shows it was once the property of the Library Service of Western Australia. I'm quite against libraries indulging in rampant shelf-clearing of 'outdated' books simply because they feel they don't have enough space to keep them. These books are part of our heritage and there is certainly appreciable merit in the verse they contain. While I appreciate there may be a demand for a lending section of Nintendo video games, I also contend that libraries should continue to fulfil their role as repositories of culturally significant material.

You know, what you do with a troth.

Yeah, yeah. Play dumb.

Plight?

If I tend to ignore "plight" from now on, it's because we have our real fun here and I don't want to confuse or alienate my other readers by playing favorites with you. Okay? Please don't stop visiting me. Your comments are very welcome and much appreciated.

Nibble? I'm going to pick him up by it and give him a good shake if he clutters up my nice clean page!
*uh-oh*

Eat leather, gubbertush!

Don't be jealous, dontcry. You can nibble on one of bilby's ears while I nibble on the other.

Awww...why'd ya hafta go and do that for? Now I'm gonna hafta git even.

Why didn't I see it sooner? You left a trail of clues, but I wasn't paying close enough attention. But now I know... and I love you for it, bilby!

Yeah, I've never seen anyone who looked like that at any of our vegan potlucks.

hey bilby! scusami se non mi faccio sentire, ma sto traducendo un libro dall'inglese, si tratta di un lavoro molto importante per me, perciò ho bisogno della massima concentrazione. però a fine novembre... i'll be back on track, be sure ;-)

I've just learned that you're Australia's answer to the Easter Bunny, bilby.

Someone's veeblefetzer unit is playing up today *points perfunctorily at potty-mouthed predator*

Moronic marsupials make me mad.

I still don't understand what veeblefetzer eans :
I shall consult my beloved wikipedia.

I'm loving these palindromes, bilb. Highly amusing.

I've cited a few palindromic sentences recently. They come from here, an eclectic page with plenty of 'dromes, links, and even a play-script with entirely reversible lines.

*snort*

ntssmrtstht, surely.

Maybe smrtrthnu means some sort of AA-style meet-n-greet introduction roundtable wherein we respond to a 10-item prefab questionnaire about ourselves and secretly mock each others trivial answers.

Hmmmm, census. I don't know what kind of Wordie census you're getting at, 'nu.

*after a day of dealing with the opposite, loves yarb for spelling "capital" correctly*

*then thinks of thanking bilby for hosting this conversation*

What kind of a census do you have in mind, smrtrthnu? Would we all have to present ourselves at the capital? Do I have to account for my trade, father's trade, offspring, etc? It could be fun.

No, just the number on the front page (ever upward). Why would you want one, though?

has there ever been a census of all the users on this site?

i THINK that i can accurately define ANY given word now.

My first rainbow lorikeet! Nobody's ever given me one before now, bilby. I love it! Dank.

v...e...e...b...l...e...f...e...t...z...e...r...

XD
what does it mean?

What's this "private note" feature that seems to have sprung up in my absence? And how are Wordies making musical notes with their comments?

Applesauce as egg re-placer! Now I know you're a vegan! ...Good to "see" you again, by the way.

Thanks for bringing the brilliant word 'feeblekneed' to my attention!
I shall have to spread it amongst the Feeblettes/ Feeblings/ Children of the Almighty Feeble One (CAFO) so that they may all integrate it into their everyday lives ^_^

D'oh. You'd think I'd have figured this out before now, bilby.
http://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/2008/09/23/.

The problem? That strip ran several days ago --and I can barely remember yesterday.

You know what I did when? Did I forget to pull my curtains?

Pomodore e razzo? Well spotted, bilby!

Lol, well of course darling.

I just wanted some padding to start it off.

I'll add more original words from now on, hokay?

Where is anyone going?

Middle English.

I'm just looking at the quote on my profile in terms of Doc Goutwad's -y v -ie comments last week. Sillier 'n' sillier.

volentieri bilby! fammi sapere quando vieni. e complimenti per il tuo ottimo italiano! mi fa piacere che tu abbia dato un'occhiata al mio flickr, ci sono molte altre foto di bologna... sei anche tu su flickr? :-) a presto

http://dizionari.repubblica.it/
the english bilingual dictionary is a very good resource ;-)

coming back to italy soon? that's great news, bilby! have you ever been to bologna? :-)

¿Marmosets?

Whatever are you suggesting, oh floppy-eared one?

that's interesting. how long ago was that? were you studying/working in italy? how long did you stay? am i asking too much questions? :-D

zzzzzzz!

It's bedtime, bilby. Go to sleep!

Hi bilby! Congratulations on reaching the double sixty-nine.

How long more do you think they will make me wear these gravity boots to stop falling off the southern hemisphere? My ears hurt.

My home internet connection sucks a phat phrump at the moment.

Thank you, bilby.

I love your description of "69" as that "salacious invertible", and hope you don't mind that I listed/adopted* it on my coinages that deserve attention list.

*You do have a way of making orphans, bilby! Be careful someone doesn't sue you for child support!

I'm afraid we don't have an award for that one.

Now I'm setting myself for that salacious invertible, 6969 words.

I do understand, but privacy is a surprising concept on the World Watching Web. In fact I didn't know that one could turn off the "recent activity" link. I may follow you're example.

I'm deficient.

Hey, bilby, why don't you have a "bilby's recent activity" link like the rest of us?

Wow, thanks guys! Well yarb, the only way to celebrate anything on Wordie is to add more words :-)

Congrats, bilby! I've always believed 6758 is a state of mind, not a Wordie count.

Congratulations! How are you going to celebrate? I wonder if it will feel different, passing the old six seven five seven?

Lookout Wordies! I'm nearing the milestone of 6,758 words listed!

Thanks for the tip, bilby.. I appreciate it!

A variation of brant? Thanks, bilby!

Reiteration:

Hey bilby! Can you help out with fracteur (see citation on word page)? Also, see my recent comments under c_b's profile.

Arthur Upfield's mysteries are set in Australia circa 1930s.

Thanks.

Why, thank you! Happy to be of service.

haha, I wanted to beat the system so I used Korean. Looks like it works :)

just had a fresh coat of paint....

check out the wordie house....

i've tucked your kind voucher safely away in a corner and am eyeing it with suspicion/interest.

r u on now??

Watcha in on???...
wattami missing...
i am not going CRAZY!!
hehe, purrdy colours....
OH! we have P.E next....
=[

I'm in!

Not quite garden insects but close enough...
actually...
i don't see what they have in common... but here you go.....
( 8 )
a police car
( )
a normal car
( 8 )- - - - - ( )
a car chase..
refer to disorderly conduct

Perused your StumbleUpon
Intrigued

I love garden pest romance.

Big Words!!!
_@/
what is it?
_@/ I
t's a snail
_@/ \@_
What is it?
_@/ \@_
It's snails meeting!

Presumptious

Thanks for your suggestions. You may want to look at the list again, as I've changed it to "Keeping Secrets," more in line with the original intent of the list--which you might find interesting...

Thanks once again. :D

Sionnach's been under a lot of pressure lately. I invited him over for a few days and he's been camped on The Porch (all porches courtesy of dontcry) ever since he got here.

As I am in mortal danger of loving him to bits, please remove him to a safe distance so I can continue to beat him about the furry ears in a friendly manner.

My dots are your dots.

Should we wake him up? Would that be bilbycally acceptable?

Oh hello! I'm glad you were glad I was around when I wasn't quite. It's 9:36pm here.

Go to sleep, marsupial!!

Lyrics of a song I'm working on:

Well the guns went off in my memory
When I traced the lines of your face
Seeing claws of angel desire
Senseless, careless grace

A sunset howled behind me
In colours I couldn't explain
I cried your name a thousand times
A desert begging rain

What visions remain when you wake up?
What dreams encircle your head?
What knowledge has stubbornly passed you by
To be lost in time instead?

I sit on an endless foreshore
Swallows are marking my grave
Follow their trail to the door of faith
Of an unbidden slave

Goodnight, dear friends, goodnight.

Thanks for the input on "Boon Companions" bilby. BTW, Walt Kelly of the Pogo comics fame used a lot of Aussieisms (?) in the strip from time to time. I get most of 'em but can you enlighten me as to the meaning of "the dinkum oil"? --> The "*something* all"?

I do have a Yahoo 360 blog but John's URL doesn't find it :-(

What's the name of my bane
Does it mean anything to you...

...and now it's in my head.

How sweet of you to find the name of my bane. :<
Of all the banshees to not yet exist, why'd the ban she banshees have to be all timely and decide to cross the threshold? I'm keeping my eyes peeled! (Do give a heads-up if you hear any wailing.)

bilby, you should also check out the LOL geology here. My personal favorite is the volcano one. :)

Donnybrook, eh? ...Thanks for reeling me back in. ...*tearfully* I still adore this site so, so much.

Aaarrrggghhhh!

Bilby, have you seen lolpresidents.com, or other ripoffs that are just as awfully funny?

I iz having real crisis: I'm starting to like lolcats. Help, anyone, pleeaassseeee!

Hello, and thanks! I love words and peole who love them too. Y'all are so nice on this site.

(Yes, I am a southerner :)

FIGHT!

Bilby, you have such an amazing imagination: "The W's just a hatstand, really". Brilliant! I want to read your books.

The comic strip is here.

bilby: Tomorrow's "Frog Applause" comic strip was inspired by a word I found on one of your lists. I gave a nod to you and plugged wordie too. The strip appears on 6/18. Go to:
http://mycomicspage.com/frogapplause/2008/06/18/
The url won't be active until a little after midnight tonight.

Would someone kindly instruct me on how to create hyperlinks?

Just back from a trip to visit family at Nyinyikay. I should open a Flickr account and post some pictures, eh?

Belated congratulations from me, as well.

Thanks mollusque and sionnach for the warm words. And thanks to Wordies in general as I wouldn't have posted much if I hadn't enjoyed your outrageously thoughtful company.

Hey, bilby, my old segocia. Congratulations on reaching 5,000! Like a weatherbeaten menhir, you are a doughty sentinel - nay a citadel - of Wordie. May you enjoy the slumber of the blessed, that is, may you sleep like a crew of hedgepigs in an ivy-tuft, sated with mangel-wurzels and whatever antipodean (vegetarian) sweetmeats that may catch your fancy.

Just noticed that you've run the wordometer past 5000! Congrats!

Wait, so are you, yourself, Aboriginal?

I meant to ask earlier what the "Dhadiwuy" are. I like the word because it shares the unusual letter combination that Dhaero's name begins with.

You know, bilby, Uranus is somehow still interesting to me.

de rien! I think sionnach was right in judging the conversation to have been one quite respectful and seeking to inform/be informed. That being so, I wasn't inclined to take it personally. Nor, I'm very glad to say, was it a case of this all-too-often most apposite of cartoons…

http://xkcd.com/386/

I think there was no great problem understanding one another, in any case. Truce!

bilby! what the hell are you up to? We need more pictures of thylacines, please.

So, I just lost it over that vegetarianism conversation. What is going on around here?

oops

Dhaero is magical and amazing. He is 2 months shy of 1 year old, and can already stand without holding onto anything, which means walking isn't far off. And he just started signing back (we teach all our babies ASL before they can speak), he signs "change" when he's getting a clean diaper.

How've you been???

hey bilby, I've been a bit busy recently, and wordie generally threatens to take up too much of my time; but I'm going to get back into it. Here's to amelioration!

I like it, keep up the good quotes.

You seem to be quoting a lot of Germaine Greer!

Inilah masalahnya: yang ingin menggugat bahasanya tidak pernah bakal puas. Akhirnya jadi begini ...

You could shift both hands to the left and turn "escort" into "waxier".

Think I fixed it :-)

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asdfgh123+*
zxcvbn0,./

sh5t +-(

66ps, r5ght s5de 6f 0y 2eyb6ard has g65e very we5rd. 04st be fa43t 6f th6se d65ng the 6ne-handed typewr5ter 35sts!

Nice surprise, bilby!
Did you study/are you Italian?

Unfortunately I'm not really back yet, still labouring with a slow connection. I abominate dial-up. And still no thylacines :-(

Thank you for the heads up for the whimsical imageries! I rushed off for a family dinner right after, so I didn't get to add more and now I'm braindead. ):

Hooray! Bilby is back. Welcome back! See any thylacines?

But where is chained_bear? Is a puzzlement.

Hi molly. Well I had a tinkle yesterday to see if the internet connection had improved after a bit of tweaking. Took about 10 minutes to get signed in and add one word :-( Might have mobile broadband up in a week or so. Miss you guys and would love to see the new lists, whatever they are.
B

A peep out of bilby! Are you back from walkabout? There are several new Wordies you must meet. And chained_bear has gone missing--not a rattle for five days.

That's a beautiful name! Is it related to an existing word, or totally new altogether?

Hey friend. I was sad to hear you'd be "scarce" this month but it's nice to see you're not altogether missing... We named our baby "Dhaero". It's what uselessness would call "madeupical", but it fits like, like, like a name that fits really well.

Cats?? I'd never use cats. Birds. They peck better.

o hai jhon
im teh uselessness kitteh
a loyal transkripshunist (just ask him)
i think ur just RACIST

Minions: you guys need more and better minions. Cats can not be trusted, they subtly alter your words as they take dictation, and try to make you look stupid.

A flashlight! Why didn't I think of that?

Excuse me. I need to put more ointment on my finger burns.

Ouch. And I thought my rapid flashlight clicking on-and-off at one end of a fiber optic cable was awkward...

Ach, quit feeling sorry for yourselves! All of my input makes it to the interwebs only through a complicated arrangement of massively parallel abacuses and my cats' uncanny ability to harness the power of binary chisanbop and their willingness to carry out data entry for Fancy Feast treats.

Boris! Natasha! No slacking! You don't want me to upload one of those image files now, do you?

Hi Bilby! Hope all is well in the antipodes and that you are not unduly discombobulated by the bathwater going down the other way. We miss you. If you see any thylacines, take a picture.

Eh, 28K? I remember walking uphill in the snow to get to my 2K modem back in the mid 90s and loving every minute of it.

Wow. Keep your lifejacket on!

I sail the high seas of the internet but rarely, and now in a leaky Win98 tub capable of (with a compliant hurricane up its clacker) about 28K. Scary out here.

Safe travels, my friend! We'll be glad to see you when you return. :-)

I'll be scarce on Wordie for the rest of January 2007 ... global crossings, unbroadbanded parents, temporal dislocation and all that kind of thing. Hope to be the careless match in your box of firecrackers again too soon!
*mwah*
bilby (overgrown desert rat with big ears, you dig?)

Hi Bilby! Thanks for the kind words on my profile page! I should say that from the start I have admired your enthusiasm, good humor, and overall brilliance! I wish you a very happy 2008 - Srečno novo leto! (as we say in Slovene).

Hey bilby, on windaz you asked if there was a word for high up windows that let light in. I think clerestory is the one you're after - have a look at wikipedia, it has pictures.

Thanks, b! Er...I don't remember specifically expressing my love for that particular bird, but I'll take it anyway.
:-) Actually, I've separated adjectives from nouns in bird names on my lists, although I've been seriously rethinking that idea. Must check out your Under the Kilt list--it'll be a nice lead-in to all the rest of the comments I've missed over the past few days.

Got it. Getting in. Interesting idea, kinda like my old flame - WikiTravel.

Re: Travel magazine.
Oh yeah! I am interested. Very, even. Who should I contact?

C

Thank you so much for your suggestions! =^-^=

I'm a very absent person.

Alas. I recently discovered that absence myself....

RATS! I am brokenhearted to see the lack of bilbyness in the Wordie group on Facebook. *sighing heavily*

I'm not sure what I mean. My command of English is far outbalanced by Rubbish.

Hey bilby, I see on your profile that you're a homonym. Do you mean of billb? He's a bit more reticent than you. (:)

Hi SOG. Greetings from Inverness where the weather has changed so many times today I have sent it a Schizophrenics Anonymous t-shirt.

Greetings, Bilby, from sunny Argyll & Bute.