QotD: Five Good Words

Jan 10, 2008 at 10:15 AM
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What are five words you really like?
Submitted by purplesque.

I really like the word 'squalid'. In particular I like how Arthur Dent says it to Ford Prefect upon their arrival to the Vogon Constructor Ship, in the BBC version of Hitchhiker's guide.

the brilliant exchange:

Ford Prefect: How are you feeling?
Arthur Dent: Like a military academy. Bits of me keep passing out. Ford? If I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford Prefect: We're safe.
Arthur Dent: Ah. Good.
Ford Prefect: We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Arthur Dent: Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I hadn't previously been aware of.

[pause]

Arthur Dent: Good grief. Is this really the interior of a flying saucer?
Ford Prefect: Yes. What do you think?
Arthur Dent: Well, it's a bit squalid, isn't it?

Gawds i love that.

I've been thinking all morning, and I just can't think of four words that compare. Possibly 'Buttmunch', but I'm not sure that's real English.

In other news, I can't breathe today and I have Gidget hair, which i hate..

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"snout".

Seriously. Try it out.

snout.

Or "moose". Way better than goose.

The snout of the moose was squalid. Oh fuck yeah.

Also: ripshit, bitchrod, batshit, apeshit, dunch, poltroon.

I second the "buttmunch". I've been using "whatever, buttmunch" on my gorgeous, poor fiancé ever since I read it on your blog. I think his nervs have peaked as far as the how-far-they-stretch-part goes.

luvluvluv it.