Monthly Archives: January 2020

Onedismus

Posted on January 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Onedismus (on-e-dis’-mus): Reproaching someone for being impious or ungrateful.

I can’t believe it! I gave you $500,000,000.00 to get a start in life and you don’t even thank me. It’s like you think you were entitled, just like all those freeloaders on Social Security. I should’ve sold you when you were born. Some moron offered us $50.00, but your mother didn’t think it was enough. We were asking for $75.00 and your mother was adamant. That’s too bad, but now I’m stuck with you. Just go do something with the money, like buy run down shit holes and rent them to people you can push around, like old ladies, cripples, and illegal aliens.

Now, get the hell out of here and do something cruel with your life you little S.O.B. Hey! Maybe some day you’ll be President. Ha ha ha!

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Onomatopoeia

Posted on January 29, 2020 | Leave a comment

Onomatopoeia (on-o-mat-o-pee’-a): Using or inventing a word whose sound imitates that which it names (the union of phonetics and semantics).

His stomach went ooga-goosh when he swallowed the wriggling baby octopus. It was terrible how it hugged his tongue before it slid into oblivion, moving around for a few minutes in his stomach and then going quiet.

He was a staunch Christian and felt he had committed some kind of sin related to eating living creatures. But then he realized live baby octopus  was on the menu. “It can’t all bad if it’s on the menu.” It was the same thought he had had the night before in the lobby of the brothel as he was reading the menu of recreational activities offered, and their prices. He went for “Down on Your Knees” since it required a posture, and afforded a degree of pleasure, not unlike that of praying.

“Life is good,” he thought, as he tossed another little wriggling octopus into his mouth. “Mmmm.”

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Optatio 

Posted on January 28, 2020 | Leave a comment

Optatio (op-ta’-ti-o): Expressing a wish, often ardently.

Oh my God! I wish I had never said that. I’ll probably be dead by sometime tonight. Somebody should outlaw Twitter. It is all Twitter’s fault. It is so easy to hurl insults into the night. Before I got removed from office, the Evangelicals loved me–now, I just drop the suggestion that they’re a gang of deluded power brokers who’ve built an empire of greed and gullibility, and all the radio and TV hosts want to crucify me. Hmmm. Maybe that’s a compliment. Consider the source.

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Orcos

Posted on January 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

Orcos (or’-kos): Swearing that a statement is true.

Republican Senator Brickbrain: Esteemed Chairman, how many times would a woodchuck lie if the woodchuck could get away with it?

Republican Senator Fornicator: 25-30 times a day, unless this is a poetic allusion to the accused.

Republican Senator Brickbrain: Precisely. He is not a woodchuck. He is the President of the United States, and woodchucks can’t even talk, let alone lie!

Democrat Senator Willy-nilly: We have arrived in Wonderland.

Republican Senator Brickbrain: Yes. Yes. I  can vouch for that–absolutely true, and that’s the absolute truth. I am telling the truth, I swear.

Republican Senator Fornicator: Ok then. Let’s vote. All in favor of letting him off the hook for purely political reasons, say “Aye.” Ooh what do I hear? The ayes have it it.

Democrat Senator Willy-nilly: What about the nays?

Republican Senator Brickbrain: Nay to that!  Ha! Ha!

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Oxymoron

Posted on January 24, 2020 | Leave a comment

Oxymoron (ox-y-mo’-ron): Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. A compressed paradox.

The impeachment trial in the US Senate will turn out to be a legal hijacking. It’s about blinded justice. The Republican majority is committed to what I see as virtuous vice–playing at what is starkly evil as if they are holding the moral high ground, when in fact, they are swamp bound abrogators of truth and perverters of the good.

I hope we (the US) can dig our way out of this mess, but the corruption and cheating are sanctioned–even bragged about and celebrated–by those in the highest positions of power.

I think the Republic is going to be lost. I think America is doomed to suffer the cold hell of a dictatorship.

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Paenismus

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

Paenismus (pai-nis’-mus): Expressing joy for blessings obtained or an evil avoided.

Thank God Almighty we could get ALL of the Republican Senators on board with the Kangaroo Court–Mitch was especially helpful in this regard: no evidence, no testimony. Ha ha! Trump’s impeachment trial will go down in history as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever–it was like it would’ve been having the Nazis run the Nuremberg Trials.

We Republicans have turned checks and balances into bigger checks and bigger balances–for us–ha ha. Now. we’re looking forward to fixing the 2020 elections and eventually getting Trump to take a third term.

Again: we thank God for watching over us and helping us do our will.

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Palilogia

Posted on January 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Palilogia: Repetition of the same word, with none between, for vehemence. Synonym for epizeuxis.

No! No! No!

Stop flushing the toilet!

Ten times should be enough, Mr President–especially since you had the water-saving upgrades removed from all the White House toilets on Obama’s birthday.

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Parabola

Posted on January 11, 2020 | Leave a comment

Parabola (par-ab’-o-la): The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.

Lying uses truth’s light to project beautiful shadows that are mediated by desire; and loving the shadows, the lie is embraced by their target’s affections.

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Paragoge

Posted on January 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

Paragoge (par-a-go’-ge): The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.

Trump is claiming he does not want to start a war with Iran.  Well, he already has. He’ll probably call it something weasley like “peacelessness.” Let’s just realize people are going to be killed because of him. How many remains to be seen. Trump has the wit of a nit and the compassion of a frog. He’s so smarto–like a slug or a stinkbug.

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Paralipsis

Posted on January 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

Paralipsis (par-a-lip’-sis): Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over (see also cataphasis). A kind of irony.

Is there any way we can talk about affordable housing? Of course not. We can’t talk about the wealthy landlords that give us a monthly gouging. We can’t talk about how local taxes have been rising to where the monthly tax payments are almost the same as our mortgages. On top of that, we lost our federal tax deduction for taxes paid.  Oh, but we can’t talk about that.

What we can talk about, though, is our candidate! And we’re going to talk with her about all those things that we can’t talk about. Ha! Ha! I am pleased . . .

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Paramythia

Posted on January 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Paramythia (pa-ra-mee’-thi-a): An expression of consolation and encouragement.

Don’t worry about being impeached. Just relax and enjoy the press coverage. After all, even if they find you guilty, it’s not like they’re going to cut off your head. Anyway, your constant lying about being not guilty is playing really well with the ignorant morons who will defend you to the death wearing Chinese-made work pants, shirts, boots, socks, and underwear. And, you know, Pence will pardon you at the same time the Senate is passing sentence. No matter what happens, you have our support. Russia has always been 100% on your side. Just keep your mouth shut and do what your good friend Putin says. Everything will work itself out.

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