[TR] Proper English for a Proper Car

[Andrew Uprichard]

Not wanting to lower the tone, but MECONIUM is basically fetal poop.  It is important in that, should a laboring woman’s waters become stained with meconium, it indicates that the fetus is in distress (don’t we all poop our pants when distressed?)

 

Anyway, I was once at a party with an MD friend when a female acquaintance came up to us in a hideous dress.  “What do you think of the dress?” she asked.  Without blinking an eye, my friend replied, “Absolutely meconium, my dear”  “Why, thank you,” she replied, and moved on with a huge smile of satisfaction on her face.

 

Andrew Uprichard

Jackson, Michigan

 

 

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of William Brewer
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 2:08 PM
To: Triumphs List
Subject: [TR] Proper English for a Proper Car

 

     I drove my TR3 to work the other morning. When I left my home at o'dark thirty it was in the mid-50's and I wore a leather coat. I live at about the mile high elevation in the southern Sierras. When I left my work in Mojave that afternoon, it was 109 degrees. The car interior felt hotter and hotter inside as I drove and I was looking forward to getting up the hill to cooler temperatures.  Soon thereafter I ran across a new proper English word - "Calescent" which means "growing warm; increasing in heat". I also enjoy using the word "Recalcitrant" to describe the TR's too-fast-a-shift from 1st to 2nd, "recalcitrant" meaning "resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant". A synonym could be "balk".

     Another word that has come in handy many times, especially at parties, is "calipygous". I use it in conversation whenever possible. Usually, ladies say "thank-you" for the compliment and then go home and look it up.

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/callipygous

 

    A word I haven't seen used on the Triumphs list recently would be "Fluif". I can't remember who used that misspelling two decades ago, but it has still stuck in my vocabulary. Who was that? Are you still on the list?  I think that his name was Joe-something.

 

    Have a good Friday. Triumph over conformity.

 

     Bill in Tehachapi

     Anglophile, Logophile

 

 

 

 

 

 

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