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How about this beautiful Oscar ensemble by Demi when she was Bruce Willis' wife? Spandex bicycle pants and black lace Victorian rump! Heehee.



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Watching American Idol last night, Ryan Seacrest asked one of the singer what he called that thing he does (the B-Box effect) and the kid, at a loss, made up a new term on the spot.

"It's...umm...a tongue entendre?" he said, making it sound like a question.

"An entendre?" Seacrest asked, non-plus, and quickly moved on.

This happens to me a lot at work with a particular worker. He has this thing about using big words around me. Unfortunately, he makes most of them up. He's been doing this forever, and sometimes it amuses me to press him about the meaning of what he's trying to say.

The other day, he was arguing with me about some thing or other (of course he's wrong. Come on!) and the angrier he became, the bigger his words. Finally he yelled, "You're nothing but a suggestor!"

So I asked him, "What the hell is a suggestor? I've never heard that word before."

"Look in the dictionary. It's an American word. If you don't know what a suggestor is, you're stupid. Everyone knows."

Of course, I started asking everyone who passed by what a "suggester" was and nobody appeared to understand my worker. I said, "I think you made that word up."

"I did not!" He said defensively. "You're not American, what do you know about English?"

"Spell it," I challenged.

Of course, he couldn't, so he did what RB hates most in the world. He whipped out his cell phone to call his wife to check the dictionary. His wife asked him to spell it too! We all started laughing and giving him different ways to spell it so his wife could look it up. It got funnier because the more he spelt, the louder she became, and we could hear her cussing at him for calling her.

Finally, he turned to RB and he said, "Mike, tell them what a suggestor is."

RB didn't even look up from his chore. "A "Sir Jestor" is a court jestor with a title," he said.

This man darted around to give us a triumphant look. "See? You're iggliterate."

No, he didn't get it. We laughed our asses off. Iggliterate is now my favorite new word. That, and Sir Jestor.

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