[qprogeny79]

Originally Posted by Hip Priest

sphairistike (obs): little-known 17th century legal defence, used against charges of 'that most serious and heinous crime, namely apple-stealing' to avoid hanging. The term is believed to have originated from the phrase 'was a fair mistake', and relies on the jury being unable to be certain if the property boundaries of the apple's owner were reasonably obvious to the alleged thief, or if he may have held an honest belief that he was on common ground. Most famously used in the defence, in 1678, of Tom Grumble, who had collected an estimated 234 apples from the trees of Mr Joshua Silverspoon. There was a history of bad feeling between the two, as Silverspoon had had Grumble horsewhipped several years earlier for 'gazing upon my fair daughter and thus tainting her with your very filthiness, you Luciferian peasant'. That said, the evidence seemed well-presented, the judge seemed well-bribed, and the 'guilty' verdict looked certain until Grumble's lawyer, Mr Ebeneezer Feesaregood, stunned the public gallery by declaring 'My client wishes to plead sphairistike'. The jury accepted that Grumble thought himself, by way of ancient satute, to be technically on the village green and found in his favour, and it is believed that it was this decision that led to the following summer's 'Apple Rebellion', when orchards owners across England would wake to find their trees bereft of fruit.

protoclastic

excellent stuff.

protoclastic: pertaining to a primordial educational system, characterized by the use of cave walls as blackboards and field trips to hunt for wooly mammoths. (edit: might you mean proteoclastic?)

valetudinarian

[!@#$%!]

protoclastic: geological era that preceded the appearance of clatter

utmost

[!@#$%!]

oh damn, we were writing at the same time. very well...

valetudinarian: one who studies to be a personal manservant

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utmost

[Hip Priest]

Originally Posted by qprogeny79

excellent stuff.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by qprogeny79

protoclastic...might you mean proteoclastic?...

No. Don't worry, sir, I know my geological terminology.

utmost: ocean current that moves from the east Atlantic to the west coast of Norway.

Crinoidia

[qprogeny79]

crinoidia: a rare disease, affecting approximately 1 in every 100,000 children, characterized by spontaneous outbursts of tears and irrational fears of alien abduction.

dystopian

[stirling]

dystopian - One who believes that a perfect society is one in which people can't spell.

cryptile

[!@#$%!]

an undecypherable reptile, such as the basilisk

excrementitious

[Hip Priest]

excrementitious: word used by the philosopher Albert Camus to describe the intermediate state of mind of one who has realised that the human condition is one of Absurdity, but does not yet understand the full ramifications of his or her epiphany.

conodonts

[SpankMarvin]

Originally Posted by Hip Priest

excrementitious: word used by the philosopher Albert Camus to describe the intermediate state of mind of one who has realised that the human condition is one of Absurdity, but does not yet understand the full ramifications of his or her epiphany.

conodonts

Conodonts

Word used by popular singer/gyrater Prince during his most crazy period of the 90s, simply meaning doughnut. He would ask his agent to go get him "conodonts", and would ALWAYS accompany the word with an affirmative hand gesture as conducted by Patrick Stewart in Star Trek.

blabby

[qprogeny79]

blabby: pertaining to a loquacious obese person.

deixis

[Hip Priest]

deixis: Roman game played with two dice, a square of cloth and the bones of a fish.

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