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Funny Places
3691. Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky
Stopped there to get a shirt on our way to our honeymoon. It was my wife's idea. Too funny to pass up.
Funny Insults
3693. Schlemiel
Of Yiddish origin. An unlucky bumbler, a chump. Can be heard in the theme song from Laverne & Shirley show. See also Yiddish.
Funny Insults
3694. Schnook
A stupid or easily victimized person; a dupe. Probably Yiddish origin. See also Old-Timey, Yiddish.
Funny Words
3697. Hoi Polloi
The general populace; the masses. "The queen would rarely condescend to speak to the hoi polloi."
Funny Words
3698. Carbuncle
Funny Words
3699. Glom
Grab hold of; appropriate to oneself, as in "glommed on to her ideas." So, I don't know if it was correct that my mother often said at dinner "Don't glom your food!"
Funny Words
3700. Gobsmacked
One of my favorite words, of late. Seems to be infiltrating the U.S. via the recent influx of TV programming from the U.K., perhaps? See also British.