Tag: Words

Imagine if your middle name was “Very.” For instance, here’s my name: Matt Very Maldre. It’s like I’m so exemplifying the Maldre name. Very serves to reinforce that fact that you are so part of your family heritage.

While in McDonalds there was this dude in his 40s talking to himself loudly. He was talking about how this year is the “two double-oh-seven.” That’s a cool name for this decade, “the double oh’s.” And “double oh seven” just…

It’s fun searching my address book by first name, because I can see how many people I know with a a particular first name. Here’s the most popular in my address book: 8 Amy 7 Jennifer 7 Lisa 7 Tim…

What is the plural of childhood? Childhoods? That sounds weird. The plural of child is children. How about the plural of childhood to be childhoodren?

Let’s say you wanted to find all the words that end in “able.” The dictionary at onelook.com enables you to do that. Just type in an asterick before your search query. (Note, this will not work on dictionary.com or Cambridge…

ways to indicate laughter online acronyms: lol (laughing out loud) lawl (pronounciation of lol) lolol (adds emphasis of lol) llol (literally laughing out loud) lolz (gangsta lol) rofl (rolling on the floor laughing) roffle (pronounciation of rofl) lmao (laughing my…

“huh” and “uh” are often confused. Let’s take a look at these two words from dictionary.com: huh used as an exclamation of surprise, bewilderment, disbelief, contempt, or interrogation. uh used to indicate hesitation, doubt, or a pause. ————– It’s too…

Background on SOFA: Chicago’s Navy Pier has a huge art show every year with 100 worldwide galleries showing off their sculptural art called S.O.F.A (Sculpture Objects Fine Art). In the past ten years that I’ve attended the show, it was…

My name is Matt. People often call me Mark or Mike. Ocassionally Max. Other names that get mixed-up: –Terry, Tracy –Erik, Aaron –Tom, Todd –Otis, Curtis What are some other name mixups?

some cool graphs on which letters are most popular in Scrabble and in the English languageScrabble’s letter distributions: Art or science?

Using Google trends here’s the five best words to describe something as cool: great, fun, cool, hip, interesting honorable mentions: funky, incredible, awesome, excellent Oh, I should mention that, “best” is bar none the highest. But it’s sooo off the…

Smackless definition: (adj) Spelled Pronunciation[smack-lis] Origin: Starting in 2005 Yahoo Fantasy Football allowed competitors to have “smack talk” appear by their team name. Smack is comments either boasting up oneself or against another team. When one of the teams don’t…

The U.S. Census Bureau reports in the 1993 Census and You * Second (10,866) * Third (10,131) * First (9,898) * Fourth (9,190) * Park (8,926) * Fifth (8,186) * Main (7,644) * Sixth (7,283) * Oak (6,946) * Seventh…

Out of the existing 720 wrestling names, the most common word is: “Mr.” Here’s the 20 most common words in names of wrestlers: —Mr (13 occurances) —Big (12 occurances) —Jim (10 occurances) —Kid (10 occurances) —Great (9 occurances) —Johnny (9…

While riding the CTA red line this morning, there were three advertisements in succession on the train. They said: 1: BORED? PASS THE TIME WITH A WORD JUMBLE. 2: ULOQOSYIL HRSPIM NUJOROS EENRSE LSAIOABT 3: HINT: THEY ALL START WITH…

When composing a text message on a cell phone, the easiest letters to use are the first ones for each number: 2: a 3: d 4: g 5: j 6: m 7: p 8: t 9: w Using just these…

Does anyone know of any data recovery programs for Macintosh? My computer recently has been giving me the blinking question mark system folder. I have done the following: Booted up my computer on the Apple Hardware Test CD (everything passed,…

Here’s something to try maybe later. while inside descending elevator: Walk in circles going clockwise. This is something I highly advise. For while you on the descend and walking round-n-round my friend, the qualities you quite imbue Is like you…

Here’s a bunch of weapons made with one-line ascii art. They are handy to put into IMs and text messages. >>----> Arrow/Dart ||||||[::]||||||||||||| Belt `=o== o Cannon -==|)- Crossbow =-O * * * The Enterprise firing photon torpedoes =-O~~~ The…

furilla interjection 1) Short for “for real”

Here’s the secret ninja recipe for how they say the word “auto”. You MUST do all of these at once: –Say it slow –Say it in a deep voice –Say “auto” like it’s two words. Aww. Tow. –Make the last…

Overture’s Keyword Selection Tool is neat. You type in a word and it tells you how many times people have searched for it in the past month. For kicks I typed in “matt”. Matt gets a ranking of 705,907. (Erik…

I’ve posted before about putting trains, pizza, and ice skating into your instant messages and cell phone text messages via ASCII art. Now here’s some animals ASCII art found across the internet that fits on one line of text that…

Here’s my away message for my email today at work: I’m out of the office Friday July 13. Did you know that it’s National Embrace Your Geekness Day. It’s true! I’m not just a geek telling you this! Well, I…

Try to listen to “2 Legit 2 Quit” by MC Hammer without doing the hand motions. Just try. You won’t be able to help yourself. (Spotify, Amazon, Youtube). This contest is only open to those born before 1982. The music video…

It’s fun when somebody’s first name ends with an “o.” Here’s an example. One of my super duper cool coworkers name is Marco Buscaglia. But if you say it really fast, it can sound like Marc O’Buscaglia. An instant change…

When you think of the word “shortstop,” it’s actually a rather funny sounding word. Breaking it down, the player plays short (meaning, not way out in the outfield, but short in on the field towards home plate). And they are…

interjection: short for “take your time” The shortening of this phrase into takyotim is ironic given what it means. View all the new word definitions on spudart.

What happens when you stack all the letters of the alphabet on top of each other. Read more about this at: https://www.spudart.org/blog/what-happens-when-you-stack-every-letter-alphabet-top-each-o/

I took all the letters from A through Z and piled them on top of each other with a little transparency so you can see through them. The beauty of the font comes out as the structure and repeated forms…

Try searching your first name on google and see what is the number one result. Here’s some fun ones: #1 google result for matt is: Photo Matt, the founding developer of WordPress. #1 google result for chris is: Chris Pirillo,…