Costume Party for Words (Part2)

I know the most exciting day of my life is tomorrow and it is pretty much all I've been working on for months and months, but I decided to write about something else today. I wanted a mental break from thinking about rehearsal for the party and then the organization and setting up for the party tomorrow. So I thought I'd use today's blog to just have fun again.

So I give you some more word peculiarities or thoughts about words by me:

Template- good way to get fired (who cares you'll have a different job next week)

Heroes- while she sits in the front and complains about the uncomfortable boat seat

reverse - i.e. "I'm Henry the VIII I am " song style

Chopin - cookware for display only

Glockenshpeil - Samuel L Jackson's character's "Ezekiel 25:17" speech in Pulp Fiction

Doctorate- how the country pharmacist knew what the prescription was ("I caint read what the doctorate down")

Butterfly- not very far

Hindsight- what I have at the beach

Afterbirth- when lots of stuff happens

Aftermath- for me? Music

Airbrush - hard to paint with

Bedridden - no comment

Bellhop- very easy to do (few exceptions i.e.-the Liberty Bell)

Carhop-more difficult

Hopscotch- why would you do that when you could just as easily drink it?

Brickbat- pretty sure that's not MLB regulation

Briefcase- what lawyers hope for

Broadcaster - very antiquated non PC term for a woman angler

Buttermilk - schizophrenic dairy product

Grasshopper- what I am every time I hop (provided I'm out in the yard)

Championship- winner of the regatta

Checkmate- what a wife does when the husband gets back from guy's night out. (usually for lipstick marks or drunkenness and lipstick marks)

Cheesecloth- Come on people....why are we not making tablecloths out of this stuff. (note: probably the worst material to consider for a picnic blanket. The ants. Dear God. The ants)

Clockwork- ummm looks a lot like standing in one place and flailing arms around in circles. Yeah that should be called clock play. Good try, clocks!

Cobweb- Corny version of the Internet (where this blog post gets drastically more traffic than here on the regular Internet)

Cornstalk- what happens on chat rooms on the cobweb

Copycat- fun to watch but not PeTA approved

Counterattack- what I am deathly afraid of and why I don't go into the kitchen alone.

Counterintelligence- there is no such thing. It just brutishly and mindlessly sits in the kitchen ready to attack. (for no good reason)

Cowhide- not very well. Usually they just stand in plain view and slowly eat grass

Crabgrass- what the crustaceans smoke to get high

Crackdown- good news for drug enforcement agencies.

Crapshoot- I don't recommend. Very messy

Crosstalk - "why hath thou forsaken me"

Crybaby- baby

Deadbeat- disgusting thing to do. Also if a horse is the victim ....it's very pointless

Deathbed- bad place for a nap

Downfall- due to gravity this is the only way it works.

Dumbwaiter- don't get me started. I said "No Mayo!"

Dustpan- used to cook powdered eggs

Earmuff- there are some kinky people in this world

Eggplant - I did. Didn't grow the first thing.

Eyesight - cant we just call this "sight"? I'm pretty sure at this point we have ruled out earsight, nosesight, etc as possibilities.

Eyewitness- witness

Foolproof- liquor so strong only an idiot would drink it

Forefathers- dang! your mother gets around

Foregone - the reason she is now a single mom.

Fretwork- don't we all

Hailstone- why the Druids built Stonehenge

Halfback- good rebate

Halfbreed- impossible. It's all or nothing.

Handbill- fortune teller receipt

Heretofore- have 6

Homemaker- construction foreman (makes me have seriously respect for All "Little Susie Homemakers" out there. What with the Sheetrock and scaffolding and all. And to be so dainty)

horseback riding- Can't we just say horse riding? Was anyone really planning on riding the horse's leg or head?

Horseflies- Pegasus

Houseflies- Wizard of Oz

Housekeeper- what they needed in Wizard of Oz

Housewarming party- turn on the heater . Let's drink!

Inkwell- good penmanship

Inpatient- catheters, IVs, suppositories and such

Jackpot- a drug theft

Kidnap- Ahhh I used to love those. About 1 in the afternoon after we had eaten lunch. Glorious! I wouldn't mind one now actually.

Knapsack- Hey! Find another pillow

Lawsuit- pretty much just a suit

Longfellow- thanks for noticing

Manhandle- no comment