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14 March 2014

Words people hate, like →[More:] "moist."

Do people who hate "moist" hate "foist?" Because I love "foist." "Joist?"

post by: Eideteker at: 16:40 | 8 comments

I don't like the word damp, but I love the word scamp. I am not averse to the word tramp. Or camp. But damp sucks.

posted by msali 14 March | 21:09

That's the moist ridiculois thing I ever hoid.

posted by oneswellfoop 14 March | 21:10

On the old Sonny & Cher variety show, Cher did a weekly sketch about "Historical Vamps" for which she sang the following opening...

"She was a scamp, a camp, and a bit of a tramp, she was a V, A, M, P... vamp."

Notice she never mentions damp.

posted by oneswellfoop 14 March | 21:13

Did you ever see Cher do West Side Story? It's unspeakable.

posted by rainbaby 15 March | 06:38

Toity doity boids were sittin' onna coib choipin' an' boipin' an' eatin' doity oitworms. When along came Hoiby from Toidytoid and Toid. And when he saw dose toity doity boids sittin' onna coib choipin' an' boipin' an' eatin' doity oitworms. He said, Oi! How absoid!

posted by Splunge 15 March | 13:37

Did you ever see Cher do West Side Story? It's unspeakable.

That is amazing.

Interestingly, she's much better at the drag parts than at the Natalie Wood role.

posted by Miko 15 March | 21:42

I'm pro Cher because she's the first example in my time - there may be previous women I'm unaware of - who has a career and is NOT a type - not an ingenue, not a sidekick, not a vamp (although she's a bit of a vamp, but not a pure one). I think she paved the way for Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Maya Rudolph, etc.

posted by rainbaby 16 March | 09:38

(for what it's worth, the only way "moist" is worse is when it's followed by the awful word "chunks")

posted by richat 17 March | 12:46

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