Fowllyd

I really wish I hadn't just read that.

Pap, if Barry offers to show you some wild roses just get the hell out of there quick.

That's a good one. There are plenty of words which are phonetically palindromic while being nothing of the sort in terms of spelling (taught, states being examples), but I can't think of another word where the spelling would give the same sound either way round while looking totally different.

Is that Stu, Romsey's finest? Was a bit thrown by Aswad appearing in there, but it's not in very big type... Dammit, Pap got there first - serve me right for typing too much.

You're quite right - it was the banned poster I didn't know. I'll have another look... And BTT, what was there in your modified cloud that led to your eureka moment? Hmm, must be a relatively recent banning then, given the presence of Osvaldo and others in the cloud. 110_Persaint perchance? One helluva lot of facepalms, which were very much a speciality of his.

We've nearly doubled the post count since the last unsolved word cloud - and they said this thread would never fly.

Truth told, I'm just as happy reading through threads with less (or even none) of the slangfest, but there are times when it entertains!

I can never help feeling that they should agree about a fair number of things, but it never quite seems to happen. Sparring with knuckle dusters.

I think that happened at a much earlier stage of his life. He was no doubt capable of all the feats he tells us of from the age of about three, so I'd say the mirror incident happened when he was between six months and a year old. Could have been even earlier than that though. He may tell it in a flashback, which I think we can all look forward to. Together we will make this place a happy sanctuary for word whores, Joyceans and lovers of the Zim.

On which subject (word clouds that is, not our man in Sweden) - did the Bletchmeister ever reveal the subjects of posts 300 and 308?

Indeed - solipsism taken to the extreme, though I see the thread is starting to slide down the Lounge popularity rankings, with no further comment on its author's last contribution. Still, at least we now know that GM ****ged lots of women of many nationalities; my life is just that step closer to completeness. A BTT/GM bout would bring joy to many hearts, though personally I'd like to see a three-cornered match between Pap, Verbal and Barry.

I hate to say this (or indeed to come over all TP Bury-ish on you), but you're slipping here. Can a thought be a who as opposed to a what? It would have to be quite some thought, I'd have thought, or maybe I ought to have thought. I do like the idea of "Do no flush" but I think it needs to be a little more biblical - "No flush shalt thou do, saving that thou be not seated whilst thou dost thy flush." That would work. And flushing whilst seated on a SW train might be bad, but doing so on a plane would be a whole lot worse I think.

Many men have been known to do Evelyn Waugh.

Sandwich? Ham and his descendants mustered and bred there. (OK, so that was James Joyce but I've always rather liked it). Eric Pickles - yes, I should think he probably does.

Ha ha - thought as much.

Bit early in the day to have had quite so many...

In the preamble/instructions it mentioned that they use US English spellings, so it's only to be expected I guess.

Fowllyd is a name I was given back in the 80's, based on the erstwhile rapper Schoolly D, but using my surname (Fowler); as my initial is D it worked rather well. A friend of mine came up with it, and I used it here as a forum alias as I felt justifiably certain that nobody else would have used it. Does look a bit Welsh though, I'll give you that bach. I missed some real words in exactly the same way - reedit was one of mine, which reads more like something a frog would say than any English word. Hmm, maybe I'd hyphenate it...

I was in a pub the other day and the gents' toilet was out of order. The landlord suggested that I use the ladies, but I couldn't - they just wouldn't keep still. But it's not just words that get me all hotted up - numbers can have a similar effect. I can never solve a complicated calculation without a sly drool.

I've just done this interesting little test from Ghent University. Its creators estimate that I know 79% of English words, which ain't bad I guess. In the test, you are shown 100 letter strings which may or may not be English words, and you indicate whether or not you know the word. Of the 100, I didn't know ten of the real words and had two non-words that I identified as words. Thought it might be of interest - Bletch will love it if no one else does!

- good stuff, Bear.

I'd agree entirely with the second bit I've emboldened Lord D - but surely it and the first emboldened bit are mutually contradictory? And your point about lack of talent is negated by your comment about Claudia Lennear - if she has talent, as you say (I can't comment on her voice as I've never heard her sing), then why did she resort to getting her tits out for Playboy?

Does this mean he reckons that they'll win once a month then? Bit optimistic if you ask me... Oh, and I see that Colin Famery has picked up another of the jobs for the boys. You really couldn't make it up.

Does it ever occur to you that you might be trying just a teensy bit too hard?

But why isn't the chicken wearing its T-shirt? Seems a tad ungracious to me, after Ben bought it and all. Would have chimed in very nicely with Ben's Animal T-shirt too.