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Downtime Tonight 11/13/2012

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sun, Nov 18 2012 7:52 PM

  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poppycock

  per Webster's dictionary:

   

  pop·py·***

  noun \ˈpä-pē-ˌkäk\

  Definition of POPPYCOCK

  : empty talk or writing : nonsense

  See poppycock defined for English-language learners »

  Examples of POPPYCOCK

  1. That's a lot of poppycock!
  2. <starting with the cherry tree, much of what was written by Washington's early biographers was pure poppycock>

  Origin of POPPYCOCK

  Dutch dialect pappekak, literally, soft dung, from Dutch pap pap + kak dung

  First Known Use: 1865

  Related to POPPYCOCK

  Synonyms: applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, nonsense, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle

  Related Words: absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus

  Near Antonyms: levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

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  Edit: it's funny that they list Baloney and Boloney but not Bologna.

   

• BubbaCrusher007 1,567 Posts

  Sun, Nov 18 2012 9:29 PM

  Downtime, yeah, downtime. BOLONEY! No baloney, downtime, remember?

  Dog gonnit pickleazz!!!!!!! Boloney, pure boloney. hee hee, wtf is the theme here?

  BOLONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

• WGTpizza 1,656 Posts

  Mon, Nov 19 2012 10:09 AM

  I'm disappointed in a a few of you here. This thread is now locked, please stop the squabbling.

   

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza