Post new words * made up last night...

[goodboy]

Fashile?

[gospelized]

1. i thought so too

and i laughed so hard when he said that.

then i looked it up and realized it was a real word and felt stupid.

it's facile.

[goodboy]

2. if he were talking about the economy, he could've used "Flaccid"

[NYC Liberal]

8. Yeah, but he was saying something like

"Our tanks need to be more fassle," so he said it instead of "faster"

[PurityOfEssence]

12. He also completely misused it: it means simplistic or shallow

Aaaaarrrrgh!

[1monster]

13. facile

Main Entry: fac·ile
Pronunciation: 'fa-s&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin facilis, from facere to do —more at DO
Date: 15th century
1 a (1) : easily accomplished or attained <a facile victory> (2) : SPECIOUS, SUPERFICIAL <I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem —T. S. Eliot> b : used or comprehended with ease c : readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth <facile tears>
2 : archaic : mild or pleasing in manner or disposition
3 a : READY, FLUENT <facile prose> b : POISED, ASSURED
synonym see EASY
- fac·ile·ly /-s&(l)-lE/ adverb
- fac·ile·ness /-s&l-n&s/ noun

[napi21]

3. Internets!

Wonder how many of them internets he thinks there are?

[goodboy]

5. at least two...gore invented one. *wink*

[Minimus]

4. Can someone explain "green eyeshade" to me? Please?

[goodboy]

6. old school accountants wore them to decrease glare from papers.

[Raven]

7. A green eyeshade is

what accountants used to wear when they balanced the books. It usually refers to someone who is a bean counter...pays too much attention to detail...is too precise.

[Sydnie]

11. I think this was also a slam on the

rose colored glasses that the Kerry campaign were handing out in St. Louis yesterday. The glasses came with a pamplet about the tings that Bush won't admit are true.

[Dookus]

9. "unaccounted"

referring to judges in an international court. "unaccounted" judges.

schmuck.

[priller]

10. "cented"

He said something about "being cented by the government" or something like that. So I guess the dictionary entry would be:

cented: n., to receive an incentive.

[goodboy]

14. kick...