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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #60 on: June 18, 2009, 04:07:03 AM »
If Chaos hadn't posted that, I would still think that they were made up. Now I just feel lame. All though it makes me happy that narwhals actually exist.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #61 on: June 18, 2009, 09:29:48 AM »
Narwhals.

I'm just as surprised as you are.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #62 on: June 18, 2009, 04:01:39 PM »
Quote from: Chaos2651 on June 18, 2009, 09:29:48 AM
Narwhals.

I'm just as surprised as you are.

i didn't realize people doubted the existance of narwhals. :P
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #63 on: June 18, 2009, 08:45:39 PM »
Quote from: Eerongal on June 18, 2009, 04:01:39 PM
i didn't realize people doubted the existance of narwhals. :P
Or unicorns, for that matter.

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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #64 on: June 19, 2009, 12:38:32 AM »
Narwhals: unicorns of the sea!
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #65 on: June 19, 2009, 07:33:47 PM »
Yeah chaos, that's the first place I went when I saw you guys posting that narwhals did exist. Yay wiki!

And @ Eerongal, I don't know why it is that I didn't realize narwhals really existed. I do think it's rather cool that they do, though. It's something of a pleasant surprise. Much better than if, say, someone told me a certain old man delivered presents to all the children in the world on Christmas eve only to shatter my hopes 6 years later by telling my he didn't actually exist.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #66 on: June 19, 2009, 08:22:55 PM »
Quote from: Andrew the Great on June 19, 2009, 07:33:47 PM
Yeah chaos, that's the first place I went when I saw you guys posting that narwhals did exist. Yay wiki!

And @ Eerongal, I don't know why it is that I didn't realize narwhals really existed. I do think it's rather cool that they do, though. It's something of a pleasant surprise. Much better than if, say, someone told me a certain old man delivered presents to all the children in the world on Christmas eve only to shatter my hopes 6 years later by telling my he didn't actually exist.

well, it's probably because i was told they were real animals for as long as i remember that i just accept their existance as a standard. I've honestly never questioned if they were real or not, so that's why i find it kinda surprising.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #67 on: June 20, 2009, 02:45:03 AM »
Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard narwhals mentioned except in fictional books and in conversations at school that could not in any way be considered serious. That's probably a large part of the problem right there.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #68 on: June 20, 2009, 03:58:21 AM »
That, and "unicorns of the sea" is a description calculated to make the hearer totally disregard their existence- as with unicorns.  But they are cool, now that I've actually read about them!

Also: Blather, rinse, repeat. ;)
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« Reply #69 on: June 24, 2009, 02:58:42 AM »
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #70 on: June 24, 2009, 07:30:25 AM »
Literally? Hypothermia.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #71 on: July 18, 2009, 10:18:40 PM »
Adumbrate. Apparently, it means to outline, or to foreshadow. Neat...
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #72 on: July 19, 2009, 05:45:58 AM »
For you grammar buffs, I just stumbled onto a totally sweet site. It makes even ordinary words sound awesome!

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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #73 on: July 19, 2009, 07:02:29 AM »
Defenestration....
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #74 on: July 19, 2009, 03:17:12 PM »
Penumbra, Rally
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