Answers to those random questions
Nov. 4th, 2004 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elenearielWednesday a week ago, I had pears, pineapple, and potatoes--fried--for lunch. The pears and the pineapple went really well together, and the potatoes...well, they were good all by themselves.
A humuhumunakunukuapuaa is a small tropical Hawaiian fish. I was thinking someone might recognize the letters as being the ones in the Hawaiian alphabet, but all the guesses were really good.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pansyprincess, did you really know what it was, or did you guess? Either way, good job!
And hunkerousness means "opposition to progress." I KNEW answers to that one would be hilarious! I thinkmelyndie had the most inventive--certainly most descriptive--answer. And it wasn't about a cute guy. *grin*
(Both of those words were taken from my favorite dictionary, Mrs. Byrne's Dictional of Unusual, Obsure, and Preposterous Words. Note, however, that they are all REAL words. To quote the preface: "Every entry, even the most ludicrous, has been accepted as a formal or legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary.")
A humuhumunakunukuapuaa is a small tropical Hawaiian fish. I was thinking someone might recognize the letters as being the ones in the Hawaiian alphabet, but all the guesses were really good.
pansyprincess, did you really know what it was, or did you guess? Either way, good job!And hunkerousness means "opposition to progress." I KNEW answers to that one would be hilarious! I think
melyndie had the most inventive--certainly most descriptive--answer. And it wasn't about a cute guy. *grin*(Both of those words were taken from my favorite dictionary, Mrs. Byrne's Dictional of Unusual, Obsure, and Preposterous Words. Note, however, that they are all REAL words. To quote the preface: "Every entry, even the most ludicrous, has been accepted as a formal or legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary.")