Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Okay this is what it is..

Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective:Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
So the next time you decide to go to the big sale at the mall, you can thoroughly impress your fellow humans by the usage of such a word in your sentence. "Bye honey! I'm heading off to the brobdingnagian sale at the mall. I hope to find lots of deals there." or "I just hit a brobdingnagian bump on the road and wrecked my vehicle's suspension and wheel bearings" (if you can figure out first of all which parts of the car that actually is... i certainly can't... i just show up at the mechanic with a typically girlish expression and state that there is a "funny rattle" on the passenger side of the car. Or, please examine the squeak on the driver's seat, which only seems to appear when i have myself in that position, and it doesn't seem to squeak for anyone else and i'm beginning to develop a bit of a complex that my car might possibly be telling me that i'm overweight, the cheeky thing. I'm sure i'll have lots of fun explaining this to the mechanic on thursday. Arrghhh.. the trails of having such expert hearing... good for eavesdropping on parental conversations when you are 12 through the heating vents, not so useful when you are attempting to drive in peace and are constantly reminded by an annoying little squeak just under my seat.

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