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Most Erudite Poster - Word of the Week Competition

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
There are many erudite and sagacious posters here in Gaggerland.

To raise the level of discussion and to reward those who rise to such lofty heights, I am proposing a Word of The Week Competition.

The Rules will be fairly simple.

Once a week (typically on Sunday), the Word of the Week will be posted on this Thread.

Competitors wishing to claim "Word of the Week" points should have to simply cut and paste a copy of their post from "Rugby Discussion" Forum in the "Word of the week" thread for it to count.

One entry per person per week will count. If a poster wants to use a second post in lieu of a previous entry, then overwrite the previous entry with the "edit post" functionality.

Bonus points may be awarded for the manner in which the Word of the Week has been deployed. Similarly Points may be deducted for inappropriate use of the Word of the Week, or Trying too hard.

Lets See how it goes.

The inaugural Word of the Week is:
saccade, n,
1. The movement of the eye when it makes a sudden change, as in reading.
2. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
 

dobduff11

Trevor Allan (34)
first poster on the inaugural Word of the week, i think anyway

all greg will want to do is saccade across those bank notes if he moved across to Union, tbh Queensland don't have the cash for him
 

Spewn

Alex Ross (28)
first poster on the inaugural Word of the week, i think anyway

all greg will want to do is saccade across those bank notes if he moved across to Union, tbh Queensland don't have the cash for him

It's a noun. Nice try but no cigar. My saccade across your post detected the error. It was so blatant that I did not need to analyse closely; the saccadic view was all that was needed.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Spewn, Don't misunderestimate the level of grammatic errors made by Gaggerlanders. A lovely feature of the English language is its' ability to evolve. Unfortunately it is evolving too much towards becoming the American language.

Nouns are becoming verbs with increasing frequency.

Competitors now "Medal" when they finish in the first 3 places. No reason in these enlightened post George W. days why the noun saccade can't be used as a verb.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Spewn, Don't misunderestimate the level of grammatic errors made by Gaggerlanders. A lovely feature of the English language is its' ability to evolve. Unfortunately it is evolving too much towards becoming the American language.

Nouns are becoming verbs with increasing frequency.

Competitors now "Medal" when they finish in the first 3 places. No reason in these enlightened post George W. days why the noun saccade can't be used as a verb.
Or indeed to devolve. Over-apostrophication? Yes, I love a good neologism.
 

Spewn

Alex Ross (28)
Spewn, Don't misunderestimate the level of grammatic errors made by Gaggerlanders. A lovely feature of the English language is its' ability to evolve. Unfortunately it is evolving too much towards becoming the American language.

Nouns are becoming verbs with increasing frequency.

Competitors now "Medal" when they finish in the first 3 places. No reason in these enlightened post George W. days why the noun saccade can't be used as a verb.

Hugh,

A noun that is also a verb? You are now talking my language - a gerund.
 

Spewn

Alex Ross (28)
It was a hot, humid night. She moved her hands behind her back and unclasped her bra, emptying her breasts from their shear confines like two great sacks of flour. Her hands moved two her briefs, sliding them off her shapely hips. He stood watching, his mind awash with dirty, sinful thoughts. A saccade inevitable with his eyes darting rapidly from the spectacular thrust of her bosom to the wisp of pubic hair atop the conjunction of her thighs.
 
R

Rothschild

Guest
It was a hot, humid night. She moved her hands behind her back and unclasped her bra, emptying her breasts from their shear confines like two great sacks of flour. Her hands moved two her briefs, sliding them off her shapely hips. He stood watching, his mind awash with dirty, sinful thoughts. A saccade inevitable with his eyes darting rapidly from the spectacular thrust of her bosom to the wisp of pubic hair atop the conjunction of her thighs.

Gees she looked hot
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Aaark! What have I started:eek:
The word of the week is supposed to be used in a rugby context.

She does sound hot now that you mention it.
 

Spewn

Alex Ross (28)
Aaark! What have I started:eek:
The word of the week is supposed to be used in a rugby context.

She does sound hot now that you mention it.

I forgot to add:

Afterwards, when the messy business was over, and he had pulled up short like a horse's saccade, they settled down together to watch the Wallabies wallop France.
 

Blue

Andrew Slack (58)
So something like:

"An unruly outbreak of forum violence between the two opposing factions on the matter of the player best suited at 12 for the Wallabies required a moderator to step in and saccade the parties involved."
 

Spewn

Alex Ross (28)
So something like:

"An unruly outbreak of forum violence between the two opposing factions on the matter of the player best suited at 12 for the Wallabies required a moderator to step in and saccade the parties involved."

No. Nothing like that Blue.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
My Contribution
I reckon that SBW will display his true colours after RWC11.

Is he there for the honour and glory of the Black Jumper,or just to enhance his CV and increase his next contract package.

In the unlikely event he is not selected in The Darkness squad next year, his true colours will be unfurled faster than a TV newsreaders saccade when their TelePrompter breaks down during a live broadcast.


Superseded post for Word of the Week. Several George W. Bush type neologisms. No gerunds unfortunately.
I don’t think this is about embiggening the Garlic Munchers tilt at the 6N, quite the opposite in fact. One could almost consider this a 6N disembiggermentarianism move by Lièvremont. Experimentation by Lièvremont - yes, but I feel it is a horses for courses selection by him. He has decided that the schwerpunkt is Quade Cooper and has selected a team of big ugly bastards to achieve that.

If he can get schadenfreude by targeting QC (Quade Cooper) with his monsters, then he will unmotivate Dingo to keep him in the RWC11 Squad. As our mercurial gamebreaker, if Lièvremont can get QC (Quade Cooper) disincluded in the Wobs RWC squad, then it will be to the betterment of all RWC teams less the Wobs. As an unpredictable player, QC (Quade Cooper) poses danger and presents discertainty for opposition coaches, making it harder for them to develop their game plans. Most textbook defenders struggle to deal with the saccade like jinking runs of QC (Quade Cooper) on attack. Much easier for the opposition if Dingo is deincentivised from including QC (Quade Cooper) in the RWC squad.

Weak inside backs are not characteristic of 6N, but the Garlic Munchers are likely to come up against these at RWC. Lièvremont is simply trying to experiment with his cattle to give him more options and flexibility in his RWC11 squad. The likely opposition and NZ conditions suggest that a capability grab bag approach will be needed in the squad to give the selectors and coaches the flexibility and options they will need.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Noice, I type as my inebriate eyes perform a saccadian dance across the pixellated medium that entrances and befuddles my cognitive sentience, bereft as I am of coherent sensibility to enunciate my cognitive processes in such a way as to relate some type of lucid acuity to these disparate thoughts that transgress my cerebral neurosphere.
 

Lindommer

Steve Williams (59)
Staff member
It was a hot, humid night. She moved her hands behind her back and unclasped her bra, emptying her breasts from their shear confines like two great sacks of flour. Her hands moved two her briefs, sliding them off her shapely hips. He stood watching, his mind awash with dirty, sinful thoughts. A saccade inevitable with his eyes darting rapidly from the spectacular thrust of her bosom to the wisp of pubic hair atop the conjunction of her thighs.

Call me pedantic but I NEVER want to see the word "shear" anywhere near anything shaggingly. Even if it is alliterative.
 
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