WOD LOUNGE LIZARD

LOUNGE = a comfortable room in a house where people sit and relax

DEPARTURE LOUNGE  = a large room in an airport where you sit and wait before going onto a plane

LOUNGE BAR = a room in a pub that is more comfortable and usually more expensive than the public bar




LOUNGE LIZARD = a man who spends a lot of time in expensive bars and hotels, and likes being with rich people

WOD STAMPEDE

STAMPEDE = if a group of animals or people stampede, they all start to run in a very fast uncontrolled way because they are frightened or excited

e.g.  In Cambodia, at least 355 people were killed and four

hundred and ten others wounded in a stampede during busy festival in the capital Phnom Penh. The incident occured when rumour spread among the travelers that the bridge was unstable.

The jokes of the day

There were three men on a hill with their watches.
The first man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.
The second man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.
The third man threw his watch down the hill, walked all the way to the bottom, and caught it.
The other two men were puzzled and asked the third man how he did it.
The third man said, "Easy. My watch is 5 minutes slow!"





A cat died and went to heaven. When he arrived at the gate, an angel asked:
"Welcome to heaven. What can I get for you to make you happy today?"
The cat replied:
"Oh, I sure would love a nice, soft pillow!" And so, the angel gave him the pillow and called for the next person in line.
The next day, some mice were in line at the gate. The angel asked them the same question.
The mice replied:
"Ooh! Can we have some skateboards?!" And the angel gave them the skate boards.
A few hours later, God was strolling through his kingdom and came across the cat on his pillow.
"Good cat! How do you like heaven and your pillow?"
The cat smiled and replied:
"This place is great! The streets are gold, this is the softest pillow in the world! Thank you, God!"
God smiled and said:
"So you're really liking it?"
The cat said:
"Oh, I love it! And by the way, thanks for the meals on wheels you sent by earlier!  

MIND-BOGGLING, MIND-NUMBING, MIND-BLOWING

MIND-BOGGLING (informal)= very difficult to imagine or to understand; extremely surprising 

e.g. a problem of mind-boggling complexity

e.g. It's mind-boggling to me that this is allowed to happen. 

BOGGLE =  to be slow to do or accept sth because you are surprised or shocked by it 

e.g. Even I boggle at the idea of spending so much money. 

( informal ) if sth boggles the mind or the mind boggles at it, it is so unusual that people find it hard to imagine or accept 

e.g. The vastness of space really boggles the mind.

e.g. ‘He says he's married to his cats!’ ‘The mind boggles!’

MIND-NUMBING =  very boring

e.g.  The lecture was mind-numbingly tedious

MIND-BLOWING = very exciting, impressive or surprising

e.g. watching your baby being born is a mind-blowing experience 

e.g. the mind-blowing beauty of Africa

AGGRIEVED, BULLY, IMBIBE, MOROSE

AGGRIEVED = feeling angry and unhappy because you think you have been treated in an unfair way

e.g. An aggrieved student will meet with the campus Dean to  talk about the recent incident which involved three bullies. 



BULLY = someone who frightens or hurts someone who is smaller or weaker than they are

e.g. Jeremy is a bully who always kicks the other children and steals their sandwiches 






IMBIBE = to drink (often humorously). to absorb (ideas, feelings, etc) 


e.g. Danny imbibed too much whisky last night

MOROSE = feeling unhappy, in a bad mood, and not wanting to talk to anyone

e.g. Charles Dickens character, Scrooge, is a very morose sort of person

WOD Cardinal, muse, figment

CARDINAL = of prime importance


e.g. The cardinal rule in working with bears is never forget they are wild animals.




FIGMENT = invention of the mind


e.g. Micky Mouse was a profitable figment of Walt Disney's imagination




MUSE (ON/OVER/ABOUT) = to consider thoughtfully; ponder; reflect


e.g. I sat there in silence, musing on the events of the day




MUSHY = 1. soft and thick, like mush


e.g. Cook until the fruit is soft, but not mushy




MUSHY= 2. too emotional in a way that is embarassing


e.g. I think it's just a mushy romantic novel

The jokes of the day UGLY BABIES

A: I think I was very ugly when I was a baby
B: Why do you think that?
A: Well, when I was in my pram my mother didn't push it, she always pulled it behind her!

A PRAM

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!”

The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”

The quote of the day EDMUND YASHINSKI

Edmund Yashinski was a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust only to die, ironically, in a prison in communist Poland after the defeat of the Nazis. He left an incredible message for posterity:

Fear not your enemies for they can only kill you

Fear not your friends for they can only betray you

Fear only the indifferent who permit the killers and

Betrayers to walk safely on earth 

Personally, I think  the message is quite clear: INDIFFERENCE BRINGS THE DEATH OUR SOULS