RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
2007 Update: In the fashion of every pious scold's childhood home and each bon vivant's current night's lodging.
N.B. The magnificent Jenn is finding hotel deals for Chicago in March and posting them in the comments at Barncrawling.
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If you say Dorian, but mean Ionic, is that Ironic?
Ramshackle: My livingroom all this week.
I like being called magnificent. It pleases me greatly.
Ramshackle - my condo thanks to my housekeeping skills.
Ramshackle--my life for the past month and up until at least New Years
Then it will be another sort of ramshackle until I sell my apartment and find a place I really want to live in and...
Ramshackle: my Christmas decorating, thanks to my ADD.
i can't seem to recall whether or not i stopped by yesterday -- guessing a Last Minute and/or Very Quick Trip into NYC, in order ensure a certain Holiday Penguin gets to bask in the glow of all that is Rockefeller Center will do that to a gal with an ADDled brain. D'oh Ho Ho! ; )
RAMSHACKLE adj. the condition of whatever remains after having tethered the goat to it.
-Q
This word reminds me of my mom, who says things like "Shanty Irish Luggage" when referring to carrying clothes in a brown paper bag. Once when I was dressed in a way she found confusing in the least (see punk rock) she asked what "ramshackle get-up" I was wearing.
Ah she's a pissah.
ramshackle, the aging body down
Perfect word for this time of year.
RAMSHACKLE is the condition most of us are in as we scamper to do last minute shopping or prepare to travel. I feel sorry for ANYone who will be in the airports this weekend.
Ramshackle? Other than the world as we know it? I don't know.
ipiey - Ghost Riders in the sky
The doghouse provided by a best friend.
RAMSHACKLE, v. t. What you do when the ram doesn't wish to recognize that all the ewes have been serviced.
In this case, Almighty God Bierce's words were so potent that they reached all the way from San Francisco to Washington DC. Where the neglect of the White House became so severe that it nearly fell down under President Truman.
Of course, now that the place has become Fortress Amerika, a symbol of Our [sic] Government's fear of its own people (not to mention everyone else's), and the Palace which some people wished to call it in the first place, maybe it should fall down.
Morgan, more I often I say Ionic when I mean Moorish, which is moronic.
Jenn, I say whatever keeps us from being Hazel is worth it.
Pia, there's no shame in improvisation, I'm sure.
Ho Ho D'oh to you, Neva. You're doing good work for the unfortunate, bless your socks.
Haha, Quilly. If that's where the word comes from then it's the right word.
Sure sounds that way, Mutha.
Minka, I wondered what you called those. That was poetry.
Jamie Dawn, I do too and I know some.
Ariel, it's the only example I could think of either.
Icy, it's where we pups are most comfortable.
Amoeba, I think I wouldn't cry for it. Darn that Dolly Madison.
Totally confused here. Why is Jenn finding hotel deals for MAY? I thought the event was in March.
Obviously a ramshackle is hoofcuffs for a male goat.
TLP, thank you. Jenn was looking for rooms in March. I was barely paying attention this morning which is better'n average.
I am NO LONGER RAMSHACKLED!!
As of about 2:00 this afternoon, I completed ALL my Christmas shopping and ALL my grocery shopping!!
I shall not enter a store of any kind until after Christmas.
Hallelujah!!!
Saints be praised!!
No tiendas, no supermercados, no centro commerciales, not even a estación de gasolina!!!
um, did anyone bring up the handcuffs on a quadrupedal, cloven-hoofed mammals of the genus Ovis? Also where bon vivants sleep is a matter of great interest to me. xoxo
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Jim -- 0 7734!
Jim? Goa'uld on line 2 (see "Revenge of the Geek", at right). When you go to the aid of your party, do they tell you "Thanks but no thanks, we need someone whose typing is a little less ramshackle?"
;)
And thanks to G and Terry over at Barnstorming (where non-Googleites can't comment), I looked up holiday dates related to the planned Chi-Town shindig:
St. Pat's (Amoeba Goes Green): 17 Mar (Monday)
Purim: 21-22 Mar (Fri.-Sat.)
Good Friday: 21 Mar
Easter: 23 Mar (Sun)
That might explain $200 "deposits" for $90 rooms. Which protozoa with church gigs won't have to worry about :(.
¿Zero marchetas tampoco, Jota De? Muy bien, hecho! I hear I have some nephews and a niece to shop for still but I won't believe it until I hear it in Spanish.
Mireille, Quilly brought that up but with less latin.
Jim, around here we call what you just did to me "Pansify." By which I mean, "wha?" Is that machine code?
14, Quilly.
Amoeba, I might have guessed you'd be the one to get Jim's joke. Your point about the planning is a good one. I don't plan. I do accept volunteerism. I will change the settings on Barncrawling.
I bow to the Quillster. Could someone explain the numbers to me? xoxo
Shabby Chic is the term I prefer.
Someone probably can, Mireille, but s)he ain't me.
Cooper, I'm sure that's the common one where you are.
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