Filial, adj. In such a manner as to placate the parental purse.
2005 Update: In a concentration of love, hate, scorn, frustration, impatience, envy, admiration, expectation, condescension, confidence, exaltation, mistrust, misunderstanding, disappointment, disdain and dyspepsia superior to fraternal and inferior to parental.
the first time i rode a filial, she threw me on the ground
ReplyDeleteDo you ever read the Good Book? You seem to like words. Perhaps you should read the Good Word sometime.
ReplyDeleteI don't get all those funny looking words. Is this a Spanish lesson or something?
ReplyDeleteOkay...so I have to start keeping a dictionary on my desk so that I can decipher your definitions...well actually I only had to look up one word..;-)
ReplyDeleteGreat work....
Isn't everything inferior to parental?
ReplyDeleteAnd can a person with parents AND children ever win?
Sounds somewhat like sibling rivalry
ReplyDeleteMaybe Ambrose was a captist, like placating and all.
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of oxymorons in our family, too.
ReplyDeleteThe acorn doesn't fall far from the tree
ReplyDeleteDisobediency and rebellion are cool until you're the parent; then expectations of offspring turn to that of filial, docile behavior.
ReplyDeleteKarma, same thing happened to me the first time I rode a...
ReplyDeleteLittle Bar of Soap, I actually do but I'm not very funny when I write about it.
¿Que dice, figura de perra?
Dyspepsia, Spiritdancer? I found it in another definition by Bierce and I've wanted to use it ever since. Find a way to put it on your site, you'll feel better.
Maybe, dddragon, but that's not how I'm betting.
Tom & Icy, now I wish I'd used fraternal in place of romantic. You guys inspire me to edit.
Dusty, Bierce is remembered as an athiest, but he could have just been a smart Captist.
Hippy, glad you could stop by after preparing the sacrament of the Lord's Feast with Soapy.
Albino, your tree is sure producing acorns like crazy.
Sar, may your expectations be met better than my mother's were.
To err is human, to edit is divine
ReplyDeleteThat's really funny, Actonbell. Are you Lucinda's cousin?
ReplyDeleteCaught that, huh Icy? Good Dog!
Yours and mine both, Doug.
ReplyDeleteCome on, she expected more than Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University?
ReplyDeleteteehee, haha ;))
ReplyDeleteat first I thought you had typed "filth" - that word keeps popping up EVERYwhere these days ...
ReplyDeleteShort form of filiamental: hanging on by a thin, sometimes incandescent, wire.
ReplyDeleteIsn't "dyspepsia" an antacid of some sort?
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Karma, ;-)
ReplyDeleteDddragon, not just the word either. Thank God we're getting a decency code from our Government,
Weirsdo, great metaphor. Like a violin strng?
Gabriel, Dyspepsia is why you take an antacid of some sort.
Huh? I'm feeling so ignorant.
ReplyDeleteTan Lucy, it must be poor writing.
ReplyDeleteIcy, that would be funny if it weren't true. Gotta go, Walela says the kitchen's a mess.
Doug - thanks for the reality check! BTW, in response to Gabriel's comment, I thought it was some kind of soda.
ReplyDeleteShe is not, ughs....well maybe sometimes when you are dyspepsic!
ReplyDeleteMomma! I have no idea what you were trying to say, but delighted to see you write.
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