Words of the Day for April 2024
People leave us lovely words in the amusingly named dick, along with short, factual and concise definitions. No really. Here's this month's words so far...
Saturday April 27th, 2024
Wrist Watch
Nighttime vigil in a particularly strict monastery
Friday April 26th, 2024
Alec R. Costandinos
Alec R. Costandinos’ recording career may have been short-lived, but the Euro-disco producer dominated the disco world during his late-’70s reign. After having made
a name for himself after co-writing Cerrone’s “Love in C Minor” in 1977, Costandinos signed to the French label Barclay where he released his first record as Love and Kisses. This self-titled 1977 LP featured the timeless disco hit “I’ve Found Love (Now That I’ve Found You).” Soon he was releasing hit records on America’s most recognized disco label, Casablanca. Perhaps more importantly, though, he introduced the concept album to dancefloor music with his well-regarded Romeo & Juliet album in 1977, followed by a number of other less successful conceptual efforts. He became best known for “I’ve Found Love,” "Romeo and Juliet," and “Thank God It’s Friday” (the theme song to the movie of the same name), but literally disappeared after a prolific 1977 to 1979 run.
Thursday April 25th, 2024
Shonky
Badly implemented or produced. Describing a person who isn’t so good at doing what they’re doing.
“His barwork was a bit shonky”.
“That chair’s a bit shonky”...
Wednesday April 24th, 2024
netsplit
What happens when a chain of IRC servers breaks – if one becomes unsynched from the rest then half the people in your channel “split” off and vanish. In olden days, IRC pirates used to ride in on netsplits with ops and seize power from you and theive your channels, but then the server admins decided to stop all that malarkay and IRC became infinitely less fun 
Sunday April 21st, 2024
Virtual Friends
People you speak to online but have never met in real life
Saturday April 20th, 2024
IQ
IQ Points.
If you collect enough of these you can join Mensa, which is Latin for table. Why the hell you would want to join a table is beyond me.
Friday April 19th, 2024
jam
Yummy thing made out of squished up fruits and lots of sugar all cooked forever and then left to set in the fridge...Not, as Eddie Izzard would have you believe, made by wasps.
Wednesday April 17th, 2024
Q-Bert
A really sodding difficult game that I am obsessed with...and have finally made it to the fourth level.....go me!
Monday April 15th, 2024
paintist
* A combination of a Painter and an Artist, through a process of genetic mutation.
* A gaffe made by Mickstar during cut-away questions after an interview.
* A painter or an artist.
* Do not use this word or people will think you are mad.
Wednesday April 10th, 2024
PC: spyware ad-ware browser hijack
You been visiting far too many evil doggie porn sites – You need to stop gong to the doggie sites and stop allowing the install ActiveX to install.
Who knows what little Evils where installed – Just never use your credit card ever agene until you install windows from new
Removal tools:
Spybot S&D:
Ad-aware: Personal Edition SE:
www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
[Both recommended to download and use together & Both are Free]
Monday April 8th, 2024
chocolate
fabulous confection, most likely to be found in my fridge, or in my desk at work. Not likely to last long
Saturday April 6th, 2024
BombSaph
Bombay Saphire. Another gin I can drink. Bluish in colour, or is that the bottle. Different oodjits in it. Second choice of gins, after tanqueray
Thursday April 4th, 2024
gay
Pretty, but not very functional. Tends to break easily...
Wednesday April 3rd, 2024
Kylie
The word “Kylie” is Aboriginal and means “Boomerang”. Not a lot of people know that.
Monday April 1st, 2024
pre-raphaelite
Synonym for prescient. After all, how come those self-styled Pre-Raphaelites knew about Raphael if they preceded him?