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Newsletter: Spring 2009.12, Week of
March 30 Dr.
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Table of Contents: 8. Marginalia: British words for drunk – 141 of them! |
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1. ACS/BBB/PHP (American Chemical Society, Beta
Beta Beta/Preprofessional Health Programs) Activities. |
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2. The
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4. Received
this week. |
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American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine ( ·
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6. The
Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) announces a
centralized application service for optometry (OptomCAS), to be launched on
July 2009 for the 2009-2010 application cycle. |
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The Association of
Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) is pleased to announce the launching
of the centralized application service for optometry (OptomCAS) on July 15,
2009 for the 2009-2010 application cycle.
OptomCAS will offer applicants a convenient, web-based application that will
allow them to apply to more than one participating optometry school or
college with one application. ALL twenty schools and colleges of
optometry will participate. The OptomCAS website is
now available at www.optomcas.org.
This includes an FAQ section that may be helpful to you and your
students. This website will be updated on a continuous basis as the
application launch date approaches. In addition, we plan to host
webinars for those advisors who may be interested. Information will be
sent shortly. If you have any
questions, please email Paige Pence at ppence@opted.org
. Paige Pence,
Director, Student and Professional Affairs |
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8. Marginalia: British words for drunk – 141 of them! |
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Wednesday, 20 March,
2002, 18:03 GMT 141 words for 'drunk'
For three years the E-cyclopedia has been
charting the use and abuse of particular words behind the news headlines. Now as part of our ongoing mission to reflect the diversity of the
English language, here is a glossary of 141 euphemisms for just being drunk,
suggested by the audience of BBC One's Booze programme. You are free to add any more suggestions. Place names in brackets
indicate a particular local usage. Potentially offensive words have been
weeded out. drunk,• adj, euphemisms include: Ankled ( Badgered, Banjaxed, Battered, Befuggered,
Bernard Langered, Bladdered, Blasted, Blathered, Bleezin,
Blitzed, Blootered, Blottoed, Bluttered, Boogaloo,
Brahms & Liszt, Buckled, Burlin Cabbaged, Chevy Chased, Clobbered Decimated, Dot Cottoned, Druck-steaming,
Drunk as a Lord, Drunk as a skunk Etched Fecked, Fleemered ( Gatted, Goosed, Got my beer goggles on,
Guttered ( Had a couple of shickers, Hammer-blowed,
Hammered, Hanging, Having the whirlygigs, Howling
Inebriated, Intoxicated Jahalered, Jaiked up (West of Scotland), Jan'd
- abbrev for Jan Hammered, Jaxied, Jeremied, Jolly
Kaned Lagged up, Lamped, Langered ( Mad wey it, Mandoo-ed, Mangled, Manky,
Mashed, Meff'd, Merl Haggard, Merry, Minced,
Ming-ho, Minging, Moired, Monged, Monkey-full,
Mottled, Mullered Newcastled, Nicely irrigated with horizontal
lubricant Off me pickle, Off me trolley, On a campaign,
Out of it, Out yer tree Paggered, Palintoshed, Paraletic, Peelywally,
Peevied, Pickled, Pie-eyed, Pished, Plastered,
Poleaxed, Pollatic Rat-legged ( Saying hello to Mr Armitage, Scattered, Schindlers,
Screwed, Scuttered ( Tanked, Tashered, Tipsy, Trashed,
Trollied, Troubled, Trousered, Twisted Warped, Wasted, Wellied, With
the fairies, Wrecked Zombied If you don't know when you've had enough,
you can submit more euphemisms using the form below. Reader Monica from LA adds: I am from Reader Laura McMahon adds: Ming mong ( Reader Rona adds: Gubbed. And Fleein'. Best Scottish
words there are!! Reader Martin adds: Michael Fished Reader Iain from Reader Alex from Reader Brendan Barrett adds: Floothered (West of
Ireland) Reader Phill Bowley adds: Barryed, Lutoned,
Schnooked (American, Buttoned, Kippered Reader Tony Gerstel adds: Tired and emotional Reader Reader Reader Stephen Dorff adds: "Had a couple of
shickers" is interesting, as "shicker" is an old Yiddish word
for "drunk"(either adjective, adverb or noun) Reader Tim Cooper adds: Might I suggest a
similar compendium of terms describing the final step in the drinking process
- i.e. vomiting? The classic English expressions are I suppose "Calling
God on the great white telephone" (Oh Goooooooooooowwwwwwwwddddddd!),
"Producing a pavement pizza" etc. But perhaps the most interesting
are those translated from other languages such as "Driving the big truck
home" (Danish - Imagine extending your arms to encompass a truck-sized
steering wheel and holding your head over the resulting hole) and
"Freeing the peacock" (Polish) Reader Will Backhouse adds: Phalanxed has to be an
all time classic Reader Tim Nelson adds: Williamed. No idea
where it comes from, but we used to use that word in Reader Helen Craven adds: As heard on Call My
Bluff many years ago, and not forgotten - 'Muckibus'. Reader B. Binky adds: Didn't Montgomery Burns refer once
to being crapulent? Reader Rebecca, Reader Reader Christian, Reader Bob Gaspardino adds: Schnockered |
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