Comments on: ”Autopsy”???

By: Pinny

Pinny — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:12:31 +0000

From “Music and Lyrics”

“Figuring out you and me
Is like doing a love autopsy
They could operate all day long
And never figure out what went wrong
Love autopsy
Love autopsy

ah ah ah ah

What went wrong”

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:47:16 +0000

What did the necrophiliac say to the corpse as she gave him a striptease?

“A bra, cadaver!”

By: mkilby

mkilby — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:08:34 +0000

One word always leads to another.

It’s like eating peanuts. My mother actually bought a bookstand (like a mini lectern) for her Webster’s Unabridged, which lives on a counter in her kitchen, of all places. The whole family finds it amusing to have a dictionary in the kitchen, but we all refer to it every so often, and not just for crosswords.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:54:26 +0000

“that’s why I like browsing through the dictionary at times”

mkilby - I love to browse through dictionaries. I keep one on the shelf behind my bed so that when I’m reading and come across a word I don’t know I can look it up. The downside of this is that I often find that I have spent longer in the dictionary than reading my book. One word always leads to another.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:54:38 +0000

@ waferthinmint (14) - Not at all, quite the opposite. Always happy to learn new words, that’s why I like browsing through the dictionary at times.

By: waferthinmint

waferthinmint — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:13:19 +0000

Mkilby: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be obscure.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:31:47 +0000

Surely he meant Cadaver… but, it’s still not funny. hmm….

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:47:21 +0000

@ Rumpelstiltskin (1) - I checked my Concise OED: no, there’s no secret definition of autopsy that refers to the object of the examination, the official meaning is restricted to the process itself. However, it was good that I had the OED out: that made it easier to figure out what waferthinmint (4) meant with “synecdoche“.

P.S. (off-topic): Germans find the English pronunciation of “Rumpelstiltskin” very amusing. The original name is spelled “Rumpelstilzchen” (pronounced approximately “room-pel-steelts-schen”.

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:29:06 +0000

maybe it was supposed to be during an autopsy.

By: Keynote

Keynote — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:17:35 +0000

I suppose she’d like that necking session to be a little less autopsy and a little more topsy turvy.