slightly

EvilToasterElf

My guess is the brain - final answer

FinsburyParkCarrots

I was thinking of George Eliot's statement "There must be a systole and diastole in every enquiry", so I went to read up my old school biology notes on the heart, from years ago. Also, I have the complete OED (I mean the complete OED) in my library/study, and I went to check up the word tenacious used....
there's no match in there...nothing really etymologically close...so I reckon tenacious is the next Finnegans Wake-era Joyce in creating a splendiferous neologism.
As TS Eliot said, genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood, so tenacious can say we understood the implicature on a deep level even though we're still stumped about the basics......

I think it's about the vicissitudes of lurve.

tenaciousA

ha...

oraclatious = teeth being the oral oracles, i.e. oraclatious path things must consecute to reach the inner mouth

diastomacious - is a combination of two words

diatomaceous = as in being filled with diatoms, or their skeletons

(Diatoms = Any of various microscopic one-celled or colonial algae of the class Bacillariophyceae, having cell walls of silica consisting of two interlocking symmetrical valves.)


diastema = a space, or gap between the teeth


I was making things up, obviously, but they have roots, yes?


This poem is about one special pleasure bestowed upon manhood.



And so, yes, Finsbury, you would have found no such words in your OED. But thanks for trying.

CranMalReign

Yellow is a lady genius.

As is ten-A

Praise be to the glorious venuses of the Hut!

Yellow

why thank you!

JDE-PJ

Originally posted by tenaciousA
ha...

oraclatious = teeth being the oral oracles, i.e. oraclatious path things must consecute to reach the inner mouth

diastomacious - is a combination of two words

diatomaceous = as in being filled with diatoms, or their skeletons

(Diatoms = Any of various microscopic one-celled or colonial algae of the class Bacillariophyceae, having cell walls of silica consisting of two interlocking symmetrical valves.)


diastema = a space, or gap between the teeth


I was making things up, obviously, but they have roots, yes?


This poem is about one special pleasure bestowed upon manhood.



And so, yes, Finsbury, you would have found no such words in your OED. But thanks for trying.

damn I feel silly now, I think in fact I asked miss ten a if this was about just what it was when she wrote it, and I forgot:o


naughty young thing you are;)

tenaciousA

at least i confused the population at large!






naughty...


hush!

JDE-PJ

Originally posted by tenaciousA
at least i confused the population at large!







naughty...


hush!

hush hush little ten a, don't say a word

this forum going to treat you to a giant award;)




naughty thing!

tenaciousA

it already has







(:

JDE-PJ

Originally posted by tenaciousA
it already has







(:

oh damn, I must have missed that:\

how big was it, and where do you keep it now?

on a shelf, on your tele, or somewhere else?


congrats by the way;)

Yellow

someplace else

JDE-PJ

ah you keep it hidden huh?


don't be so modest, put it out in the open:)