Sitting quiescently

I learned a new word today! I was excited by all the scrabble-y possibilities today when my genetics teacher used the word "quiescent." Not only is it a word of extraordinary elegance (pretend for a moment that you're a character from a Jane Austen novel and then say it), but in Scrabble you could put down "scent," and then modify it to make quiescent or quiescently. Just think of the possibilities! If you put quiescently down on a triple word score, you'd get, like, 75 points! Oh, it's a beautiful thing.

I've also been thinking lately about the word excoriate, which is a great word. Not so elegant, but you could put down "ate" on a scrabble board and then add the "excori" bit later. I also discovered the word "excurrent," meaning "running or flowing outwardly." As in, "My, your limbs are looking awfully excurrent today," or perhaps, "Gee, I hope that the floodwaters in New Orleans will shortly be headed in an excurrent direction."

And to finish this blog, I will leave you with two humorous Trivial Pursuit questions which I discovered this evening:

Q: What televangelist visited a house of ill repute with a sign in the window that read: "Positively no refunds after 15 minutes?"

Q: What theme park did French critics dub a "cultural Chernobyl"?
A: Euro Disney