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To: JoeProBono

I learned a new word recently: furbelow


16 posted on 03/25/2009 4:57:38 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Posting bandwidth consuming jpgs since 2000.)
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To: GSWarrior
My daughter was reading Pudd'nhead Wilson. Twain has one character call another a "human philopena."

We looked it up and I declare it the most obscure word I ever read in my life.

17 posted on 03/25/2009 5:20:34 PM PDT by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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