Word for the Day, Monday, February 20, 2012 - Funambulist

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[tioga]

I am sure xs is somewhat of a funambulist this morning and she will turn up.......I am posting the class in hopes of luring her in. And because last week she posted before 8am, it’s now after 9:30 and she hasn’t turned up yet.

[Yo-Yo]

Mitt Romney is quite the funambulist.

[blueunicorn6]

Because of his prior experience as a comedian, John’s new job as an EMT in an ambulance made him a funambulist.

[tioga]

They all are right now......gees, they are bouncing around like they fell off that tightrope onto the net underneath. A++

[MrB]

-ambulist suffix - one who walks (while X)

somnabulist - one who walks while sleeping

noctambulist - one who walks at night

funambulist - one who walks for fun?

comambulist - one who walks around as a communist?

[tioga]

I like that last one, comambulist....A++

[mikrofon]

It begs the question — was Efrem Zimbalist a funambulist?

[secret garden]

Perhaps we need Remington Steele on the case.

[tioga]

Oh, does it now? A++

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

In presenting the Grammy Awards, it takes a funambulist to walk the tightrope between giving the "yutes" the rap and hip-hop they want to hear, while avoiding albums unfit for adult ears.

[count-your-change]

Funabulist.

The van with blinking lights that picked up the people who died laughing at the political speeches.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Mikey--Did you miss last week's lesson on begging the question?

[count-your-change]

I left out the “m” since I used all I had yesterday.

[tioga]

shouldn’t that be unfit for children’s ears? LOL

A++

[tioga]

OMGosh.....yes it IS! A+++

[tioga]

I beat you to it at post 10.

[secret garden]

You don't have to be a rhetorical funambulist to love the BCP. My favorite version is from 1928.

[hobbes1]

We need the FBI. Not Steffi

[hobbes1]

We need the FBI. Not Steffi