Posted on 02/09/2016 4:16:18 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday February 9, 2015
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
omphaloskepsis [om-fuh-loh-skep-sis]
-n
contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
[< Greek omphal (ós) omphalos + -o- -o- + sképsis act of looking}
For Hillary, omphaloskepsis
As Bernie flexes his bicepses
The GOP pouts
While Donald Trump shouts-
And our culture is dying from sepsis...
Oompa-omphaloskepsis?
Seems like a skeptical study of the Candy Factory workers?
;’)
This dates me, but I remember a scene from GET SMART, where Maxwell Smart & his female sidekick are hiding from KAOS at an ashram.
In an act of omphaloskepsis, Barbara Feldman exclaims, “I see trees & doves!”
Maxwell Smart stares at her & exclaims, “You must have a widescreen navel!”
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