Word for the Day, Tuesday February 9, 2016

[SoothingDave]

Word For The Day, Tuesday February 9, 2015

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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}

[tioga]

[mikrofon]

For Hillary, omphaloskepsis
As Bernie flexes his bicepses
The GOP pouts
While Donald Trump shouts-
And our culture is dying from sepsis...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oompa-omphaloskepsis?

Seems like a skeptical study of the Candy Factory workers?

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[MoochPooch]

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!”