Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: n
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean ‘at nothing’ or ‘with a small price’
We should dissent and have our own BotW, as an autonomous collective, perhaps.
I still have the BotW trophy, so I can pass it on when we vote for the winner!
Well, if that was meant to be the entire sentence, then indeed that is the fail, which I alluded to by using “you’re” instead of “your” in my reply. However, you could just as well has intended to write “I think your milking this thread is really over the top” which would also be fine. So I did not want to rush to decide with certainty what the error was.
Pardon the interruption of this thread. All attempts at pun and word play humor have been over shadowed by pedantic as$es who insist on nit-picking every grammatical error.
(your regularly schedule thread will continue below)
“Thanks for attributing me with the ability to fail to construct a scentence in both ways.”
Consider yourself to have failed yet again. You don’t attribute with; you attribute TO. Instead of “Thanks for attributing me with the ability…” it should be “Thanks for attributing to me the ability….” which would be awkward, but technically correct.
Oh you’re so close!
It should be changed to that, actually.
Originally it was ‘You Are Retarded, Pi$$ Off Failblog’. You can tell I didn’t really give much thought to it.
(re: Fleetwood Mac)
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I disagree vehemently. The Peter Green British Blues version was infinitely better then that Buckingham/Nicks pop drivel that came later
Yet another fine example of the dumbing down of Americans: Recently, in the New York Metro area, a Little League baseball player, around 13 years old, was kicked off the team because he pitched too hard, and the opposing teams couldn’t hit off of him. The league decided that would be too much for their frail egos, and wouldn’t let him play any more.
And we wonder why the rest of the world sees the U.S. as a bunch of sorry, lazy, greedy wimps?
Please, dear Physician, explain how that’s a massive generalization? Do you dispute that the majority of the rest of the world does not hold the United States in very high regard right now?
Sara J: I was speaking of the thousands of people who covered “Landslide” and did a much better job.
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Then I agree with you most eminently.
e.g. The Smashing Pumpkins’ version.
There’s also an unwritten (or written, depending on your school district) rule that says school teachers shouldn’t use red pen to grade students’ papers. Apparently the red ink could be seen as harsh and confrontational, and the fragile little babies might get their feelings hurt. Orange is better, but still a bit “fiery” of a color, so many schools advocate using purple pens instead.
I have to say, seeing this from the passenger seat of the car would completely brighten up my day. I’d be walking around with a smile on my face for hours!
“What are you so happy about?”
“Check out this photo I took.”
Rephrase. “I have to say, seeing this from the passenger seat of the car would completely brighten up my day. ONCE I HAD LEFT THE CAR, I’d be walking around with a smile on my face for hours!”
Thank you for your kind yet pedantic attempt to correct nonexistent mistakes.
As you seem interested in the definitions of the synonyms ROTATE and REVOLVE, you might enjoy the following from Mirriam Webster:
Revolve
transitive verb
1: to turn over at length in the mind : ponder
2 a obsolete : to cause to go round in an orbit
b: rotate
1intransitive verb1: recur
2 a: to ponder something
b: to remain under consideration
3 a: to move in a curved path round a center or axis b: to turn or roll round on an axis
4: to have or come to a specified focus : center —usually used with around
Rotate
intransitive verb
1 a: to perform an act, function, or operation in turn
b: to pass or alternate in a series
2: to turn about an axis or a center : revolve ; especially : to move in such a way that all particles follow circles with a common angular velocity about a common axis
transitive verb
1 a: to cause to turn or move about an axis or a center
b: to cause (a plane region or line) to sweep out a volume or surface by moving around an axis so that each of its points remains at a constant distance from the axis
2: to cause to grow in rotation
3: to cause to pass or act in a series : alternate
4: to exchange (individuals or units) with others
Curiosity killed the cow!
Holy crap, Im first.
Woot
*Does non-rhythmic white peoples dance*
And ….
you ruined it by posting about it. FAIL!
(Doing his duty)
And…
you ruined it by posting about posting about it. FAIL!
And…
Ok, that’s enough. =P
And…
You ruined it by not posting about posting about posting about it.
it’s a mix of a car and a cow: it’s a cowar!
My costume! Trick or Treat!
*masturbates*
Ok, now I’m thoroughly cowed.
Can you blame the cow for being curious? Her friend has a toy car on her head!
No falletio for that cow then.
“Fellatio” is officially the hardest word to spell, apparently, in the English language.
In your FACE, “floccinaucinihilipilification”.
Fail correct spelling is
flaucinaucinihilipilification
IN YOUR FACE!!!!
Na, you got it right!!!
LOL
Apt, no?
Main Entry: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: n
Definition: an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial
Etymology: the parts of the word each mean ‘at nothing’ or ‘with a small price’
Oh so I have been floccinaucinihilipilificating again then.
Now all I have to do is learn to pronounce it!
I think that we all are guilty of floccinaucinihilipilification on occasion here.
pronounce as
floxi
noxi
knee hill
ee-pill
ification
floccus a straw
noccus a nut
nihil nothing
pilus a hair
to set something utterly at naught – to value it as a straw, a nut, nothing at all, a hair
Explanation win. If you were a guy I’d kick you in the Noccusi.
Wouldn’t it be Nocci?
*doesn’t remember Latin*
Awesome explanation! Why are you wasting your time on Failblog?
So even the name Joe Flocco says that he’s a worthless Quarterback.
fail-atio, ftw!
FAIL floccinaucinihilipilification is not even close the hardest word to spell is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavulcaniosis
its a rare disease from breathing silica dust from volcanoes
Anti Fellatio Helmet for cow!!!
Epic win
I’m not dead. I’m getting better, actually.
No you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a minute.
I feel happy! I feel happy!
Oh don’t be such a baby!
*smacks round the head*
oh, do us a favor?
See you on Thursday.
he must be a king
how do you know?
he hasn’t got shit all over him
HELP HELP!
Im being repressed!
friggin awesome
brown: just what in the hell were u thinking exactly?
spotted:….there was a skittle in it. I think i have a problem
That’s just an udder drag, man.
It’s a cow trying out for ODST….too bad it didnt makeit ingame….
I bet the kid was delicious.
“Goat drives car until Driven off by cow Shocker!”
Ugh, I don’t want to think about a cow getting a Shocker.
I think the cow was giving the shocker!
But..the hooves….*barfs*
Rofl
This is delicious!!!
Yes Yes!!
It’s not a cow stuck in a toy car. It’s a cow wearing an improvised helmet.
Cow-tipping preparedness WIN.
Surely that would be a cow armed to the teeth and ready to fight back.
You wouldn’t want to get that cow mad!
Cows With Guns?
♫
We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo
Or die…
Cows with guns!
♫
And don’t call me Surely!
Damn, sorry forgot that it isn’t Thursday.
Haha!
*reminisces the days of BotW*
*sniffs*
Yeah I was just getting into it and they stopped it.
Do you think if we complain enough it will come back – kinda like nesting?
We should dissent and have our own BotW, as an autonomous collective, perhaps.
I still have the BotW trophy, so I can pass it on when we vote for the winner!
That sounds like a cool idea.
Every Friday we steal a Fail – everyone can nominate a Burn from the last week…
I was told they stopped BotW because they weren’t getting enough nominations. So when you ask them to reinstate it, be sure to include a nomination.
Yup! If we get good submissions, we’ll be happy to reinstate!
I’ll be happy if I get a good submissive.
We can order one on the internet!
And then we can order one around!
And THEN…those dishes get done, finally!
Dishing someone again dilettante?
coyote! yay! Wait, you use dishes?
Nope. Rabbit ears for my TV.
Isn’t that on the epilogue of Call Of Duty 4?
epic win for improvising cows everywhere!
Here’s Bessy, sporting this season’s hottest bovine accessory…
The sporty feedbag!
how now brown cow
how nom brown cow?
hunt ‘em, bronco.
Bessie wondered why Old MacDonald couldn’t give her a bell like all the other cows…
Win!
“To err is human; to get your head stuck in a toy car is bovine.”
Cud not have said it better myself.
udderly amusing.
She might have a steering problem.
She likes to “moove it moove it”.
At least she can honk the horns.
I think your milking this thread.
I think you’re grammar just failed.
I’m glad you think that; however, where do you think the fail is?
Well, “I think your milking this thread” is not a sentence. It’s a fragment.
Really? Damn, and I thought the Fail was putting your instead of you’re.
Well, if that was meant to be the entire sentence, then indeed that is the fail, which I alluded to by using “you’re” instead of “your” in my reply. However, you could just as well has intended to write “I think your milking this thread is really over the top” which would also be fine. So I did not want to rush to decide with certainty what the error was.
Thanks for attributing me with the ability to fail to construct a scentence in both ways.
I have learnt more grammar posting on web forums than I ever did at school. Maybe Failblog should be on the national curriculum.
Failblog is far too intelectual for the national curriculum. They’d have to dumb it down considerably.
Why would any of us want to dumb it down for them? If they wishto join in the fun, they should have to come up to out levels.
Out = Our presumably
That was exactly my thinking though, if learning how to construct a scentence/argument was a fun thing to do they would be far better at it I am sure.
Pardon the interruption of this thread. All attempts at pun and word play humor have been over shadowed by pedantic as$es who insist on nit-picking every grammatical error.
(your regularly schedule thread will continue below)
So sorry, I was thinking about the American National Curriculum.
Where they want to keep you dumb. They certainly do try.
leave it to me to use an error filled post make my self fell better then most… fail! /cry
feel… damn
HEEEE!
Skary, um….. you did it again!
SCENTENCE
a combination of words that smell funkin’ great together!
Erick – I think Loz said it best… YARPOF
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Ah Sorry Avis, I forget your from the US.
Yah, Loz does have that way of saying YARPOF
Beren wrote:
“Thanks for attributing me with the ability to fail to construct a scentence in both ways.”
Consider yourself to have failed yet again. You don’t attribute with; you attribute TO. Instead of “Thanks for attributing me with the ability…” it should be “Thanks for attributing to me the ability….” which would be awkward, but technically correct.
That jersey Cow is just looking at that English cow with disgust!
You guys need to take this discussion to Stuff White People Like #99.
Hahah! You still haven’t guessed what my fantastic acronym stands for
Oooh! Oooh! I think I know what it is.
Yet
Another
Retarded
Person
On
Failbog!
No – But I liked my version
Oh you’re so close!
It should be changed to that, actually.
Originally it was ‘You Are Retarded, Pi$$ Off Failblog’. You can tell I didn’t really give much thought to it.
LOL – I think POB’s one is better
No Offence meant though – as yours was the original.
Failblog*
(Correcting myself)
The originals aren’t always the best!
Just ask Fleetwood Mac.
(re: Fleetwood Mac)
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I disagree vehemently. The Peter Green British Blues version was infinitely better then that Buckingham/Nicks pop drivel that came later
I was speaking of the thousands of people who covered “Landslide” and did a much better job.
Yet another fine example of the dumbing down of Americans: Recently, in the New York Metro area, a Little League baseball player, around 13 years old, was kicked off the team because he pitched too hard, and the opposing teams couldn’t hit off of him. The league decided that would be too much for their frail egos, and wouldn’t let him play any more.
And we wonder why the rest of the world sees the U.S. as a bunch of sorry, lazy, greedy wimps?
Massive generalisation, but funny story.
Please, dear Physician, explain how that’s a massive generalization? Do you dispute that the majority of the rest of the world does not hold the United States in very high regard right now?
Sara J: I was speaking of the thousands of people who covered “Landslide” and did a much better job.
.
Then I agree with you most eminently.
e.g. The Smashing Pumpkins’ version.
Oooh, that was a good one!
There’s also an unwritten (or written, depending on your school district) rule that says school teachers shouldn’t use red pen to grade students’ papers. Apparently the red ink could be seen as harsh and confrontational, and the fragile little babies might get their feelings hurt. Orange is better, but still a bit “fiery” of a color, so many schools advocate using purple pens instead.
Purple: the color of failure.
Raealt: That was, indeed, the cover of which I spoke. Hooray, Billy Corgan!
Oh, I don’t think the problem is there. I think the problem was your exclusion of the word ‘majority’ from your first post.
This is teat-ering on the edge of ridiculous. Pat on the head for your efforts though!
Curdn’t have put it better myself.
How dairy make such a pun!
Yes, it was particularly cheesy
Hmm, I thought it was pretty gouda.
Pun fail, it’s pronounced GOWDA. Technically the ‘g’ is guttural also.
Exactomundo!
Or maybe Sara was using the correct pronunciation and punning COW-DA? I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Hmm… I think that’s a stretch, but I suppose she cud use all the help she can get.
Yes… yes, that’s how I was pronouncing it…
indeed…
Could be word, as a roule!
Best pun here yet.
Nah I thought Avis had the prize so far.
Hee Haw started it!
*lays blame*
Don’t you worry Avis, I saw him.
*Seconds Blame*
I herd it also.
The point is mooOOOooot. Everyone’s participating, I was just the cattle-ist.
That’s true, to beef air.
Bull!
I have a beef with that assessment.
I have a nice Chianti with that statement.
I have no steak in this claim, I don’t really care who gets the prize.
In that case, I’ll horn in.
I’m very glad we herd from both of you.
Guys, I’m enjoying this so much, but I have to hoof it.
(And this thread needs more cowbell.)
Next person to make a cow pun gets leathered.
I’ll make a cow pun when Hell’s fresian over!
Yeah, and when Hugh Heifer hangs up his velvet jacket!
Someone needs to steer this thread in another direction. I have calf a mind to do it myself.
I was going to make another pun, but I don’t think I’m up suet.
Hey, that was no vealed threat on my part.
It’s not so old that it must be put out to pasture.
Careful or we’ll brand you a troublemaker.
Well, it’s like I always say: Why drink half a beer when you can drink the Holstien.
It’s getting cold in here. I should put on my Jersey.
*pointedly ignores Mike’s spelling mistake*
Let me ruminate upon that for a while.
I think I can stomach it…four times over!
Then let the chips fall where they may. Oh, and thanks Dragon (I think)
Let’s hope she doesn’t point out your missing full-stop.
Damn! Guess I’m not ready for prime time.
Don’t worry, there is a life of obscurity to be found on FAIL Blog if you are not in the clique. Which is a positive in my book.
Awwww… nothing could be fodder from the truth!
I’m not worried, just making more cow puns. I can take a little ribbing.
Mike, you’re just a maverick! Why don’t you go turn on the rodeo and listen to some music?
if you are not nice or funny*
Indeed…hoof-in-mouth disease can be a problem here.
Roped me in with that one. I’m at the tipping point.
Shh, don’t even hint at that disease. The last thing we need is a reappearance of THAT. I’d hate to have to kill poor Bessie.
Hee! That’s better than kowtowing to the attention-seekers!
:beef strokinoff:
Your insults only graze them. They’ll keep milking it for all it’s worth.
“:beef strokinoff:” made me *GIGGLESNORT!!*
Mikebeat1: That’s the best joke heifer!
Introducing the newest toy from the Little Tykes Country Division.
The Cow-Vertible
(Sorry, cow not included. You must buy your own.)
Little Tykes Win! Free advertising for what it is worth. I know all you failbloggers are going to go out and buy one of these cars.
Absolutely. I’m buying one for every cow I own.
Vrum vrummmmmmmm bi-bii
I need more cowbell!
“For the first time in their married life, Betsy had to forcibly restrain herself from laughing out loud at Ed.”
They couldn’t have been married for very long then.
It will be three years this Thursday actually.
I thought that was ‘last’ Thursday.
Unfortunately, the traditional wedding gift for a third anniversary is leather…
Does that mean she gets to tan his hide and give it to him? It’d be great upholstery for the seats.
If Ed is in the picture, then she’s not a bull dyke, she’s a cow.
Sarah Palin wants to remove the rights of lesbian cows to marry.
Epic Win.
Agreed.
I have to say, seeing this from the passenger seat of the car would completely brighten up my day. I’d be walking around with a smile on my face for hours!
“What are you so happy about?”
“Check out this photo I took.”
Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing it from the driver’s seat either. But whatever.
Nooo, driving hazard! Eyes on the road!
Ten to two!
What kind of car would you have to be in to walk around for hours in the passenger seat?
Rephrase. “I have to say, seeing this from the passenger seat of the car would completely brighten up my day. ONCE I HAD LEFT THE CAR, I’d be walking around with a smile on my face for hours!”
Seeing the sun go supernova would completely brighten up my day. ONCE I HAD LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM, I’d be drifting around in space for centuries.
It’s five to ten here in Holland, but I don’t understand how shouting the time is useful…
I have to confess I’m fuzzy on the details, but I believe ten to 2 is the only time you’re allowed to drive at.
What are you driving at?
It’s that thing they use to teach you where to put your hands on the steering wheel. One goes at “ten o’ clock” and the other at “two.”
Or if you’re like me you have one at sixish and the other out the window.
LOL seeing it from the passenger seat of that car would be… c(r)owded.
Ok, now that one was a stretch.
Like the stretch limousines “Hugh Heffer” owns.
… and the award for best halloween costume goes to…
What was it titled, Driving Miss Daisy?
hahaha WIN
No, you got it backwards… it’s Miss Driving Daisy.
Talk about a backseat driver…
Um…playpen fail?
I guess it is better to go play in the pasture than in the highway, though.
Save the cows! Cut up your plastic child holders before throwing them away.
omg a killer cow, it has eaten a baby!
YOU AGAIN!
yeah, nice to see u too
nice to see u too!
Wisconsin’s pilot “Teach a cow to drive” program is having a few sizing issues.
Happy Meal with toy, the early years.
LOL
haha
“haha” goat
Would you call that a cowjacking? XD LOL
“October 7th, 2008 at 9:26 am”
Global Time Identification FAIL
The earth revolves around its core of Siderophile elements, not around you.
But, he’s Steve! I mean, Steve is… sooo… Steve! How can the earth NOT revolve around him? We must all bow in reverence!
*snork*
The world ROTATES around its core, but it REVOLVES around the sun.
Which world? Western? Third? Insect?
Disney World, the happiest place on earth!
It’s a small world, after all…
I will hunt you down and force you to go on that damned ride.
That was cruel!!!!
That ride SUCKED originally and SUCKS even MORE that they “updated” it.
Thank you for your kind yet pedantic attempt to correct nonexistent mistakes.
As you seem interested in the definitions of the synonyms ROTATE and REVOLVE, you might enjoy the following from Mirriam Webster:
Revolve
transitive verb
1: to turn over at length in the mind : ponder
2 a obsolete : to cause to go round in an orbit
b: rotate
1intransitive verb1: recur
2 a: to ponder something
b: to remain under consideration
3 a: to move in a curved path round a center or axis b: to turn or roll round on an axis
4: to have or come to a specified focus : center —usually used with around
Rotate
intransitive verb
1 a: to perform an act, function, or operation in turn
b: to pass or alternate in a series
2: to turn about an axis or a center : revolve ; especially : to move in such a way that all particles follow circles with a common angular velocity about a common axis
transitive verb
1 a: to cause to turn or move about an axis or a center
b: to cause (a plane region or line) to sweep out a volume or surface by moving around an axis so that each of its points remains at a constant distance from the axis
2: to cause to grow in rotation
3: to cause to pass or act in a series : alternate
4: to exchange (individuals or units) with others
GOD SPEED MOON COW
Is this an advertisement for Chik-Fil-A’s drive-up window??
WHATS WRONG WITH THIS DOOOOG???///
Apparently, it’s a cat.
Referencing a previous fail: WIN.
Or maybe it was an ex-parrot?
Let’s just hope there wasn’t any baby in that when the cow put their head in it.
Nah, a dingo got to it first.
Or pedo bear.
AWWWWW!! That was meeeean. Yet funny…
Talk about road rage!
That would be one hell of a cow-mute!
I’ve done that before *lolz in silence*
Now we know how melamine gets into the milk supply.
I think this cow simply had cart-before-the-horse envy.
It’s a cattle drive!
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them doggies movin’ Rawhide!
Don’t get too Rowdy there Clint.
Thank-you. I thought that might have got past everyone.
Not sure which is the most funny… the cow with the car or the other cow staring at it XD
Cool new cow helmet WIN!
This is by far the greatest FAIL ever.
Surrealism ftw…
poor cow. Now that he is locked up in that helmet, someone is going to graffiti HA HA on it’; side
Cow on right says: “Somthing different about you today Mavis…” “You had a hair cut”?
new gas/cow ‘09 hybrid from Kraft
am i the only person worried this animal is going to die of hunger???
just saying..
She could always go to a drive-in.
Yes, you’re the only one.
Misspelling of curiousity FAIL.
So you’re Canadian, “eh”?
It’s spelled curiOsity, colOr, neighbOr, etc. in the real world.
Grammar police fail.
WOW..some of you guys are nerds.Get a life……oh and nice pic
the co now has a football helmet
Looks like something you would see at Cyriak’s website.
hhaaaa
that cow is the SEX!
xo
Space Cow Over Muun Jumping Fails
Curiosity failed the cow
What’s really great is the look on the other cow’s face. If a cow was thinking “wtf,” that would be the face it made.
I love the look that the cow-bystander has on it’s face. It’s definitely a “WTF” look.
There’s a gorilla on the cow’s back.
this is a BIGGER fail for humans and society than for the animal. cows are not capable of distinguishing between manmade and natural objects.
MILK TRUCK.
GOT CARS?
mooooooooveeeeee out!
LOL D
“im going to drive out of here and have a new life in the city”
Stealing kids toys isn’t just for giraffes anymore!