The letter X

[onebigpotato]

What is it, what is it all about? For me the letter X is a girls bra and I'm 16, I feel clumsey trying to pull it off. When I do pull it off we're both left sitting there wondering if it was all worth it and dreaming of the days when playing outside had all the sexual tension we needed. Am I right?

Any suggestions on words that have the letter X used well, have a clear meaning and can be pronouced without developing a cold for a suitable amount of phlegm to roll into it all?

Thanks for the help and weird looks, sure both with be plentiful.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

You know Spudsworth, you can be extremely vexatious at times.

 

[digs]

You know Spudsworth, you can be extremely vexatious at times.

Tell me about it, spud.

One 'Tato is inexorably unorthodox.

P.S. That word list is full of potato gems. And this post is inexcusably excruciating.

 

[onebigpotato]

Spud, potato gems, this thread is hilarixous.

No but seriously, you've banjaxed the hell out of it.

 

[Axiom]

Sometimes you are the axle that helps my car drive to my chateaux...

 

[Parson]

This tread continues without lux due to extreme prejudice toward crinkle cut potatoes.


(For the uninformed crinkle cut potatoes are those which are cut to look like a bunch of "x"s tied together)

 

[onebigpotato]

Aren't crinkle cut chips the ones that are corrugated? Or is that ruffled?

I think one of the largest problems with using this silly letter is that people reading my books won't know what the words mean. I hope you've found this thread xenial.

 

[Parson]

We may have a "chip" problem. I think you are talking about what we Americans call potato chips --- thin, bagged, cold, deep fried potato slices. In which case one brand calls a wavy chip, ruffled --- I was talking about what we call french fries, or what the English call "chips." But instead of "strings" these fries are maybe 2 or 3 cm (1/3 in) slice of potato which is punched with several holes in it. And if viewed with a thought of X's it could look sort of like this:


XXXXXX
XXXXX
XXXXXX

(Best I could do. Sorry.)

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I don't really understand, but I do feel like chips now. Of any kind!

 

[Precise Calibre]

They look like lattices commonly used to grow vine plants up the side of a wall - indeed they are actually called lattice chips.

 

[Parson]

Bravo PC! I was thinking I was going to have to go to a restaurant and be forced to eat some. And then take a picture. But you have done it already. Now, fess up. Did you just happen to have such a shot on your camera? If so I might have a kindred food spirit.

I don't believe the restaurants where I've had them called them "Lattice chips." It was something fries, but for the life of me my old brain refuses to find the synapse for it.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

What?! Why would someone eat them! They're half-air!

 

[digs]

There's a rational explanation! In the late 70s, when eating really began to take off, foodlovers were faced with a dilemma: eating and breathing were both necessary to live, but pausing to do one meant having less time to do the other. Various governments and peak international scientific bodies immediately put their best researchers on the issue, but it would not be until April of 1985 that a real solution would be found: the lattice chip.

The innovative design works thus: the lattice structures trap bubbles of air as the chip is moved from packet to mouth. Each bite destroys a piece of lattice, releasing air into the mouth. The specially engineered shards of chip then lodge on either side of the epiglottis, trapping it half-open. While food falls down the oesophagus, the air filters down the trachea and into the lungs. Thus, while there is only half as much chip to each bite, the ingenious negation of the need to breathe means that one can eat them twice as quickly.

The wonders of science!

 

[Ursa major]

Just the situation for which the word, exigency, was invented (to return this thread to the reason for its existence).

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Deoxyribonucleic Acid?

 

[Ursa major]

There's a new twist!

Or is it two?

Let's compromise: a double helix.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

A well-constructed twist? Or one of those annoying deus ex machina?

Thinking about them vexes me.

 

[Ursa major]

Exactly!

I see them and my axons fire, as I wish to excise** the experience.







** - And I would do so, but I find the exercise too taxing.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

** - And I would do so, but I find the exercise too taxing.

Oh, that goes without saying. Must be an axiom. But do try not to get fixated on the idea, or you might jinx yourself. It is, afterall, just some random letters strung together as text.

Although I admit, excising certain things (like demons?) can sound daring and perhaps even sexy.

On to the next suggestion then...

 

[Parson]

Shall we all exit then as we determine the patterns for existence over snax of Chex and lattix chips.

__________

Okay, not real words but cut me some slax, mine are no longer fitting.