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baiba
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Tarantino or tarantulas, hmmmm, I prefer Tarantino (I liked Carina �s version)!
At some point in the past Tarantism was on the list of the Worthless Words For The Day, poor thing....
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14 Sep 2010
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anaisabel001
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Taranto =A flamenco dance accompanied by the "cante" (style of song)
-ism = practice
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14 Sep 2010
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Zora
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Tarantism - the study of tarantulas!
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14 Sep 2010
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stexstme
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I �m sorry Carinaluc gave the right answer before I could.:o(( I �m a mad tarantist myself.Sulking, & going back to my reservoir with my dog & some pulp fiction. |
14 Sep 2010
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GIOVANNI
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tarantisim
ta = slang for to
rant = is a speech or text that does not present a calm argument
I suffer from tarantisim - I love ta rant and rave all day long. |
14 Sep 2010
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MarionG
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Im with silke and apodo, it makes me think both of 1. tarantulas and 2. of the tarantella (used to dance in my younger years) add to that that I am clueless as to the meaning..
Put it all together and you get a blunder of the magnitude of dancing the tarantella with extremely hairy legs....
this would be used as a euphemism to indicate somone �s behaviour was embarassing;
Polite people would say: "she pulled quite a tarantism yesterday", less nice ones would add: "you should have seen how she sneezed her greasy lunch all over the inpector of the ministry of education" |
14 Sep 2010
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