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Message board > WORD OF THE DAY - June 24
WORD OF THE DAY - June 24
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Anna P
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WORD OF THE DAY - June 24
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 Here we go again! Today is June 24, the day Brazilians celebrate S.Jo�o (Saint John the Baptist) with bonfires, games, squaredances, countrystyle clothes, fake freckles and mustaches, delicious food such as peanut brittle, cocadas - a delicious coconut sweet, corn... Even Google is celebrating.
It �s also my grandaughter �s birthday and the day we �ll see lot �s of funny and silly "daffynitions" of the word...
SPHAIRISTIKE |
24 Jun 2011
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anitarobi
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Honestly, I thought it was a case of misspelling and somebody just wanted to write FAIRY STRIKE... but perhaps that is the point - it is a secret message from fairy to fairy, that �s why it �s not spelled correctly - they �re about to go on strike because they feel people have stopped believing in them... Go, fairies, go! Tink rules!
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24 Jun 2011
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rpellicano
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Well, it seems that I HAVE TO  try so here I go. Sphairistike is a kind of batik people from SP (S�o Paulo) wear on their hair and wrist whenever they go to a fair.
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24 Jun 2011
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Sara26
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Oh my, that is a hard one Anna! Sphair = a family name (I had neighbours with this one). Stike = a misspelling of "strike". So, it would mean the Sphairs � football strike team !! 
BTW, Happy Birthday to your granddaughter !
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24 Jun 2011
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edrodmedina
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Few people know that Medusa was a vertically challenged creature. What may you say does this have to do with today �s WOD. Well thank you for asking. Let �s try to analyze our word:
SPHAIRISTIKE SP= short person hair=dah hair of course stike=25 eels (don �t take my word for it look it up http://www.sizes.com/units/stike.htm) Therefore SPHAIRISTIKE means a short person with eels for hair. Hmmm who could that be? You guessed it...Medusa of course!
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24 Jun 2011
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eng789
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Sounds like fun. Have a great day and Happy Birthday. Sphair as in spare hairis-tik-e as in is sticky it is a glue for toupees and wigs.
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24 Jun 2011
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Mar0919
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Hello, dearest Anna! My shot at your WOD is.... sphair = sphere stike = mispelled "spike" so, the word is sphere-shaped hair that is all spiked up! |
25 Jun 2011
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