For my non-Facebook-reading friends ....

... I'm reposting a note I posted on Facebook a while ago. It's about words. Enjoy.

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Years ago, in college, my best friend Aaron and I came up with what we called The Gross Word List. Several years later, my friend Rebecca and I amended it.

So here, now, I present to you...

THE GROSS WORD LIST. (There are also some phrases in here, too.)

Hunker
Smear
Privy
Staunch
Loaf
Moist
Tinkle
Squat
Squelch
Quench
Tinker
Ointment
Salve
Slacks
Moist
Panties
Groin
Cranny
Nook
Crotch
Wimple
Meal
Caddy
Mulch
Follicle
Fanny
Batch
Crock
Commingling
Plow
Chisel
Straw man
Slam dunk
Jingle
Custard
Medicine
Eatery
Sippie cup
Clam
Clamp
Muzzle
Fresh
Pickle
Funnel
Fuddrucker’s
Dig in
Packet
Cheat sheet
Barf bag
Sloppy
Slop bucket
Comfy
Booths
Soothing
Kitchen
Milk
Lozenge
Massage
Sofa
Buttermilk
Therapeutic exercise
Slacks
Teat
Turgid
Cozy
Cougar
Nuzzle
Chocolate
Pizza
Hot meal

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And here are some additional words I and others have come up with since:
Scabies
Gravies
Nostril
Gobs
Wound
Fickle
Fecal
Girdle
Dinghy
Stroke
Coddle
Muff
Fondle
Platter
Phlegm
Plug
Borscht
Bladder
Wipe

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Other suggestions are welcome!

Explication of this blog's title

Those who know me well know that I have a deep and abiding love of cliches. I adore them. They fill me with glee. Because of my love for them, I often peruse this Web site, http://www.westegg.com/cliche, which helpfully provides a Cliche Finder tool. Let's explore it together, shall we?

Since I am very fond of "leg" cliches (don't ask why, because I don't know. I'm odd.), I typed "leg" into the Cliche Finder tool. Here's the list that came up (minus the words that have the phrase "leg" in them, such as "legion" and "legislate"):

went off with his tail between his legs
put on his pants one leg at a time
pull his leg
doesn't have a leg to stand on
on his last legs
he has a hollow leg
get a leg up on
Busier than a one-legged man at an ass kicking contest
He was on that like a pack of dogs on a three-legged cat.
I've seen better looking legs on a table.
Busier than a three legged cat in a dry sand box.
shake a leg
pull my leg
He can talk the leg off a chair
her legs go clear up
busy as a one legged man at an ass kicking contest
Break a leg.
Crooked as a dog's hind leg
Break a leg!

Now let's see how long--and coherent--a sentence I can make using leg cliches.

Let's shake a leg so we can get a leg up on the last leg of our journey; the road we're coming up to is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and we're on our last legs because the car is almost out of gas.

Wow. I must be really bored.