Daily Archives: October 23, 2009

Anagrams for “Blue Dog Democrat”

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Led Combat Drogue

Words are falling into obscurity everyday. Occasionally when we find a fine-sounding word that seems to have fallen on hard times we recycle it with a new alternative definition. Today’s recycled word is palimpsest. We note that a palimpsest is a scroll or manuscript that has been scraped and reused.  This definition is no doubt still useful in some circles, but such a descriptive sounding word needs wider currency. We humbly offer the following alternative:

Palimpsest – noun

1. The phenomenon of exhausted male friends holding onto each other for support after running a marathon