Phlamph

[JJuggle]

What is this phlamph? Vote and the answer will be revealed during the first week of the new year.

Then it will be put to rest.

[ivan]

My birthday is on 31st of December. Beat that!

[fleshner]

my moms birthday is on the 31st! ha!


jk its not i just wanted to beat you

[ivan]

Well, my birthdays is at 11:50 pm. So, even your mom can't beat that!

Haha!


<------Stumped!

[forrestunifreak]

What do birthdays have to do with anything?



For me the poll was a toss up between number 2, 5, and 8 from the top....

[ivan]

Well, Juggle did mention New Year. That's when my birthday is.
Anyway, I think it's the non-native thumb theory. I remember Juggle talking about some french girl from a movie.

[habbywall]

Dude, me and yoopers birthday is the 13th so ha!!!

[Jethro]

I am going with "A random example of a phonetically possible yet non-existent English word>'

Then I will google it

[steveyo]

I think phlamph is an interjection, like "Shazam!".

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

gib

that's the only thing i can think of.

[spazdude222]

What is this phlamph? Vote and the answer will be revealed during the first week of the new year.

Then it will be put to rest.
everyone knows its a small woodland elf from nordic mythology that preyed on the young children of viking that had gone out raiding...

[JJuggle]

everyone knows its a small woodland elf from nordic mythology that preyed on the young children of viking that had gone out raiding...
What a coincidence. I just sent back to Netflix the 1958 movie, The Vikings (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/) with Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and the wonderful, perennially middle aged Ernest Borgnine. What glorious kitsch.

But no, you're wrong.

[BillyTheMountain]

To be fair, you should have allowed us to vote for more than one choice.

[dan de man]

hahaha google phlamph

[James_Potter]

For me the poll was a toss up between number 2, 5, and 8 from the top....
Me too, but I rather like 3 too...I'm gonna need to think about this one.

[James_Potter]

hahaha google phlamph
hahaha GO MOST REPLYS (http://www.google.com/search?q=phlamph&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)!!

[Into the blue]

Am I the only one who feels a little upset that the actual meaning of phlamph will be revealed?
I've gotten quite used to it now, and MR will be a little less enigmatic if we know what JJuggle is actually on about with his daily post.
It's become part of the furniture.

[James_Potter]

Am I the only one who feels a little upset that the actual meaning of phlamph will be revealed?
I've gotten quite used to it now, and MR will be a little less enigmatic if we know what JJuggle is actually on about with his daily post.
It's become part of the furniture.
Almost like option two, A deliberate attempt to be the origin of a pointless Internet phenomenon....

[kington99]

Well, my birthdays is at 11:50 pm. So, even your mom can't beat that!

Haha!


<------Stumped!

You lose, my dad was born at 11:56 on 31/12

[ivan]

You lose, my dad was born at 11:56 on 31/12
I'm a loser, I know.
What's your name?
I need it because now if anyone will ask me why is it that I think that I'm a loser, I can say because xxxxx's dad was born at 11:56 on 31/12.
Btw, just to confirm. That 11:56 is at night, right? More like 23:56? Because mine is.



Last chance...

[albino_gumby]

Score i'm on the second most winning team! Go team pleasing sound!

[JJuggle]

There's still time to vote.

[Hazmat]

It sounds like an all new recipe for pot belly pie with an extra bit of ham. I like pie :D :D

[spazdude222]

It sounds like an all new recipe for pot belly pie with an extra bit of ham. I like pie :D :D
I think this would be a great thread to play a game of baldurdash in! Everyone, before he tells us what it means, make up your own deffinition! Mine is about woodland elves a page back...Let's see what we can come up with!

[justin]

phlamph

[GILD]

What is this phlamph? Vote and the answer will be revealed during the first week of the new year.

Then it will be put to rest.
The Poll is closed.
I would've voted for number 2 tho.

Am I the only one who feels a little upset that the actual meaning of phlamph will be revealed?
I've gotten quite used to it now, and MR will be a little less enigmatic if we know what JJuggle is actually on about with his daily post.
It's become part of the furniture.

Preach it brother.

[JJuggle]

So, here it goes. Spoiler Below.

The first, fourth, and seventh items while things that might have occured to me are not the origin of phlamph. It would be nice if the word described one of those things.

I have also never heard a cat make the sound phlamph and can't imagine why where one decided to hock up a fur ball would make a difference.

There is truth to the second item but it, too, is not the origin.

Now as for items five and eight. Both are unequivocally true and will continue to be so. But they too are not the origin.

Which leaves item three, "The result of a non-native English speaker's attempt to pronounce the word thumb." This is, in fact, the origin as suggested here (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?p=645206&highlight=french+woman#post645206) and noted with a minor inaccuracy by ivan.

Way back in the eighties I had a friend who was dating a French woman by the name of Anne. She was known by all as Frenchie. She was a graduate student at Columbia and was had to learn English. She did quite well but for some reason she could never remember the word "thumb" and it always came out as "phlamph". And there it is. It's a great utterance and is now a part of my family's vocabulary. Say farewell.

And a happy 2007 to all!

[dudewithasock]

Imagine if she became a doctor...

"Now, you'll feel a slight prick on the tip of your phlamph..."

[Jerrick]

My plamph is sore!!!

I don't know if its good that we know it, or if it leaves the word with less meaning.

As for me, I still like the random occurrence of Plamph in MR, and knowing what it means doesnt make it any different.

I'm just gonna have to start using it a lot now.

Go plamph!!!

[monkeyman]

Yay, a new inside joke to confuse the newbies with!

[Into the blue]

Phlamph sucker.

[Hazmat]

Man, phlamph is probably some character you've taken from a video game. For example do you know what a ELUM is or squiggoth.

Oh well, whatever it is just tell and get it over and done with. Besides you said when the new year comes. You'll tell us. :D :D :D

[unifreak7]

I heard it's what you did last weekend.

-Shaun Johanneson

[James_Potter]

I heard it's what you did last weekend.
-Shaun Johanneson
I heard it's what I did to your MOM last weekend!!!!!!!!
ohhhhhhhh!

[GILD]

Raphael, I would love to play against you in a game of Balderdas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash)h.

[JJuggle]

Man, phlamph is probably some character you've taken from a video game. For example do you know what a ELUM is or squiggoth.

Oh well, whatever it is just tell and get it over and done with. Besides you said when the new year comes. You'll tell us. :D :D :D
Based on this post, I've decided not to spill the beans.

Raphael, I would love to play against you in a game of Balderdash.
Dave, I've not played, but would be happy to give it a go should we find ourselves in the same vicinity.

[spazdude222]

I feel a sense of completeness now that i know...

[GILD]

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p 17
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17+8+12+1+13+17+8=76

Two letters appear twice.
h 8
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p 17 and 1+7=8 (ask any numerologist about that bit)

8 is therefore a very important number in this word.
Add the 8 to the 76 and you get...? (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=387333&postcount=233)?!!

Coincidence?
I think not.

[spazdude222]

not even gonna pretend to get that...what is 768?

[GILD]

May the link be with you, always.

[spazdude222]

Yeah, I checked the link...but I didn't know what the context of that post was...I think I get it now though (gotta love the search function)

[dudewithasock]

not even gonna pretend to get that...what is 768?

http://www.clicksmilies.com/auswahl/lachen001.gif

[forrestunifreak]

Yay, a new inside joke to confuse the newbies with!

Haha that's pretty GLH.


Anyone here remember GLH? That's an old one....

[James_Potter]

Haha that's pretty GLH.
Anyone here remember GLH? That's an old one....
It's about as GLH as gibbing a 768.

[James_Potter]

not even gonna pretend to get that...what is 768?
It is a warp in the space-time continuum.
Know that you know about it, you will see it everywhere, and it will keep coming back.
Forever.

[dudewithasock]

Haha that's pretty GLH.


Anyone here remember GLH? That's an old one....

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1055/gildloveshairpz8.jpg

[monkeyman]

Coincidence?
I think not.

I'm either impressed...or just shocked.

[James_Potter]

Do you bite your phlamph at us, sir?
I do bite my phlamph, sir.

[ivan]

and noted with a minor inaccuracy by ivan.

Go Ivan and his Aeolian modes!

[Hazmat]

Go Ivan and his Aeolian modes!

:D :D :p :p :D :D ;) ;) :) :)

[harper]

The dangers and subsequent drop in hitch-hiking have all but discontinued the use of this word. Sad. I remember it in full swing thirty five years ago as I used it from coast to coast.

[vuniw]

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p 17
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17+8+12+1+13+17+8=76

Two letters appear twice.
h 8
and
p 17 and 1+7=8 (ask any numerologist about that bit)

8 is therefore a very important number in this word.
Add the 8 to the 76 and you get...? (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=387333&postcount=233)?!!

Coincidence?
I think not.

17 is q, not p

[skrobo]

17 is q, not p
burn!!!

[GILD]

Spoilsport.