Blog Guy, I’ve noticed Reuters uses the word “reveler” quite often. I don’t know what that means.
Reveler is a useful noun with a variety of meanings:
1. Somebody who spills a jar of toothpicks on her head
2. A person who has difficulty eating corn-on-the-cob
3. A dude who is eaten alive by a crocodile
4. A guy who for some reason, possibly involving a lot of rum, thinks getting painted green is just a heck of a good idea
5. A chick who is carried away by a large white bird as she’s heading for the beach in her bikini
Thanks! It must have been difficult finding specific illustrations for each definition.
No, not really.
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Above: A reveller of Portela samba school dances during the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome, February 24, 2009. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
Below:Reveler in La Vega, Dominican Republic. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Reveler in Barranquilla, Colombia. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
Reveler in Rio de Janeiro, REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
Reveler in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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While the corn on the cob thing was hilarious, this thread only confuses me, because once again I can never figure out if ‘reveler’ and ‘canceled’ should have one L or two.
- Posted by 77!8I like how you’ve rhymed ‘revel’ with ‘devil’.
- Posted by nazSnap!
Thank you so much, Bob. It is better to be a regular commenter than an irregular one. I have to get my priorities straight, stop working so much, and comment my way back to regularity.
- Posted by Dr. DollWell exactly. Chronic irregularity is nothing to trifle with.
- Posted by Robert BaslerToothpicks!!!
Oh, lord.
That made me laugh for 5 minutes!
I am glad that getting drunk, somehow losing all my clothes, spectacles and wallet, 40 miles from the military base I was assigned to one night is no longer one of the definitions that are being used for ‘revelling.’
I mean, I know of someone that did the above.
Of course.
- Posted by TimSorry, Tim, that was the sixth definition and I only used the first five. I also cut out number seven, which involves me at a party aboard a junk in the South China Sea.
- Posted by Robert BaslerWell, of course, you were being circumspect, so as not to be appearing to be self important!
And let me think for a moment. A junk. South China Sea…
Do you remember anything else about that adventure? Like maybe a duck, a mamasan, you mumbling, ‘Top of the World, Ma,’ and…
Yes! It’s all coming back to me!
Uh…I mean…heh heh heh…oops! Nevah happen, GI!
My lips are sealed(and you owe me, big time)!
Your partner in adventure!
Tim
- Posted by TimPictures are cool, but the person writing this should write children’s books… not funny at all… my IQ just dropped 50 point by reading this…
- Posted by NesaGee Nesa, that means your IQ must be in the single digits.
- Posted by some body[...] El Bloc de les Ciències Socials a l’ESO i al Batxillerat added an interesting post today on Revel like the devil!Here’s a small reading…dances during the Carnival parade in Rio de … REUTERS/John Vizcaino. Reveler in Rio de Janeiro, REUTERS/Bruno Domingos [...]
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