Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Unflappable			Ynez is sorry she waved her red cloak in
    				front of the bull
    
    Immutable			Under the circumstances, Ynez can't even
    				scream
    
    Teasable			Ynez is back at it again.
    
    ...
    
    Karen

    Decaffeinated    The cow had an abortion after animal husbandry
     			succeeded.
    
    --bonnie

    (-: We must, after all, Value Differences, even among the Kine...  :-)

    Expendable      - Purchase something in a primitive bartering system.

    Indelible       - Male cow shopping for food.
    
    Understandable  - Animal voice-recognition experiment succeeds.
    
    Notable         - Bull given access to Digital conference facility.
    
    
    Mat.
    *:o)

    Friable	- Not a recommended cooking technique; bulls tend to be
    		  tough.

    Liable	- Ungrammatical euphemism for the cow's-eye view of animal
    		  husbandry. (Animal wifery?) [Then again, since bovines
    		  generally do it standing up, perhaps neither "lie" nor
    		  "lay" would be appropriate...]

    Convertible	- Render it into something else: a steer, a belt, a
    		  steak...

    Interminable - "Help! The bull has swallowed my workstation!"

    Mobile	- Additional nonsense - or, an animal too mighty for the
    		  bullfighter to handle
    
    Mobilize	- "They're all *staring* at me!!!"
    
    -b

    Parsable	- The diagram you find above the meat counter, showing
                  Rib Roasts, Shoulder Roasts, Rack, and assorted Giblets

   Objectionable	- Objects found in a bull, such as semi-digested
   			  grass or feed.

    Ready, willing, and a bull	- Look out, all you cows!

    Scow	-	Oriental cattle boat
    Scarf	-	A small scow
    Accounting	-	The one with the bell, or
    			The bovine version of sheep enumeration zzzzzz....
    Cowslips	-	What it picks its food up with
    Cowed	-	Not feeling very bullish
    Revealing	-	Re-heating last night's Wiener Schnitzel

    Irreversible -   How do you make this #@!~*%^ animal back up?

    Amenable - Our prayers, at last, have been answered!

    From my daughter's best friend:
    
    Before -- this damned steak costs more than gold!
    
    --bonnie

    befoul  -- what you get if you cross a bull and an owl
    
    Bible   -- start a farm
    
    condensateable  -- first get a vaporous bull
    
    decomposable  -- a green bull?
    
    workable  -- doing 9 to 5 at the job
    
    crumble   -- doing 5 to 9 at the pen

    WARNING!  Students of rhythm, metre, scansion, poetic style and
    form please stop reading here!
    Please note, also, that pronunciations are British English.  Hence
    the second syllable of "amenable" rhymes with "seen" and not "ten".
                                          
    
    Able charged through a china shop
    where noble went before.
    The manager said, "I regretable
    has trampled down my door!"
    
    To the creature the fellow said, "Sable,
    what's the idea behind this wreck?
    I creditable with intelligence
    but you're just a pain in the neck!"
    
    They say you identifiable by the brand
    on its nether end.
    This beast bore a mark saying "Edward"
    (he was "Edible" to a friend).
    
    Now Eddy stood there in the wreckage.
    Amenable never was born
    but he burst into tears at the manager's words.
    "Oh, pitiable so forlorn!"
    
    The man said, "Now I don't enjoyable
    breaking down.  What's the matter with you?"
    The beast pleaded with him, "Employable.
    I need work.  There's a lot I can do."
    
    The manager smiled.  "I adorable
    who has ideas above his station,
    but what is your reason to stable?"
    "Gender change is a dear operation!"
    
    "But surely, since you arable
    your life is one long party.
    There's many a man who would enviable
    who's able, hale and hearty!"
    
    "But you see, I don't want to be able;
    I want to be a cow!"
    "I see... here's a tot of rumble,
    while we sit and figure out how."
    
    So they pondered on what one might chargeable
    for the op. "Quite a lot I fear.  But you
    aren't indelible.  There you'd be sacred
    and no one could possibly cut you."
    
    As day turned to night in the china shop,
    Edible and the man became friends.
    But as the light fades and they get wildly drunk
    that's not where the story ends.
    
    One day I'll return here to note how a man
    could affordable's help in his store.
    And his valiant attempts to reversible
    into something he'd not been before.
    
    I'll tell you the tale of how Edible
    became "Mandible" then became "cow".
    In fact, I will tell you a loadable
    but that's all that I've time for now.
    
    
    Polly Glott
    (assisted by Brian Patman)

    How personable.

    Impregnable - tricky!

    
    Consumable	- eat a lot
    
    Defensable  - let him out of the pasture
    
    Mutable	- muzzle him
    
    Roger

    Incredible  - the one who printed Digital's financial statements

    recoverable -- see referable
    
    referable -- see recoverable
    
    reeferable -- roll another joint for him before he charges again!
    
    rubble -- what'cha gotta do to him before attempting animal husbandry

    scramble -- Get outta here, Toro!!                          
    
    unforgettable -- A Bull Elephant (they have great memories, remember? :-)
    
    terrible -- Bull who does NOT require a Green Card for Earth

    Arable -- a bull who opposes Israelis
    
    opposable -- "Umm... Turn your head a little so that the light falls on
                 your horns a bit better... Perfect!!"
    
    risible -- whatcha get after ya rubble (or a bull with a sensayuma?)
    
    ineluctible -- George McGovern (or any similarly hopeless UK candidate)
    
    unlivable -- Unfortunate beast after the unexpected execution of his
                 Liver Donor Card

    Indispensible - what the prolific Kalikow says of his writing implement

    skiable - euphemism for marginal, rough skiing conditions

    
    Bobbable	funny looking haircut on a bull
    
    Quotable 	Ferdinand said "MOOOOOOOOOO"
    
    Impressionable  make a copy of a bull
    
    Workable	Treat like an ox
    
    Defensible	Let a bull out of the pasture
    
    Regrettable	Feel sorry for a bull
    
    Damnable	Devilish bull
    
    Interminable Bull in a VT340
    
    Roger

Actually, Lew, I think it's

skiable -->  You'd have a better time riding the bull.

--bonnie

    inextricable -- bulls should never attempt careers as escape artists
    
    dependable -- toss him not into the 3' side of the pool, but into the
                  15'!
    
    global -- too much Strontium-90 in the meadow
    
    suspendable -- A rather intricate web of elasticized straps,
                   terminating in brass clasps or buttonholes for 
                   4-(or 5?:-)legged pants (we're dealing with a 
                   BULL here, after all:-)
    
    supportable -- OK, when you use this, you can choose only the 4-legged
                   suspendables :-)
    

imaginable -->  gee, I was sure I saw one over here somewhere!

ballistic --> the sound of abominable

    infallible -- back to the topic of animal husbandry... a childless
                  bull?
    
    incontrovertible -- Better take the ragtop down, his horns'll rip it...
    
    inconsolable -- littler bulls fit into smaller spaces than the
                    interminable sort

unable --> one-piece bull (similar to unibody construction for cars)

doable --> two-piece bull

treble --> three-piece bull (perhaps the one who works for Merrill-Lynch?)*

deferrable --> bull who has given up his fur coat in deference to the 
                   animal rights movement

--bonnie

*Who, by the way, I'm pretty sure is a steer . . . no visible bull parts.

>
>--bonnie
>
>*Who, by the way, I'm pretty sure is a steer . . . no visible bull parts.

My deepest commiserations(sp) go out to you. It must be difficult living
without sex in your life. I have always thought that desexing bulls to
make steers was the worst of a rancher's jobs.

;-) ted
 

    Anent Bonnie's amusing "VISe-I-BLE" differences between bulls and
    steers...  Kinda gives new meaning to the USA phrase "a bum steer!"  :-)
    
    inadvisable -- a painful thing to do to a poor bull's 'nads
    
    retestable -- repair operation for the unfortunate steer's quashed
                  parts
    
    =====
    
    susceptible -- "Arise, Sir Bull!" (Though this is a bit nonstandard
                   since a sceptre instead of a sword is apparently being 
                   used in this particular accolade) 
                   (OK-ok, I'm reaching here)
    
    inexorable -- a type of "Bullean Algebra" devoid of exclusive OR
    
    inuxorable -- bull who plays the field, which is inadvisable  :-)
    
    =====
    
    And BTW folx, early warning:  In a conversation with my elder daughter
    Jodie last night (she with access to a complete English lexicon and to
    the full UNIX GREP tool) she committed, "in her copious free time," to
    GREP all the word-initial, -medial, and -final occurrences of all
    phonetic combos of POLLYs and ABOMINABLE!S, and to send them along to
    Yours Truly for his exclusive delectation.  
    
    All this over my wife's feeble protestations "I *Never* Spawned Any
    Child Process who GREPs!!"  (Which is even funnier considering the
    colloquial Yiddish expression for burping is "grepsen." :-)
    
    And you thought I was cheating when I got out my trusty old Roget's... 
    You ain't seen NUTHIN' yet!  :-)
    
    But hey, if you have similar tools, it's time for a pre-emptive strike!

    
    I have nothing to declare but my genius.
    
    OK, Oscar got there before me but I got a litle wilde at the thought of
    this kalkovian stockpile acquired through electronic jiggery-pokery.
    For shame, Jodie!
    
    
    (and can you send me the list too? ;-)
    
    

Actually the best part about de-bulling a bull is getting to eat the 
resulting Rocky Mountain Oysters . . .

--bonnie

    amenable -- a bovine version of the Knights Who Say Ni!
    
    adorable -- I cower away from this one...
    
    curable -- not my job, call the vet.
    
    -d

    disable -- Hey MAN, you don' wanna be doin' that, they get mad!
    
    Runcible -- The Right Rev. Archbishop of Canterrible
    
    mumble -- biological impossibility
    
    BLAMable -- another sound of abominable! (thanks, Bonnie! :-)
    
    And in revenge for 853.23, wherein my writing implement was
                       gratuitously "insulted" :-) --
    
                    (-: In the Brain PatmanaLyzeaBull!! :-)

Mumble --> Well, maybe he doesn't have anything to say.

Adorable --> Isn't that what the Israelites did while Moses was up
                   on the mountain getting the ten commandments?

and, from my daughter:

steerage --> how old he is.

--bonnie

    My son and I were watching early morning cartoons this morning...
    
    The name of the cartoon was:
    
    Toreadorable
    
    		Olive says, "Oh, Brutus, you're just adorable!"

    After seeing .39 on my screen:
    
    	interminable

    Questionable -- interrogate a cow's husband
    
    Forgettable -- let's ....