tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 31 16:38:39 1997
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Re: Son of KGT puns
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Bill Willmerdinger wrote:
|Susan Farmer wrote:
|> But the part that absolutely cracked me up was the herbed, breaded,
|> fat-back was called a tlhombuS (aka a blood clot ...) Guess it doesn't
|> much matter where in the universe you are -- too much fat clogs up
|> *anybody's* arteries.
|
|I don't get this part. What's funny about {tlhombuS}? Or is this just
|my mundane culinary upbringing showing?
Not cooking, medicine:
thrombus
a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel or that forms
in one of the chambers of the heart
(I didn't recognize it either until she pointed it out.)
-- Voragh Qel