Pet Peeves

• When coffee spills out of the top drinking hole of lids on to-go coffee cups.
• How commercialized the holidays are.
• People who pick their teeth in public.
• People who interrupt you and direct the conversation to themselves.
• People who make small talk with a cashier when there's a long line behind them.
• Spit flying out of people's mouth by accident.
• I hate when restaurant staff starts clearing dishes away when not everyone has finished eating -- leaving the one person at a table of four to feel bad they haven't finished yet.
• People who can't seem to understand that " red eyes" are possible to remove in photos.
• Waitors/waitresses with dirty fingernails.
• People who scrape their fork around the plate.
• Backwash.

Obscure Color Terms

This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of 'normal' colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives. Found http://phrontistery.info/colours.html

Word	Definition
aeneous	shining bronze colour
albicant	whitish; becoming white
albugineous	like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
amaranthine	immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
argent	the heraldic colour silver or white
atrous	jet black
aubergine	eggplant; a dark purple colour
aurulent	gold-coloured
azuline	blue
azure	light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
badious	chestnut-coloured
beige	light creamy white-brown
brunneous	dark brown
burnet	dark brown; dark woollen cloth
caesious	bluish or greyish green
cardinal	deep scarlet red colour
castaneous	chestnut-coloured
castory	brown colour; brown dye derived from beaver pelts
celadon	pale green; pale green glazed pottery
celeste	sky blue
cerulean	sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
cesious	bluish-grey
chartreuse	yellow-green colour
chlorochrous	green-coloured
chrysochlorous	greenish-gold
cinerious	ashen; ash-grey
cinnabar	red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
citreous	lemon-coloured; lemony
citrine	dark greenish-yellow
claret	dark red-purple colour; a dark-red wine
coccineous	bright red
columbine	of or like a dove; dove-coloured
coquelicot	brilliant red; poppy red
corbeau	blackish green
cramoisy	crimson
cretaceous	of or resembling chalk; of a whitish colour
croceate	saffron-coloured
cyaneous	sky blue
eau-de-nil	pale green colour
eburnean	of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
erythraean	reddish colour
ferruginous	of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron
filemot	dead-leaf colour; dull brown
flammeous	flame-coloured
flavescent	yellowish or turning yellow
fuliginous	sooty; dusky; soot-coloured; of or pertaining to soot
fulvous	dull yellow; tawny
fuscous	brown; tawny; dingy
gamboge	reddish-yellow colour
glaucous	sea-green; greyish-blue
goldenrod	dark golden yellow
greige	of a grey-beige colour
gridelin	violet-grey
griseous	pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled
haematic	blood-coloured
heliotrope	purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
hoary	pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
hyacinthine	of a blue or purple colour
ianthine	violet-coloured
ibis	large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
icterine	yellowish or marked with yellow
icteritious	jaundiced; yellow
incarnadine	carnation-coloured; blood-red
indigo	deep blue-violet colour; a blue-violet dye
infuscate	clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour
isabelline	greyish yellow
jacinthe	orange colour
jessamy	yellow like a jasmine
kermes	brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
khaki	light brown or tan
lateritious	brick-red
leucochroic	white or pale-coloured
liard	grey; dapple-grey
lovat	grey-green; blue-green
lurid	red-yellow; yellow-brown
luteolous	yellowish
luteous	golden-yellow
lutescent	yellowish
madder	red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
magenta	reddish purple
maroon	brownish crimson
mauve	light bluish purple
mazarine	rich blue or reddish-blue colour
melanic	black; very dark
melichrous	having a honey-like colour
meline	canary-yellow
miniaceous	colour of reddish lead
minium	vermilion; red lead
modena	crimson
morel	dark-coloured horse; blackish colour
nacarat	bright orange-red
nankeen	buff-coloured; durable buff-coloured cotton
nigricant	of a blackish colour
nigrine	black
niveous	snowy; white
ochre	yellowish or yellow-brown colour
ochroleucous	yellowish white
olivaceous	olive-coloured
or	heraldic colour gold or yellow
pavonated	peacock-blue
periwinkle	a bluish or azure colour; a plant with bluish flowers
perse	dark blue or bluish-grey; cloth of such a colour
phoeniceous	bright scarlet-red colour
piceous	like pitch; inflammable; reddish black
plumbeous	leaden; lead-coloured
ponceau	poppy red
porphyrous	purple
porraceous	leek-green
prasinous	leek-green colour
primrose	pale yellow
puccoon	blood-root; dark red colour
puce	brownish-purple; purplish-pink
puniceous	bright or purplish red
purpure	heraldic colour purple
purpureal	purple
pyrrhous	reddish; ruddy
rhodopsin	visual purple
rubiginous	rusty-coloured
rubious	ruby red; rusty
rufous	reddish or brownish-red
russet	reddish brown
sable	black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
saffron	orange-yellow
sage	grey-green colour
sanguineous	bloody; of, like or pertaining to blood; blood-red
sapphire	deep pure blue
sarcoline	flesh-coloured
sepia	fine brown
sinopia	preparatory drawing for a fresco; reddish-brown colour
slate	dull dark blue-grey
smalt	deep blue
smaragdine	emerald green
solferino	purplish red
sorrel	reddish-brown; light chestnut
spadiceous	chestnut-coloured
stammel	coarse woollen fabric, usually dyed red; bright red colour
stramineous	strawy; light; worthless; straw-coloured
suede	light beige
sulphureous	bright yellow
tan	tawny brown
taupe	brownish-grey
tawny	brownish-yellow
teal	greenish-blue
terracotta	reddish-brown
testaceous	of or having a hard shell; brick-red
tilleul	pale yellowish-green
titian	red-gold or reddish-brown
topaz	dark yellow
turquoise	blue-green
ultramarine	deep blue
umber	brownish red
vermeil	bright red or vermilion colour; gilded silver
vermilion	bright red
vinaceous	wine-coloured
vinous	deep red; burgundy
violaceous	violet-coloured
violet	bluish purple
virescent	becoming green or greenish; of a greenish colour
virid	green
viridian	chrome green
vitellary	bright yellow
wallflower	yellowish-red
watchet	pale blue
wheaten	the golden colour of ripe wheat
whey	off-white
willowish	of the colour of willow leaves
xanthic	yellow; yellowish
zinnober	chrome green

Pet Peeves

• Eating in bed and leaving crumbs
• Spammers.
• People who call but don't leave a message.
• Wasting food, like when a person takes a full plateful of food and then eat two bites.
• People who don't vote and then complain about the results.
• Tables at restaurants that are next to or in the direct line of view of the restrooms. I don't want to look at and think about people going to the bathroom while I eat.

Morning Wading

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Puff

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Pet Peeves

• When people put (sp?) after words when the spell check button is right in front of them.
• Piling up clothes in the corner of the room instead of putting them in the hamper.
• Hair on the soap.
• People who are stingy with money when they clearly have a lot of it.
• People who cook for you, and use the same spoon multiple times to taste what they are cooking while cooking it, like for pasta sauce or soup.
• Shopping carts with a broken wheel.
• The sound of somebody playing with silverware on a plate.
• Going out to dinner with a big group, eating $10 worth of food and having to split the whole bill and ending up paying much more than you ate.
• Sitting in the movies and hearing someone eating popcorn.

Mosaic Monday Taupe

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Pet Peeves

• Having to use more than one remote control (one for TV, dvd player, cable box, TIVO, etc.)
• People who throw cigarette butts on the beach.
• People who leave shopping carts in the parking lot instead of taking them back to the corral.
• People who go the wrong way in a parking lot.
• People letting their dogs use my yard as their toilet.
• People throwing trash into a recycle bin.
• Movie sequels that are unnecessary.
• Drivers who tailgate.
• Anyone male or female- who says "We're pregnant." Are they sharing a uterus?
• When you have an itch on the bottom of your foot and you can't scratch it because you have shoes on.

Words

All my favorites.

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