Bb: Blarney Stone

 Definition: At Blarney Castle in the County of Cork Ireland is a celebrated stone called the Blarney Stone It is made famous by tradition among Irish people that whoever kisses the Blarney Stone will from that moment become gifted with the power winsome flattery and persuasive eloquence Hence it is the shrine of ambitious orators and ardent lovers from immemorial to the present day.(Wright, Intro to Echoes from the Blarney Stone)
Cocktail Party BanterYou must have kissed the Blarney Stone, for your words are so eloquent.
Literary ReferenceIT'S quare how some can talk so And tell what they are seekin
They have a knack and cut of gib And illoquence for speakin
And they can string so long a chat Ye d wonder how they prate it
They take a word of this and that And thin how well they mate it
And gaping crowds they can And lead them on to mobbin
Or like a fiddle in a dance Just kape thim gintly bobbin
And they can spake the words of pace Our doubts and fears dispellin
Or they can bid our ills inkrease Beyond the power of tellin
But what's the grass they graze
That kapes their tongues so And how is it they saze
upon Their words woot little striven
The Blarney Stone
the Blarney Stone
It has a magic all its own
And though some fools may mock and hiss it
The wisest men will stoop to kiss it
And there O pity Echoes
 from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes by Robert Creighton Wright.
Audio Visual: This song has lyrics that may not be sensible to virgin ears.  I warned you.

Bb:Blatherskite

DefinedA person given to voluble, empty talk; a chatterbox, a loudmouth, an unstoppable talker of gossip and snipes. Coctail Banter Unless you want your secrets to be put on a billboard don't talk to Jim, he's a blatherskite. Literary Context

Coronis and Ischys had two sons one Esculapius the great physician who was made a god of the healing art and Blather who was not much to speak of as he was lazy dirty envious jealous ignorant joined the secret societies his family members of various churches he never read and studied nor attended medical societies or visited great hospitals was afraid to leave home even for a day thinking he might lose some good paying patient or could steal some good influential patients from other doctors Macula Blather was so unprofessional that they called him Blatherskite
In past every community has had its Blatherskite There are two kinds of Blatherskites viz the immoral Blatherskite who is intemperate profane lazy deals in anecdotes plays faro and seven up on horse races a great admirer and participant in chicken and dog fights if ever pays his debts stands in with toughs and sports and is envious of first class professional gentlemen It impossible for a Blatherskite to go onward and upward because they are built that way The other professional Blatherskite the pious fraud the moral kaleidoscope who is all things to all men of whom Bible says beware for he is the chief hypocrites He prays long and loud to run the church is a religious bulldozer envies every one who is more successful than himself hates everything and every body that does not conform to his way of gossippers and slanderers of his professional brethren he is the chief of sinners Through ignorance he loses more patients than any other doctor then has the audacity to pose as minister preach the funeral and offer spiritual consolation

Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery; J.B. Graham, J.G. Van Marter, W.E. Fitch, 1897

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Bb: Blue Jacket

The name "Blue Jackets" was chosen to celebrate "patriotism, pride, and the rich Civil War history in the state of Ohio and city of Columbus."^[59] When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service. Ohio also produced a number of great Civil War figures, including William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan, and George Custer. Columbus itself was host to large military bases, Camp Chase and Camp Thomas, which saw hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers and thousands of Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. There was also a Shawnee leader named Blue Jacket in the Ohio Country after the American Revolutionary War.
Blue Jacket Hockey Information

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Bb: Bodacious

adj. 1. Remarkable; prodigious. 2. Audacious; gutsy. adv. 1. Completely; extremely. 2. Audaciously; boldly. [Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious.] Regional Note: Popularized in the comic strip Snuffy Smith, bodacious is probably a blend of the wordsbold and audacious, whose combined senses are evident in the following description of Sevier County, Tennessee, as "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim" (Los Angeles Times). A more traditional meaning is "remarkable, prodigious": "a bodacious amount of smoke" (Springfield MA Morning Union); "the most bodacious tale of hidden treasure" (Lawrence E. Will). Bodacious can also be an adverbial intensifier: "She's so bowdacious unreasonable when she's raised [irritated]" (William T. Thompson). African-American speech in New York City retains this Southernism as bardacious. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary cites the form boldacious, which is the likely source for bodacious.

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Simple Sentence to Use at Your Next Ice-Cream Social:

"That Golfer Redbeard, is surely a Bodacious-Man, he got an eagle, a birdie, and a birdie on the first three holes."  said Red Orem.

Words in Context:

As we allow someone to give us a stupendous gift without phony resistance, so we should celebrate this most Bodacious Gift of all and enjoy the celebration with the Giver.  August 18th in the Book of Encouragement by Harold Myra. 

Hunting Words in the Wild: 

Found the word when I was researching the book of Encouragement by Harold Myra, which I am planning to review on September 25th.  

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Bb: Braggadocio

n. pl. brag·ga·do·ci·os 1. A braggart. 2. a. Empty or pretentious bragging. b. A swaggering, cocky manner. [Alteration of Braggadocchio, the personification of vainglory in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, from brag.]

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Simple Sentence to Use at Your Club's Next Cocktail Party:

We all knew that Mr. Machio was a braggadocio.. We didn't believe that he went to Harvard;  nor that he had worked for NASA and planted a flag on the moon; nor that he had amassed millions before he had lost it all in Vegas.   

Words in Context:
On the following morning, Captain Bonneville purchased a supply of buffalo meat from his braggadocio friends; who, with all their vaporing, were in fact a very forlorn horde, destitute of firearms, and of almost everything that constitutes riches in savage life.The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context


The Hunt for Words: Inspired to look up word because of Joseph Campbell's belief in Metaphor being more than a simile; so then I looked at the references in J.A. Cuddon's book A Dictionary of Literary Terms,  for metaphor, which then brought me to archetype.  Under character archetypes I found the word braggadocio, which I did not know so I looked it up.    


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Bb: Brownie

brownie [ˈbraʊnɪ]

n

1. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) (in folklore) an elf said to do helpful work at night, esp household chores

"I see you think I have no chance," Brownie said falteringly.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Barrie, James Matthew

Bb: Bereft

adj. 1. a. Deprived of something: They are bereft of their dignity. b. Lacking something needed or expected: "Today's graduates seem keenly aware that the future is bereft of conventional expectations" (Bruce Weber). 2. Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved: the bereft parents.

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He scoffed at them as adventures, mountebanks, sideshow riffraff, dime museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark

Bb: Bro Date

Two individuals, guys or gals, on a date but no ramance possible at all. Just friends.

Or as the Urban Dictionary says:

A social gathering between two straight men.

I was on my bro date with my BFF yesterday

Bb: Biomimicry

n
Biomimcry according to Fast Company Magazine: is a discipline that tries to solve problems by imitating the ingenious and sustainable answers provided by nature.

Bb: Bovine Scatology

Information said about God that is opinion and not biblcally founded.

Heard on Fighting for the Faith 10.06.2009

Rr: Revenuers

n.

1. Informal A government agent in charge of collecting revenue, especially one responsible for halting the unlawful distilling or bootlegging of alcohol.

2. A lightly armed motorboat used by revenuers.

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Bb: Black Hole Information Paradox

The black hole information paradox results from the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It suggests that physical information could "disappear" in a black hole. It is a contentious subject since it violates a commonly assumed tenet of science—that information cannot be destroyed. _Wikipedia (Black hole Information Paradox)


The scenario John Myers describes "is true, but it's really an issue of information getting scrambled, not lost." In the black hole paradox, the problem is that the information appears to be truly lost, not merely scrambled, yet "the foundations of classical mechanics and statistical mechanics are based on the exact conservation of information." Finally, "a number of the letters express a very common misconception, namely, that because an outside observer sees an infalling observer slow down, that the in falling observer sees the outsider speed up. This is simply not so. The in falling observer looks back and sees nothing unusual."--R. COWEN

Dark secrets by McGinnis, Michael / Science News