Sunday, September 23, 2007
Equilibrist
An equilibrist is a rope walker. Strange that! Way back when I started this blog in October last year I used a great word - funambulist - which also means rope walker. Just thought I'd share that little piece of trivia with the word imp world. Loved your invented meanings for equilibrist - and particularly enjoyed the meaning suggested by Pastor Phil which was also the winner on the poll. Great work, P.P.
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An equilibrist is a specialist dietician employed by acrobatic teams. It is very important that all of the performers are exactly the same weight. This can't easily be achieved by putting weights in their shoes, since this unbalances them.
The equilibrist carefully controls the acrobat's food intake and prepares individually tailored "ballast meals" just before each performance.
Equilibrist - is a Yorkshire man (eee - in Yorkshire every sentence begins with this), who has a passion for writing (quill) and books (libros).
An equilibrist is a person who designs and makes scales (the sort you find in your kitchen or the post office, not the sort you find on a fish). It comes from the word "equilibrium" which I think has to do with balancing.
The true meaning of 'Equilibrist' is of course the title give to a professional involved in measuring the balance of ethnicities in a multicultural society (it generally involves the analysis of human poo).
Equilibrists have the authority to deny entrance to foreign immigrants based on the days market share (represented in the Equilibrity scale).
Sad but true!
equilibrist - one who sucks ink out of pens.
Until recently it was believed that when a pen broke and the ink embarassingly flowed into a person's mouth, that it was an accident. Now it is known that there are people known as equilibrists who crave the tannates found in common inks.
Equilibrist: A person whose lifelong goal is to set horses free. It is a very dangerous profession that often involves running away from angry cowboys and jockeys.
An equilibrist is a believer in the economic theory of equilibry, which poses that government expenditures should always be balanced exactly by the government's revenues. In an equilibrist's utopia there are no debts and no savings.
An equilibrist is someone who eats exactly, so they always have the same amount of everything. For example, when eating dinner, they will dole out exactly alike portions of everything. Then, once they commence eating, they take one small spoonful of mashed potatoes, one small spoonful of peas, and one small forkful of roast, in a clockwise or counterclockwise (depencing on their style) fashion until they run out. This is so they have the same amount of everything on their plate at all times and will run out of all the dishes at the same time, so they can go get more of everything in just one trip and start again. Equilibrists are usually mildly obsessive-compulsive.
That's supposed to be depending up there at the beginning of the parentheses. Typos are inescapable!
An equilibrist is a librarian who believes in the uniform flow of information, and therefore allows users of the library access to only one book at a time.
I'm able to visit here today after all. I'm sorry I had to miss yesterday.
An equilibrist writes with a quill the words for operas that are composed in the key of E major.
Equilibrist:
A maker of horse puppets.
(There is a huge market for them in Mexico.)
Is a person who beleives a person's size and shape should have nothing to do with the way they are treated by others.
Are known to burn/smash bathroom scales in public places as a form of protest.
Equilibrist is the delicate balance between the stages of aging and processing cheeze beyond which vats of curdling, churning cheezes can't be used. In the home of a teenager, a mother might use this term when finding her way to the bottom of the laundry pile to discover a rank sock that has reached it's equilibrist and must be instead destroyed.
Nope... I got nothin'. here's the reasons why :
1. Had a great meaning, then read that Brian had it first and probably better.
2. Pastor Phil's pen ink junkie creaped me out... also a good one.
3. Found plenty of equilibrist items in my daughter's dance bag... thanks beck, now I can put a name with that ODOR!!
HEY, maybe an equilibrist actually describes a specific thought process. One where a question is raised about whether or not to let one's creative juices flow through or keyboard on to the word imp blog or give up based on the competition... something like fight or flight behavior of the blog world. ????
The equilibrists are the muscles that a rider develops in his/her wrists from holding the horses reins.
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