Monday, November 05, 2007
Blindage
Blindage is a screen used as fortification by troops in sieges - presumably to keep them out of sight of the enemy. I'm not an expert on war, so I'm just surmising from the vague meaning in my dictionary. I like the sound of the word, though, and I love the invented meanings. There was a tied at the top of the poll today. The winners were Thinks! and Debra Quarles. Well done, you two.
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Blindage (n.) is the inability to look at an open wound.
I myself am a blindage sufferer and upon cutting my finger will immediately wrap a hand tightly around it and find someone to show the cut to. Only upon being reassured that 'it's not that bad, no honestly, it's fine, not deep at all', am I then able to take matters in hand and deal with the wound in question.
Sufferers of severe blindage, however, are completely incapable of even sticking a plaster on their own (or anyone else's) finger and will often sit, with a hastily wrapped piece of kitchen roll around the wound, until their spouse/next-door neighbour/postman appears to help.
Blindage (n) is the state of being blindfolded, (just as bondage involves being bound). Games involving blindage include "pin the tail on the donkey", and googling for the term gives you all sorts of other stuff...
Blindage is any type of food that consists of a filling that is rolled or folded inside a covering layer. The filling can be anything, as can be the covering layer. Some examples of blindage are blintzes, wontons, cabbage rolls, pastries, ravioli...
The list is varied and endless, and making me hungry. Gotta go get me some blindage!!!
Blindage - a bizarre reaction occurring sometime between the years between 35 and 55 of the human male. Hormonal imbalances, and cultural stresses create strange urges and deep longings to return to youth. Commonly called middleage crisis.
Blindage accounts for a high percentage of the growth in the industry of small expensive cars, hair growth products, and little blue pills.
Oh - and thanks for the vote a few days back on Nagana!
In England in the 1700's there was a tax on windows which led house owners to brick up some of their windows to reduce the cost. However, so that the inside rooms would look unspoiled, many owners kept the curtains and blinds in place. If the tax inspector spotted this form of tax dodging he would charge a blindage tax for such deception.
P.S. Thanks all for 'ogham'
Blindage is litter and trash left behind by duck hunters after hours waiting for a shot. Dogs retrieve the birds, but somehow nobody thinks it important to carry out the blindage, which usually consists of gum wrappers, tobacco tins and/or cigarette ends, and camouflage-pattern Kleenex.
The Blindage was a period of history toward the end of the Dark Ages; so named because, the lack of decent home lighting during the Dark Ages resulted in many people falling over and poking their eyes out with horrid old candlesticks.
Blindage is a clerical word that means people who believe anything that they are told. I know, because Father Ann told me.
Blindage:
An illness that stems from standing too close to bonfires. It causes momentary blindness and permanent rage.
Blindage is a card game played with two packs of cards combined. The players are blindfolded, a situation which results in the play often continuing for several weeks, countless accusations of cheating, and usually abandonment before any result can be reached.
A blindage is an area in a department store where women stand while they "hunt" for the perfect shoes or shirt or whatever. A blindage is intended to hide the shopper from the view of others so she is not seen sneaking up to snag the last bag, sweater, etc. on the sales rack.
A blindage is a secret passage way that leads into a vault of valuable gems.
"The unsuspecting thiefs were caught red-handed as they attempted to break through the blindage to steal the rare PAINITE which has in years past been described by the Guinness Book of World Records as the rarest gem mineral.(Painite is pink to red to brown in color, very strongly pleochroic (showing different hues from different angles) and it fluoresces a lovely green under short wave UV. It comes from Mogok and Kachin State in Myanmar and was named after its discoverer, British gemologist Arthur Charles Davy Pain.)
Blindage is the process by which you can't find your keys, you search everywhere and they are no where to be found, until you ask someone else to help you and they immediately find them in the first place you looked.
Blindage is to stuff yourself to bursting point by eating too many blinis filled with caviar and sour cream. This rite occurs in Russia at the annual blini festival which is held to celebrate the end of winter and herald the coming of spring.
Blindage is not noticing what is going on around you, due to distraction, daydreaming, intense focus on a single activity or thing, etc.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Blindage is turning a blind a eye. Particularly that 'game' played by senior managers when they see something they shouldn't and decide to ignore it but make sure you realise they have seen it and that you are being let off.
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