A lawyer can be disbarred, and a priest can be defrocked.
There really ought to be like terms for being fired from other professions, jobs, or roles. In particular, punning ones. For example:
the electrician was discharged
the bobsledder was deluged
the Grand Canyon tour guide was disgorged.
I have no doubt we can come up with many more! There are so many words that begin with dis- or de- or the like
June 16, 2008, 09:44
BobHale
A teacher can be declassified.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 16, 2008, 10:46
jerry thomas
The out-of-step soldier is a victim of decadence.
June 16, 2008, 10:47
jerry thomas
"I see," said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw.
June 16, 2008, 10:55
jerry thomas
"Well, it's only a Pay Per View sailing over a blank CD ... "
(off the topic of dis-game .... just random puns)
Let me know if the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
June 16, 2008, 11:55
arnie
Is a discharged seaman disabled?
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
June 16, 2008, 12:53
BobHale
Will JK Rowling now be disenchanted?
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 16, 2008, 12:54
BobHale
And hopefully come next election Gordon Brown will be devoted.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 17, 2008, 06:05
TrossL
The rock group was disbanded.
The poker player was discarded.
The songwriter was decomposed.
June 17, 2008, 14:21
haberdasher
The worried patient was diseased.
The newly-shorn Army recruit was distressed.
June 17, 2008, 14:24
haberdasher
The rooster whose crown had just been cut off was discombobulated.
June 17, 2008, 14:43
neveu
The drawbridge keeper was demoted.
June 17, 2008, 17:26
Hic et ubique
The innocent maiden was dismissed (or was she divergent? )
The groom was debrided.
The comedian was digested. [di-jested]
quote:
And hopefully come next election Gordon Brown will be devoted.
Yes, and Hilary Clinton has been denominated.
June 17, 2008, 18:34
haberdasher
quote:
The groom was debrided.
Sorry, Hic, it's the divorced husband who was debrided!
June 18, 2008, 05:02
TrossL
The emptied box was discontented.
The lawyer was discounseled.
The man who had to leave the Greek island was discrete.
June 18, 2008, 07:45
Hic et ubique
quote:
Originally posted by haberdasher: QUOTE: The groom was debrided. Sorry, Hic, it's the divorced husband who was debrided!
No, hab. A groom has a bride, but a husband has a wife. If they're married long enough that you'd call him a husband (rather than a groom) then she is a wife (rather than a bride).
So I still maintain that a groom is debrided. The divorced husband? He's despaired.
And hab? Unless we get more of these from you, I'd say that the haberdasher wasw divested.
The taxidermist was dismounted.
The guitarist was discordant.
The skunk was distinct.
June 18, 2008, 10:29
neveu
quote:
So I still maintain that a groom is debrided. The divorced husband? He's despaired.
But the bride was disengaged.
June 18, 2008, 11:24
arnie
A horse is derided ... Or is dismounted ... A sacked lighthouse-keeper is delighted ... A convict found with means of escaping is defiled ...
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
June 18, 2008, 18:54
haberdasher
Is the new Asian immigrant disoriented?
Is the excommunicated Bishop disgraced?
They stole the cash register from the liquor store; was it distilled?
When they lowered the rates at the bank, were they disinterested?
A landowner was frantic because he lost his land while his attention wandered; was he distracted?
The MIT student fell apart when he couldn't quite differentiate a complex function on his calculus final. He nearly disintegrated.
A lawyer I know has bizarre ideas about right and wrong. According to him, everything is relative, so nothing is ever absolutely wrong. Are his views distorted?
June 18, 2008, 18:59
haberdasher
Oh. And the cult leader whose flock left him apart was dissected, he said cuttingly.
And the Scotsman who was lambasted by his countrymen when he took elocution lessons to hide his accent was demonized.
June 20, 2008, 02:24
Caterwauller
The amusement park was defunct.
When the authorities visit our friend, JT, he is disjointed.
When the stripper retired, she was desultory.
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
June 20, 2008, 06:28
shufitz
It looks to me that Tross is being systematic, starting with the beginning of the alphabet and working forward. So I'll eyeball the other end. (of the alphabet, that is; not of Tross)
The fisherman was dewormed.
The poet was diversified.
The appraiser was devalued.
The tennis pro was disadvantaged out. (Weak, I know.)
The wine-maker was devinified. (Does that make up for the weak one?)
June 21, 2008, 17:20
haberdasher
The butcher's order for organ-free meat was delivered.
When the teacher drops your test score from A to F for cheating == you've been degraded.
If you're too tired to go to the party because you stayed up late letting all the tucks out of the waistband -- you're depleted.
Can't even cast a lecherous eye on the oposite sex because or Brain Fever? You're delerious.
June 21, 2008, 19:21
Kalleh
The anxious patient was diseased. [Aw heck, I see Hab used that one already. It's tough coming to this late!]
Here's a real dark one: The amputee was disarmed. Sorry!
June 22, 2008, 03:27
jerry thomas
What sort of suspected criminal would have...could have ... might have ... dis-tricked attorneys with equal vigor?
June 22, 2008, 16:41
haberdasher
They stopped trusting me, took my driver's license and threw me out when I reached age twenty-one - I've been discarded.
Then they found out I couldn't read well, and said I was dyslexic too, and there went my expensive car...
June 25, 2008, 08:40
bethree5
Cain disabled his family.
She threw the diamond ring at him, disannulling their engagement.
Agamemnon planned to destroy his enemy...
July 02, 2008, 08:31
haberdasher
They took the flowers right out of my garden of annuals! What a DISASTER !
July 02, 2008, 09:17
bethree5
I feel so discomfited-- someone ate up all the jam!
July 03, 2008, 18:49
haberdasher
"They took Victor Borge off the program! I wouldn't go that concert if you paid me!" I said with disdain...
July 04, 2008, 05:34
haberdasher
When they closed the foreign office the Ambassador was left disconsolate...
July 04, 2008, 09:16
bethree5
“You’ll have to take that out, too,” said the Chief Censor, discussing the script.
July 04, 2008, 17:15
haberdasher
Agamemnon to Achilles: "The 'topless towers of Ilium'? I thought I destroyed them !"
July 04, 2008, 17:41
Valentine
The scientists discerned in retrospect that there were significant problems with the design of the supercollider.
July 04, 2008, 18:36
jerry thomas
"Persons of interest," said the principal Judge, "are living on borrowed time.
Lend an ear.
"Surely you mean principal." Whatevahs .... it's the princi ... pull ..... of the thing, innit.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jerry thomas,
July 04, 2008, 19:05
Valentine
When the orchestra went on strike, the audience was disconcerted.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Valentine,
July 04, 2008, 20:35
haberdasher
"...But it's devil-worship!" said Dante in disbelief.
July 04, 2008, 20:47
Kalleh
When I married Shufitz, I was dismissed.
Hab (or any of you here), Valentine would love a daffynition for rickroll. He's new here, and we'd love to show him a good game!
July 05, 2008, 09:19
haberdasher
The Army lawyer in the Judge-Advocate General Corps finished his assignment and was duly debriefed.
He didn't mind giving up his analysis of the case - after all, he's submitted it to the judge.
He wasn't happy being rendered incapable of being succinct.
But what he REALLY didn't like was when they took away his underpants.
[Val - I liked "disconcerted" ! Did you get my submission for rickroll? ]
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July 05, 2008, 09:32
haberdasher
Then there's DISSENT. Is that a. the objection when the UPS Board of Directors voted in a split decision not to return mis-addressed packaged to the sender any more b. removing the bad smell from the skunk someone was trying to ship c. deciding it didn't offended contemporary moral standards after all d. rounding-off odd pennies from the shipping charge e. the eventual delivery by parachute?
July 06, 2008, 08:35
shufitz
The bank teller was distilled. (The coxswain was also distilled.) The hairstylist was distressed. The shepherd was distended. The sprinter was distracted. The toilet-maker was dethroned. The watercolorist was distinct (and the parfumier was di-stinct).
July 06, 2008, 16:17
Valentine
No Coke, he replied with evident dispepsis.
July 06, 2008, 18:07
jerry thomas
"The Butler got blown away," she said Rhetorically.
July 07, 2008, 04:27
Valentine
Who might have said all of the following:
A movie about a famous Napoleonic General?
Oh, my lumbago!
Nix.
Minnie Mouse needs a maiden name.
Mr. Ed? Stupid idea.
July 07, 2008, 17:26
<Proofreader>
When magician Siegfried lost Roy, they were both disillusioned.This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>,
July 07, 2008, 18:08
<Proofreader>
An old limerick suggested this one. I'd post it but I'm not certain about language usage, especially "blue", "raunchy", or any other synonyms you can list.
A man who falls into an outhouse must be disinterred.
July 07, 2008, 19:48
jerry thomas
When the thieves made off with both of his gruntles, the curmudgeon was disgruntled.
Whether or not the lure is still on the hook is debaitable.
Rumors about missing equipment from the ball park are baseless.This message has been edited. Last edited by: jerry thomas,
July 07, 2008, 21:28
Hic et ubique
The barber departed.
The tailor was depleted. (I think someone already said divested.)