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Torpor

Word of the day on 14 January 2010.

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58
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kado56
Organisational torpor - listless
@kado56

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  • AdeleWard
    58
    Points
    Have I introduced you to my ex-husbands, Torpor , Stupor and Catatonic? #Artwiculate
    @AdeleWard
  • Tralala56
    56
    Points
    Lazy afternoon ~ lizard basking in the sun ~ torpor creeps over me #haiku #artwiculate
    @Tralala56
  • JonPowles
    55
    Points
    There was a hungry Frenchman/Who never got to eat/For so great was his torpor/L'escargot had him beat
    @JonPowles
  • SJHatzi
    49
    Points
    I smell of sun & sea. Limbs heavy. Filled with life languidly lived, falling on pristine sheets. Succumbing to torpor, I sleep.
    @SJHatzi
  • lithiumzombie
    49
    Points
    here you are, darling / gently embraced by Torpor / my sleeping beauty #haiku #artwiculate
    @lithiumzombie
  • caslexplorers
    48
    Points
    Gargantuan torpor : The Big Sleep
    @caslexplorers
  • TiddK
    45
    Points
    Artwiculate's Seven Dwarfs : Jocund, Torpor, Bucolic, Embrocation, Implacable, Onomat..a..achoo!, and Furtive
    @TiddK
  • rickybobbygpig
    44
    Points
    i am too lazy torpor myself a drink
    @rickybobbygpig
  • tama001
    40
    Points
    Do you retreat into a torpor until going to the heaven? Fear neither isolation nor despair. It's your hymn to go ahead!! #artwiculate
    @tama001
  • harrarp
    39
    Points
    I have such a torpor rapport with torportuguese. Sitting at a torportable drinking torport. Mens sana in cortorpore sano...
    @harrarp
  • akhkoshur
    38
    Points
    Torpor is the mother of Ennui
    @akhkoshur
  • suparabbit
    38
    Points
    work hard, you're too poor to torpor.
    @suparabbit
  • navinsasikumar
    37
    Points
    6° of torpor: 1° Stretch 2° Yawn 3° Bleary eyes 4°One more yawn 5° Back to bed 6°
    @navinsasikumar
  • StarOfSavannah
    36
    Points
    In Wonderland, the Doormouse's torpor led to his musing: "Twinkle, twinkle little bat! How I wonder where you're at?"
    @StarOfSavannah
  • lagadu123
    35
    Points
    "No, do not rouse me !" cried the carrot "I am a vegetable and torpor is rightfully mine !"
    @lagadu123
  • Theonlygolux
    35
    Points
    this vorpal torpor grows within me; thuggish sluggishness creeps through my veins - I want this winter over badly, snowy cold ices my brain.
    @Theonlygolux
  • zimmerjohn
    34
    Points
    The Torpor-do: The most useless and ineffective weapon ever devised. #artwiculate
    @zimmerjohn
  • dmriver
    32
    Points
    Torpor people are happier, till they see what the rich have.
    @dmriver
  • changememe
    32
    Points
    A day spent on the couch, with hot chocolate, black/white movies, a quilt and a cat; torpor-ific #artwiculate
    @changememe
  • BurpingOutLoud
    32
    Points
    tropical torpor - siesta
    @BurpingOutLoud
  • Eridanus
    32
    Points
    I am Torpor. I was begotten on a sunny bank, where I have lain ever since. Let me be carried thither by Plethora & Raunchiness.
    @Eridanus
  • Faisal___
    32
    Points
    Thor, with the hammer, has a lazy brother: Torpor the hammered @artwiculate #artwiculate
    @Faisal___
  • MaxRaunchiness
    31
    Points
    sexual torpor : r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w s-e-x
    @MaxRaunchiness
  • RelevantHaiku
    30
    Points
    turkey torpor: tryptophan #artwiculate
    @RelevantHaiku
  • mxmlxviii
    30
    Points
    Holy torpor, Captain Apathy!! It looks like Catatonia is escaping!! Yes Somnambulant Lad but slower than molasses in January.
    @mxmlxviii
  • kings_indian
    30
    Points
    'twas a summer afternoon at the zoo-the tiger stretched lazily in a state of pleasurable postlunch torpor..then it roared. babies cry.
    @kings_indian
  • BiteTheDust
    29
    Points
    If I could get out of my torpor I might be bothered to do word of the day
    @BiteTheDust
  • 2tweested
    29
    Points
    If it weren’t for torpor we’d all be that really chipper person we can’t stand.
    @2tweested
  • Ysabeluna
    29
    Points
    allow me to laze ~ in a torpor of daze ~ by your loving gaze #haiku
    @Ysabeluna
  • ultracutebot
    29
    Points
    i'd say i'm the mistress of Torpor but that'd imply effort at mastery &/or deviant sex w/ abstract concepts
    @ultracutebot
  • whistlechick
    28
    Points
    Still, my erstwhile friend / in underwater torpor / forever breathless.#haiku
    @whistlechick
  • marcosarroyos
    28
    Points
    Winter cold moves in / Synapses slow to a crawl / My friendly torpor #senryu
    @marcosarroyos
  • pn8r
    28
    Points
    While in the Batcave in a torpor, Batman imagined he was a goldfish falling into a black hole, after peeing on an electric fence.
    @pn8r
  • DrMobs
    28
    Points
    I'd think of another scathingly brilliant tweet with torpor in it but I can't be bothered.
    @DrMobs
  • DrJillZ
    27
    Points
    @artwiculate I don't think I have the energy to tweet about torpor
    @DrJillZ
  • graffitipoet
    27
    Points
    The trees in torpor / Naked to the winter wind / A green bud of leaves
    @graffitipoet
  • DaveCurry
    26
    Points
    When the fail whale wakes from its significant slumber, Twitter is thrown into a familiar state of torpor.
    @DaveCurry
  • lexiconehead
    26
    Points
    Torpor and seven years ago, something something about an address.....and then we all went back to bed
    @lexiconehead
  • Nickpbonwick
    26
    Points
    Out of juice / got no more / what's the use / torpor
    @Nickpbonwick
  • drchavi
    26
    Points
    Your love cloaks me like a hazy torpor and all I need is the air that I breathe and to hold you.
    @drchavi

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