This might be a new word for cosmetese. The ADHD defines ‘rugose’ as ‘having many wrinkles and creases’.

I can see it now: pots of unction marketed as containing ‘antirugose’ and ‘ruggo’.

- Garzogo.

Fun word, Garzo. Is this related to arugula? By the doctrine of signatures it would smooth away the years even as it fancifies your salad. Maybe those californians were on to something, after all!

edit: Pots of unction? As in extreme??

Don’t look so close.
I am rugose.
I’m so rugose, and you’re too close.
You are so close, I’m bellicose.
I am rugose and bellicose.
If there’s a cure, I need a dose!

Perry
with apologies to Dr. Seuss

   
     Re Rugose… The word is also closely related etymologically to rugops primus "first wrinkle face" the species name of a meat eating dinosaur found in west central Africa which live about 100 million years ago when the continents of Africa and South America were still connected. Fossils of close relatives of this dinosaur have also been found in South America. ( Ruga is the Latin word for wrinkle).

   —- Brian Costello - Seattle

I can’t look right now (why can’t children just put themselves in bed every once and awhile…? ), but this word just has to be related to rugged...

-Tim

[quote author=KatyBr link=board=wordsuggest;num=1086381412;start=0#5 date=06/07/04 at 22:09:10]
They do, when they’re all grown up and you are missing those years when they still needed/wanted help from you.

KT

Which is all very well, as long as they’ve ALL LEFT HOME by then.

- PW
who calls Gen-Xers "the boomerang generation" because however hard you throw them out, they keep coming back…