Although I generally veer away from all politics, I can strongly say that many Canadians are empleomaniacs and unasinous like their American counterparts, often displaying scombroid tendencies when they realize they've won a political race.

(My brain is supposed to relax after midnight -- Toronto time -- not churn away at wordplay!)

"Gentleman, please remember: an empleomaniac is not a pyromaniac, although they are equally destructive; to be scombroid on Purim is not to be sober, although they are unasinous."

Sorry, make that "on Purim is not to be a teetotaler".

My unasinous political party have decided to offer me the much respected scombroid post of Prime Empleomaniac, as they once did with a Mr Gordon Brown.

The scombroid, empleomaniac Senator debated her unasinous fellow candidates last week.

(The characters and situations in the preceding sentence are completely imaginary and not related to actual persons or events)

While Hillary may be an empleomaniac, she is also unasinous for staying married to her scombroid husband.

I was drinking a cup of coffee in my car, and this guy in a truck is driving like a empleomaniac
and cuts me off, so I accidentally dump hot coffee right on my scombroid. Now I think I have a unasinous infection.

Those lunatic, scombroid Empleomaniacs are as dangerous and unasinous on the roads as they are when they get to their destination.

Like some fish of the scombroid family, which shed their scales when pulled from the water, so too the empleomaniac (unasinous to a gnat) sheds his scruples upon attaining office.

That was fun!

John Edwards is clearly an empleomaniac -- one whose pleasant appearance hides a scombroid sprit and unasinous intellect.

empleomaniac
n. one who is overly eager to hold public office
syn. sociopath.

I'd have to vote for Bean's entry. Here's mine:

Vote for Hillary.

The mayor is an empleomaniac whose scombroid like appearance is matched by his unasinous behavior.

Despite his scombroid appearance and the failure of his policy of concessions, a plan as unasinous as Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement, Prime Minister Olmert continues to lead the Jewish people to disaster simply because he is an empleomaniac.

Oh

My

Gosh!

Is the Moshiach also coming?

L'havdeel!

After laboring for over three—yes folks—count 'em, three long years on this blog, begging my Rebbe/lawyer/Seraphic brother-in-law for one tiny comment how do I finally tease one single sentence out of him?

Just goes to show what happens when totally obscure words meet up with the emotions generated by one hopefully obscure politician.

Thank you David.

And Karen thinks that these "Word" posts are just dopey beyond, er, words.

Says the love of my life: “What good are they, nobody knows how to pronounce the words, nobody ever uses them, and you can't even find them in any real dictionaries?”

What good are they, nobody knows how to pronounce the words, nobody ever uses them, and you can't even find them in any real dictionaries

I plead guilty to having used scombroid once in the line of work. And it's in the Merriam-Webster Tenth Collegiate.

Bet you didn't know that the tuna is of the scombroid family. That's right, Charlie's last name was Scombroid. He's Italian.

I'd like to thank and congratulate each of our empleomaniac wordsmiths for their non-unasinous sentences that, thankfully resemble true English and not, sniff, sniff, scombroid.

Alas, I will never use any of these words in a script.

Karen, I beg to differ. I personally enjoy these word posts and assignments simply because they make us think. Of course some of us have never heard nor will we ever use the majority of words that Robert selects for us, but it is a wonderful mind-expanding exercise -- especially for writers and creative types. I own two or three books for writers that offer up creative exercises such as these.
Okay, so maybe the next children's manuscript I attempt to write may not feature the word "scombroid" but the story might just be about a mackerel...you never know.
Have a good Shabbos...Shabbos Nachamu.

"Judging from the video, the Planning Council consists of scombroid empleomaniacs who are unasinous jackasses that simply cannot be elected."