what_gives_you_a_kick raze ever have a dream in which you somehow know something you don't remember ever learning in your waking life, unless you picked it up somewhere along the way through unwitting osmosis and then it sat in the back pocket of your brain for years, forgotten? i've had a few of those — one or two involving politics, which i don't really follow or know much about. last night it was someone talking about walls that had been painted black, referring to them as "kicky". when i woke up, i learned this is an actual, recognized word. it means "fashionable, exciting, or providing a kick or thrill". it has now become a miniature mission of mine to find a way to incorporate this word into a compliment. "hey. what do you think of me, really?" "i think you're absolutely kicky. you give my heart a thrill." 130305 what's it to you? who go blather from