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by Carl Pyrdum on January 26, 2012

Medieval: adj.
1. Of or relating to a period of time between periods designated as ancient and modern. 2. humorous Of a blog, exhibiting a pedantic tendency to criticize casual usage of the aforementioned word, esp. of blogs that do not really post all that often and don't maintain a proper blogroll. 3. Exhibiting the behavior of a crowd at the opening of an IKEA. 4. Displaying savagery on par with the use of a leafy biennial plant to taunt one's co-workers. 5. Relating to the period in which it was fashionable for ambulatory genitalia to wear jaunty headgear. 6. Used to describe a period of history incompatible with Orlando Bloom's overwhelming dreaminess. 7. During that period, women didn't wear chainmail bikinis, but they totally should have.
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