crinkle-crankle

This item is included because as you can tell by the name of the place you can expect things that are both amusing and edifying.

So don't give me any shit about not posting serious things of substance.

A straight diet of that is a drag all the time. It damages one's psychology.

And on account of I'm the sensitive type. *examines nails*

This impressed me. Wikipedia entry:

A crinkle crankle wall, also known as a crinkum crankum, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of garden wall.  

The crinkle crankle wall economizes on bricks, despite its sinuous configuration, because it can be made just one brick thin. If a wall this thin were to be made in a straight line, without buttresses, it would easily topple over. The alternate convex and concave curves in the wall provide stability and help it to resist lateral forces.

You don't say. I did not know that. Is this awesome or what? 

BBC News, Easton crinkle-crankle wall damage a 'real loss.'

Oh, bummer!

Crinkle-crankle or serpentine walls: Geograph Lots of photos.

I found the word in a book. A book! A book about gardening that is full, and I mean FULL of new words. Mostly having to do with plants. They used the word to describe hedges of hornbeam that imitate the snaking walls at Chatsworth in Derbyshire.