Dallas Hinton:

DH> A  truck  loaded  with  thousands  of  copies of Roget's
DH> Thesaurus crashed  yesterday  losing  its  entire  load.
DH> Witnesses  were  stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback,
DH> stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralysed, dazed,
DH> bewildered,  mixed  up,  surprised,  awed,  dumbfounded,
DH> nonplussed,    flabbergasted,     astounded,     amazed,
DH> confounded,  astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed,
DH> speechless, and perplexed.

I wonder what would have happened if  one  of  them  had  an
adjective cellar like cousin Len's:

 
http://www.robbinsskyward.com/omit-needless-words-cousin-lens-wonderful-adjective-cellar/

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