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OUR BONES burnoose Help croc fight? AID ALLIGATOR Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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AID ALLIGATOR gladitorial A STOIC ARCHER - two words (interesting that CAESAR is in here too. Along with OSTRICH, but that's just a red herring) Addendum: Sorry, that should have been "gladiatorial". My error.This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher, | |||
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The "lub-dub" of blood through aortic arches sounds like a MUTANT OPERA. Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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Nice, but...I'm going to invoke the doctrine of "the right answer is what's written on the paper in my upper-right-hand desk drawer" and ask you to put MUTANT OPERA on hold for the moment while you look for the (other) right answer. (Besides, there's nothing about gladiatorial or Caesar or archers in the aortic arch!) | |||
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A STOIC ARCHER Ben Hur?? chariot races | |||
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Bingo... | |||
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Dick Francis taught me all I needed to know about the CHEESE PLATES  | |||
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CHEESE PLATES steeplechase A Martian, a Venusian, and a Plutonian went into a bar ... ALIEN PUNS Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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That's PENINSULA. Nice word! Now let's get back to MJ's MUTANT OPERA. | |||
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MUTANT OPERA portmanteau Put on weight: GAIN BULK Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Is it baulking? (I had to look it up to find out that it is a word.) Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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Yes, indeed. It hadn't struck me that you would spell it differently. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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When eating out, beware of the SUSHI STEM (Beware of the emu's er...leavings as well.) Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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Speaking of emu's...leavings, if you'll allow German I can construct "SCHEISSMUT," a person with very little valor or courage... or if you maybe misread an H as an N we could have MUSTINESS... or if you venture into non-adult vocabulary I give you a way of judging how pliable your mud or clay or Play-Doh is, and then you can say which is SMUSHIEST... What's that you say? That's not what you had in mind? Why am I not surprised? Surely you don't mean Panama or the middle section of the thyroid gland and such like - ISTHMUSES? Is that a real plural? edit: According to Onelook.com it is. Oh well. I like SHEISSMUT better as the answer, only I don't think I have the nerve to say so...This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher, | |||
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ISTHMUSES it is (a continuation of the peninsula theme). Sorry I was so late to reply--your go Hab. Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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Because "isthmuses" reminds me of platypus, another word ending in -us with an English plural, not a Latin one: ALARMIPUS -- a platypus who has been trained to wake you up in the morning | |||
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ALARMIPUS marsupial - nice one, hab! Keeping an Australian CHAINED? Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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CHAINED I know ECHIDNA - is that too technical? --------------- No, looking at the definition, that's got to be what you want. Too much Morse Coding - I've developed FIST RASH! | |||
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A starfish? What kinda critter is that? I put it on the wall and I 'AMMER IT. Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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I 'AMMER IT maritime The starfich if a member of the phylum Echinoderms, having as it does a "spiny skin." DON BROOK -- Capo of the clothing store family? | |||
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DON BROOK doorknob There were fisticuffs... DORK ON BONY drunkards... | |||
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DORK ON BONY donnybrook A golfer seeking a comeback will ROTATE IRONS Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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ROTATE IRONS ...and when you complete the RESTORATION of your painting, don't be surprised to find MIST APPLES hidden underneath! | |||
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MIST APPLES palimpsest A NURSE MAY give ANY SERUM to this patient. | |||
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NURSE MAY ANY SERUM aneurysm aneurysm WINED GOLFER and seduced her Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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WINED GOLFER deflowering ...especially with your TIRING IVY | |||
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TIRING IVY virginity In your virgin forests, have you seen DEER, WOLF? | |||
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DEER, WOLF deflower flowered reflowed He was exuberant, so HID ENNUI BIT Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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HID ENNUI BIT uninhibited NAFTAMBOLY - just goes to show ya! | |||
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NAFTAMBOLY flamboyant Gear meant FLIER FAINTED Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Close But No Cigar Department: -- If one of the Fs was meant to be another T instead, we would have INFILTRATED. But we don't. | |||
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Instead we have DIFFERENTIAL. And if an underage mechanic tries to fix her car she will find that the project STAINS MINORS. | |||
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Transmission! Surrounded by grease monkeys, she might declare that... MEN ACT INANE | |||
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MEN ACT INANE maintenance I LOAN MY cash Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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I LOAN MY cash alimony I think he is a very NICE TOUT | |||
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NICE TOUT Teutonic (quibble: capitalized) CERUMIAN | |||
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CERUMIAN manicure SEEM NATIVE ... proper noun | |||
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Did you know Steven Main is an artist? | |||
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Nope, not Steven Main... think manicure, pedicure | |||
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VIETMANESE - though I must confess that manicures et al. is not my association. I guess I extinguish slowly, even though it's been nearly forty years. I asked Professor McGonagall to teach me Transfiguration, but MINERVA SAID NO . | |||
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MINERVA SAID NO animadversion All those crazy computer movies... zig ZAG ANIME | |||
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Kudos to you! I thought that would be much harder than it turned out! MAGAZINE Do what the King said- HEED ELVIS, D.! | |||
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HEED ELVIS D disheveled (I love this word!) Many Elvises were seen by the TROOP of MARINES. Is Elvises a word? Help! | |||
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TROOP of MARINES There are hundreds of Evis impersonators so I assume it could be said that there were hundreds of Elvises.  Bad parking in Memphis? ANGLED CAR Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Aha! Capitalised! GRACELAND I went there, came out, went back in -- I.E. RE-ENTRANT...and they ragged me about it! | |||
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I E RE ENTRANT entertainer Let's make a DEAL, LUVVIE! | |||
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DEAL, LUVVIE vaudeville TRUE, I CONTROL (sometimes referred to as "Mister"; can be used without, also) | |||
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TRUE I CONTROL interlocutor Strange, are these ITEMS YOURS? Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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ITEMS YOURS Mysterious The salad was wobbly at the SALE OUTING | |||
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SALE OUTING gelatinous And SARLE OUTING ? | |||
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