AULD LANG SYNE!

With a WINK, HE GREETS carolers.
(3 words)

NICK THE GREEK? You bet he does!

Do you think he's a SMOKER, DAD?

Wait a minute, Nick the Greek has two Ks and what you gave has only one.

I better take it back and go think some more...

Interim Report:

I can make
IN THREG WEEKS out of it...
or RN EIGHT WEEKS
or even EIGHTEEN WRKS
but that's getting colder, not warmer.

...but with a better-oriented perspective I [finally] see
WE THREE KINGS*.

I still wonder...how much would you bet that Santa's a SMOKER, DAD?


* (not to be confused with this guy)

I believe that Nick-- the ODDSMAKER-- was a saint in Las Vegas only. I wonder how he would have done in the RACIER STATE of KY?

HINT: the subject of a 2010 movie

I'm afraid that ever since I let my MAD Magazine subscription lapse, and don't see their satires any more, I've lost touch with most current movies...but thanks for trying.

Hollywood is a RAT RACE SITE, anyway.
Although if they had cast Ms. James in a horror film, she would have been a SCARIER ETTA.

Oh well. Happy New Year to all, regardless!

BIG HINT
Welcome back! Not to nag or anything, but.. This nag won the triple crown...

Oh, HIM ! Why didn't you say so! No wonder I was going round in circles (well, ovals...)

Now if we had bet our money on SECRETARIAT, we'd all have more to invest in REAR SUITES. Real estate is a safe bet, right?

oops geoff you have to solve hab's entry 1st, THEN you can pose your anagrammatiic riddle. (only other rule I can think of is, answer is assumed to be 1 word unless you tell us otherwise)..

so: REAR SUITES anyone?

Sorry. I just don't comprehend how it works. I'll bow out.

Don't do that. They're all just anagrams.

RACIER STATE = {A,A,C,E,E,I,R,R,S,T,T} = SECRETARIAT

The banter is just trying to make it easier (believe it or not) by providing some kind of oblique clue. Kentucky, racy, state, nag, all suggest horse racing (supposedly) and hint at Secretariat. Triple crown and movies are trying to be additional hints. Feel free to ignore everything but the BOLD LETTERS because they are what gets anagrammed. If they make any sense on their own that's nice, but unnecessary. And sometimes misleading.

Treasuries

She HAS a UTERUS that is one of those.

I'm not sure I can find the right word to answer that one...

(Hi arnie - Happy New Year!)

I suggest you look it up in a book, Hab.

Happy New Year to you, too!

That would be The Lizard Book, subtitled
"The Saurus," of course.

On another subject, I'm trying to figure out - is MARILYN RIPE ? Perhaps you might give me your early conclusions, and your primary line of thought on the matter.

Are you conducting a preliminary study?

The grocer's THYME RATES show he has the whip hand. (2 words, including an article).

I'm guessing he has THE MASTERY!

I hear THAI TOP COPS prefer these to donuts... (2 words)

I expect POTATO CHIPS are just as fattening.

Living in a MANSION allows him plenty of space to indulge in this...

What's all the fuss abut ONANISM? Doesn't every farmer plan on spilling his seed upon the ground?

OH, HISPANIC M.P. congratulated the team after they won the World Cup futbol in 2010. I think I'll go watch Tebow & Co. encounter Brady & Co., even though it's only a preliminary game in USian football.

Who won the CHAMPIONSHIP?

TYRO MISUSE moves in unusual ways.

MYSTERIOUS

On the other hand, CAN-CAN OIL would help it respond in a more obvious (and lawful) fashion.

Does it follow the CANONICAL rules?

Can he ABLY SELL this part?

In a SYLLABLE: yes!

I GET ALCOHOLwhen this subject comes up..

I didn't think we had enough animal behavior here to indulge in ETHOLOGICAL discussions.

(I'm still trying to avoid being COMPOUND SIREN by putting the accent on the wrong sylLABle.)

Betcha didn't think there was another possibility! I didn't either until just now, when I came back for another look.

(There's a very old Peanuts cartoon, where Schroeder and Linus [I think] ask Charlie Brown (who's older than they are) to settle an argument: Is there or is there not a Santa Claus? And he demurs, saying he refuses to get involved in a theological discussion. But then, he was too young to drink...)

That would be MISPRONOUNCED

In this type of verse you might have to EXPLAIN the METRE (or METER if you're from the USA).

Some EXPERIMENTAL theater does take a lot of explaining, and has no metrical basis whichever side of the pond you're on....

On the other hand, I'm told a CAPSULE CART makes an exhilarating show!

... At these American SPECTACULARs, beer-drinking can result in a SLEW O' BURPS (2 words)

And a lot of beer is drunk at the SUPER BOWLS.

The English prefer a COIR CORSET instead, allegedly.

SOCCER RIOT, you say?

Either way the air is filled with PHYLO BEER.

And why not? It's just another form of HOT CRIER, after all.

Go back almost five years -

quote:

KHC
Posted May 12, 2007 11:49 PM

Thanks to those who came before:

CROPS RESEED
Posts: 3737 | Location: Georgia, USA

quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:
CROPS RESEED

Now that it's been reprocessed, do you think we could use it as a
CANE SCREEN ?

But of course what KHC had in mind was PREDECESSOR.

Better late than never. I think.

Hyperbole is just a posh way of saying exaggeration in rhetoric. Although, since exaggeration is the longer word, maybe it's the other way round? Now I'm lost ... Perhaps being SO FECUND mixed me up.

You've seen it all clearly, unfocused or otherwise. Fear not, your reputation remains "R" IN THE SUDAN.

You're the unfocused one, Hab. There's only one "u".

end of cus-sing: I give up!

This shouldn't be so hard. Why are we all confused?

So, your reputation for solving these is untarnished, Hab.

A NAIF MONITOR might give you too much of this.

BTW, in my last post I originally typed "You're the confused one..." I think that might have given the answer away slightly! Luckily I spotted it just before submitting the post.

Umm. Yes. Well, INFORMATION is wherever you find it.

I made a simple plan once, and I had to put FOUR IN IT to make it come to this.

Edit: just couldn't make up my mind which form of the verb to use, he said tensely.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,

It came to fruition.

Was he kept here because of his BARBED SHIN? (Two words.)

quote:

BARBED SHIN

just imagining a horrid tale as I try to solve... Was he kept in hebid's barn because of his ribbed hands?

Well, he was kept in a big house.

>bump<
I give up Arnie: what is "barbed shin?"

The answer is (TA RA) BEHIND BARS.

Perhaps someone else ought to post the next one. (Preferably with a one word answer as two or more seems too difficult for us.)

BEHIND BARS,good one!

Along those lines, in a RARE ACCIDENT an innocent was sent up the river...

Another one incarcerated.

The cartoonist decided producing AN ANIMATED movie was very hard.

ADAMANTINE!

for this STORY: A PILE of notes

HINT: it's a type of novel...