WEEK LONG D

Knowledge... is power!!

bleak blats

week-long "D"

knowledge! that was cool...

bleak blats
basketball

a doggi carbo (canine diet no-no) one word

BRAGGADOCIO

[I don't know about you, but I am getting sick of all those low carb diets. I was recently at a conference where they were talking about percents of substrates (carbs, fats, proteins) to eat. They cautioned against eating the normal percents of fats and carbs. Have they forgotten that percents must add up to a hundred? I am anticipating that the next diet will be 0% carbs, 0% proteins, 0% fats. That may be what will end the world! Oh, forgive the pontificating!]

I dries cash, cad one word

You wouldn't mean disaccharides, would you?

PACT F IGNITION

Doesn't Garrison Keillor describe Lake Wobegon as the place where, among other things, "..all the children are above average!"?

And if no politician has yet declared it, watch for the goal of eliminating Poverty and having "all workers make more than the median income." (Probably already attributed, by somebody somewhere, to Dan Quayle and George W and many others hapless victims; satire knows no bounds...)

P.S. TrossL - you've been coming up with some great ones lately! "Braggadocio"! Glad someone else got it; I wouldn't have in a long long time!

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pact f ignition

pontificating (ha ha ha... hab you are such a wit )

And what's that you say??? You got Kalleh's disaccharideswith hardly a blink, but not my braggadocio?? I find that hard to believe. And I can't take credit for that word just popping into my brain randomly anyway. It was yesterday's "word of the day" at dictionary.com.

But this one is my own...

TN DRIED SHRUB (what has become of my 10 beautiful lilac bushes... ) one word

That one's THUNDERBIRDS.

Surely they are more than INFLATED FIRE ? (one word)

(esoteric clue: four-eleven rear end)

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Well, I may have it or I may not. Hab's clues (?) always confuse me!

How on earth you get differential from that clue is beyond me. But, maybe in fact it is a different word?

If it is right, here is mine; this is what I am going to see tonight :

No ms fecal one word

FLAMENCOS? ¡Olé la guitarra!

As I recall, the old Fords (y'know, like 1954) were known for their 4.11-to-1 ratio rear ends (very hot; good for drag-racing) -- also called "differentials." The differential gear, connecting the driveshaft to the rear axle, is needed to permit the rear wheels to turn at different speeds, necessary when turning corners.

Although I'm not sure the 4.11 rear end was part of the Thunderbird, and may have antedated the Mustang too if my 1954 impression is reasonably close.


VIOLENT CERB still one word

(I propose we declare the "default value" to be one word, and it's always going to be one word unless otherwise specified, so we don't need to put it after our two-or-more word letter clumps. Is that reasonable?)

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VIOLENT CERB

convertible... I had a ragtop, Cutlass Supreme, '74, when I was younger... dual exhaust; my brothers made me buy it. They loved it better than me.

TACO BURRER

NASCAR, anyone?

O, JUS' REFLECTIN' two words

taco burrer
carburetor (this took me a long time since I find that I have been spelling this word wrong all my life.) (Not that I had ever actually, until today, written this word down... it was a mental spelling error...)

o' jus reflectin'
could it be... Injector Fuels??
(or maybe jetliner focus)

All this car talk started off from my Thunderbirds, but I was not thinking of the cars at all. Last weekend I was at Maxwell AFB in Alabama to see the airshow and of course the Thunderbirds were there. It was truly magnificent! My two oldest are now dead set on being pilots.

FACINATED TOURIST'S ERE (me tripping over my youngest while looking up in awe?) 4 words

Close; instead of carburetor it was FUEL INJECTORS.

And the Thunderbirds are indeed an eminent aerobatics group, which is the the reason "...they are more than INFLATED FIRE". See a nice picture here, and more if you explore the parent site.

I'll work on your fourbie in a little bit !

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That's what I thought. The Thunderbirds are part of the USAF. Not the Navy. That's the other well-known group.

SEE BALL GUN (two words)

Yeah... the Blue Angels were not there, but their souvenir booth was!

USA TAT CHIRPS one word

my favorite given my past...

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I don't think you ever told us you had been a PARACHUTIST !

Were you/do you DICTATE VA ?

Not eligible to be ACTIVATED as I am a disabled vet. And anyway, way too old...

they also had this exhibition...

SIGN I'M ON, BRIBE COP two words

precision bombing

MONA BOILED ZITI

(PS see PM)

MONA BOILED ZITI

demobilization (we wish...)

CODED LONGHORN ROY one word (it's a dead ringer?)

I never heard of DENDROCHRONOLOGY, but if I had to come up with a definition it would be something to do with the science of the sequencing of branches. Whimsically that would be describing the evolutionary tree...

ACUTAL ORRO, she sang out!

My dictionary of scientific terms tells me that dendochronology is the science of the study of annual tree rings to determine the dates and chronological order of past events, most particularly climatological changes. (thus my clue of "dead ringer" because you can't study the rings of a tree without cutting it down and killing it.

ACUTAL ORRO

coloratura! Which is associated more with music than with art!

I'm getting so smart..

mini louse... one word, too easy.

mini louse = limousine

How 'bout smart louse? You won't need to go head-over-heels to figure out this one, either.

[Edit: Go back six or seven spaces: "DICTATE VA" is not only ACTIVATED (as required by context) but also CAVITATED. Which sometimes fast airplanes do to the air they fly through, but more often is inflicted upon your teeth by the dentist...]

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smart louse

I jumped thru all sorts of hoops and did cartwheels when I figured this one out..

somersault


Try this:
my amusing.. one word..

UNICYCLIST

I, O REALIST !

Afternote (for when you've solved the word) - here's a definition I had never heard of before, courtesy of onelook.com: "4. Either of two large flightless birds (Raphus solitarius and Pezophaps solitaria) of the Mascarene Islands which together with the dodo make up the extinct family Raphidae. The solitaires were extinct by the end of the 18th century."

(highlight to make visible, if you need to)

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Another afternote: Now that I recollect, the canonical presentation of SOMERSAULT is
ROAST MULES.

...and by the way, congratulations to KHC on your 500th post!

solitaire

And how did you do the invisible ink thing? Cool!

[/b]irk me vac[/b]

(It irks me to vacuum...)

Invisible Ink trick: just above this little box is a menu bar. First box is a smiley-face, to choose emoticons. Second box is a palate, to put in different colors of text. Third box is a URL, to put in hyperlinks that will be active. There are seven others for various things, ten all told.

"Invisible ink" was white text from the Palate icon. I was lucky, because the message happened to be against a white background. For clarity the messages alternate white/grey background. I'm going to post this message twice because I don't know what white text looks like against a grey background and if I post it twice I'm guaranteed to get one of each.

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Invisible Ink trick: just above the message-composing-or-editing box is a menu bar. First boxlet is a smiley-face, to choose emoticons. Next one is a palate, to put in different colors of text. Third is a URL, to put in hyperlinks that will be active. There are seven others to do various things, ten all told.

"Invisible ink" is white text from the Palate icon. I was lucky, because the message happened to be against a white background. For clarity the messages alternate white/grey background. I'm going to post this message twice because I don't know what white text looks like against a grey background and if I post it twice I'm guaranteed to get one of each color, so this way I get to see the diffirence. (Edit: hardly any on my screen, but yours may vary.)

MAVERICK that I am.

RAINY RAVENS - Po' birds got wet

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RAINY RAVENS

Happy Anniversary! Hab..

I tried once again to do regular posting, w/colors and invisible ink... but it doesn't cooperate. Drat.

CHAPEAUS BROS

Hats for all the brothers among us.. - 2 words

Writ large indeed!

(some day I'll figure out how the brain sees things like that!)

INSTUCTION TO

Hab,

constitution...

This is an old word from a children's book I am reading, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.

lynch dear... one word! I already said that..

Looks like a marvelous book; I must get hold of it.

No blinding insights yet on ARCHENDLY/LYNDARCHE/HYDRANCEL/CHALENDRY but I do see that it also spells CHAYLDREN, which might be an nice old Irish-sounding word from a Caldecott winner...

And that Nat's brother's name is "Hab." In the little snippet I saw, there was no expansion to what it's short for.

PS I don't suppose it could be CHANDLERY? Josephine Tey speaks in Brat Farrar of "Ships' Chandlers," where Brat buys a long length of rope.

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ABERRANT VISITOR ( a two-word proper name)

just thinking out loud about ABERRANT VISITOR:

The whole makes BATSTORIAN RIVER.

The parts can be made into ESTONIA, but what's left is BARR-TVIR, which doesn't help me all that much.

Somehow I have no confidence that either of these is a useful approach.

Hab,

chandlery is correct... the boy worked in a shipyard where they sold rope. He had an older brother nicknamed Hab, but they've only mentioned his real name once, and I cannot find it.

The book is wonderful for mathematicians anonymous!
I'm working on the next word...

jerry...

I'm stumped and need a hint..

re: aberrant visitor

RETINA VIBRATORS
or
BISTRO NARRATIVE?

I don't think I'm on the right track..

Hint .... the first name is Robert.

I saw the ROBERT but couldn't make anything out of the remaining VASTARINI or VISTARIAN or INSTAVARI or ...

ROBERT ARVANITIS

Thanks, Hab and ~~jerry.. Whew!

HE MOAN PEN... one word

HE MOAN PEN = phenomenon (EDIT: and another one)

PENTORIUM = the store where you beg for five writing implements

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Hab,
I picked the importune moment to converse with you... you are busy picking out 5 pens...!

EASILY BITT... one word

EASILY BITTT (which _isn't_ your word) is

TESTABILITY, which can be one word or perhaps two, depending on whether you mean it in the passive or the active sense :-)

Hab, I sure you "test well"... Now solve my Jumble and we'll get on with the show..

Hints: Sheep and Lassie.

EASILY BITT

Bestiality

CEMENT IN IRIS One word

This reminds me of something, but I'm not sure what...

CEMENT IN IRIS is also
REMINISCENT, I

Nice try, Doc, but it's just another case of close-but-no-cigar.

Arnie,

"cement in iris " is indeed puzzling.

Do you want us to visit Wales and incite miners?

Do you want us to visit the C of E and find a nice minister?

A small hint??

Sorry, Hab got it right. The word I meant was REMINISCENT, but an extra letter I crept in.

The I crept in on little cat feet...

Okay! Next:

ron can't bad - one word (no apostrophe)