SERENE GOO HUT -- That's why they call it the meditation room
April 26, 2005, 18:01
haberdasher
SERENE GOO HUT
If you add another E you get
HETEROGENEOUS ?
(and just in case that's correct I offer I FOR MUTINY ! Otherwise ignore me until maybe later.)
April 26, 2005, 20:07
KHC
Hab, w/o the extra E, you get
HETEROGENOUS
Read your dictionary... there is also Heterogeneous...
I FOR MUTINY
Captain Bligh would of course like UNIFORMITY
April 26, 2005, 20:16
KHC
DIVAN IDS ILIUM
(Couch potatoes with large egos...)
April 27, 2005, 11:11
haberdasher
I am abashed. Heterogenous it is, certainly. (Although I must confess I have never heard of calling it "heterogenized" when we let the cream separate from the milk...)
DIVAN IDS ILIUM
INDIVIDUALISM
AMPHIPEDUMY - would that be "without a preference for one foot over the other"? (two words)
April 27, 2005, 11:15
haberdasher
PS - Just for fun - Google gives 10,300,000 hits for "heterogeneous" and 554,000 for "heterogenous". Is that a valid indicator of anything?
April 27, 2005, 14:37
jo
It indicates that Jo, like the minority, spells it phonetically when she can't remember.
April 27, 2005, 20:35
KHC
Haberdash is abashed...
AMPHIPEDUMY
Happy Medium ( I see your future in Dictionaries!)
MERCY, IDIOT!
April 28, 2005, 07:45
haberdasher
IRIDECTOMY
The eyes have it! No, I guess they don't have it any more! At least, they shouldn't.
GUACAMOL - a short avocado salad (maybe I should just call it an "avocad" salad?)This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
April 28, 2005, 20:47
KHC
Well, Hab... I was going for MEDIOCRITY.. ... but you still get a good grade!
You know I'm not familiar with those medical terms..
GUACAMOL
Glaucoma... eezy peezy
NAZI CAM GAGER 2 words... but now I see.
April 29, 2005, 04:14
jo
NAZI CAM GAGER
Amazing Grace or Camera Gazing -- Saved or merely astonished?
and now for something amazingly perfect...
ATTEND HELLION - two words
April 30, 2005, 16:39
haberdasher
Hmm.
ENDOTHELIAL NT has appeal but doesn't exist.
THE DENTAL LION has three words rather than two. So does ONE LITTLE HAND.
TOILET HANDLE lacks an N. (Good thing it wasn't a P that was missing!)
Back to the drawing board.This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
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.
May 01, 2005, 10:56
jo
As I said, Doad should be able to help. Or at least these students of his. They spend so much time there.
May 01, 2005, 17:11
Caterwauller
DETENTION HALL!
I got one! Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Now I need to give you one to solve, right? Hmmmm
DIME WEVEL YELL
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 01, 2005, 20:39
KHC
Catw,
I need a hint... I'm flummoxed!
May 02, 2005, 03:01
arnie
I'm stumped, too, CW.
How many words (we need a hint if there's more than one)?
Best I can make is WEEVILY MELLED.
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.
May 02, 2005, 05:09
jo
Dewey Melville - He tried to get the whale elected
Weedy Melville - He consigned the whale to a neglected octopuses' garden
May 02, 2005, 05:16
Caterwauller
Jo got it, if a bit backwards. Orderly guy, famous in library circles. Melville Dewey.
Sorry I didn't give a hint! You all seem so fabulous at this, I thought you could just look at them and get them. :-\
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 02, 2005, 05:44
jo
TANKED CIRCUS OIL - Got to keep those elephants lubricated! (two words)
May 03, 2005, 14:15
haberdasher
TANKED CIRCUS OIL
If we're into libraries for the nonce, this must be CIRCULATION DESK
HABLA PLECITA? ("Do you speak a little Plec?")
May 03, 2005, 20:46
KHC
HABLA PLECITA
alphabetical
COON FIT INN A cozy place for raccoons and family.. 599
May 04, 2005, 01:41
arnie
COON FIT INN
Nonfiction
TALLYMEN
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.
May 04, 2005, 10:20
haberdasher
Physically I haven't solved it yet, because mentally I feel sure you must have had something subtler in mind...This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
May 04, 2005, 14:39
Caterwauller
That's what I'm thinking, too.
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 04, 2005, 20:09
KHC
TALLYMEN
Man Telly (phone with testosterone) Tally Men (let's count all the boys) Manly Tel (phone company comprised of Arnold types)
MENTALLY.. of sound mind and body??? Reading the nonfiction shelves...
May 05, 2005, 03:05
arnie
Now then, hab got it first, but didn't have the courage of his convictions. CW felt the same. KHC at least felt prepared to put it forward as a solution.
So, who posts the next jumble?
I'll let you fight it out among yourselves.
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.
May 05, 2005, 04:56
haberdasher
Possession is nine-tenths, and all that.
PIRATE BUMBLER
May 05, 2005, 20:54
KHC
The Pirate Bumbler was imperturbable..
and I have no new word to jumble. Help!
May 06, 2005, 18:57
haberdasher
Not at a loss for words, I hope, or speechless, or TOE-DUET IN G (that would be a pas-de-deux from Anna Magdalena's Notebook) PS: hyphen- ated
May 06, 2005, 19:09
KHC
Thank you, Hab.
Not TONGUE-TIED
more like:
WEAK SPELLING
May 07, 2005, 07:41
haberdasher
WEAK SPELLING
Sleepwalking (Didn't we do "somnambulist" already? Twice, even? )
OR RIVETED TORRID EVE
May 07, 2005, 21:02
KHC
TORRID EVE
overtired! Oh, so right...
MORTAR BINS..... needed for drought!
May 08, 2005, 11:47
haberdasher
Well, if you add or change a few letters you can get TAMBORINIST - a band player or BAROMETRIST - a weatherman
but if you keep at it long enough you may have a BRAINSTORM and solve it as is!
I NO SPRAIN IT !
So many intriguing alternatives - A PRISON, INIT? - That's a gaol, right? I PINION STAR - said Joshua, making the sun stand still ANION SPIRIT - battery alcohol SPIRO IN A TIN - Why not? If you can have Prince Albert in the can...This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
May 08, 2005, 20:22
KHC
I NO SPRAIN IT!
Don't sprain your brain! ... getting inspiration
ENEMY IS HONK... those mean, tricky geese!
May 09, 2005, 05:05
Caterwauller
I can't see any other words . . . blinded by the monkey shine.
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 09, 2005, 06:31
haberdasher
Moe, he skinny !
May 09, 2005, 20:44
KHC
Mo'over, both of you are skinny monkeys... yes, it is monkeyshine
Hab or CW... who gives the next word?
May 10, 2005, 02:52
Caterwauller
WOW! I got one? Amazing!
THE STRAW CHEWIG
(two words)
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 10, 2005, 06:58
haberdasher
Weight Watchers
how about IGNITED
May 10, 2005, 18:33
KHC
IGNITED
dieting
COIN MOP NUTS
May 10, 2005, 18:40
haberdasher
COIN MOP NUTS
consumption
I BLESS OUR CUT
May 10, 2005, 20:18
KHC
Consumption... not consumptive..
I BLESS OUR CUT
Tuberculosis.... send me to Saranac Lake!
PIRATE HID... after being exposed to TB..!
May 11, 2005, 03:50
Caterwauller
DIPTHERIA
(I think I'm getting the hang of this)
STAIL SHOI (One word)
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 11, 2005, 11:28
haberdasher
make one of the Is into a P and get HOSPITALS
Sometimes we can get a clue from the association with the previous word. That's "solving by induction." Then again, of course, sometimes we can't.
(PS I don't propose "hospitals" as a solution. If I thought I had it, it would be in BOLD.)
May 11, 2005, 18:36
Caterwauller
Your answer stinks! Or is it just your breath?
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
May 11, 2005, 19:12
haberdasher
OK, then, a question --
if "halo-"comes from the Greek "hals" meaning "salt,"
and therefore the "halogens" are the salt formers, chemically: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine (and weakly astatine, as I recall)
and there is really a mineral called "halite" with the formula NaCl (= sodium chloride, AKA table salt),
then why should the word that etymologically should mean "the condition characterized by the presence of sodium chloride" have come to mean "bad breath"?
May 11, 2005, 20:13
KHC
HALITOSIS!
As to your question, Hab... I have no answer! Perhaps, Ask Jeeves.