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Janet Jackson again:
TIT ROUTINE

(Actually, mine was for jo, who posted it as "CENSUS UNION AGO" way back on April 25, but after INTERNECINE I just couldn't resist posting it againl.)


Sigh. If JJ had done it more than once - TIT ROUTINES, as it were - she could have made RESTITUTION...

No cigar again.

Maybe just a few more monkeys...

Sorry, Hab. Mea culpa.

I should have made it TIT ROUTINES; your answer of RESTITUTION was the word I was thinking of.

Your turn...

R MAGPIE (or is it PRIME A.G.?)

R MAGPIE

Are there magpies like Hekyll and Jekyll anymore? I think not..

epigram

But, if you are bored to stone...

ENNUI MARBLE...

ENNUI MARBLE

innumerable

I'M CUTE FINN
(NICE 'N MUFTI, too...)

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I'M CUTE FINN..

Hab, I didn't know you were from Finland..

munificent

In Maine, aways

KEEP CAMERA ready!

KEEP CAMERA

Peacemaker

MAD PILOT

EDIT: and the associated antigram (defines the opposite of its anagram)
MAD POLICY

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MAD PILOT and his MAD POLICY

The diplomat should be schooled in diplomacy.. but, alas, not always true.

Watch the Norseman... he's my KEY RIVAL.

Speaking of the VALKYRIE, what do you think of the CANNY MUD FLIGHT?

That's two capitalized words, Captain Video!

(PS That's a hint. Only click on it if you get desperate, or after you've decoded the anagram!)

The Captain Video page is hysterical! I don't remember him, though.. we only had 2 channels on TV when I was that young.. (violins??)

CANNY MUD FLIGHT

Flying Dutchman...

Are you in humid weather or in the desert?

LIMP OR ARID

...and did you see who the writers were? Jack Vance, Robert Sheckley, Arthur C. Clarke! I never imagined!

LIMP OR ARID is PARLO(U)RMAID.
From there my thoughts went to BUTTERCHURN, but that turns out to be two words, not one, so I went on to this next. Turns out to have some interesting subgroups of letters, so instead of giving a couple of words I offer

AEIOU GH MN RS W - One word

No, it isn't "parlormaid"; PM has only one I.

Back later after thinking some more.

Got it: PRIMORDIAL. As in soup.

AEIOU GH MN RS W

housewarming

TITIAN SCRODS

DISTRACTIONS

(got all caught up for a while with constriction and contradiction and contradistinct)

COD RETINA

(I know an ophthalmologist who has RETINA on his license plate)

Hab, did you mean DECORATION, but left out an "O"?

If not, I get, amongst others:

TACO DINER
DO CERTAIN
DIET ACORN
CONE TRIAD

Throw me a line!

DECORATION is a good thought, but it's not what I had in mind.

Let me take another look. Maybe it needs some editing to get it into shape for publication.

Nope. Correct as is.

COD RETINA, he said, fish-eyed. (That's a Tom Swiftie, not a clue.)

Redaction!

I hit the big one...

CASINO FAINT

CASINO FAINT = FASCINATION

Anyone ever see A RED ROOT ?

Toreador - Ole!

She ought to stay out of the sun, because when she doesn't,

PAM OOZES ZORN

Is half a singer better than no music at all?
(Well, maybe not, in the case of Florence Foster Jenkins)

MEZZO-SOPRANO

Here's one that can really blow you away:

PET ODOR

(Afterthought: no, I don't mean TROOPED)

so you were thinking that the sailors trooped to the weapons room, where they fired the torpedo?

A movie with too much information?

GRAPHIC LAY

I write CALLIGRAPHY with two Ls.

(But then, I also write GRAPHICALLY.)

(And why do words like CALPHRYGIA keep trying to come out? and ALPHAGYRIC?)

--signed, The Neologism Kid

sigh... I left out an el. I cannot spell.
I don't feel well. I'm going to ... bed until I can wake up and do this right.

It's calligraphy. And of course the damn jumble doesn't even work. Sowwy Your turn, Hab

Not to worry; there are 50,000+ hits in Google for a one-L caligraphy. Besides, it's good practice for Scrabble - "Now, if I can only find another Z, I can make 'razzle-dazzle!'"

Moving on:

I ANNUL FEZ (Hey, if Haberdasher can't do that, who can!?)

I ANNUL FEZ... I count my beanies annually?

influenza - epidemic of 1918 ?

So, let's collect some cultch at the annual

CLAM REEK

MACKEREL

Holy Batman Comics!

MAN, I FRESH !

Mackerel Snappers unite!

MAN, I FRESH

fisherman

Then, there are those quiet little devils...

SOLEMN BRAT

SOLEMN BRAT

That should be "MONSTRABLE," meaning "incapable of being displayed" - the opposite of "demonstrable"...

It _should_ be. But it isn't.

quote:

Posted Thu Jun 30, 2005 13:51
SOLEMN BRAT

That should be "MONSTRABLE," meaning "incapable of being displayed" - the opposite of "demonstrable"...

It _should_ be. But it isn't.

You're right.. it isn't. Ah, the Great Hab is trapped..! (Hint)

Lobsterman

A TOOT UGLY

TAUTOLOGY

Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

LOSSES: ONE

LOSSES: ONE

All I can come up with is looseness..?

If that's not correct, we'll save my

OH, DREW ACHED... for another time.

LOOSENESS it is. Context is everything: the word before was TAUTology.

OH, DREW ACHED is CHOWDERHEAD, which is only right, since it followed hard upon LOBSTERMAN.

Holiday is almost here, with parties and picnics and fun, and fireworks and concerts.
LIBERACE? NOT!

LIBERACE? NOT!

celebration.... sparklers, cookouts, etc. ..

Remember to give $$ to the small honeymoon motel..

AID MEMENTO INN...

LOL - you guys crack me up! I just wish I could do these blasted things! I'll keep trying!

AID MEMENTO INN... 2 words.. I forgot!

A man sailing across the bounding MAIN MENTIONED he had been NOMINATED; MINE (the candidate of my choice) didn't make it. He did MENTION MAIDEN voyages of other ships accompanying him were also excluded from the voting. One MENNONITE MAID on the trip brought along an INDIAN MEMENTO though no one knew why. One person attempted to NOMINATE DENIM as the only acceptable attire; this was not acceptable AMID MENNONITE sailors on the trip and was rejected. Once the entire group made landfall, they discovered they had nowhere to live, because their land had been seized under the laws of EMINENT DOMAIN.

A new game:

DR.! HOP CHAIRS

It's trying so hard to be APHRODISIAC...

But then, it's also trying to be CHIROPODIST
and CHIROPRACTOR...

and not succeeding with any of them...

ah, c'mon Hab. You could at least pretend to be impressed with that last solution. LOL!

no hints yet. It is much too soon.

Oh, very impressed.. I've never been able to do two- and three-word anagrams very well, let alone make a story out of the alternatives...

Taking six hours off helps. Your chairhopping medico is listening to HARPSICHORD music.

Probably drinking in HOO! SPANISH JULIP!, at that. (three words, proper noun)

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HOO! SPANISH JULIP

Polish John Paul... may he RIP.

I was so excited by my Pope scramble... I forgot to leave a word!

That Florida window is not bringing in any relief..!

LOUVRE NOT AIRY

I think that's REVOLUTIONARY.

And I had a different proper noun in mind for HOO! SPANISH JULIP! More in keeping with the season, too, I would say.

Back to the drawing board for moi... !

Maybe if I add

FREES SERVRS AND PATRIOTS ?

(four words this time, proper noun again)

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA!!! This has consumed me all day.. I could barely eat my hamburger... Should I even try FREES SERVERS AND PATRIOTS?

That would be SERVRS!!