CHEAPEN PANTS

I think that's HAPPENSTANCE.

With acknowledgement to Ian Fleming and Moonraker, let's try

NICE, DOC, NICE

And, to complete the Bond trilogy (actually, it was Drax who said it)

The third time it's NAME ONE CITY (two words)

NICE,DOC,NICE

Coincidence...

NAME ONE CITY

Once Anytime?
Action Enemy?

Bond, James Bond!

Right, KHC!

The actual quote from Ian Fleming is "Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence.The third time it's Enemy action." according to
this site. However, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." is the quote given on another site. Both agree however that it comes from Goldfinger.

Your turn for the next word, KHC!

DIAL SONGS

Whee! GLISSANDO !

I SAW AL SING

Let's go wassailing...

CENT MAMIE

Let's have mincemeat pie with hot brandy sauce!

Omens rant

Warning: food alert:

Now if OMENS RANT only had another E and an I for the A we'd have a great MINESTRONE !

But alas, it doesn't.

However, Hab, we do have ORNAMENTS !

MACON INN

Macon, GA is a small town in central GA... you don't want to be caught there w/o a hotel/motel reservation.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MACON INN

cinnamon

UNCRATED WHISKEYS - the best Xmas food, IMO. (two words)

TURKEY SANDWICHES

Oh, Arnie, I agree! My next favorite holiday food is:

VEG IS GELDED... two words.

VEG IS GELDED

Deviled eggs

CUTE FAKIR
(or, ICK! AFTER U!)

Or....Nevermind!

Fruitcake

CPA, hang 'em! (hee! hee!)

CHAMPAGNE

GEDS ANNUALLY three little words

20 minutes?....that was way too easy!

GEDS ANNUALLY

I'm stumped.. Hab! Other than:

Yell! Ugandan!

Help me......

(there's a hint in the white text)

GEDS ANNUALLY

Auld lang syne

INSURE TOOLS

resolutions

GROUP FOOD INNS

(accident of being on line at the same time, but I think that's a new record)

I'm calling the Guinness Book of World Posting Records tomorrow...

GROUP FOOD INNS

Soundproofing...!!

Which one might need on this next word..

CURATE LAW

Love it! But I think I'll abstain from this one to give others a chance

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

You guys kill me! Good word!

CATERWAUL of course!

Now I suppose I need to come up with a stumper . . . hmmm . . .

ACT CCVR HAS FEET
Thanks for letting me know there was an easy one, KHC!

Cat,

If you give us another R..
we could make
CAT SCRATCH FEVER

See? I really am hopeless in this game. That's what I meant, of course! I'm so predictable! Carry on with your jumbling, and I'll get back to my customary mumbling.

Not to worry, we've all done it. (Except maybe Arnie) Including yours truly. Maybe me-more-than-anybody-else. I reserve the right to be careless, but I'm quite willing to share it on occasion.

Moving right along -

NO OTHER TAXI

CW... We all make mistakes. Sometimes I misspell the hint, then forget days later what the word was. And it's true, Hab and Arnie are quite prone to goof-ups, too.

NO OTHER TAXI

Exhortation.... please, please, please!!

limpid roar

limpid roar

Primordial

I'M SO CUTER (at least most women seem to think so)
(Two words, proper name)

No, I'M SO much CUTER....

costumier (I should have saved that one for Hab..)

SLIM ALIENS

Isn't Arnie's clue for Tom Cruise?

...and "exhortation" could have been ATHEROTOXIN, too, I realized later.

Speaking of Tom Cruise, SLIM ALIENS is close to MANLINESS. Horseshoes and hand grenades again.

Lost my coupons! I'm MAIL-IN-LESS !

Oh sure, but what the hell . . um heck . . is an Atherotoxin, and who cares?

Mail-in-less is VERY FUNNY!!!!

I can see I need to check into this game thread more often, even if I'm hopeless at solving the puzzles. You guys have been having fun in here w/o me! I'm appalled!

ATHERO- means "blood vessel," of which "arterio-" is one kind. Atherosclerosis is thus hardening (= sclerosis) of the blood vessels, often the arteries, i.e arteriosclerosis. An atheroma is a growth in a vessel.

I put together prefix and suffix to make the word "atherotoxin" without looking it up to see if anyone did before, but the meaning should be clear regardless. The most notorious atherotoxin is cigarette smoke. LDL cholesterol is a distant second.

Oh ok - that makes perfect sense. Of course, it's also really important to know about. Sigh.

Caterwauller,
Hab will test you on this tomorrow... no "open book"... Study!

CW,

TOM CRUISE was the right answer so it's your turn to post an anagram.

quote:

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Originally posted by KHC:
Caterwauller,
Hab will test you on this tomorrow... no "open book"... Study!

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No open book . . . but can the professor be bribed with goods and/or services?

Arnie? I have to post one? Yikes! I'll go with the one KHC posted . . . because the suspense is killing me (or is it curiousity that's killing me?).

SLIM ALIENS

quote:

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
ATHERO- means "blood vessel," of which "arterio-" is one kind...

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I see I'm wrong again. Sources with more authority than I carry indicate that "athero-" refers to the soft gushy consistency of the material that makes up those fatty plaques that ultimately break up and cause all the mischief.

Which means the prefix/suffix combination I put forward, no matter how plausible-sounding, makes absolutely no sense whatever

QUESTION AUTHORITY ! And check your answers.
(And your premises, too, from time to time...)

Are we (the royal we) supposed to be working on my SLIM ALIENS, or trying to unscramble QUESTION AUTHORITY...? If so, I'm not doing a good job. I'm still remembering my answer to SLIM ALIENS, however, if anyone wants a hint.

you mean, it isn't snail slime?

I s'pose if you're an anarchist, unscrambling AUTHORITY is right up your alley; in this case it was meant only as a rueful acknowlegement of error.

As as for SILM ALIENS, I haven't gotten beyond MESALLINIS and MILLENIASS and SEMILLIANS and a variety of -LESS and -NESSes that didn't go anywhere. I suspect a good hint would be a weclome start to the New Year!

Think President Clinton, ".... but I never inhaled."

..."I know where he is," said Pooh, "he is Missing !" And I said, "Thank you." But it didn't help much...

--from the introduction to "Has Anybody Seen My Mouse?" in The WInnie-the-Pooh Song Book, words by A A Milne, music by H Frasier-Simpson


Thank you...

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I agree with CW...they are having waaay too much fun here without me! I came here to see if I could figure out the most recent anagram, but I am totally lost as which is up at this point!

Oh, Hab... I just love Pooh, too.

Okay, okay.... to hit everyone on the head with a brick, the word is a potent form of marijuana...I did go to college in the '70's.. but I'm not a pothead... or is that, "I'm not a crook."... to quote another president.

I'm afraid I'm out of my league here. Grass and hash and hemp and maryjane and tea and weed I know, but if you can make "tetrahydrocannabinol" out of "slimaliens" you're smoking too much

Kalleh - they're trying to unscramble SLIM ALIENS and apparently it's a variant of marijuana. I'm just checking back to see when they'll tell me the answer.