BURP..excuse me, KANT

bankrupt..

URIC FAY ID

URIC FAY ID

fiduciary

Want to make money? ASK BENTON

ASK BENTON

Banknotes... I'll take all c-notes, please.

What do you say when all the elderly are in debt?

MY POOR SIRS

MY POOR SIRS

"promissory"

So noted.

Teachers are being poorly represented at negotiations!
SACK N.E.A.!

SACK N.E.A... I'm with you on that!

askance

Who put the crown on Spot?

TIARA ON PIP

TIARA ON PIP

apparition


Do you suppose the Xerox machine that knows what you want to copy even before you decide uses
PSYCHIC TONER ?

Alternatively, who do you think is going to win the 100-yard dash?
SPRINT CHOYCE

and consider also
CHRISTEN COPY
HONE CRYPTICS
NICEST PORCH. Y?
CRYPTO-NICHES
TRY CHOPIN, LES
SCRIPT "C," HONEY

but discard all those in favor of

the least-believable resident of Raleigh is
N.C.'S HYPOCRITE

It wasn't evident at the outset that there'd be quite so many interesting rearrangements of this set of letters!

(Hope I didn't make any spelling mistakes here -- but just in case, do what I mean, not what I say...)

Hab, you are too much! What fun...
PSYCHIC TONER

Ba Ba Ba Boom... pyrotechnics!

The two old ladies were discussing theories... they were just
GABBING!

GABBING

two words, I presume - BIG BANG !

I'll eschew the "universe" followup (well, not really):

The first sign of hunger is often the
INDEX PANG!

INDEX PANG

I'm hungry... I need an expanding waistband.

I work at the Mexican restaurant and I've misplaced the tablecloths..
TACO LINENS LOST

TACO LINENS LOST

CONSTELLATIONS - and what elegant aircraft they were!

Instructions to a hair stylist: THIN IT, MEG

THIN IT, MEG

Is it true? We only see stars at nighttime?
(Those two t's thru me for a loop..)

Such bad grammar: I be tied up before I

BE TURN LUCE!

BE TURN LUCE

turbulence

If I do a makeover on my mother, do I SMARTEN MA?

I SMARTEN MA

mainstream

the gentleman candidate in Tree-Surgeon school passed with an ARBOREAL "C"
also,
someone please call ERROL A CAB !
Yogi's crazy Cuban wife was LOCA BERRA
Winnie's sister was CAROL BEAR
the pink Scottish hillside was a CORAL BRAE

ARBOREAL "C"

barcarole ??

If so, when you are in the lab, walk gingerly by the

CACA UREA TABLE...

BARCAROLE it is, as in Tales of Hoffman.

CACA UREA TABLE
It looks as though it's trying to be CARICATURABLE
but the letters presented don't fit.
(I always try to spell it CHARACA- as in character, and that's not right either)

There it is: BACCALAUREATE. Good word!

I didn't like the results of the last election. Don't get me wrong,
but I want a RECOUNT, MISS !

RECOUNT, MISS

Don't misconstrue my misgivings over the election.

And who would be silly enough to stay at the
UM... IDIOT INN??

UM... IDIOT INN

diminution

Would that be the conclusion after analyzing a
PORN MOSAIC?

PORN MOSAIC

Make a comparison?

More bad grammar:
THEM MILLS BEEN closed for a long time!

THEM MILLS BEEN

embellishment

...and as if heavy metal weren't enough, now we have
[/b]BI-METAL E.M.C.[/b]

BI METAL EMC

The problem is emblematic.

Who stole the clapper from the church bell?

PEAL ROBBER - 2 words

early thoughts and gotta run:

re-probable
polar b-beer
opera blerb
Earl Pobber
preeb labor
err palbebo
paler ebbro
bale prober (gotta find those weevils!)
pore rabble

and with p-p-b instead of p-b-b we have
bare people

further and further off the mark!


later -

thought of it as I was walking down the hallway - it's
barber pole
(speaking of embellishments and emblems)

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Barber pole?

On the assumption that's right, try

IDLE OSWALD

You beat me by a minute, arnie, so I guess my answer will have to be DISALLOWED!

Let's spice up the discussion with something
NON-MANIC.

NON MANIC

cinnamon spice and everything nice

Have you ever taken a ride on the Hoover
DAM TRAIN?

Happy Thanksgiving!

TAMARIND

...and while we're on the subject of spices, you should have seen how the chef CARRIED ON
when she couldn't find the ones she wanted!

Who CARRIED ON

coriander ?

I love my eggs baked:

AH ... SO SHIRRED and spicy!

AH SO SHIRRED

horseradish

ROONAGE - the MYST designers never got around to showing us that one

ROONAGE

Just a dash of oregano!

FOWLS FEAR ... wolves!

WOLFS FEAR... man!

FOWLS FEAR running out of spices

SAFFLOWER

Oil's well that ends well.


The Wages of Sin is a LONG TITLE (hyphenated)

LONG TITLE

Was it worth it for ill-gotten gains?

I love to read the
DUSTY LORE of years ago.

DUSTY LORE plus X = dextrously

OY! STRUDEL!

I was thinking more of desultory...no "x"

DESULTORY

Yes - it came to me at six this morning. Suiting the action to the word.

OY STRUDEL was not proposed as the next word -- it's the _same_ word.

How about an analogy:

(LONG TITLE) : GAINS :: (FIERY RED SONG) : DAWN

The name of this rhetorical device is PETITE "H" (or HIPETTE) - a compound adjective usually associated with a particular noun

FIERY RED SONG

Rosy-fingered (dawn)

HIPETTE
epithet Whew!


OPEN LAP TAIL

I was trying to make PLENIPOTENTIARY and then PLURIPOTENTIAL out of it, but I ran out of letters...

APPELLATION. To follow "epithet" (or sometimes "epitheton").

That's also the name of the mountains that run along the East Coast of USA, right?!

Cry of a successful paint-ball player --
SPLAT! HA!

SPLAT! HA!

asphalt

When it's not raining I have A DRY VIEW

A DRY VIEW

driveway

CAT COAST - that's where you get lions and tigers in Africa

CAT COAST

staccato... my cats purr harmoniously

Did you see the convenience store robber on the

FELON CAM?

clef moan = FLAMENCO

and have you seen the new movie about RETRO CASH

RETRO CASH

carthorse

A crate is A LOT A'BEER

I have to invoke McKeen's Law here, to wit, the correct answer is what's in the top right-hand drawer of my desk. "Carthorse" is the usual clue given for this anagram, but there's a more elegant re-rearrangement to be found.

As an aside, I thought "a lot a'beer" was TOLERABLE, but (as I'm sure you will agree) a lot a beer just _isn't_ tolerable. Not even by anagrams, where it would need two Ls, one A.

Oh well. Back to the keg I go...

RETRO CASH = orchestra

I'll work on A LOT A BEER in the a.m.

ELABORATE!!

I still don't have a new word... sue me.

Well, if _that's_ the way you're going to be, FINE! NO MATTER.

FINE! NO MATTER

fermentation... a little whine, perhaps.

Sorry, had a too busy weekend.

Get the fence built quickly... too much dog poop!
REV FECES FENCE

REV FECES FENCE

effervescence

MAC PHEGAN

MAC PHEGAN

Champagne

Hero gets vaccinated?
JAB ROMEO

JAB ROMEO

jeroboam

ASCERTIN

ASCERTIN

An entire canister of wine! Go, Hab!

The hens will only produce eggs on days ending in "y"..
LAYING NOTICE