Here's one you won't see too often:LIGATION (No, not GILATION, meaning "turning into a monster")
January 11, 2006, 20:05
haberdasher
(no solution) x (48 hours) = hint time
Haberdasher's Rule: If an anagram is really hard to unscramble, it probably begins with a vowel. In this case it's a vowel at each end.
January 12, 2006, 11:33
arnie
LIGATION
intaglio
MAOIST'S PUN
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.
January 12, 2006, 14:38
haberdasher
MAOIST'S PUN
Hmmm.. recognize bad feelings: SPOT ANIMUS works of art on smoked paper: SPUMATIONS I love my dog: MUT PASSION I Go Pogo - NOT: ANTI-POSSUM
What's that? You say I'm making wrong assumptions?
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I LOVE STINE - didn't Jule write the best musicals?
January 15, 2006, 21:00
KHC
I LOVE STINE
television
NEAT COEDS
January 16, 2006, 12:15
haberdasher
NEAT COEDS
anecdotes
Lots of two-worRd phrases to be made from these letters, but I like best
TENNIS DECAL DECENT SNAIL and ICELAND NEST
January 18, 2006, 11:07
arnie
TENNIS DECALet al
clandestine
This sort of thing DENIGRATES ME
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.
January 20, 2006, 12:28
haberdasher
DENIGRATES ME
Interestingly, with a tweak here and there that can be twisted into "disparagement." I couldn't get a majority to accept that, though, and we had to settle for a DISAGREEMENT.
On the other hand, we did agree on RACCOON DEN "C".
January 21, 2006, 21:29
KHC
RACCOON DEN C
concordance
CHALK VOE
January 22, 2006, 10:57
haberdasher
HAVELOCK Ellis' writing might make you think he was a pornographic LOVEHACK...
January 23, 2006, 20:17
KHC
Hab, HAVELOCK was the word I was going for...
Do you have another jumble?
January 24, 2006, 13:55
haberdasher
VILE! ECH!
Is there a relationship between "concordance" and "Havelock"? I don't know of one, offhand.
January 24, 2006, 20:26
KHC
Is there a required relationship between the two words? I'm flummoxed.
VILE ... ECH
vehicle
IF WHO USEE
January 25, 2006, 07:31
haberdasher
Is there a required relationship between the two words? I'm flummoxed.
Doesn't have to be, but sometimes one can be found. In this case I wondered because I think of Havelock as a person's name, capitalized and therefore sometimes flagged as such, and I speculated that maybe there was a certain Havelock who might have compiled a well-known Concordance of the Bible, making you think of him for that next anagram. Or something like that.
Ignore me, I do sometimes blather on.
"IF WHO USEE" is Housewife.
I see my highlighting in blue doesn't look that good against this background.
LUV, ARCHIE
January 26, 2006, 11:03
arnie
quote:
I see my highlighting in blue doesn't look that good against this background.
Also, I imagine, for those who are colour-blind.
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.
January 26, 2006, 20:23
KHC
Archie, I was reading a Civil War history where the soldier had havelocks and housewives, if they were lucky.
LUV ARCHIE
vehicular
What to do with the traitor? DO ICE HIM
January 27, 2006, 12:17
haberdasher
Learn something new every day. At least I hope so.
From M-W online dictionary, 10th Edition: "Main Entry: have·lock Pronunciation: 'hav-"läk, -l&k Function: noun definition:a covering attached to a cap to protect the neck from the sun or bad weather Etymology: Sir Henry Havelock"
Moving right along:
DO ICE HIM
homicide
REDAUNTAGE
January 27, 2006, 20:19
KHC
REDAUNTAGE
This forum is guaranteed to teach something new.
When doing algebra, one cannot IGNORE PI.....
January 28, 2006, 18:01
haberdasher
IGNORE PI
change an I to an N an enjoy Dom PERIGNON or just change into something more comfortable, perhaps a PEIGNOIR...
Meanwhile, I entreat you, make a PIER MOUNT with a PURIM TONE from a TURNIP, MOE!
January 28, 2006, 20:18
KHC
PIER MOUNT
importune
Red flags when I opened the gas bill today! Heating this house is
COSTIN' too much $$$...
January 29, 2006, 07:41
haberdasher
TOCSIN - I knew that word rang a bell somehow!
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(ringer alert) From The Mikado, Act 2:
MADRIGAL: YUM-YUM, PITTI-SING, NANKI-POO, and PISH-TUSH
Brightly dawns our wedding day; Joyous hour, we give thee greeting! Whither, whither art thou fleeting? Fickle moment, prithee stay! What though mortal joys be hollow? Pleasures come, if sorrows follow: Though the tocsin sound, ere long, Ding dong! Ding dong! Yet until the shadows fall Over one and over all, Sing a merry madrigal-- A madrigal!
Fal-la--fal-la! etc. (Ending in tears.)
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Moving right along:
HOLE, PART
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January 29, 2006, 20:32
KHC
Hab, I'm so glad that tocsin made you happy!
HOLE, PART
A plethora of bells...
Be careful... UP AT ICY pond.
January 30, 2006, 10:09
haberdasher
UP AT ICY
paucity
GREEN MARS
P.S. I looked this up to make sure, and to my surprise it doesn't mean what I thought it did, and indeed may be a relativey esoteric word. (That's trying to be an apology, not a hint.)
January 30, 2006, 10:32
jo
Quack, Quack, Quack
MERGANSER
Quick! Get the Tums, for this
MENU SO ACID
January 30, 2006, 12:24
haberdasher
Note one each of all five vowels.
I know one of the Hawaiian Islands is named Maui; is there a SECOND MAUI somewhere else?
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January 31, 2006, 06:48
haberdasher
MENDACIOUS (it came to me this morning, as I was just lying there)
PITA ALLA ____ - eclectic dining; just fill in your favorite cuisine
January 31, 2006, 20:50
KHC
PITA ALLA
palatial
Have you seen the new guy at McDonald's? BIG MAC HUNK.... proper
February 01, 2006, 07:34
haberdasher
BIG MAC HUNK
Buckingham (speaking of palaces, of course)
FIDGET, ARI
February 03, 2006, 19:51
KHC
FIDGET, ARI
gratified
Miss Turnip Queen, 2006 BE SUPER ROOTS
February 04, 2006, 07:48
haberdasher
BE SUPER ROOTS
Obstreperous
LATEST LIE
February 04, 2006, 12:15
haberdasher
I observe it also makes SEATTLE, L.I. Which it isn't.
February 04, 2006, 20:58
KHC
LATEST LIE
satellite from Seattle... and Long Island
Do you answer the phone when FADO RINGS?
February 05, 2006, 14:25
haberdasher
Do they call non-favorites INFRADOGS at the Olympics?
You could add an H and get DRAGONFISH if you wanted to.
But the answer is really SANGFROID, he concluded cooly.
The IDEA RANG a bell, anyway.
February 05, 2006, 19:47
KHC
I have instructed the gardeners to check DRAINAGE in the GARDENIA bed.
Did you know that Betty Grable was the LAST PINUP of WWII?
February 06, 2006, 04:19
haberdasher
GARDENIA is in my upper right-hand desk drawer, but DRAINAGE cerainly fits the conditions too. Just out of idle curiosity, do you know what made you continue looking after you got the first solution?
...a SUPPLIANT at thy feet I kneel (Iolanthe, Act II)
G.E. RITUAL
February 06, 2006, 19:17
KHC
G.E. RITUAL
ligature
You know how those crazy geologists love FUN GYPSITE!
February 06, 2006, 19:19
KHC
Hab, I was at a wedding shower recently where we played those silly games.. make words out of other words. One of the words was "gardenia", from the wedding bouquet...I already knew it spelled drainage, too. Just luck for me!
February 07, 2006, 06:12
haberdasher
FUN GYPSITE
stupefying
advice to an emotional poker player - ANGRY? FOLD!
February 08, 2006, 20:10
KHC
ANGRY? FOLD!
Such a peaceful word... dragonfly
Can't see at night? Look at me..
ME BEE BULB
February 09, 2006, 18:32
haberdasher
ME BEE BULB
Oh, Fumble, you have bumbled...(MAD Comics #5, or thereabouts)
BUMBLEBEE
DEAR, GAZING
February 09, 2006, 20:56
KHC
DEAR, GAZING
aggrandize
Who invented the BIOME DRYER? That would be an Englishman.
February 10, 2006, 09:51
haberdasher
EMBROIDERY (also "moire derby"!)
TCH! SCISSOR 'T! (hyphenated, most of the time)
February 10, 2006, 20:53
KHC
TCH! SCISSOR'T
cross-stitch
Shall I sail the boat to a shallow beach? NO, DEEP INLET
February 11, 2006, 01:52
arnie
NO, DEEP INLET
needlepoint
Cheerful cow? A SUNNY MOO
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.
February 11, 2006, 05:46
haberdasher
A SUNNY MOO
How are we supposed to know who submitted that one? He wants to be ANONYMOUS!
LABOR LEG
February 12, 2006, 10:05
haberdasher
We interrupt this program to bring you this special news update:
ZZ...DRAB L.I. (Long Island is boring.)
We return you now to our regularly scheduled broadcast.
February 12, 2006, 20:20
KHC
LABOR LEG
While Hab was enjoying a bit of bargello stitching, he was interrupted by a NE ZZ DRAB L.I. -- blizzard
Obviously, he still has electricity!
On Air France, they do a quick check of the undies: BRIEF EN VAC
February 15, 2006, 19:48
haberdasher
CABIN FEVER?
The snow is melting quickly.
OLTAGE
February 16, 2006, 18:58
KHC
Yes to Cabin Fever... gelato ??
See any snowmen? Going to Weight Watchers will just RUIN DOTTY.
February 16, 2006, 19:29
haberdasher
ROTUNDITY
Gelato is good, but I had in mind something even smoother.
OLTAGE (it'll all be tied together when you get it, he said musically)