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Sir Kevin
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I am playing looky noncontrariety with my ocelot.
plastic fantastic
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Her boob job could be labelled as nothing short of plastic fantastic.
Squelchy cutlery
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Zeke
Ship's Inquirer
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It having been soaking in soapy and rather slimy water for several days, the squelchy cutlery was overdue to be rinsed and put away.
Vast banner
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If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Vast banner unfurled by protesting giant.
In unrelated news, local boy falls from overgrown beanstalk.
parenthetical delusion
[argh, can't spell for toffee today]
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Jesus saves, Allah protects, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich
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Herrick
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The supporters of (South) Sydney persisted with their parenthetical delusion that they could win (the comp).
limp rigidity
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Ah, so you've met my husband, then.
Crass civility
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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Hyacinth Bucket's etiquette club was a boorish exercise in crass civility; its monotony only occasionally relieved by the affable vulgarity and hilarious embarrassment of her brother-in-law Onslow's unannounced visits.
mix ditto
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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My trip to 'Holland and Barrett' was most infuriating, sassafras was completely sold out.
concentrating diapason
[ 23. August 2011, 20:09: Message edited by: Chorister ]
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"Sorry, could you repeat what you said; I wasn't concentrating."
"'Diapason' was what I said. Come on, wake up, otherwise you'll fail your music exam tomorrow."
"Ah yes, now I remember. What did you say it meant?"
bingo illegibility
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Bos Loquax
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Having contended with that bingo illegilibity for longer than we should've, we went for shuffleboard instead--only to find the numbers scrawled in the same bad hand.
sentimental lacuna
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Stetson
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The pages inexplicably torn out of my Reader's Digest were certainly a sentimental lacuna, making me misty-eyed for those character-building days of the Great Depression when we heated our house by burning books in the living room.
Montessori vocational-school
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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I received my early pre-teaching education at the local Montessori vocational school.
port guessing
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Herrick
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I finished off the last of the port guessing that my host would suggest cognac next.
subtle obtuseness
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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Pre-cambrian
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Fred wasn't blatantly stupid and obstructive, it was more of a subtle obtuseness.
iron mastication
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Herrick
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When I carried in the steaks from the barbeque Janine put down the iron, mastication was her priority now.
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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Stetson
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Herrick:
New words?
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I have the power...Lucifer is lord!
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agrgurich
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Looky Contrariety is a vert odd stage name.
monacles popping
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
AJG
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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...and using an ocelot as a musical instrument would be sure to get monocles popping.
saintly poltergeist
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Peter the saintly poltergeist had the unusual habit of laying rugs straight, opening doors for people and tidying up.
shiny trinity
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"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
Back to my blog
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Baptist Trainfan
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The parish church had become known as "Shiny Trinity" ever since they had received the bequest enabling them to gold-plate the spire and install high-intensity floodlighting.
Eirenic Dissimulation
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Pre-cambrian
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Mr Slope's persistent lying in Parochial Church Council meetings had been infuriating colleagues for years, but it was his lofty dismissal of his habit as eirenic dissimulation which finally got him the thump on the nose.
chilled balls of fire
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"We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop."
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agrgurich
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On Election Day, I hope you-know-who suffers a pleasing disaster.
gourmet gazebo
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
AJG
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Great grub to be got in the gourmet gazebo
contradictory horse
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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The contradictory horse dissed his jockey when asked to run.
Pusillanimous perquisite
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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The new chief executive was a fanatic about cutting costs. His first decision on taking up his new role was a direct and courageous challenge to those employees prone to be self-indulgent, weak-willed and pusillanimous: "perquisite policy no. 1" - no more flying first class.
stainless accordion
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Stetson
Shipmate
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Miraculously, Uncle Metro emerged from the perogy-and-sausage food fight at his niece's wedding reception unsplattered and grinding away on a still-stainless accordion.
(A rough idea of what I'm envisioning.)
scathing vespers
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I have the power...Lucifer is lord!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Speaking to the novices, the Abbot was scathing: "Vespers", he said, "is not intended to be the final refuge of the insomniac".
Chaotic rigidity
[ 25. August 2011, 23:35: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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It had been a long while since he had been to church, so, true to his upbringing, he erred on the side of respect and turned up in a suit and tie. Little did he know that the acceptable dress code for this 'community church' was garish bermuda shorts, t-shirts and not much else. Such inverted formality and chaotic rigidity made him feel like he was the real non-conformist!
mush prognosticating
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Pre-cambrian
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Not so long ago I visited a web forum which had a game where you had to get odd phrases like "mush prognosticating" into the middle of a sentence.
parallel chimpanzees
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Upon catching the male undergrad peering through a high window into the womens' showers, the dean said "If I see you doing that again, I'll beat the voyeuristic stuffing out of you!"
locomotive sausage
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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In the dining car of the locomotive, sausage and beans was served, bizarrely, on a silver salver.
tumultuously lackadaisical
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Objection! Locomotives don't have dining cars (although they may trail them behind them) -trains do. Well, they used to until National Express took them off.
Can you kindly have another go, please? I know it's not an easy one.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan
Objection! Locomotives don't have dining cars (although they may trail them behind them) -trains do. Well, they used to until National Express took them off.
Can you kindly have another go, please? I know it's not an easy one.
Allow me to have a go...
The train spotter's perfect start to the day: breakfast at Al's cafe next to the station; a window seat with a clear view of the old restored steam locomotive; sausage, bacon, mushrooms and beans piled up on his plate and a shiny new issue of The Railway Magazine before him, ready to be devoured from cover to cover.
Now let's go back to...
tumultuously lackadaisical
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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WhateverTheySay
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It was obvious that everything was becoming tumultuously lackadaisical to me.
French natter
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I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going
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Stetson
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After attending a party at the embassy and listening to the French natter on with their self-aggrandizing recollections of May 68, Rupert was quite happy that the history of his own plucky little nation had gone differently.
flirtatious Albion
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Baptist Trainfan
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"Flirtatious Albion" proved to be a challenging theme for the flower-arrangers of the local British Legion. But red, white and blue were successfully mixed with pink lace and frills in the end.
Obsequious authoritarianism.
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Stetson
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During the generalissimo's campaign of obsequious authoritarianism, political prisoners were herded into police wagons while policemen yelled "You're Number One!!" and "You guys rock!!" through bullhorns.
paranthetical moonlight
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I have the power...Lucifer is lord!
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WhateverTheySay
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Looking up through the trees last night, I could see parenthetical moonlight shining back at me.
Absurdity shining
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I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going
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Zeke
Ship's Inquirer
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At the Ionesco festival one could see absurdity shining forth from every stage and venue.
Negative tongue
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If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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He certainly deserved his rather less than flattering nickname. His English literature pupils - well immersed in Tolkien - had seen their teacher in the pages of The Lord of the Rings, and only someone with his cynical attitude, and with such a slanderous and negative tongue wagging in his gloomy head, could justly be called 'Wormtongue'.
cruelly reboil
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Zeke
Ship's Inquirer
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The boiled lobster was still twitching, so the chef felt he had no choice but to cruelly reboil it.
Farewell processor
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If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin
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Herrick
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As I dumped my ex PC I said, "Farewell processor."
murine equine
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"Murine ... equine" is to the animal kingdom what "Trabant ... Mercedes" is to German car manufacturing.
meaninglessly unjam
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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WhateverTheySay
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When I hadn't slept for days, I saw my wiggly laptop wiggling in front of me.
Fiery horns
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I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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"It's not too OTT?" said Lucifer. "I mean the boots, the cape and the fiery horns?"
eloquent lettuce
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Zeke
Ship's Inquirer
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The eloquent lettuce lectured the other vegetables on their responsibility to provide top-notch nutrition.
Orienting outside
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If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin
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