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Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        To the bulimious, "blancmange" is probably a very rude word. sociable camelopards -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        The sociable camelopards are looking for the unicrns to talk to. spats forever -------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole AJG Posts: 4478 | From: Michigan's Copper Country | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       'What Ho, Jeeves. Spats for ever eh?' Underground blancmange Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       Coming off the London Underground, blancmange was the random childhood memory that entered my mind. Western hippocrits -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Sioni Sais Shipmate # 5713 Posted                        When you watch a Western, hippocrits are to be seen carrying cowboys. Scratched breeding. -------------------- "He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor" (Paul Sinha, BBC) Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Noting the priapic tomcat's injuries on the record card, the vet wrote: Scratched, breeding. otherworldly suet Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        A favorite cheap effect, beloved of sci-fy, B movies everywhere is that of otherworldly suet dribbling off rubbery, monster skin. pack canary -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       The pack canary did not like to spend time alone. Hustle weather -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           The aging former disco dancer looked up at the clear blue sky and felt a slight warm breeze blowing, thinking this was good Hustle weather. bombastic peach -------------------- 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. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       'I would have to say' murmured Sir Humphrey 'that as ministerial speeches goes, that was one bombastic peach.' simultaneous grapefruit Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        When my wife and I were 'fruiting' the other day we achieved simultaneous grapefruit. shining invisibility -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       I began shining, invisibility was wearing off. Super redness -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       "'Crimson' is a bit Victorio-retro, don't you think?" said the Creative Director. 'Scarlet? Or is that too yesterday for you as well?' remarked the Designer, acidly. 'Super redness?' suggested the intern, meekly. Challenging broccoli [ 18. September 2011, 20:18: Message edited by: Firenze ] Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        Although she found becoming a vegetarian rather challenging, broccoli made it easier as it was her favourite thing. misogynistic cat -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        As the one-eared tom hissed at the kindly cat lady, the gent cackled that he had one misogynistic cat. sacred molars -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        Did Jesus have sacred molars? scared molars -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        Are you sure this is one of Buddha's teeth? Yes, it's a sacred molar. urbane pince-nez -------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole AJG Posts: 4478 | From: Michigan's Copper Country | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        "So how do you know that he thinks he's a classy gent," I asked. "See that pince-nez and the top hat?" She asked. "The way he keeps touching his hat and adjusting his pince-nez? That silly wanna-be dandy thinks that is an urbane pinze-nez-top hat combo." dandy ogre -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       'Of the memorable monsters of my childhood, I think I preferred the Beano Giant to the Dandy Ogre'. indecisive custard Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       I was feeling indecisive - 'custard or cream?' was the question I could not answer. Happy hats -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged EtymologicalEvangelical Shipmate # 15091 Posted                        That film made us feel happy. Hats off to the director! bibliographically overexert -------------------- 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 Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        The book list is much too long. There was no need for you to bibliography overexert as you have done. toad tango -------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole AJG Posts: 4478 | From: Michigan's Copper Country | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           Once I saw a man as ugly as a toad tango, but his girlfriend was even uglier! persnickety Porsche -------------------- 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. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        I'm very persnickety. Porsche or Aston Martin only, please. inexplicable admiration -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       The inexplicable admiration some people have for Jedward totally confounds me. gelid flatulence Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        Here at Unusual Perfumes, we have discovered the beauty in many smells you might have not admired; for instance, while we consider normal flatulence atrocious, we have discovered the beauty of gelid flatulence, and think you would too, if you smelt it. Come by and try it today! orangutan confluence -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Think Tank established a human and orangutan confluence, where orangs and people can interact, both having fun and learning things. pastie freedom -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           Topless dancers solicited the audience for pastie freedom, Erudite eggheads -------------------- 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. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Humpty Dumpty was probably not one of the erudite eggheads. fluorescent ptarmigan Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        During the hunting season, if you can see fluorescent ptarmigan, you've probably had too much sloe GIN. belligerent Quaker -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        There was a belligerent Quaker in the book Chesapeake. feline canine -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged EtymologicalEvangelical Shipmate # 15091 Posted                        Archibald, the new employee, took a bit of getting used to in the meteorological office. His rather pompous humour got a bit wearing after a while, and three months of hearing about "feline canine precipitation" (haw haw haw!) whenever there was a downpour, was a bit too much for some of his colleagues' nerves. tearfully electrocute -------------------- 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 Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        His mum always insisted that he was a good boy, but then she was blissfully unaware of the fact that he used to tearfully electrocute feeder mice and give them dignified funerals in the back garden. bacon egrets -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        I have to admit that I am always more interested in the taste of my food than the look, so I have to admit that I was not as impressed by the overcooked but gorgeous bacon egrets that came with my eggs. pompous infant -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged WhateverTheySay Shipmate # 16598 Posted                       The pompous infant clearly had ideas above his station. Lexicon liturgy -------------------- I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Played with a missal, a calendar and the OED, 'Lexicon Liturgy' was the game for theological students. indelible banana Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        After Lucy left the tattoo parlour she wondered if the indelible banana was a good idea after all. evil saint -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           "Back away from evil," Saint Lucy always said. Electric walnuts -------------------- 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. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Bender scarfed electric walnuts just to annoy a peckish Nibbler. Venetian cowpat -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Ophicleide16 Shipmate # 16344 Posted                        A Sicilian cow will never produce a venetian cowpat. Musical Pudding [ 26. September 2011, 23:10: Message edited by: Ophicleide16 ] Posts: 79 | From: London | Registered: Apr 2011  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Musical Pudding is much the same as Musical Chairs, but messier. balmy ferrets Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        Now that the temperature has dropped by a few degrees, I can describe our pets as balmy ferrets rather than barmy ferrets. placid maniacs -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Gwai Shipmate # 11076 Posted                        If you need to take care of a few toddlers for a few hours, I advise that you strongly limit their sugar intake and arrange times for quiet play so that you will at least occasionally have plaid maniacs. darkness shone -------------------- A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea. If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere They are fools eternally. Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged Zeke Ship's Inquirer # 3271 Posted                        The night after the nuclear holocaust, the darkness shone with radiation over the frightened survivors. Avid hamburger -------------------- No longer the Bishop of Durham ----------- If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin Posts: 5259 | From: Deep in the American desert | Registered: Sep 2002  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           When it comes to a quick lunch, I am avid: hamburger from my favourite hamburger chef rules! Electrical banana -------------------- 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. Posts: 30517 | From: White Hart Lane | Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        "Electrical banana is bound to be a sudden craze." baroque walk-about -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Zeke Ship's Inquirer # 3271 Posted                        He put on Vivaldi's Four Seasons on his trip to Australia, hoping to have a baroque walkabout. Magnanimous oyster -------------------- No longer the Bishop of Durham ----------- If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? --Benjamin Franklin Posts: 5259 | From: Deep in the American desert | Registered: Sep 2002  |  IP: Logged Herrick Shipmate # 15226 Posted                        He was such a generous and magnanimous oyster that he produced a pearl of great price. Illogical evensong -------------------- A careless shoestring in whose tie I see a wild civility Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009  |  IP: Logged Sir Kevin Ship's Gaffer # 3492 Posted                           This is illogical: evensong should not be sung in Mandarin! Perfunctory chipmunk -------------------- 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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