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Thread: Circus: Use that phrase
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Looking for a word, I came across a random phrase generator. This gave me an idea for a game:
give a random phrase e.g. "diet translator"
the person then writes a sentence or more that uses it in a sensible way.
So you might get the following job advert: "A Hindi speaking nutritionist is required to act as a diet translator for our Indian clients".
You then post the next phrase to be worked into a sentence. Use some discrimination in choosing your phrase please.
So to start with:
"bad cosmology"
Jengie
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Stetson
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"The bad cosmology of one particular ancient philosopher, which postulated that the sky as we see it formed the interior of a giant pyramid, with Earth as the pyramid's internal base(and the pyramid itself dangling on the horn of a cyclops), led to his complete exclusion from the Oxford Encyclopedia Of Cosmology. Though he does maintain some small following among deviant Rosicrucians.
chauvinistic chesterfields
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Banner Lady
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"Browse among the chauvinistic Chesterfields, chirpy Chippendales and chic Chaise-lounges in our alluring Boudoir Collection".
Ahem. Back to the task, shippies.
Pollup Opportunities.
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Stetson
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"A significant decrease in the price of red meat would provide numerous pollup opportunities for enterprising cells in carniveroius colons everywhere."
psychedelic interrogations
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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The students in that house were particularly keen on giving parties, and the toilets had been subject to many, many psychedelic interrogations.
fringe mint
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
fringe mint
That one somehow sounds to me like it could be well placed in the Euphemisms thread in heaven... or is that just my mind?!
The girl decided on a punk image and so dyed her fringe mint green! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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WhateverTheySay
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The claustrophobic swans hated being penned in.
Sunny shoes
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Stetson
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The astronomically challenged art student was kicked out of the academy for foregoing the usual halos and instead portraying his saints as wearing sunny shoes.
unethical foxtrots
fair-trade foxtrots
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Stetson
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(go with fair-trade)
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Fair-trade foxtrots off with organic, locally sourced free-range chicken.
Trappist war-monger
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Banner Lady
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St.George's Abbey in the Himalayas became such a sanctuary for political refugees that the adjacent authorities would refer to the abbott as 'that Trappist war-monger'.
exploding tranquility
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Sir Kevin
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Exploding distant galaxies in the night sky makes for tranquility in viewing here on Earth.
Cruciform churches
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Sir Kevin, I think the idea is to use the phrase as given - ie the two words remain adjacent, rather than just occuring in the same sentence.
'Cruciform churches are fairly common'.
Bespangled hermits
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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OK. sorry I made it so easy then!
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Oh hey, do those bespangled hermits in caves
Get time off purgat'ry, for their ascetic ways?
delightfully craven
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agrgurich
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I've always found Captain Hook delightfully craven.
Chortling Jacobites
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AJG
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Stetson
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Except for a few chortling Jacobites, a great dismay ran through the crowd at the parade when the drunk playing King Billy fell off his horse.
scandalous juxtapositions
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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'La, Sir' cried Lady Twitter 'why nothing else is spoken of in all Bath but Sir Jasper and Miss Flight and their scandalous juxtapositions'.
shiny questions
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Herrick
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Shiny questions give ample opportunity for reflective answers.
Ubiquitous hermit
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
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Pre-cambrian
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"Will no-one rid me of this ubiquitous hermit?" complained King Josiah about Jeremiah.
offal tube
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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Reading 'hell' can sometimes be compared to swimming in the regurgitated outpourings of an offal tube!
nostalgic teapots
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"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Ah, nostalgic teapots - they ain't wot they used to be.
dessicated virgins
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Archaeologists classified the mummified remains found in the temple of Vesta as dessicated virgins.
escalating cabbage
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Bos Loquax
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The escalating cabbage smell from the rectory was just one of many signs that ordaining rabbits was a very bad idea.
resurgent disappointment
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Stetson
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Resurgent disappointment was the dominant mood at the warren when the inhabitants heard that the church council had reversed its previous ruling on lupine ordinations.
Belgian mythology
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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While analysing the Lucan narrative against other primitive sources regarding miraculous births, the seminarian concluded that Belgian mythology pointed towards the Blessed Mother showing hospitality to the visiting shepherds by offering a selection of fine beers.
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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The evangelicals started fighting back in Ecclesiantics - there was a flaming maniple and a burning biretta and someone even got out a guitar!
community hats
[ 20. August 2011, 03:04: Message edited by: Chelley ]
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"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Stetson
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The government's anti-lice campaign has been severely hobbled by the resurgent popularity of community hats.
Malthusian rainbows
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WhateverTheySay
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The Malthusian rainbows stretched across the sky.
Hopeful songs
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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'Somewhere over the rainbow' and 'Tomorrow' are such hopeful songs, are they not?
glowing perambulator
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agrgurich
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We moved the glowing perambulator away from the fire was done.
Scarlet Kitty
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AJG
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Bos Loquax
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We had a scarlet kitty, whose frequent indiscretion was rolling around in her scarlet litter.
diffident festival
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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We planned and advertised it for weeks, but when the day came, our diffident festival was nowhere to be found. Turns out it was hiding on the next street over.
frequent gutter
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I reserve the right to change my mind.
My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Notes for life of dissipation: hang out in low bars; haunt brothels; frequent gutter.
myopic penguin
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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The myopic penguin swam to the ophthalmologist.
heartbroken waif
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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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Zeke
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The removal of meat from his enclosure and its replacement with vegetables made for a very discombobulated tiger.
deterrent bench
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Banner Lady
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The pinoak threw acorns at the insulting elm.
soft corkscrew
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Soft corkscrew works on metal corks with screw-shaped holes.
flash mobile
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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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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It was the size of a brick and had a battery life in minutes, but in the 80s, that was a flash mobile.
indeterminate meringue
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After a beef wellington in which the pastry truly resembled a boot, the disappointing meal finished with an indeterminate meringue, sloppy and filled with runny cream.
phosphorescent waitress
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Stetson
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The Lord God was considerate enough to provide Jonah with the services of a kitchen staff and a phosphorescent waitress during his stay in the darkness of the whale.
(I was listening to this while concocting a response.)
bargain-basement agape
("Agape" there being the Greek word for a particular typr of love)
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Herrick
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I have experienced bargain-basement eros, but never bargain-basement agape.
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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Stetson
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Many critics have levelled the charge of hippopotamus degradation against T.S. Eliot.
sclerotic cornucopia
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Bos Loquax
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How did we discover how little the new maid could see humor? She dropped by the slaughterhouse, cooked her purchases to the hard ball stage, and after dinner dazzled us with a immaculately iridescent vitreous spectacle: a sclerotic cornucopia.
It was mouth-watering, but my sister never requested "eye candy" again.
apricot masquerade
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agrgurich
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I wore the apricot maskerade costome since the banana costume was taken.
Waltzing Monarchists
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AJG
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WhateverTheySay
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The waltzing monarchists had nothing better to do.
Fidgety fanmail
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Fidgety fanmail never could just keep still.
looky noncontrariety
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