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It's all from The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu). Also in the Mikado are references in song to "pestilential" and, now that I think of it, even to "Sorrow" (who posted the original question!).
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BONNET B ---- > D Hanging on by a thread TENDON
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vesuvian PRONUNCIATION:(vi-SOO-vee-uhn) MEANING: adjective: Marked by sudden explosive outbursts. ETYMOLOGY: After Mount Vesuvius, a volcano that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when it erupted in 79 CE. Earliest documented use:
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In the meantime this wife acted very discreet tripping lightly along the dark side of the street his maimedness became her unfailing disclaimer for what some might regard as a mean sneaky cheat. Edit: After logging in I saw the words were taken. I
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Now when I married I married with a legal *disclaimer* I could leave her only if someone else would claimer She's quite a looker the best you'll ever meet She swears like a sailor 'tho kind and discreet Vain, she looks into her mirror only: I don't
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You're welcome. [Just now occurred to me that I have to post more to catch up with Faldo.]
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I think I've lost you, Rhub, and I've seen the reference once before: Titipu Town Band???
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S > B BONNET
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Ha! We are back to the Tromboniator of Titipu Town Band!
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Poetic
by Rhubarb Commando
@ Yesterday at 11:48 AM
H ---> N SONNET
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STONEY Y ---- > H I didn't do it ... HONEST
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I especially like "odors in the Bible" and 'hemorrhoids-popular works". Feet in the bible is neat too, especially for fetishers, and 'urinary dances".
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L > Y STONEY
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"...It will not do I'm sorry for you You very imperfect ablutioner...." (Of course that's three words, not one...) For sophisticated insults, Ernest Bramah's early Kai Lung works are a sparkling fountain. Sometimes it takes three readings before
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LEMONS M --- > T Since she didn't pucker up, the kisses were STOLEN
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Had faldo posted just once on most - but not all - topics, there would only be 33 on which he had made no comment! (But, as you rightly say, who's counting?)
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At first sight, these do seem to be pretty fantastical, Luke. However, if one were to take the time and energy to investigate what has been written on these strange topics, it is not impossible that they are actually pieces of serious - and potential
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Suckers!
by Rhubarb Commando
@ 05/19/13 02:36 PM
LEMONS
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I trust he survived this one, he said gravely. LESSON S-->M SOLEMN
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Short Subjects When PLAFSEP magazine asked its readers to nominate the silliest library subject heading, the hands-down winner was BUTTOCKS (IN RELIGION, FOLK-LORE, ETC.). Other highlights, gathered by columnist John R. Likins: AMERICAN GIANT CHEC
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I > S LESSON
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wwh 13858 Faldage 13653 but who's counting?
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LIONEL L ---- > S When the toy train ran over his hand, he had a LESION
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-D LIONEL
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