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Jump to new posts G&S strike again! by wofahulicodoc @ Yesterday at 04:38 PM

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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Jump to new posts Re: - - - - in your Easter by endymion6 @ Yesterday at 03:56 PM

BONNET B ---- > D Hanging on by a thread TENDON
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Jump to new posts Monday Monday, word of the day by jenny jenny @ Yesterday at 03:55 PM

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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Jump to new posts Re: It could happen. by BranShea @ Yesterday at 03:53 PM

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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Jump to new posts Take my wife.... please take my wife. by jenny jenny @ Yesterday at 03:19 PM

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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Jump to new posts Re: exscind by zmjezhd @ Yesterday at 12:43 PM

You're welcome. [Just now occurred to me that I have to post more to catch up with Faldo.]
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Jump to new posts Re: Young man despair, / Likewise go to... by LukeJavan8 @ Yesterday at 12:12 PM

I think I've lost you, Rhub, and I've seen the reference once before: Titipu Town Band???
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Jump to new posts - - - - in your Easter by LukeJavan8 @ Yesterday at 11:58 AM

S > B BONNET
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Jump to new posts Re: Young man despair, / Likewise go to... by Rhubarb Commando @ Yesterday at 11:51 AM

Ha! We are back to the Tromboniator of Titipu Town Band!
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Jump to new posts Poetic by Rhubarb Commando @ Yesterday at 11:48 AM

H ---> N SONNET
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Jump to new posts Re: - - - rocky by endymion6 @ Yesterday at 01:46 AM

STONEY Y ---- > H I didn't do it ... HONEST
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Jump to new posts Re: Shorts found in Library of Congress by LukeJavan8 @ 05/19/13 09:09 PM

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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Jump to new posts - - - rocky by LukeJavan8 @ 05/19/13 09:06 PM

L > Y STONEY
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Jump to new posts Young man despair, / Likewise go to... by wofahulicodoc @ 05/19/13 06:07 PM

"...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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Jump to new posts Re: Suckers! by endymion6 @ 05/19/13 03:27 PM

LEMONS M --- > T Since she didn't pucker up, the kisses were STOLEN
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Jump to new posts Re: aside to Faldage.. by Rhubarb Commando @ 05/19/13 02:48 PM

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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Jump to new posts Re: Shorts found in Library of Congress by Rhubarb Commando @ 05/19/13 02:44 PM

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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Jump to new posts Suckers! by Rhubarb Commando @ 05/19/13 02:36 PM

LEMONS
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Jump to new posts life's lessons by wofahulicodoc @ 05/19/13 02:33 PM

I trust he survived this one, he said gravely. LESSON S-->M SOLEMN
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Jump to new posts Shorts found in Library of Congress by LukeJavan8 @ 05/19/13 11:33 AM

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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Jump to new posts - - - - school by LukeJavan8 @ 05/19/13 11:22 AM

I > S LESSON
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Jump to new posts aside to Faldage.. by tsuwm @ 05/19/13 10:56 AM

wwh 13858 Faldage 13653 but who's counting?
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Jump to new posts Re: Bart, Blair, Messi, Ritchie? by endymion6 @ 05/19/13 09:48 AM

LIONEL L ---- > S When the toy train ran over his hand, he had a LESION
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Jump to new posts Re: Sophisticated word for the following...? by Rhubarb Commando @ 05/19/13 09:26 AM

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Jump to new posts Bart, Blair, Messi, Ritchie? by Rhubarb Commando @ 05/19/13 09:25 AM

-D LIONEL
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