(not to be confused with
Schlachthaus V)
Now, where were we?
Oh, yes.
Just can't beat that intergalactic bar and honkytonk band...
G-->A
CANTINA
- A
TANNICgood move wofa
Glad for Anagrams V.
Thanks.
...in Neal Stephenson's
Anathem drop N
ITA
I wonder what happened to Avy's post....she had 'A' as well
+ S
AS
I saw Avy's post and was wondering that as well.
+ K
ASK
Wot's going on?
Or am I just an...
K-S
ASS?
Funny you should ask.
Your posting came through as an email to me, but was not
on the site when I clicked it on. The same must have
happened to Candy. We got the email but not the posting
on the anagram thread. Thanks for asking.
If you would like to take it back to plain "A", be our
guest, or go from wherever you'd like to pick it up. On the
email it had you with just the letter A. Add or subtract,
I won't object and Candy is at a wedding so she won't
be around for awhile.
And I won't object either. Just add a letter and re-arrange, or subtract a letter and re-arrange, or change a letter and re-arrange. Or don't re-arrange if you still have a word - up to you. And lately we've even been re-arranging without changing anything.
Occasionally someone gets huffy because of two changes at once but even then no one really minds, we just tease a bit and please don't take it personally because no one means it seriously.
And Luke - Jackie posted this back on the now-obsolete "Anagrams IV" thread but in case you didn't get there (because it is obsolete) I'm re-presenting it here. It's detailed instructions on how to make a long link shorter, so it doesn't broaden the display into grouchy overlengthiness:
First--don't use the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page--this used to work for me when I'd hit Switch to Full Reply Screen, but now all I get is a completely white page with nothing on it at all. So--
1.) Copy (Ctrl + C) the address of the link you want to post.
2.) Hit the Reply button at the bottom of the post.
3.) In the bar above the text-typing box, click on the second-from-the-left icon--the thing that resembles a globe. This will bring up a tiny Script Prompt box*.
4.) Paste (Ctrl + V) the address into the little bar that will have http:// in it--you won't have to get rid of that first, I don't think.
5.) Click OK. The next part is what took me a long time and many instructions from Jo to get, although you can see that all I had to do was read the darned thing:
6.) The little white bar will go blank--not to worry, it has saved your URL. Into this, type some appropriate word(s)--the instructions on the box itself tell you to enter the title of the web page you're linking to.
7.) Click OK again. The link will appear in your text box where you left your cursor. In this box you will see a bunch of "extra" stuff--it will not show in your post: just your title word(s) will.
It is a good idea to Preview: this allows you to click on your title word and see if your linked page will come up or not.
If you need more details, holler.
*My computer's security won't let me simply put in a link or an image without opening this yellow bar asking me if I'm sure I want to do it. I just click on it then click the yes option.
Back to business. As I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself...now where were we? Ah yes.
ASS, K--S or otherwise
add E
SASE
And Luke - Jackie posted this back on the now-obsolete "Anagrams IV" thread but in case you didn't get there (because it is obsolete) I'm re-presenting it here. It's detailed instructions on how to make a long link shorter, so it doesn't broaden the display into grouchy overlengthiness:
First--don't use the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page--this used to work for me when I'd hit Switch to Full Reply Screen, but now all I get is a completely white page with nothing on it at all. So--
1.) Copy (Ctrl + C) the address of the link you want to post.
2.) Hit the Reply button at the bottom of the post.
3.) In the bar above the text-typing box, click on the second-from-the-left icon--the thing that resembles a globe. This will bring up a tiny Script Prompt box*.
4.) Paste (Ctrl + V) the address into the little bar that will have http:// in it--you won't have to get rid of that first, I don't think.
5.) Click OK. The next part is what took me a long time and many instructions from Jo to get, although you can see that all I had to do was read the darned thing:
6.) The little white bar will go blank--not to worry, it has saved your URL. Into this, type some appropriate word(s)--the instructions on the box itself tell you to enter the title of the web page you're linking to.
7.) Click OK again. The link will appear in your text box where you left your cursor. In this box you will see a bunch of "extra" stuff--it will not show in your post: just your title word(s) will.
It is a good idea to Preview: this allows you to click on your title word and see if your linked page will come up or not.
If you need more details, holler.
*My computer's security won't let me simply put in a link or an image without opening this yellow bar asking me if I'm sure I want to do it. I just click on it then click the yes option.
I would need to print all that out and post it on post
it notes and take it one step at a time. I'll just
refrain from posting sites. I can't get all this down.
Too much technology for me. I appreciate it Jackie, but
I am still working on the other stuff you've sent over the
last few months, and not getting very far.
Sorry, wofa..., I did not do that widestuff intentionally.
I don't know how it happened, and when I tried to edit
and delete, the site would not let me do it. I have been
teaching myself computer, no help except here with Jackie
and Candy. I cannot do this stuff without seeing it done.
I am a visual learnier: this tab into slot stuff is too far
over my head. I did not mean to do it, and won't post
sites in the future.
No problem no how.
+T
BASTE
No problem no how...or even no knowhow.
No next word until you look at it and choose. It's all in your attitude.
Will you have
BASTE --> ABASE or
BASTE --> BEST ? :-)
I will first have a hug from you : [hug] and then :
BASTE --> BEST
Actually, you shouldn't need to avoid posting site references even if you do get long names sometimes.
As with so much on the computer, whatever you need, somebody's probably already done it for you.
I found this site by looking up "short url" (
click here) so you should only need one Post-it note, with this address on it.
(Assuming nothing -- forgive me if it's unnecessary -- "
http://www.shorturl.com ", the name of the site, is a "URL", which stands for "Universal Resource Locator". This one happens to be relatively short.)
Then you just do what it says there, a one-step operation involving some cutting-and-pasting.
Give it a try, before you decide you must limit yourself.
+ A
BEAST funny, but this is the second time today, Schrodinger has come into conversation. How weird is that!
We were discussing cats names and I happen to ask if anyone knew the name of Schrodinger Cat.... (me knowing the answer all along
)
It's only fitting that the BEAST should be found inside the
STABLE
Actually, you shouldn't need to avoid posting site references even if you do get long names sometimes.
As with so much on the computer, whatever you need, somebody's probably already done it for you.
I found this site by looking up "short url" (
click here) so you should only need one Post-it note, with this address on it.
(Assuming nothing -- forgive me if it's unnecessary -- "
http://www.shorturl.com ", the name of the site, is a "URL", which stands for "Universal Resource Locator". This one happens to be relatively short.)
Then you just do what it says there, a one-step operation involving some cutting-and-pasting.
Give it a try, before you decide you must limit yourself.
I'm sorry for using this site for all my woes, but what
is this site for? Do I type something into it, before
posting a site, or something like that???
STABLE - "T"
SABLE
SALVE
if you have a link address that;s too long, and you'd like to replace it with one that's shorter and fits better, this will keep your original destination but point to it with a shorter name.. So instead of writing "Go HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERERERERERERERERERERERERERERREREREREREREEEEEEEEEEEEEERERERERERERERERERERERRERERERERE" you get "Go Here", which works the same but looks better.
You put in a HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE and it gives you a HERE that goes to the same site.
Wow!! I am impressed and grateful. I'll bookmark the
site and hope I can figure out how to use it the next
time I have a long one. I am appreciative too. THANKS.
S to H
HALVE
If I'm not mistaken, which I might be, 'cause .....rearrangedSOLUBLE
nope..its D...> L sorry!
What, you were expecting a cigarette ?
GLOBULE
(That was tougher than I anticipated!)
oh yes...very difficuilt
E...> D
BULLDOG
45 minutes is more than I can afford to give to the dogs.
+ S
BULLDOGS
If anyone can do better without the "S": feel free to remove it.
Lets get rid of the "G" as we are going backwards.
LOBULES
here we go, hopefully:
-L
BLOUSE
Anyone for chemin-de-fer?
L-->R
BOURSE
Let's take the road less traveled by:
F-->X
EXCUSE
+ R
CREASED
or
C > L
LEASED
choices, choices, choices
Position is everything in life.
How little it takes to go from
PRAISED to ASPIRED to DESPAIR.
That is quite interesting.
AIRBEDS
(Speaking of babies, ADEIPRS makes DIAPERS, too)
but moving on, as we seem to have slowed considerably:
S > C
CARBIDE
D-->C
ACERBIC
(or in the opposite direction, i>o BROCADE)
I...>O
BEROCCAI have one daily
or bottom first....
M....>H
BREECHED
no D
CELESTE
(or, Queen of the Elephants, if you prefer)
T > R
ELDERS
Was there ever an Eragon, Vol 3??
Part 3 was called Brisingr, and the author realized he had too much to say to end the story there (or too much to gain by continuing the "trilogy" further) and so he split that final volume into two parts. The for-now-final part is due out in November.
ELDERS
Putting the parts together, I'll reject SOLDER in favor of WELDER
Don't know how I missed that. Brisingr. I'll be at the bookstore
probably later today. Thanks so much. I agree: more to gain from
a four part: money.
- L
REWED
Don't know how I missed that. Brisingr. I'll be at the bookstore
probably later today. Thanks so much. I agree: more to gain from
a four part: money.
...a thought to ponder: why should the Kindle version cost more than the actual paper book? At least
Brisinger does, on Amazon.com...
It's
WEIRD.
W > S
SIRED
More costly??? I don't know, books sired Kindle and it's more
expensive to raise kids these days?????
RIDES or DRIES
but changing a letter....
I...> A
READS
Oh, my.
Add E.
SEABED
(Is that the past tense of "to seab"?)
wofa...I don't think I've ever 'seabed'. How's it done??
Great cartoon candy!
D > R
REBATES
add U
TRIBUTES
After all, it is sorta half-way between Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day...
- I
STARTEDoops..I was napping and you just got in before me Luke
In this case I WAS too late!
Perhaps we could leave it as a choice:
STARTED or HARDIEST
Wofa will probably be around and let him choose, if he agrees
with this of course.
You're up very late ! ! !
F -->W
...with the DISHWATER
(Well, it's better than FISHEATER - it could have gone there, just as easily!)
Perhaps we could leave it as a choice:
STARTED or HARDIEST
Wofa will probably be around and let him choose, if he agrees
with this of course.
You're up very late ! ! !
Yes, wasn't I...well up and down was more like it LOL
But I fixed my post, and thanks for the offer of a way out..kind of you! - T
RAWHIDES
(Blow in his ear and he'll follow you anywhere)
I --> O
SHADOWER
getting into tough territory
R > D
SHADOWED
getting into tough territory
You'er not kiddingA..> O
WOODSHED
and then "Honor your corner"
D--?N
HOEDOWNS
(All right, "HOSEDOWN", if you'd rather wash your car than go square-dancing)
N > S
MEOWS
There are probably better words, I know, and I'm not a cat person.
AFTERWARDS: ten letters, all with the left hand.
PEWS
add a T
SWEPT
STEWARDESSES: 12>all with the left, but who's counting?
(I think it may be the longest. I did not know about 'afterwards'
but I think "lollipop" is one of the longest with the right hand.
- W
PEST
The things I learn here + O
POETS
P > G
GREYS
excellent capsulized summary of Ypres
add E
GEYSER
OK, OK, make it A-->E instead !
G-->D
VERSED
...the anesthetic or the poetic, as you prefer
D --> A
WEAVERS
(another left-handed word)
And W > B
BEAVERS
(and it stays left handed)
+S
OBSERVES
You gave it away in your clue
B --> A
OVERSEAS
Oversight means supervision.
Oversight means neglect.
Ain't English wonderful ?
WEAVERS
(another left-handed word)
I'm continually on the lookout for one or the other hand, but yet to find it!A..>E
OVERSEWS
S>C
COVERSEW
(they tell me it's done in quilting. Is it??)
...let's talk.
W-->N
CONVERSE
ditch the O - we're almost going around in circles anyway
VENEERS
(P.S. Is there a "Veronese" ? )
Yes, almost in circles.
- V
SERENE
Veronese refers to the inhabitants of Verona, lovely little
town when I was last there.
As long as you plays the cards when you has 'em. Or else!
add a G
RENEGES
...which gives rise to R-->D
ENGENDER
--> ENDANGER --> GRENADINE
[edit: No, darnit, that doesn't work without a second change doubling the N.
Oh, well.
Back to square one.]
as Luke did with his word....
R...> D
GREENED
Now its right for your word Wofa
+ N
ENGENDER
Step 2 of the plan:
E-->A
ENDANGER
Would anyone like a Shirley Temple along about now? I know I would!
Make mine a double, please....
D > G
GANGRENE
G > B
BEGINNER
This is one of those cases where I don't see what I must have
done. Not seeing the forest for the trees.
BS in ME or EE or CE????
B--> W
RENEWING
BS in ME or EE or CE is less than meets the eye.
BS is a Bachelor's of Science degree,
and the rest are engineering fields -
mechanical, or electrical, or chemical engineering.
OK, I figured the BS was Bach/Science but am not familiar
with engineering. I thought it was some mistake I made
when I repeated BEGINNER twice. Just Me. Must Monday be,Yoda.
(Any ST/TNG fans out there?)
E --> S
ENDINGS
Lots it could be; -S: bending, fending, lending, mending, tending
YOUR CHOICE
-S and pick one.
st/tng fans? Lost me
Yes, but if you take out an N or the D it's even nicer.
SENDING
Star Trek: The Next Generation aired for seven seasons.
The final show was titled "All Good Things..." leaving it for the audience
to fill in the concluding "...must come to an end."
- G
SINNED
the Next Generation: yes, I was a fan. I see where you were
going with that now. Thanks.
S > P
PINNED
Begin the paragraph five spaces in:
P --> T
INDENT
He was a comic strip hero long before he became a movie star!
E-->I
TINTIN
I remember reading TINTIN comics
+ G
TINTING
T > H
HINTING
I don't remember Tintin, what were they about.
I remember the Dog: Rin Tin Tin in the USA Old West.
Sorry, wofu, again I went ahead without reading inbetween.
Did not see your Tintin reference. I don't remember him,
however, so we must not have had him around here.
...if a rather solemn one. Tomorrow is Memorial Day here Stateside.
HOSTING
...Last one in Paris
I --> A
TANGOS
U --> E
BOATENG
(that's Ghanaian for "male child born on Saturday")
Ghanaian?
Shirley Temple Black was ambassador there. I'll ask her.
E > I
BOATING
rearrange
BONITA
Come to Papa, my pretty one!
Sorry, I do not speak Spanish, and Bran, the link
won't open, says it is harmful to my computer.
What is it????
T-->S
SINBAD
Over the Bounding Main
Sorry, I do not speak Spanish, and Bran, the link
won't open, says it is harmful to my computer.
What is it????
It's not harmful Luke...just a youtube video called BONITA -AGUSTÍN LARA a nice slow piano tango.
SINBAD- D
SABIN
Nice, but won't open to a You Tube video. Something weird.
rearrange: BASIN
I well remember his vaccine on sugar cubes and in little cups.
And Salk's three shorts. Polio as well.
...over and over again
B-->R
REDIAL
Whatever it was, I didn't do it.
M-->N
DENIAL
.....but I saw you.
NAILED
Rearrange:
SLAIN
cute cartoon
also plain but different
I...> E
PLANE
Time waits for no man...
NEAP
...either.
Add another A:
PAEAN
Good job, folks.
+ C
CANAPE
Good job, yourself!
+ N
PANACEAN
sorry, thats all I could do!
I am stuck at this point.
So I have to come back later, maybe somebody will do something
brilliant which I can change.
PANACEA --> CANAPES or PANACHE or even PANCAKE.
Unfortunately none of that helps.
I'll have to come back and work on AAACENNP later.
Or we could start a new Anagram?
or we could simply take it back a few steps or even
use your last suggestion
H > K
PANCAKE
Is a phenomenon that affects all major bodies of water, say rising sea level, considered to be PANOCEAN (A --> O)
Sounds like a totally viable word. I've been working with it
for 45 mins. tho' and nothing yet. So, I'll be back.
[quote=wofahulicodoc]...... PANOCEAN (A --> O) [/quote
P.....> L
ANCONEAL
wow!!!
This set of letter is something else: of or pertaining to the
elbow. A med-pro would know this one. Good.
Now what to do with it.
Another 45 minutes. I'm thunked out.
Drop an A and you, too, can make fine
ALENÇON lace!
(Well, it's easier to go on from here than from add-yet-another-N CANNALONE, and it takes too many changes to get to OLECRANON or COCHINEAL or OLEANDER...)
ALENCON LACE
Magnificent! I think I even had that word for a moment or two
and passed right over it.
N > R
UNCLEAR
leaner
add R
LEARNER
(He wrote My Fair Ladyer, along with Frederick Lower, right ;-) ? )
- L
NEARER
My Fair Ladyer, right on!
...once a knight is enough!
E--> T
ERRANT
+ I
TRAINER
T > I
RAINIER
As in the Mountain, or love of Grace Kelly.
R-->T
GARNET
(But don't get two of them; that would be strange.)
I'll keep that in mind.
G > B
BANTER
sorry...I didn't look back up and see you have done this word already....I'll try again.
Too bad, all I can make now is an Equinox...!
U-less
VERNAL
like a lion -
MANED
(vavav, is your signature alligator going to eat Luke's signature sheep?)
Hey Wofa!
Sounds like you've been MAC'ED
(Not a serious reply, just a retort to your headline)hehe!
Just a CAMEO appearance, I'm sure...
Aah, the good old Kiwi CAMEO
CREAM
+ S
SCREAMmy favourite NZ biscuit is
Toffee Pops
No, the aligator is just knocking on the door to come in. She hasn't learned how to use the doorknob yet. My requirement is that all my animals must (fairly)reasonably coexist, so the cat sleeps sometimes on the parrot cage and once in awhile one of the chickens will be standing on top of my hound dog in the sun. (he has his own cat, also)
So, no sheep eating will be allowed.
SMEAR
smear some nutella on that toffee pop!
M > P
SPEAR
I'm really glad to know my sheep is safe, though he has not
yet appeared on the avatar. But I would not mess with Robin
if I were you.
Nutella: good stuff: just discovered it a few months ago.
Good to see you here Olly.
SPEAR plus I
ASPIRE/PRAISE
(Why do I think we've been here before?)
how funny - my middle name is Robin and I went by that for years and am still known to some segment of friends and family as Robin. I make a cute little robin out of the R.
[/b]SPEAR[b]
rearranged....[/b]PEARS
I [b]ASPIRE[/b]to [b]PRAISE[/b]the [b]PEARS[b][/b]
add L
LAYERS
(or hens, if you want just the eggs without the flour and sugar and milk)
- Y
EARLS
----awfully rich for my diet, sounds good though.
...you wanted me to
add S
RASSLE ?
change that R to a T for
STALES
+ M
SAMLETS @ your Indian Woman Wofa.....
T-->S
SCORELESS
(I liked that better than L-->R ECOSTRESS 'cuz it felt like I had just made up the word)
CASSEROLE
Ooh - good one!
How about a little salad?
drop one S
ESCAROLE
+T
RELOCATES
-side salad, cobb or caesar?
almost there....just need another R
CORRELATES
let's break it down some, getting unwieldy
RESOLUTE
...or not
delete the N
SHOTMETER (That's the device Ansel Adams never used to determine the right exposure parameters, right?)
one of the Ts ....> A
ATMOSPHERE
You certainly had to do some research for that one.
Impressive. SHOTMETER
I won't tell you what I was tempted to do with the word
however.
METAPHORST --> E
SEMAPHORE (Actually I'd prefer to work the wordlength down a bit by dropping the final E,
but -phor has 1.7 gHits and -phore 8.6, so by popular demand SEMAPHORE it is...)
It is getting unwieldy.
You lost me on the point value.
+D
SEMAPHORED
may I do two steps, pretty please....
drop the D (back to Wofa's post...really I can't do anything better)
SEMAPHORE
now P....K
SHOEMAKER
C --> U
POORHOUSE
[I think we may be working ourselves into a dead end...unless we can drop a few letters here and there to get some breathing room]
I worked 45 minutes on the last one: I agree.
Go to it, knock out a few letter, change some, whatever,
it is really not too much fun as it is.
all I can do is
P>M
HOUSEROOM
shall we start new word then?
Let's
cheat a little bend the rules instead. Eliminate an O.
Now we can have a Wonderland tea party! I'll invite the
H-->D
DORMOUSE.Alternative;
There - Isn't that an
D-->E
ENORMOUS improvement?
to be faced without U
SOONER...
- E
BORONPS..Wofa...I like your work
add an E
REALM
(Candy - BORNEO to BORON would have been my change, too)
I recently read a very good book on WWI that had an excellent description of that battle. I never realized how many people died per day in that war for mere inches of territory sometimes.
+ L
LEPROSY
Trouble is VV....not much has changed since then!
WELCOME SLOWHANDI had to ask Candy if you were the same person from Eblah.
So I am lacking in my manners. Welcome nonetheless.
H...> O
ELOPED
My first thought was to add W but it whelped out!
and see some fireworks
+x
EXPLODE
I'm sure some of this went on too....
L>>S
EXPOSED
bet some of this was needed after...
P=T
DETOXES
DEMOTESE-->Y
MODESTYOK, I'm back. (Been away for a couple of days at the
NPL convention in Providence, RI. Much fun.)
Oh, cool, wofa--I know you had a good time! And welcome back! [hug]
walked away from THAT Central Valley town!!
-M
STRODE
POSTER
O>I! a SPRITE! (/priest/spiter/stripe/esprit/ripest etc)
...but it does not follow, as the night the day...
ROSTER +I
ROISTER
SPRITE -P
TRIES
choose your own ending--the aligator tries to roister at every available opportunity
rearranged
TIPSTER
Hi Bexter T....>W
TWIRPS
add L
BLAKE [as in William]
(Well, it's better than Dickens and BLEAK House)
B > S
SLAKE
as in thirst here in 106 degree temps.
similar to basked
B...> O
SOAKED
- O
DADESHi Luke! Great to be back
because I want too
+V
SVELTE
Choice is between BESET and BLEST.
Think positive!
BLEST
bringing back the V
VESTAL
LEVANT (Caution: adults smoking; dancers singing; vertical hold rolls sometimes)
(and sometimes the horizontal hold slips for a moment too)
- T
NAVEL
Thanks for the video, Wofa.....I have watched a lot of Fred Astaire films and love his dancing movies. Check out the Vulcan ears on the piano player (and I'll not mention...the smoking).
L > H
HEAVEN
Note on Levant: it is also the name used for that part of the
eastern Mediterranean including Lebanon, Gaza, Israel,Palestine.
VANISH
(For a good read see Carter Bets the Devil, by Glenn David Gold)
add S
INSTEAD (and its various anagrams)
I thought I'd sent in MANATEE after ANIMATE but, alas, I don't see it anywhere...
add L
LAMENT
There does seem to be a problem.
Not that it matters all that much, but did you see TEAM?
I LAMENT that the manatee apparently ate the TEAM too
ATMEN
(works from either direction)
TEAM followed MEANT. Still on my thread, but manatee is not.
- M
ANTE
L-->Y
...and a HEARTY welcome back !
-y
EARTH
Welcome back indeed.
Would you kindly add an E and REPEAT that?
...only if you erase the T and REPEAL the statement.
so...swapping the P for a V might REVEAL too much do you think?
V -> S
you could always RESEAL it though...
Sorry, I never
LEARNED the game ;-)
-R
You should have LEANED on your higher education in middle school.
D to M
BOREDOM
I never suffer from this affliction
C=E
SERAPE
ai-yai-yai-yai!!
B....> A
EUREKA a bit of Australian history.
U -> T
TENDERyour resignation
+ T
electrical INDUCTER
to operate it?
That was fast!
M > P
PUTTERING
Unseized opportunity:
PUTTERING
G-->R
INTERRUPT
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
REFUTINGU-->T
FRETTING(wringing hands or chording a guitar, your choice)
I am a candidate for interruptions and I approve this message.
F > A
TREATING
add an E and apply a sophisticated mathematical operation
INTEGRATE
E-->S
MARINATES
(Add another M and get what common middle-of-the-road popular word?)
+M
eccentric sometimes and certainly not
MAINSTREAM
I think Wofa made you do that!
+D
DISARMAMENT
Ooh, nice one!
DISARMAMENT
But we're getting very long again, so mebbe we better cut it down a tad, to be more workable.
minus one A
MASTERMIND
one possibility:
change M to I
......definitely was getting too long. And I'll cut another
letter.....
-M
READMITS
did not see this post earlier
-G
RAMIE
In keeping with this weeks theme
see ye'h C I need a S
SIGMA
bring back the P again.....
PLIES
+ L
PLIERS
sorry...I will do that again
+C
SPLICE
Dedicated to Peter on this special day......
(I'm back...}
add a K
SICKLE
Bring back the "P": back and forth, back and forth: poor "P".
s>p
PICKLE
P...> T
TICKLE
(and welcome back Wofa)
Bring back the ole worn out "P":
L > P
PICKED
P (gone again) to W
WICKED
Poor "P" is going to quit the alphabet just from the plummeting
we are giving it.
P > L
LICKED
Bring back the "P":
PICKLED
both can change I to U and be
PLUCKED
but maybe get us a little breathing room:
Add A
CAULKED
+ H and you can see what I did at these last few posts!
CHUCKLED
...has the power to cloud men's minds, then
no see.
That goes DOUBLE for me !
(They're small; I'll take two!)
minus O
BUTLER
The Butler Did it!
put the B back in:
SUBTLER
U--->E
TRESTLE (or SETTl.ER)
+ R
WRESTLERthe conscious of this poster would like to apologise for no thought having gone into this submission
A --> L
STROLLER
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
......those who belong to the Order of the Garter:
- T
ROLLERS
delete final R and read it backwards:
EROS
add S
BASSETS
[actually, I'm looking to use this as a bridge to ASBESTOS]
B --> L
TESLAS
(Tesla, noun: a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter -- Onelook.com et al.)
+T
SETTLE for that! I hate snow and sleet....I'm a sunshine girl
I despise the stuff as well, don't get me wrong, but it fit
at the time:
S> K
KETTLE
they say melted snow/sleet is great for washing hair.
ha ha Luke
+ S
BEETLES
now for the other
as one of our presidents said: I will not run if nominated, if
elected, will not serve.
S > C
ELECTED
Advice from the WOrld FAmous HUmorous LIcensed COuntry DOCtor?
Advice from the WOrld FAmous HUmorous LIcensed COuntry DOCtor?
I was wondering what it all signified. Now it makes sense!
Advice from the WOrld FAmous HUmorous LIcensed COuntry DOCtor?
I was wondering what it all signified. Now it makes sense!
Here's the original cartoon:
[Arright, anybody here know how to cut-and-paste a .png or .jpg image into a post? It doesn't have it's own URL.]
Advice from the WOrld FAmous HUmorous LIcensed COuntry DOCtor?
I was wondering what it all signified. Now it makes sense!
Here's the original cartoon:
[Arright, anybody here know how to cut-and-paste a .png or .jpg image into a post? It doesn't have it's own URL.]
Sure wish I did: I've had a number of people on this site try
to teach it to me, but it just does not work, nor matter what
I do.
Advice from the WOrld FAmous HUmorous LIcensed COuntry DOCtor?
I was wondering what it all signified. Now it makes sense!
Here's the original cartoon:
[Arright, anybody here know how to cut-and-paste a .png or .jpg image into a post? It doesn't have it's own URL.]
I can do it...for a price
Email it to me Wofa.
C...> N
SARDINE
add I
SNIDER
[OK- there it is - but you gotta tell me how so I don't have to impose on you next time!]
Here it is, and no imposition at all
(I was trying to make it bigger to read, but then I remembered...you guys get email each post (and so do I) so I wont fiddle anymore!
direct link here.....
Gosh! Closer than I could have imagined!
Now it all makes sense. Gotta love that Charlie Brown.
add T
SKIRTED
Thanks, Candy. So you uploaded it to your Photobucket account? And now it does have a URL somewhere in cyberspace.
I still wonder - is there a way of pasting it into the post directly, as we write it?
PS. Getting email with each post or not is a setting you can disable if you want to. See the third taskbar across the top of the screen,* under the My Stuff > Edit Preferences menu, perhaps half-way down the list of choices.
* first reads "Wordsmith Talk...About Us | Whats's New..." etc
second is "Wordsmith.Org >> Forums >> General Topics..." etc
third reads "Forum List...My Stuff...Calendar..." etc
or
STRIDEI choose to get emails (well for certain threads)
E-->A
TRIADS
(or, for you Dr Who fans out there, TARDIS)
D....> for another A
TIARAS
add E
STRIAE.
sing. stria -- they can come from pregnancy, or obesity, or prednisone, or other things
Peter would know about glaciers.
+ D
TIRADE
TIRADES
(Since you're adding a D, rather than changing S-->D, I'm going to presume that's what you meant)
Now add O
ASTEROID
TIRADES
(Since you're adding a D, rather than changing S-->D, I'm going to presume that's what you meant)
Now add O
ASTEROID
Good catch, sorry.
V > H
HERBALIST
In a hurry this AM,no time to play with letters.
B>>W
THAWLESS
I notice we don't get the SPAM posters in this tread!
-w
SCATHES
Let'em join in, they obviously want to be here.
-H
TASSEL
not familiar with Bartholomew Cubbins
L-->E
TEASESGo to LMGTFY.com and look up "Bartholomew Cubbins"
I never had children, so am not familiar with Suess,thanks.
T > L
LEASES
A-->V
VESSEL
Ah, but the issue should be not Did you have any children but Were you ever one yourself. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is for 10-year-olds (plus-or-minus five).
-S
ELVES
you know, I appreciated that Dr. S did great work - so appreciated
by many, but I've yet to read them. I was a teacher too, and
never took the time. Isn't that pitiful? I think I'll head
to the book store and spend some time there. My inner 12 year
old feels deprived.
E-->A
VALSE
(Never Too Late)
V-->N
ANGELA
(Well, it's better than "GLAIVE")
(And isn't there a lead ore called "GALENA" ?)
add I
ANALINE
(or, if by some strange quirk you prefer organic chemistry, ALANINE
And no sucre either, just plain
CAFE
No, not baseball.
Add K
ICKES
Harold Ickes, that is. Secretary of the Interior under FDR, I believe.
+R
SPRITEWofa....your ICKES reminded me of a radio show my Dad use to listen to but when I googled it...I was mistaken....it was different word...ECCLES (from the Goon Show)
- T
OSIERS
I think this word has been around before, however.
Nice for you Luke
- T
SHUSHER
+ (my favourite) V
VANISHES
You have a favorite letter?
N > L
LAVISHES
V gone
SHEILAS A few generations ago this was Aussie/Kiwi word for females colloquialism in use You have a favorite letter?
Doesn't everyone!
I-->O
A _ _ _ _ _ _
(there are ladies present)
"from rectum to overshoes"
Oh!!
-H
GLOSSAE
GENIAL
My concern is that if word length is continually kept down to five or six, the words will get first mundane and dull, and then repetitious and tiresome. I would encourage a slightly longer length as baseline; five is very short!
+ E
LINEAGE
Longer by one letter
E--->P
LEAPING
one at a time is all it takes !
P > V
LEAVING
(now add a C and Halve it!)
...or we shall all hang separately!
G-->L
ALLIANCES
-(x1) A
LINEAL oops I misjudged that, let me try again
I have a new customer
A>>>>T
CLIENTAL
+E
LINEAGE
We are repeating ourselves from a couple pages back, I see.
(with a tip o' the hat to
Woodie Guthrie)
This dusty ol' dust is a-gettin' me down,
And I gotta be driftin' along.
LEAVING
We are repeating ourselves from a couple pages back, I see.
Not meeeeeeee+ T
VALETING
We are repeating ourselves from a couple pages back, I see.
Not meeeeeeee+ T
VALETING You are copying yourselves from many a page back. Just an observation.
And your contribution is??? Just a suggestion.
/The word is VALETING.
- G
GASWING
(That's what holds up the Gossamer Condor, right?)
now I need another G to make my word
swapping and N for it
WIGWAGS
But when you get there is it a dead end? Or can you see a way onward?
GEWGAWS
But first I need to get rid of 'W'...>D
SWAGGED
- G
SEWAGEI shouldn't have done that....two moves, but I'm
it still comes out wrong.
For too long I've tried with the geegaws and whatever.
Change D to R, and get a new letter in there:
SWAGGER
K-->P
PRE-NUP
(think we can get to PUMPKIN in the next eight days?)
N > M
PUMPER
it's a start, but I'm not good at this
and I don't come to this site much anymore
+ L
PLUMPER
I hear you Wofa....but can't help you tonight!
+I
PLUMPIER
positive, comparative, superlative: if that's possible with
this word, but it is closer to 'pumpkin'
could be Luke
now to add the K
R...> K
PUMPLIKE
I give up, I can not find a way.....to pumpkin!
If you can Wofa, do it
I can get words, but it will eliminate one or another
needed for pumpkin. Now that may be OK as we might
be able to bring it back later.
(He's the weak link in my chain, and you'll have to permit a few other liberties here and there...)
I can get to PUMPKIN, and then turn it another color. In fact, I can go from there to ANYWHERE ! (But I'm not sure I can go anywhere after that)
I
AI
AIM
MAGI
GAMIN
ENIGMA
AMPING
IMPUGN
DUMPING
BUMPING
BUMPKIN
PUMPKIN
PUMPING
UMPING
MUTING
MATING
MAGNET
MAGENTA
MANAGER
MANGER
MARTEN
MATTER
HATTER
THEATER
HEARTEN
THREATEN
NEWHEART
ANYWHERE
...and I don't think I would start from PICK-ME-UP. Maybe one or two words earlier.
So...shall we forget Halloween
then and carry on from PICKMEUP
The ball is in your court, wofa. That is a lot of work
you've done! I am game, I just don't know where to
begin. With the "I"??
I'm briefly stuck on Pick-me-up (did you know that'sTIRAMISU, in Italian!?)
Let's try ANYWHERE instead, and come back to pickmeup later if we get anywhere.
ANYWHERE
N-->T
THREE-WAY
I'm briefly stuck on Pick-me-up (did you know that'sTIRAMISU, in Italian!?)
Well....no, but I do know that TIRAMISU is a lovely dish and we all know how much those Italians love their coffee!-Y
WEATHER
Speaking of Jim.
T-->N
SHATNER
HEY BEXTER WELCOME BACK - LONG TIME NO SEE
Not that there is anything wrong, but sometimes the
words with only five letters get us going. We are trying to
keep them longer,but not so long as to be cumbersome. Five
letters get boring, that having been said:
E > T
TASTY
Sometimes we are just out of time and want to contributE like
me today, and/or we can find no way to continue, so it's really
no big deal, just thought I'd mention it, wofa and I were
discussing it a couple weeks back.
at any rate WELCOME BACK.
Thanks Luke!
Not sure how long for though! My laptop and internet are conspiring against me
sure I'll keep it away from five
+ O
TOASTY
It's not that big a deal really.
Perhaps you should ask Father Christmas for a new one????????
+ U
OUTSTAYHi Bex
A -> L
STOUTLY
refuse to leave
Hi Candy!
Does a letter need to be either ADDED or REMOVED, or may they all remain the same
LAYOUTS --->
OUTLAYS
WELCOME RICKYLA
You can add, subtract or rearrange.
With regards to the addition and subtraction it is only
one letter at a time.
There are not too many of us on this thread, and a few months
back we decided that Proper words, like town names, are OK as
well. People's names, as well. Just go back thru the thread
and you'll get an idea.
And we decided not to go less than five letters too often
unless we are, like, in a hurry or something and just want
to contribute. No one will be upset, just that five letters
or below get boring.
And again - Welcome.
Does a letter need to be either ADDED or REMOVED, or may they all remain the same
Good question Ricky..we have been playing so long the roolz are probably lost in some thread way back...but its as Luke has so eloquently said
as good as that.....
+P
OUTPLAYS
Actually the permitted steps are
1. add a letter, or
2. subtract a letter, or
3. CHANGE a letter. Yes, this is like doing 1 and 2 together, but that's the Rool, from the depths of antiquity.
Adherence is negotiable.
Rearranging is optional. Proper nouns aren't encouraged, but then they're not rejected either. Among the other "Table Rules" that have been acceptable is anagramming/rearranging without changing any letters, And it's always nice to have words that are "interesting" in some way.
[Candy - did you set this one up for me deliberately?
}
OUTPLAYSO-->P
PLATYPUSP.S.
Did you know...? I didn't !
PLATYPUS
P.S.....Did you know...? I didn't !
Ha Wofa (maybe I did) and yes I did know that LOL of course
and did you read that the Platypus (well the male) has a poisonous claw which may be fatal to small animals but not humans, though its said to be very painful for as much as six months after a contact. They look such cute creatures in an 'Frankensteinish' sort of way! PLATYPUS
Y....>N
SUPPLANT
(haha and the plural of platypus? (platypodes)
N -> E
SUPPLICATE
... there's no such church as EPISCOTAL...
... and no such tree as EUCALYPTIS...
...but there is a
U-->Y
SPECIALTY !
Nice!
ESCAROLEE--> U
CAROUSEL
- O
RECUSAL
You're a queer one, Julie Jordan.....nice link Wofa (she does it better than any one).
RECUSAL = same as SECULAR
either swap the U for A for my countries spelling
or drop the U for American spelling
FAECES
or
FECES
Here come the Indians !
APACHES
... the only word in the English language that changes its gender by adding an S (and in the process goes from plural to singular !)
rearrange
this is what
REMAINS
As long as we're re-arranging,
MARINES
No, not the clowns. As Charlie Brown once said, I refuse to become involved in a philosophical discussion.
********************************
[Hi, Rhuby. I think I came aBoard just about when you were winding down your involvement before. Good to see you back.]
- A
MINERS
[Thanks Wofa - I remember your distinctive moniker very well]
Luke -
Go back five spaces.
You passed the course already; no need to repeat the seminar.
Do not collect %200 go directly to jail.
I am SO tempted to say
" - S and he REMAINS there 'til he throws a six;"But I will resist throwing us further into the loop.
And many thaks to Tromboniator® for use of the avatar©
- to the Hunter.
- S
ORION
Orion: good one.
We are, however, trying to stay at a five letter minimum (he said
with another five letter word)
otherwise it gets too boring. But Orion: great move.
I > B
BORON
--but it took two of you!
R --> D
PAIRED
DIAPERS = DESPAIR = ASPIRED = PRAISED ---> PARADISE (for the next time around)
PADDIES
D-->O
ADIPOSE
U --> E
SERGES
P.S didn't you mean P --> S, Luke?)
I don't know, I suppose. It happens. Sorry I am not perfect.
rearrange:
EGRESS
Ah Rhubarb, presuming you only meant one "R"?
G > C
CREASES
No apols. necessary. We all do things here.
And by the way this Hershey has had me stumped for 45 mins so
far......good one.
So long as it doesn't ruin your teeth!
Hershey has had me stumped for 45 mins so
far......good one.
I can make one up, but I'm not sure it gets us anywhere afterward...
HERSHEYH-->M
What kind of doggerel do you find on e-cards?
E-RHYMES, of course!
Of course Wofa...good one!drop the Y
RHEMESJust dropped by to help you guys out
D-->I
CHEMISE --> CHEMIST --> MATCHES
(The Mikado, Act One)
add R
SERRIED
Are we going to hyphenate words now?
It is OK by me, but I don't think we have done it in the past.
(BRUISED was the target. BUSRIDE was just a smart-alecky anagram.)
FERRIED
R-->L
FIELDER
D > R
[b]RECLINER[/b]
You beat me to it.
+ R
SILENCER on your gun
(with apologies to Neil Diamond)
E-->O
CAROLINE
(And friends, too.)
add T
RELATION
And on the seventh day He rested.
O-->G
CREATING
(better than just anagramming to CREATION)
R -> H
CHEATING
H-->R
INGRATE
(It's also, shredded, GRATINÉ) (and a few other things besides)
drop the A and spin
DREIDEL
("...a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen...",)
N-->R
RADISH
lightly browned...
add E
BRAISED
...or so it
R-->A
APPEARS
(It's been my habit to restart this thread once it gets over 500 posts, out of consideration for any interested persons who are using a dialup connection to access the Net. They may find relief at how much less time it takes to load the new shorter thread...)
Please continue here at
Anagrams VI .