(... continued from
here )
MERINGUE
G-->T
MUTINEER
+T
more so than you
WARTIER
DETAIL
add C
DIALECT
(That's how they'll speak to you at the Citadel, if you've make the right arrangements)
from DIALECT
T-->N
to ICELAND
S ---> R
Minnie the
MOOCHER
-O
CHROME
Bertie: [pausing while playing "Minnie the Moocher" on the piano] Now that is clever, Jeeves.
Jeeves: Sir?
Bertie: That part about "the king of Sweden" and "things she was needin'."
Jeeves: Yes, His Majesty King Gustav appears to have been exceptionally generous to the young lady, sir.
Bertie: No, I mean, it rhymes, Jeeves.
Jeeves: Almost, sir.
REMISS
R > S
And a challenge here makes you a MISSES
.
... and get rid of the C
STEELED
Does anyone know what happened to the column to the right
side of the screen? Or is it just my computer?
(Containing new members, etc., tho, all they are doing
these days is advertising for kitchens and Nike.)
Does anyone know what happened to the column to the right
side of the screen? Or is it just my computer?
(Containing new members, etc., tho, all they are doing
these days is advertising for kitchens and Nike.)
I think it was briefly gone, but now it's back. On this machine, at least.
Thanks Wofa, in the announcements thread the administration
explained they did not notice it was gone, and I see it is
back. Merry Christmas to you.
PLEATED
add I
DEPILATE
(or, if you prefer feathers, PILEATED )
(And, as Christmas isn't until Tuesday, and I expect we'll be back before then, I'll retain my greetings until closer to the witching hour)
VIDEOTAPE
D --> R
OPERATIVE
TRIPOD
T-->E
PERIOD
(...'cause that's the end of the sentence)
Happy New Year, one and all!
Well it's New Years Day, innit?
O-->A
PARTIED !
DEPORTD -> X
EXPORT
TESTATE
Rearrangely becomes...
ATETEST
GESTATE
T-->A
SATAGEE(For a lovely parody of the Major-General's song, see
here !)
Terrific, Wofa! I really enjoyed that!
The best line "my chakram's rather yonical."
Edit: Do I dare say that I can guess who wrote it? In fact the above line gave it away. These women writers, "useless, really!"
That is superb, wofa. Many thanks!
Terrific, Wofa! I really enjoyed that!
The best line "my chakram's rather yonical."
Edit: Do I dare say that I can guess who wrote it? In fact the above line gave it away. These women writers, "useless, really!"
Actually his byline is right after the title at the head of the page. If you Google
Kevin Wald you'll find him at the top of the list, the fella with the beard. He's an extraordinariy clever fellow at once down-to-earth and full of esoterica, and he writes puzzles replete with Classical allusions. Here he was writing in the
Xena persona, hence the Chakram yonical.
He's also a prominent member of the National Puzzlers' League (see puzzlers.org), where his nom is
Ucaiomhu, which is pronounced "Kevin W". If you saw
Wordplay, the movie about the crossword-puzzle tournament, you saw him walk across a crowd scene, beard and all, at about Minute 47.
Okay... If you insist...
Edit: majorly profound writer this man. It is a good thing I do not know him. I stay away from celebrity writers - they bite!
His nom should have been "Icaourhu" much more pleasant to the ears. Thanks for posting the parody anyway. On second thoughts - it is a tad sexist.
AGATES
E-->H
AGHAST
[Actually Kevin is as nice a guy as you could imagine. You just have to stay aware of what else he might perhaps mean by what he says. I met him through my son who met him (and the NPL) at college math dep't.]
And as to sexist - the whole concept of Xena-the-Warrior-Princess was sexist. Can't blame it on Kevin !
Yes, it probably is. I won't complain if I don't ever see an episode of it.
So as not to come to this thread only to chat:
ASTHMA
- A
MATHS
"You're so stupid you don't even know the shape of a bread-knife," said Tom cuttingly.
BREASTED
B-->R
SERRATED
"Yes, you're the smart one with the constant creative edge over others," Tom said ironically.
Okay, okay not ironical or yonical for it's true that you do. Ain't fightin with you meester.
(Not fair this two games in one thread. I am not contributing to the other one in this post. My brain is asking for compensation.
"The edge of a bread Knife’s
SERRATEDAnd a posh one can be silver-plated
Not the sort that you’rd see
(If the S becomes C)
And a
TERRACED house has been created."
- said Tom, poetically.
(Sorry about this - I'm just showing off)
"The edge of a bread Knife’s
SERRATEDAnd a posh one can be silver-plated
Not the sort that you’rd see
(If the S becomes C)
And a
TERRACED house has been created."
- said Tom, poetically.
(Sorry about this - I'm just showing off) ok, forget the other /bow. :¬ )
CRATERS
See less -->
ARREST
OPERATED (good; I was afraid we were going to have to go to TOPEKA )
D-->S
PROTEASE (pronounced PRO-tee-ace)
PROTEASE
P --- > V
OVERATES
VERTEBRAS
A --> U
SUBVERTER
U-->I
If you can have the Goods, and the Bads, can you have the TERRIBLES?
...trying very hard to bring us back to navigable waters. "U" isn't helping, it's trying to run us aground !
BLUSTERIER
- U (Sorry, but unless you have another way, it's gotta be done)
BLISTERER
OK, OK, OK
if you say so.....you're the boss, you "U" thief, you.
B > A
RETAILERS
just please don't sell the "U".
"...(which tickled the sailers) by treating
RETAILERS
as though they were all vegetables"
add O
ARTERIOLES
Too many vowels, maybe?
Try I-->B
RESTORABLE
too many vowels? he asked, as he added another:
R > A
ELABORATES
ELABORATES
drop E
ASTROLABE
T-->I
'OSPITABLE
(That means "Come in and make yerself at 'ome!" in London.)
'OSPITABLE
add a proper H
HOSPITABLE
{and this doesn't help any)
HOSPITABLE
O-->T
BATTLESHIP
I'm going to play fast and loose with the roolz, and change
B --> L I
and make BATTLESHIP into
PHILATELIST.
Maybe we should throw in all the tiles and draw seven new ones?
On the other hand, if we permit Greek letters...
If we make φ --> E we have
PHILATELIST
PHI --> E
SATELLITE
and I think we can go on from there without having to dump the entire rack of letters.
Can't we?
TELLTALES
drop one L
STELLATE
PLATELET
drop one L
PALETTE
PLEATED
add I
DEPILATE
(or, if you want a feather in your cap, PILEATED)
A > C
PECTINS
looks like you and I are alone here, Wofa, glad you are
no P
INSECT
(and busy little arthropods we are !)
one small part:
P-->O
SECTION
CANTER
...with ease !
RE-ENACT
RE-ENACT
lose the t
CAREEN
R > B
BENDER
don't know if it is a word,slang, on your side of the pond,
but here it means getting sh**faced drinking, setting out on
Friday night and intending to go until Sunday with non-stop
booze: binging.
B > L
LEADER
(why would you form beads on Lumber? curious, only.)
E-->C leads to
Alexander
CALDER (Click on the Circus video and have a good time, ca. 1927.)
As in: Let me have a butcher's at that!
R-->A
SPECIALE (or, if you prefer Madrid to Paris,
ESPECIAL)
...a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen:
I -->R
PARSLEY
Taken from the County Jail
By a set of curious chances
LIBERATED then on bail...
I'll pass on Add E-->DELIBERATE as being too, well, deliberate.
Besides, isn't T-->S so much more DESIRABLE
Nice flow Wofo; your recognizance is recognized by your wit and temperament. You are maybe desirable but I wonder, are you (drop your S) rideable?
RIDEABLE
...and
BLEARIED afterwards ?
(That's supposed to be the "wink" e-con, not the "leer" e-con)
DEADLIER
D-->Z
Hope that doesn't mean you REALIZED your fondest ambition
+ D or S
IDEALIZES or IDEALIZED
your choice
IDEALIZES
D-->R
SERIALIZE
(Getting cumbersome again - for the sake of the game, it's probably better to refrain from just adding D or S back in again)
Z > N
LINEARISE
I don't know if this will add onto wofa's "serialize", because
I cannot make the 'reply' nor 'quote' button work.
Well, it worked, but something is still wrong with both buttons.
LINEARISE
drop one E
AIRLINES
I can breathe freely now
INHALER
Z > N
LINEARISE
I don't know if this will add onto wofa's "serialize", because
I cannot make the 'reply' nor 'quote' button work.
Well, it worked, but something is still wrong with both buttons.
Luke, all I can say is that they worked for me. have they returned to normal for you?
Z > N
LINEARISE
I don't know if this will add onto wofa's "serialize", because
I cannot make the 'reply' nor 'quote' button work.
Well, it worked, but something is still wrong with both buttons.
Luke, all I can say is that they worked for me. have they returned to normal for you?
They have now. I had to go back a couple posts and click
"reply" to post that one because all I got was a blank page
with nothing on it trying to respond to Wofa. Thanks.
CORNEAL
drop N
ORACLE
Next is Add H CHOLERA
May as well clean out all the letters, it got too burdensome.
-A
ORC
ACORNS
C > E
REASON
TREASON
rearrangingly becomes
SENATOR
get this going again:
-C
ORIENTED
and I thank you for your
TOLERANCE:
L --> I
E-CREATION
( I made it up both on and for the computer)
if it isn't an E-, it's an i- these days.
+ R
RECREATION
(That was too easy, Luke. You can do better!)
It's hard to work with so many letters. We should sell one to the highest bidder.
RECREATION
R-->U
AUCTIONEER
Not this time, I guess.
+D
REEDUCATION
sorry, it was too easy, but you know, sometimes they just
reach out and 'grab ya', and with another new one,
I'll let you start deleting, my gift to you (snicker)
REEDUCATION
O --> V
UNDERACTIVE
sorry, but it is a new letter, all I can get:
V > G
REEDUCATING
+P
PREEDUCATING
Sesame street
Luke! You're not helping!
drop U
DEPRECATING
and don't make "depreciating." That's not an improvement. By definition! If you can't think of anything else take out the C and put an M and use that.
I did not think we had roolz!
I was simply adding a new letter to help out. And
since it is just you and me I'll do that if you
think it will help:
C > M
DEPREMATING
(Nitrate isn't chemical - it's what they pay nocturnal workers!)
T ---> N
ENTRAIN
...and to blow the A away
NITER
NITER
add E
ENTIRE
(and then if you want U can put it all back together again...)
add U
REUNITE
Yes, indeedy.
I-->D
Sounds much better now. Just had my piano
RETUNED.
...with cast-ion solution (that'd be ++, almost like that Bueller kid):
add O
FERROUS
+ C = SCOURER is too easy, so I'll scrub it and go on to
U ---> Y
SORCERY
...somehow everything's coming up ROSIER!
GROCERS
add L and to hell with R
CLOGERS
G > S
One who puts that shine on harvest moon ...
GLOSSER
GLOSSER
S > F
+ E
The balanced beast has hindlegs and ...
FORELEGS
endymion6: saw your posts on previous postings,
enjoy your comments, WELCOME TO ANAGRAMS
GLOSSER
S > F
+ E
The balanced beast has hindlegs and ...
FORELEGS
Please don't let me discourage you, but generally we
just add one letter
or subtract one letter
or change one letter at a time.But your "forelegs" had me going for quite some time
congratulations, and again welcome
FORELEGS
-E
GOLFERS
thank you ... i went back a page or two & thought i saw multiple add's'dele's; sorry.
but i'm glad i didn't follow up 'forelegs' with 'eyesore' or 'gleeful,' as either would have meant using "two-fer's" ... this is fun, and i'm sincerely thankful for your comments.
REFOLDS
F > T
What I'm becoming 'way too soon ...
OLDSTER
OLDSTER
D > H
What Tom Mix had two of ...
HOLSTER
HOLSTER
L > R
Daily life becomes (or, is it Daily, life becomes ...)
SHORTER
(I'll be leaving as soon as I eat some shoots)
H ---> E
SHOWER
and a warm welcome to you, endymion6
SHOWER
O > A
If you don't come clean, you'll have to
REWASH
Thanks, R.C. I like your epigram, by the way
REWASH
H > N
A telephone that rings, but who's to
ANSWER
ANSWER
R > E
Jolson didn't decry the
SWANEE
SWANEE
N > G
When it became polluted, they blamed it on
SEWAGE
SEWAGE
E > R
Guessing the real cause led to many
WAGERS
WAGERS
+ G
The winner accepted his prize with a
SWAGGER
SWAGGER
R > W
To celebrate, he bought himself several
GEWGAWS
I'd like to apologize, if I may ... I fear I let my tyro elan run wild this a m; in not letting it pass, I hope I haven't become a 'bruck-brenner' of sorts. These couple of possibles popped up 'mistically' and I couldn't resist, after a few interim instances of imposed (albeit minimal) patience. I'll try to be more polite & patient & respectful if you'll overlook this exuberant outburst. Your graciousness in allowing me to participate deserves greater deference, and waiting for intervening turns is the least I must do. Thank you.
I could not help myself W > G
GAGGLES
GAGGLES
G > H
nor could i
HAGGLES
G > O
GALOSHE
Oh how I remember trudging to school with those on, thru
feet of snow.
Luke - if your feet were snow, wouldn't they melt inside galoshes?
galoshe
g --> t
loathes
"...them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat."
LOATHES
O-->S
HATLESS
My first guess would be Eliza Doolittle.
Luke - if your feet were snow, wouldn't they melt inside galoshes?
By the time I got to school it was the opposite:
my feet were ice. Thanks Rhub.
OOPS ...
I mis-typed the change, sorry ... it was H > T
but I'm still
TACTLESS
Really goin' fishin' on this one
PLASTIC
T > E
PLAICES
PISCES
S --> T
Feeling so much on home turf ( Born in Feb), that I put a tank under it
SEPTIC
SKEPTIC
P > T
Uncertainty sells
TICKETS
... I'm working in the supermarket as a
STACKER
- -- keeping up with purchases
A > O
RESTOCK
SACKERS
+ L
But if they don't work (or -- in GreenBay--win), they're
SLACKERS
...and in this neck of the woods we think the Patriots are
K-->I
CLASSIER
SEARCHES
+ R
Too bad John Ford and Duke Wayne aren't here to help; they were real
SEARCHERS
SHEARERS
- E
If there's enough wool to go around, we can all be
SHARERS
HARRIES
I'll see your H-->E and
RERAISE
I --> W
Berries? To heck with social sipping, Luke.
I know some cornshucking backwoods mellowcorn brewers.
Is y'all agin tee-totallin?
S > Y
BREWERY
BREWERY
R > O
This was so challenging it caused me to arch an
EYEBROW
EMBOWER
M > L
Rude room-maker is an
ELBOWER
BELLOWER
B > M
Maybe with age, he/she will become
MELLOWER
Maybeso, but for sure as time mellows, his'n or her'n picture photographs (remember them?) will get...
m -> y
YELLOWER
YELLOWER
- W
Even with them changes o'er time, Ma'am, I coulda sworn I seen from one o' them w'menfolk a suttle
EYEROLL
YODELER
E > R
Every transition, if it can't be legendry, should be
ORDERLY
(Orkney- and Shetland Islands, that is)
Is there a
LODBERRY ?
If not, there should be.
LODBERRY
B > L
Wouldn't that be whimsical?
DROLLERY
OVERDRY
- Y
Lassie ( I think she's trying to tell us something) was not a shepherd, yet still a
DROVER
OVERDO
O > U
When they overdo at the hot dog-eating contest, they
DEVOUR
DEVOUR
V > T
I literally felt I was being ROUTED in a different way when they told me to take a
DETOUR
Sorry, I couldn't resist
OBTUSER
- E
Not only stubborn, but also
ROBUST
BOUTS
O > R
The bubble has ...
BURST
u --> o
BESOT (which I'm not)
BESOT
O -- > K
STOKE the fire to keep it goin'
SOCKET
S --- > D
My lawyer (assuring me I shouldn't worry a bit) says our case is next on the
DOCKET
ROCKET
R --- > P
May the sun set in the West
POCKET
POCKET
O --- > I
Not every fence has a
PICKET
THICKET
T --- > N
Lotsa heat in this
KITCHEN
When I saw your ref. to Ticket ... copse --> THICKET, it conjured up police with a lisp ... good one!
...and a KFC in every backyard
KITCHEN
T-->C
CHICKEN
CHICKEN
+ G
Is the chicken done yet? ... Just
CHECKING
HECKLING
K --- > A
What goes on in landfills when no one is looking ...
LEACHING
BLEACHING
- L
Sadly, what bewildered whales are doing ...
BEACHING
TEACHING
Darn. Wrong again. I thought the answer was...
CHEATING
CHEATING
That was good!
T ---> R
hope that one day maturity I'll be
REACHING
PREACHING
- E
I became very thirsty because this tough one was
PARCHING
...but not until I have a little
R-->T
NIGHTCAP !
NIGHTCAP
A tire might last longer with a good
PATCHING ...
while I try to come up with a real change
PATCHING
T --- > O
If that nightcap doesn't work, grab your rifle & go ...
POACHING
SHIPPING
H --- > L
What many say I've been doing for years ...
SLIPPING
PEEPING
P --- > R
Tom is doing what?
PEERING
P -> L
Look at Tom. Tom is...
LEERING
E -> K
You know why? The road of life is smooth and Tom is...
JERKING
JERKING
J --- > H
Tom's leering got him in so many pickles they nicknamed him
GHERKIN
NIGHER
+ R
Was that a red
HERRING
Eat hearty, me lads! or, my hormones made me get fat
HERRING
R-->L
Too much GHRELIN does that to ya.
GHRELIN
H --- > M
I sense a
GREMLIN
KREMLIN
M --- > W
That's a new
WRINKLE
Kudos for the GHRELIN; wow!
CRINKLE
I --- > U
If that used car you're lookin' at has lotsa ripples, it's probably a
CLUNKER
NUCLEAR
Good one !
N --- > F
If you work in a NUCLEAR facility, you have to be extra
CAREFUL
At the risk of being trite:
NUCLEAR
If you work in a NUCLEAR facility, you have to be extra CAREFUL
F-->N
And it's not UNCLEAR why.
...making this the N-less Summer? (if it ever gets here)
NUCLEAR/UNCLEAR
C-->F
FUNERAL
FUNERAL
- F
I guess hoping to ultimately avoid mine would be
UNREAL
...making this the N-less Summer? (if it ever gets here)
3 inches of snow yesterday did not help summer, but it is good
for getting rid of the drought.
GNARLED
- R
Since the line got tangled, the lures at the end don't move, they just
DANGLE
MANGLED
- D
While this may be misread, I insist (insist!) that it's meant as one who runs errands or makes deliveries, rather than one who focuses on where 'runners' may occur...
LEGMAN
LEGMAN
then N to B is a good bet that you like to...
GAM BLE
GAM BLE
...was a particularly good one ...
E --- > O
especially to one who also likes to
GAMBOL
gumboil
O --> E
BELGIUM Whew! That was a hard one.
(sorry got that one wrong)
BEGUILE
L --- > N
May I have this dance? It's my favorite
BEGUINE
PS: Congrats to J-J for BELGIUM ... That WAS a hard one!
While we all struggle with some at times, this was
a well-deserved "whew", Jj.
Why, the INGENUE, of course!
B-->N
INGENUE
N --- > C
If she eventually has children, will they know what Beguine is? Will she be
EUGENIC
GENERIC. Non-obvious. Nice, Luke!
add A
CARNEGIE
(see also Andrew, Library, philanthropist, steel, millionaire, ruthless entrepreneur)
Thanks, Wofa.
G > D
ENRICHED
HERALDIC
- L
The person who ran the meeting was said to have
CHAIRED
I've CHAIRED many meetings and found them all to
C --> R
be HARRIED but stupid events.
EARACHE
E --- > D
I was so HARRIED by the last two changes that I wanted to call the D > A about a
CHARADE
Now that's what I call simulposting !
Atari !
CHARADE
drop the H
ARCADE
Speaking of which, have you seen this little Easter-Egg time-sucker?
Break-Out
It is best to redact without making a...
d --> k
RACKET
RACKET
+ D
You beat me to it; I was going to type a reply that was TACKED, but now it's being
TRACKED
TRACKED
K-->T
DETRACT (Look, Ma, no right hand!)
TRACKED
T --- > C
Gotta go; but the comment about the noisy redactor me up
CRACKED
sorry...
I CRACKED in too late ...
the word on the table should be
DETRACT
DETRACT[/quote]
- T
The obfuscating thread I inadvertently wove has now been
TRACED
Now that we've TRACED it, we can despatch it, properly
CRATED
CRATED
At middle-class party, I play at
ÉCARTÉ
ECARTE
E --- > D
At too many middle- (and, especially, lower) class parties, someone is always out
CARTED
Nice touch with the Ecarte' ... c'etait bon!
... they are
C ---> T
RATTED!
RATTED?
Perhaps at your middle to lower class parties.
Down South we party classless as long as you are properly...
add i
ATTIRED
ATTIRED
T --- > A
I've heard that at those parties you're so nicely ATTIRED as to
RADIATE
RADIATE
...or even
A-->R
TARDIER
TARDIER
- I
To insure we'd arrive fashionably late, the speed of our vehicle we had to greatly
RETARD
was working on the last word of last page here.
but skipped "retard", sorry.
sorry endy, missed your addition on the next page:
RETARD > - r +P
PETARD
PETARD
T --- > P
They were so confused by the explosion that they could say only the thrower was
DAPPER
... do I know that you will
-R
REPAY?
REPAY
+ L
Because I'm a
PLAYER
PLAYER
Y>O !
They let me out on...
PAROLE
PAROLE
+ D
I spotted a good one!
LEOPARD
RETOLD
+ D
Often recounted to a
TODDLER
DOODLE
O --- > C
It's important that we do this to the doodlers ...
CODDLE
DOCILE
No...Oh
Stand up like a man! I wish to...
CHIDE you for your passive behavior.
E > L
CHILD
I caught the sheep drawing thing, Wofa, Yay!
I protest an infringement of the norm for this thread!!
DOCILE does not morph into CHIDE without twochanges !!
(Roolz? We don' wan'no steenkin' roolz !!!)
DOCILE
C ---- > N
May I request a return (esp. to avoid CHIDING, which I eschew) to more serene ways
and ask that you watch for this mid-November ...
LEONID
Lo! Another...
LEONID
I watch stars fall until I fall asleep
then dreamland.
add O
EIDOLON
EIDOLON
Excellent, by the way!
O --- > L
If I were not this, I might give more thought to the thought of that ...
OLD-LINE
LIONEL
L ---- > S
When the toy train ran over his hand, he had a
LESION
I trust he survived this one, he said gravely.
LESSON
S-->M
SOLEMN
LEMONS
M --- > T
Since she didn't pucker up, the kisses were
STOLEN
STONEY
Y ---- > H
I didn't do it ...
HONEST
BONNET
B ---- > D
Hanging on by a thread
TENDON
RODENT
dissapear de D
Add this and then run your rodent over the invisible word which is...
TONER
RODENT
that became a de-D'd one ...
and, as I used to say at the opera, I like neither the tenor nor tone(r) of that, so ...
adding an S ... became a
STONER
James RESTON ?
That could go to THRONES, or HORNETS, or SHORTEN...they're al the same, anyway
in STEREO -
but I'd rather be HONEST!
HONEST
+ Y
With apologies to Luke, I think I missed his DRONE ... don't know what STAR I was under ... so this is delivered in all
HONESTY
PYTHONS
- T
leaving this variant of a hose called a
SYPHON
PS: He knew a good cigar when he saw one, too!
...putting M-Y two-cents in
(even though it's against the Roolz Crustimony Proseedcake)
SYMPHONY
This is like pouring cement over Obama - you're setting a president. AND leaving us to grapple with eight letters, of whch only one is a true vowel - the two, identical semi-vowels aren't a great gelp, either! [/grumpy rant]
So, I shall also abandon the customers' procrastes to present him, with Y ---> A
MY SHOPMAN
(Can we get back to normality now, please? My orderly, OCD mind can't cope with very much of this!)
Does one just pick any word in the above ten
to proceed??? One letter changes, two letter changes, skips,
additions?????? What is the current word, or maybe
it would be time to start Anagrams IX?
i had one double-switch for symphony, synonym, but it would probably been as dead-end-ish as my shopman seems (to me, at least). i wouldn't mind going back to 'rodent,' only because i'm kicking myself for missing what (i think) would have been a clever one ...
i thought about psycho- and morph- and several other variations on 'shopman,' but got essentially nowhere so far ... congrats ro UK's Rhubarb ..
Well, here's a process...
MY SHOPMAN
- M
PSYCHO-MAN
- H
COMPANY'S
It's not pretty but what we do here is not exactly High Art.
This thread's been hurt, we need the
COMPANY'S
Y-->R
CORPSMAN
CORPSMAN
C ---- > P
Win one for the grip(per)?
PROPSMAN
This thread's been hurt, we need the
COMPANY'S
Y-->R
CORPSMAN
Ya think?PROPSMAN: M > E
PROPANES
PROPANES
P --> L
...but don't take it
PERSONAL
PERSONA
E ---- > S
Ooooh! Might want to tip off the
PARSONS
APRONS
A-->I
PRIONS (well, I thought that would be preferable to going to PRISON)
IRONS
R ---- > C
It'd be golf for a Palmer or Nicklaus
SCION
SCION (no, not three in the fountain)
add U
COUSIN
COUSIN
U ---- > E
I'll have to ask my goombah Trevi about the ratio of coins to fountains ...
COSINE
SONIC
S ---- > I
I had thought there'd be more down the SCENIC route ... alas, go for Greek particles
IONIC
IONIC
I read about that in a column somewhere.
It's strange how some of them are
attracted to magnets, he said
IRONICally
IRONIC
O ---- > E
Many Greeks, maybe Corfusians, especially, are said to be
IRENIC
INKIER
I ---- > S
Many of which are written about hooks and lines, but little about the
SINKER
STINKER
- S
A caravan in the West of Ireland might well be operated by a
TINKER
PS: Hope your word wasn't a characterization of my previous one, Rhubarb!
(Peter Sellers, wasn't it?)
R-->T
KITTEN
MITTEN
+ S
I've long been
SMITTEN ...
with Insp. Clouseau ( what do you mean, that is not your dog?)
SMITTEN
T ---- > R
Though possibly MISSENT, I'm taking the liberty of coining new phrases with
MINTERS
INSERT
S ---- > A
... for your eyesocket?
RETINA
B --> W
Ah, now you, properly baited
Will find the woman
For whom you've... waited.
WAITED
I ---- > N
... and always
WANTED
...and then after you've WAITED and WANTED you find that
T-->D
Many a New Day has
DAWNED(wait for the music)
and then it DAWNED on you that things weren't as they seemed, your world is turned upside down as is the W
W---- M. The she is not what she seemed, the relationship is...
DAMNED
I donno teepee, sometimes you hafta take a W for a M if all the M's are in...
DEMAND
Point duly noted JJ, if all the M's are in DEMAND
it still can rather MADDEN one!
He added swiftly, "This is taking us aimlessly all over the place!"
AMENDED
D-->R
MEANDER
While you've wandered around aimlessly the World has turned a spin or two.
Now it's not what you've
LEARNED but what you've
EARNED that attracts the chicks.
...said LEANDER
(for when nothing less than flowers will do)
[ that is, OLEANDER minus O ]
LEANDER
- A
Wandering made me hope to get back to Manderley ...helas! Prosaically, I become a
LENDER
PS: If it's to be flowers, make them lilies, if only for Dowson's sake ...
SENDER
+ P
LENDER implies EARNED, no? So, where are they? As for prosaic vs. poetic, call me Stephen
SPENDER
SPENDER
R-->D
That all DEPENDS
DEPENDS
- D
The plot not only thickens but
DEEPENS
DEEPENS/UPENDED
When my teapot was upended, its contents couldn't be
STEEPED
(DEEPENS - N)
JUST A SUGGESTION ... MUST HAVE BEEN A PHOTO-PHINISH!!!
We usually do the words one at a time and give the others
a chance to reply, not replying to our own creations.
There is a minimal of seconds difference between you reply and
mine and yours was not on there when I posted.
I posted and then deleted when I saw you posted to your
own reply. Which word are you suggesting we try to reply to?
I am not part of whatever plot is thickening, thank you.
STEEPED
If you'll go with that ...
+ R
I'll agree that you enough I shall have
PESTERED
Sorry ..I'd actually been reacting to wofahul's, but you & I apparently coincided ...and can see how my rambling comments were unintelligible to all but me ... pick a word & go, and i'll get out of the way with apologies ... i've been enjoying your 'takes' on all of these, esp. most recently ... A t B ...
Have at it before it festers and explodes,
since Doc Wofa has not attempted surgery.
FESTERED
E ---- > O
With your gracious acquiescence, I'll take the easy way out ... 'tho' it's too bad we don't have F &M as bookends t the STEREO ...
FOSTERED
or perhaps just sold at your corner store
LIBERATED
B-reft
RETAILED
E>S
Had to try very hard, how I..
STRAINED
D-->G to get us to
TANGIERS
I>E
Rather the rendezvous than
ESTRANGE
I'm sure your EASTERN was meant in EARNEST
But is not it best to change e-> i and make it nice and
NASTIER ?
SAINTED
I ---- > L
INSTEAD of straight, italics are
SLANTED
Wait a minute! Maybe it's not the italics who are SLANTED.
The Italics are straight people.
Tilt your head slightly. See?
N to I
DETAILS
No, wait, USns don't understand irony;
drop L
SATIRE
bring that "L" back
SALTIREnoun Heraldry.
1.
an ordinary in the form of a cross with arms running diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base and from the sinister chief to the dexter base; St. Andrew's cross:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-scotl.html
I find that hysterical as 'L
add some Chemistry with a > C
Sterical
I don't C it that way.
first RETAILS
then SALTIRE
but if you're a REALIST
you may prefer something SALTIER
(Aargh, Matey!)
You are hogging all the words in a Piratical way me matey.. or should that be...
- LE > ST
TSARIST way. (I was going to put Tsarial but alas not a word, I shall walk the plank for taking such liberties)
TSARIST
+ K
... so stay on the ship and eat tuna from
STARKIST ( OUCH !!!)
STARKIST
This forum is for those who properly drop their K's and become
ARTISTS
STRAIT
T ---- > N
...and under a lotta
STRAIN
MAINSTAY
goodbYe (-Y)
STAMINA
STAMINA
+ A
...to survive in VanDiemen's Land
TASMANIA
ANAEMIAS
- A
I forgot all about that ...
AMNESIA
CAIMAN
I ---- > B
...at the shelter in Soho or Kensington, you'd always find a
CABMAN
CAYMAN
C ---- > D
for work done, in measure known as
MAN-DAY
...and today belongs to he who seizes it.
And I hereby seize it.
Now all of you are in my seized
y -> i
DOMAIN so behave.
I seem to recall that Margery Allingham wrote a bunch of mysteries featuring
detective Albert CAMPION
CAMPION
+ H
Well, even if not, he was certainly a
CHAMPION
They bang around in the stall
a>g
CHOMPING at the bit.
PHONEMIC
P-->W: CHOW-MEIN
Nah. Twenty minutes later you're just hungry for words again.
Delete E: M. CHOPIN (M. = "Monsieur." French was the language of the Arts, oui?)
Nah. We'll do better closer to home.
M-->T: PINOCHET
rearrange
PHONETIC if not phonemic
-P +A
INCHOATE
INCHOATE (that means I go to a prep school, right?)
add L
CHELATION
SECTIONAL
A ---- > E
SELECTION
DELETIONS
D ---- > M
MILESTONE
LOTTERIES
T ---- > H
Leona Helmsley & her husband were
HOTELIERS
...and the pooch got all the loot
SHORTLINE
T ---- > E
Even tho' I thought we'd be looking at HOSTELRIES ...
I'm sure there'll be other places along the ...
SHORELINE
INNERSOLE
L --> P
PENSIONER
s > v
To cure PRETENSION
requires but an ounce of
PREVENTION
VENERATION
E ---- > O
RENOVATION
RENOVATION
O ---- > E
Dan Quayle didn't say it, but it seems like something he might've ...
Vitality is a terrible thing to lose ...
ENERVATION
Which is using the same letters as
VENERATION three posts up.
So which word do you want to use in the two posts you've made?
RENOVATION or are you backing up to my VENERATION?
This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.
There's no hard and fast rule we don't occasionally
I-->C
CONTRAVENE
in the interests of progress and harmony.
CONTAINERS
+ F
What a perfect allusion to what's just been a classic ...
"FOR INSTANCE"
That's two words. We usually only find one.
This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.
There's no hard and fast rule we don't occasionally
CONTRAVENE
in the interests of progress and harmony.
FORINSTANCE
Drop the second N
FORNICATES
crossthreading: change one letter, anagram, and make up a fanciful definition:
FORINSTANCE
C-->G
FOREIGN-STAN - any generic former Soviet Socialist Republic (or perhaps Baltic or Middle-Eastern state)
Among the possible REACTIONS ...
(to foreplay?!) ... + N
SANCTIONER (I hope that's a word)
SANCTIONED
minus O
Lots of almosts, but I only INSTANCED one.
DISTANCE
no T, thank you
CANDIES !
...tea and CANDIES are much favored by most
c > d
dandies
Happy Saturday, everyone !
DANDIES
D-->R
SARDINE
(much preferred, I should think, to the alternative drop-I SADDEN)
SARDINE
S ---- > R
I'm glad you didn't go with 'sadden;' that would have been a real
DRAINER
DRAINER
Something chugging this way comes.
Look Mom, it's a choo choo...
d > T
TRAINER
BRAINER
N ---- > S
Dunno...go ask the
BRAISER
BRAIDS worn by a metro man
less S
makes metro chicks RABID
SEABIRD
Hats off to you for that one!
A-->E
DERBIES
+ L
SEABIRDS (notably eagles)
grasps sea crags with crooked hands
Then like a thumderbolt falls
And then re-adlibs
They play football at Ole Miss, don't they?
And sometimes they check off at the line of scrimmage?
RE-ADLIBS
R-->U
AUDIBLES
(Sorta the same thing, actually...)
DERBIES
minus e
My apologies.
I was fast out of the gate but slow on the run.
I will accept rebids on me before the next claiming race.
ABIDES
A ---- > E
BESIDE
I really expected 're-bids' to be BRIDES ...so it was myself i was
BESIDE ( ... an out-of-body experience???)
BESIDE
Who's my filly? My filly is Willie whose name I wish not to...
(s > r)
BERIDE
WEARIED
E ---- > H
...or Eastwood who played Yates on
RAWHIDE
...said Eddy.
RAWHIDE
A-->L
WHIRLED
Welcome ! We can use all the solid stones we can find!
...but a moist one occasionally swaps an R for an M and
picks up a little MILDEW
Watching MILDEW molding is boring
m > r
Watching stones roll is much WILDER
the WILDER the MILDEW
R and/or M ---- > T
the sooner we'll become
WILTED
You call our nicely SILTED river dirty?
Well add a T we call your
STILTED manner curtly.
Just kidding, Luke.
TITLED
T ---- > L
... after the fields have been
TILLED
STILLED
E ---- > I
...can become whisky ...or less muddy ...
DISTILL
DISTILL
L > E
Unmoving I distill beside quiet waters
as I am a...
IDLEIST
IDEALIST
I ---- > Y
STEADILY
DILATES
T-->P
(that's like a wigwam)
PALSIED
PALSIED
- I
...when I get the notice that my subscription has
LAPSED
LAPSED
(without a change, except for maybe the shakes)
... that my feet shake when I'm on my bike & they're not on the
PEDALS
STAPLED
S ---- > E
...is what my belt does for my pants that are
PLEATED
PLEADED
- E
... one doesn't want to be without a
PADDLE
PADDLE it doesn't matter if a...
p>y
DEADLY Class VI waterfall is ahead
The stream will guide you over the falls
But when they find you they'll find you dead.
That DEADLY time is to be
indefinitely
(insert a E)
DELAYED
DELAYED Yes, I heard that.
d>r
But it didn't take me but a long time for that thought and me to be...
RELAYED
RELAYED
Y ---- > X
... LAYERED ... cute,no? ... and indicates that I'm
RELAXED
RELAXED
That unseeing eye is watching you and later you might be...
RETAXED
Booga booga!
DARTED
- T
...and being hit by that arrow is something I
DREAD
To annoy, or to give a medal,
depending on which side of the bed
you got up on this morning. You choose.
D-->G
BADGER
GRABBED
B ---- > L
...my communications have been
GARBLED
GARBLED?
Huba huba, endy! Your garbling might be excused if you had had your butt pinched as many times as the late but great Betty
drop the D
GRABLE.
...and wouldn't I have liked to ...
GRABLE (She of the Great Gams)
R ---- > N
I'd always thought she might be beguiled if I gave her a
BANGLE ... PS: Congrats on the multi-6's!!!
By using and maintaining the proper
ANGLES
A girl is sure to get
BANGLES and papayas, anything her heart desires
LASAGNE? Yes, Luke.
She liked it well enough because such fare somehow
e > o
ANALOGS her Kentucky,German, Irish, heritage.
LAGOON
my lasagna is enticing, but I'd rather some Piemontese Barbera,
O ---- > L
...by the GALLON
endymion, you are a person of great taste,sans doute - the Barbera of Piemonte is a wonderful wine - and the Barbera d'Asti is very close behind it. Cheers!
and, of course, the GALLON takes an E, which makes is so laid back and happy that it becomes a
GALLEON
GALLEON
N ---- > R
Thanks for the kind words, Rhubarb ... I tried Anglo- and Gaol- and other approaches to try to fill the hull of your craft with something other than Chat.Thames Embankment ... Leider, ohne Erfolg ... but your comments inspire an
ALLEGRO ... So, Cheers!
ALLEGORY
drop o (like Walt)
REGALLY
REGALLY
I'd REGALLY gone to the GALLERY, but when I broke out in a rash, I knew it was an
ALLERGY ... which upset me
L ---- > T
GREATLY (I liked that 1st baseman, too!)
GREATLY when he played for the Barons but (L>D)
TRAGEDY was Jim Piersall's stock-in-trade.
In retrospect I think that the year Piersall played for the Birmingham Barons he was just having fun.
TRAGEDY
- Y
I like my pecorino cheese
GRATED
I met Jim Piersall (#37 with the Bosox) a few years ago; he was very kind, esp. when I told him my mother's cousin had been his first 'best man' (he married Mary Teevan when he was in Class A about 50 yrs back)...what a centerfielder!
... an arrow towards its
D ---> T
TARGET
(but fruit flies like a banana!)
REGATTA
A ---- > S
... but all I can come up with
TARGETS
TARGETS here are often the
G>T
TARTEST
...and so it
A-->O
TOTTERS
(Close together, now: STRETTO !)
POTTERS
+ S
... were monitored by
SPOTTERS
POTTERS do. And busy as beavers so do
-P
OTTERS Who dispatch
SPOTTERS to dispel (t>r)
SPORTERS
(whew)
SPORTERS
Speaking of things being done ... Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it... Courageous kangaroos do it ... Argentines without means do it ...
- S
...and you'll need help with your luggage; I'll call Linda & Cole, a k a the
PORTERS
PORTERS
apply the R-->H Factor:and wax poetic
STROPHE
STROPHE
+ I
Is it Hellas, or just merely alas?
Is it an earthquake, or simply a shock?
Your 'strophe stroke' is so well done ...
for that, you take home all the
TROPHIES
ATROPHIES
+ L
... as do a lot of our pilgrim welcome-ees; why they seek a
HOSPITALER
HOSPITALER
but I don't see a way at short notice.
T-->I gives PALEO-IRISH but I'm not at all sure that's a word.
A-->F works, giving SHOPLIFTER.
But I think we'll run aground pretty quickly if we don't knock out a letter or two soon. Even PHILOSOFER doesn't cut down the length at all.
A SHOPLIFTER with proper jailhouse weight-training programs can then become one of the jailhouse
h>r
PRO-LIFTERS.
Then after he bails, he can go beat the hell out of poor shopkeepers.
PRO-LIFTERS
L ---- > E
... to turn themselves in (?) to
PROFITEERS
PORTIERES
I ---- > R
REPORTERS
REPORTERS don't report they sing paeans to their leaders.
We need r>d
DEPORTERS to deport our harpy reporters.
REBOOTED means restarted
b>f
REFOOTED means new shoes
Luke, please tell grandpa to let the stock into the
FEEDROOM to feed.
All God's creatures like
(minus o)
FREEDOM except those who want us enslaved.
HOMERED
+ T
Sammy Sosa did this so often because he was so well
MOTHERED
PS: I just tuned in, first since yesterday, and wonder what happened to the 'S' in TORPEDOES
...nice words like
MOTHERED.
Now I will put the S back that we have so sneakedily
SMOTHERED
I'll put your Z back to British S
and now go
I-->N
SHORTENED
of us find it unmanageable to drop letters because we know a lot of long words but we don't know but a smattering of short words so you must understand that we experience a degree of discombobulation when you say that our words should be
SHORTENED without the aid of a mechanical
d>r
SHORTENER
drop R
HORTENSE, that's who !
...says the
drop E
SENATOR
SENATOR
...but maybe a few minutes late ...
Any SENATOR that "doesn't" make a "change" for the better can be cited for
TREASON
now i'll rotate out
...politics hasn't often been much
O-->I
NASTIER
today's
ATTIRES don't necessarily identify the social occasion but often
t>s
SATIRES a society gone self-indulgent.
See, the sea is getting
SALTIER but the sea is not what
i > f
FALTERS it is we who eat less salt.
- H sounds like the SAFEST reply here.
Here the
SAFEST reply
is rarely the
f > n
SANEST
FATHERS
+ E
... our nests ... don't know whether it's safe or sane ...but when I noticed the 'R' disappear, I'd like to go back to our (FORE) FATHERS ...
and display our FEATHERS ... Hope I'm not dyslexic, nor offensive ...
FEATHERS (Yes, I know)
F-->N
HASTENER
HASTENER
H ---- > F
...I've got something to tie down;I'm supposed to be the
FASTENER
PS: Thanks!
Oh horsefeathers, I'm going as fast as I can.
Even if I was
HASTENER
I'd still be the
h > l
LASTENER because my fast is everyone else's slow.
LASTENER
- S
The "lastener" shall be first (did you hear that?) if the wait is long enough ...
ETERNAL
If the existance of the worthy can be
ETERNAL
can the lives of those who are
(make a Greek cross)
EXTERNAL also live lives that are ETERNAL?
EXTERNAL
...if, while they're spending so much time outside, they each pick the right deity to which each becomes an
- N
EXALTER
EXALTER: Big Bad John was quite a rounder. He could drink dry every beer joint in Walker County and then go home and down a gallon jug of gutrot whiskey as a nightcap and
t > r
RELAXER
RELAXER
X ---- > T
Thank you for being that tall tale's
RELATER
I've been called a lot of things but never a
RELATER
But once I kicked my wimpy husband and he called me a son-of-a-beeching...
l > b
BERATER
E-->I
Sounds as if you needed an ARBITER. Or were you arguing about how to spell Welsh RAREBIT ?
ARBITER
...have no fear. You thought there'd be a REBATER in that bunch,
but the only payback will be to an
A ---- > O
ORBITER ... so keep going 'round in circles
You are not "Harry" not a bit.
Your code name is
ORBITER
We subtract "i". See! your real name is
ROBERT
Now Roberto, we change zee o to zee h. See?
Zee Roberto is under arrest. Roberto is a
BIRTHER
...never mind ...
BIRTHER
That was classic, J-J ...Have to wonder ...if a BIRTHER might consider
a connection to REBIRTH (born ag'in?)
...but, while he or she does (or even doesn't), and knowing as we all do there's no I in Team, we make that I an O ... and call that person a
BROTHER
B > N
NORTHER
bad storm last Monday, power out until now: lots of good
words, I see, in my interim
NORTHER
H ---- > T
...can be a real
TORRENT
So I'll swap n for h and make
SNORTER
SHORTER
What's that you say, Doc?
RESTORE the (e -> r)
TERRORS of our past?
That was not our collective aim in our revolutionary revolting.
TERRORS
Agonizing over whether to make an 'R' either O or S
could put a ROOSTER into our various
ROSTERS ... now that's terrorizing
R-->S
...and it all goes into PRESORT mail.
PRESORT
R ---- > P
A good relief pitcher is a
STOPPER
TOPPER
... with Anne Jeffries, Robert Sterling, and Leo G Carroll. On TV, anyway.
And always extremely T-->R PROPER he was, too. You could almost see him as Mr Banks, from Mary Poppins.
PROPER
R ---- > P
...only too well (alas!) ... anyway, You're right, that was a great show (esp. Anne Jeffreys, I thought) ... I like the Cary Grant film, but she&Sterling and Leo G were something! Anyway, whenever one might be able to see either ... it'd be good to have access to a popcorn
POPPER
PROPER is not a proper term for a HIP
(r > h}
HOPPER
PROBED
-d
Before Be-Bop Lionel Hampton, Louis Prima, Count Basie, etc. sang
RE-BOP A word that chants more than means.
Someone should get a Tony for
H-->S
SOPRANO
Private Eye?
Maybeso but a
SNOOPER is a
(-o)
PERSON too.
PERSIAN, huh?
Are they little
a > p
nippers ?
Happy Fourth of July Weekend!
N -->K
SPARKLE
ECLAIR
... but, do you not agree, m'sieur, it has many of how you say en anglais, the
+ o
CALORIE
ECLAIR
You've locked the cat in the den.
Go now and ( c>d )
DELAIR
...but after all these éclairs you might need a
I-->N
DENTAL visit
LANTERN
Working til night
n>p
PLANTER
PARENTAL
... even before they become that way, they're PRENATAL ...
- E
...even if one puts his/her foot down ..
PLANTAR
PATERNAL nor P>M MATERNAL neither matters.
SEX is no longer N>I
--> material <--
[justblueit]
MATERIAL
drop E
MARTIAL (which after all is just a rearrangement of MARITAL)
The only
MARTIAN I know is/was Ray Bradbury; an extraordinary
Martian
______M>S____ ARTISAN
ARTISAN
add Y
SANITARY
Speaking of Mars - have you read Kim Stanley Robinson's series? Red Mars - Green Mars - Blue Mars etc? Worth a look.
SANITARY
A ---- > G
... we'd have to go far afield to find ...
STRAYING
(MY FAMILIARITY WITH MARS IS LIMITED TO CANDY BARS
... with your mouth full!
T ---> P
SPRAYING
ARTISAN
add Y
SANITARY
Speaking of Mars - have you read Kim Stanley Robinson's series? Red Mars - Green Mars - Blue Mars etc? Worth a look.
Yes, I have, and I enjoyed them very much.
When the first settlers on Mars find out that
SPRAYING won't morph into
STAYING (minus r leaves a p)
They won't be STAYING they'll be ( minus S)
PRAYING
PAYING
A ---- > R
...neighbors there means less
PRYING
PREYING on under-creatures.
The world was dark caves ( I > A )
PRE-YANG
Then a mulitude of cherry blossoms rose up from beneath the dank and dark soil, and Lo! The great Yang brought goodness and plentitude to this once barren World.
PRE-YANG
...'Twas he who cited someone he thought '...blushest
ANGERLY '
P ---- > L
(Please don't react angrily to this!)
BLARNEY
R ---- > T
Much of what is said there, as with the lady who owned the B&B speaking to me in 1970, is spoken
TENABLY
BALONEY
Y ---- > A
about this lovely place..HELAS! Instead, lend me an ear
...and we'll all continue to frolic amid the bottom-feeders
ABALONE
I think that proposition is
O-->E
TENABLE
TENABLE
T ---- > D
Suddenly, and magically, we're all
ENABLED
NEBULAE e>y
If you're made it all the way down it's time to
UNBELAY and explore the bottom of the pit.
(or, "Frederic, save us!...")
...I would if I could but I am...
drop the Y
UNABLE
The difference between BALEFUL and
BANEFUL is one we should UNTABLE
Is it a false fable or just an UNFABLE?
Someone please tell me as I am (minus F}
UNABLE
N --> L
BALEFUL
i'm sorry but I don't understand your riddle.
add a letter
subtract a letter
change a letter
when did we start all the riddles, plays on words, etc.
and for what purpose?
I don't want to be a spoil sport but I've been here a long
time and enjoy playing.
LIABLE
L ---- > V
VIABLE
Thanks!
VIABLE
L-->R (a left/right switch)
BREVIA
Thinking out loud: alternatives are
-- BLOVIA which should exist (plural noun, derived from BLOVIATE) but doesn't
-- BIVALVE - it would be difficult to move on from there except for LIVABLE which is pretty much the same as VIABLE)
BEAVER
+ E
...of an old passion...
BEREAVE
BEREAVING
A toughie !
Thinking out loud:
-- anagram: BEAVERING
-- add another E and get BEE VINEGAR (mix in honey and ferment)
-- E-->D gives ADVERBING (You can verb a noun, can't you? Here, just make "questionable" into "questionably")
-- drop the V and get a BRAIN EEG (oops, two words, violates the Roolz)
-- A-->O OVERBEING (God only knows if that's allowed)
But my Final Answer is
V-->U
AUBERGINE
AUGERGINE ???
Aren't you the shoe guy?
No matter; can you do an indian moccasin U --> D
REBEADING in red white and blue for under five dollars?
Discard INBREEDING and GINGERBREAD for one reason or another
...started with
D-->G AGING BEER
and E-->N BARGAINED
but wound up with
B-->E GRENADINE instead.
GARDENS where the elite stroll
That's easy for you to say.
But my gardens have G --> W
III WARDENS III
...and lighting yourself to bed with ...
CANDLES (+L)
CANDLES snuffed out
minus D
CLEANS the scene 'til dawn.
CLEANS
...after consuming too much, means I'll be going up even more on the...
N ---- > S
SCALES
We would probab;y all benignly ignore the addition o an S as well as the declared D - but smuggling in two extra S's is a bit cheeky!
The È should, of course, be an Ë - sorry, I hit the wrong keys.
Sorry about the extra "S". It even looked
OK when I previewed it.
A > U
SECLUDES
Being perfect
SECLUDES
our kind from becoming one of the
L -> T
SEDUCERS
SEDUCERS
drop one S, and lo, we are
RESCUED !
(or, to rephrase, re-skewed)
'cus these are
E-->F
SCUFFED
Thanks, you do some pretty fine work yourself.
I really like this thread.
...in six letters:
drop the C
"...But if I flit
the benefit
that I DIFFUSE
the Town would lose
Now every man
To save his clan
Must plot and plan
As best he can."
SNUFFED
No.
We duly changed N to T and
STUFFED Prince Albert in
but he got out.
FIFTIES
Ah yes, fish were jumping and cotton was high.
Then came the New York minute and life became a blur.
But the invention of the nanosecond was the
add J
JIFFIEST
JIFFIEST
...the NY-minute blur makes virtually everything, no matter how trivial, at its
- J
IFFIEST
IFFIEST you young folks would grow a
i to r
STIFFER spine one day you too might stand with heros.
EFFORTS?
Hey Wolf, it doesn't take but "one" effort.
Watch. I get rid of the extra "F" and if
REFORTS is a legitimate word we are...uh,
reforted.
REFORTS
How 'bout another E?
Not only God can make a tree.
FORESTER
(Could have taken out the second R instead. We'd still have a FOREST.)
Let's remove the F and put it back to what it sould be
RESTORE
There's something fishy about that change, and if there isn't, there should be.
RESTOKE
E-->C
RESTOCK
RESTOCK your restock, make T an H
SHOCKER
not exactly, but that is exactly what it spells.
What an I looking at right now? Well, I can't see my
DESKTOP because my computer, moniter, speakers, etc. are on it.
So I've changed a K to a P and
STOPPED trying.
Now I stare at my navel. ()
STOPPED
- P (would enable something to be POSTED)
... but, I'd prefer to stick with the navel-gazer and
P ---- > O
be STOOPED over ...
DESPOT
But Saddam is so dead and yesterday.
Can't we trade a S for R and
DEPORT one of our own?
READOPT
O-->I
"Aargh, me hearty, so ye want Frederick back? He'd be all o' 38 by now!" said the PIRATE King.
I was once a Wall Street
PIRATE
I would trick and I -> N
ENTRAP innocent investors (if there is such a thing)
They would become - P
IRATE
IRATE
+ T
ATTIRE
(or its past participle if we READOPT the 'D' that disappeared)
I am sorry endymion6, but the past participle of
ATTIRE can't be made by adding a "D" because DATTIRE is not a word.
No big deal just change (I to L) and don't let it
RATTLE you
How
TRITE of you, Luke. You to beat me to a word again.
You know in your heart, Luke, that that ain't (-t)
RITE
SITTER
T-->S
Sorry, I just couldn't RESIST this one !
RESIST
+ S
... if they were unable to resist temptation ...
SISTERS (typo)
MISTRESS
...the most beguiling of whom are those who maintain their...
S ---- > N
TRIMNESS
TRIMNESS is nice
But in a paramour t-> f
FIRMNESS is paramount
...that little sharp pointy thing at the lower end of the breastbone is called the
S-->O
"ENSIFORM Process of the sternum." It's Latin for "sword-shaped."
(Well, it's better that its other name, the XIPHOID Process, which is Greek for - are you ready? - "sword-shaped...")
ENSIFORM
M ---- > C
...but, for me, a bit too
FORENSIC
...do you have anything more elaborate?
CONIFER
O-->A
FANCIER
ARCANE ?
The ever shifting racing car rules of
> E to R <
. NASCAR
NASCAR
N ---- > F
in FANCIER ...when it evolved to the ARCANE ...
... but I wouldn't want to start a
FRACAS
FRACAS
make sure your face is covered with a
-A
SCARF
I dunno, Commando, here if soneone starts a
FRACAS wearing a
SCARF people will think it only an unfunny
s -> e
FARCE
FARCE
add A
Did anybody bring the
CARAFE ?
PS. Sing Boo to you, Pooh Pooh to you, nobody named my Town ! Go back to July 18 and see !
ARCADE
R ---- > F
... to suggest this would get DECARAF (ouch!),
...let's just go with
FACADE... ( but i know not how many of these there might have been in Titipu)
DEFACE
Big deal. That which they would deface we can have
REFACED -> by simply adding a D
What Wolf? Do you live in ---> SUFFEIX England ?
REFACED
I would say "May DEFORCE be with you" but that's twowords.
Let's E-->T and see what we've
CRAFTED.
What Wolf? Do you live in ---> [color removed] SUFFIX England ?
Not a bad guess, since SUFFIX ought to be the singular form of the plural noun SUFFICES. But no.
Endy got it. The Town of Titipu. "The benefit that I'd DIFFUSE" etc. is from G&S's
Mikado. And Pooh-Bah is a title that you have gained and them outgrown if you've become a Carpal Tunnel on the Board. And "Sing Boo to you, Pooh-pooh to you" is from another G&S operetta,
Patience. (I don't blame you if you're losing yours by now...).
...in six letters:
drop the C
"...But if I flit
the benefit
that I DIFFUSE
the Town would lose
Now every man
To save his clan
Must plot and plan
As best he can."
But, but, the Pooh Bear is English and English English as a rule retains the "e" when a sufefix is added. So please don't argue and give me credit for being a good sport.
Just change the "D" to "X" and apologise and I will forgive you.
Well. Now I feel like I've been out
CRAFTED.
Oh well, I guess now my DNA won't be
c --> g
GRAFTED
DIFFUSE
Will D-->X and E-->S suffice to FIX the FUSS ?
GRAFTED
...didn't get to Titipu (or to Sussex, either, for that matter) by train...
- G
instead, I
RAFTED
D-->E
In Camelot they Happy-Ever-AFTERED
AFTERED
Yeah goodbuddy. Back in the day the literati and thier fellow travelers fawned over Liz and Dick. Their
F->L ALTERED phrasing and edu-chic quips were quite the vogue.
And quite the joke.
BELATED
B ---- > F
...air out?
DEFLATE
FALTERED? Man up! Three more Replies will make 1000 posts on 100 pages so this is a fine time to reboot this thread, dontcha think, Luke or Wofadoc?
Is it not pretty when chaos is evenly
minus F ALTERED
As for renewing, I'm all for it.
Sometimes we've done it because we backed ourselves into a
corner.
If we have 1000 posts it's probably about time,
but I'll defer to my 'elder' (for time spent on AWAd)
wofa to do the honors, my computer ability would only
cause everyone a headache if I tried to do it.
What think you, Doc?
TREBLED
Can be either a BLEEDER ...
or a DELETER ...
Does that give us J-J's three more ?
...this post is
DELETED
we are now scoring a symmetrical 1001 posts on 101 pages (a good place to stop).
Of course the Wolfman is better
ad T LETTERED in AWAD protocol, meanwhile our problem is how to keep the rest of us
L -> F properly
FETTERED
OK, here goes.
Thread continued
here.
I think that'll do it!
Thanks, Jenny (x2) ... as I've always been palindromic, this seems fitting ...Best! joe