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I think Sparteye's the person who had us doing something like this lo these many years ago: take the first and last headwords of an open dictionary, and make a sentence out of them--the weirder the better. I'm not sure if I have that right; I'll ask if she's willing to come take a look. But if there are any takers, I'll offer some from the Chambers Jo gave me:thymy and tight. When you do one, put two more for the next person.
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Time was tight, the mood was mellow; we made love in a thymy field of yellow.
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! I had to look up bourn, and, uh, will sucker offer someone else the opportunity to use these two.
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From trickling bourn in yellow field was a case of botulism yield.
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Before you fly the azure skies, make sure your carry-on's authorized.
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I had a panda in each pannier, not much room for the fanny there...
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A racketlon tourney was very attractive 'til I thought I might return from Finland radioactive.
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Down by the riverbank the suffocating judge finally got rid of his robe and jumped into the welcoming water.
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Dang, y'alls' words're making me feel like a pulcinella, always having to look things up; but I plow ahead anyway 'cause I'm as optimistic as a pup! Ew, that was terrible!
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The music's fare
had a distinct tremolo
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a mason would have to be crazy to work with masurium!
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I know I'm not a creatrix:
my ideas can't crawl through the matrix.
DIANDROUS--DIELECTRIC Good luck with this one!
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Due to its dielectric properties, I kept my prize diandrous orchid in a ceramic vase when conducting my electrostatic experiments.
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Little John Taylor was slighted for his incorrigble use of slang words, but was respected for his sophisticated sledgehammer blows.
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and, even though Little John was religiously agnostic, his values were as American as apple-pie.
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religiously agnostic Snort! I bet you couldn't resist that, could you?  Mr. Arc Flash found that the joy in grounding electrical systems as a career had been grossly overstated. OCTENNIAL--OFF
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the octennial, celebratory performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana was called off due to the ongoing world war; how awful.
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When their populations hit all-time highs, war broke out in the warehouse between the mice and rats.
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Hmph! I always thought Carmina Burana was quite Orffal. 
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>how awful. guess I shoulda added some stress to that, hmmm?  - ron o.
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Sorry, twosleepy, but I cannot find a definition for pa-ching.
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Sorry, twosleepy, but I cannot find a definition for pa-ching.
CB I used Merriam-Webster. Here's the link: pa-ching I didn't know either one, so I thought they'd both be good ("the weirder the better"). I guess I was right!
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Pa-ching! You can't step outside the circle when playing petanque!
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Sorry, twosleepy, but I cannot find a definition for pa-ching.
CB I used Merriam-Webster. Here's the link: pa-ching I didn't know either one, so I thought they'd both be good ("the weirder the better"). I guess I was right! that's from the 'open dictionary'; or, you could have made that up and entered it your own self!
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Sorry, twosleepy, but I cannot find a definition for pa-ching.
CB I used Merriam-Webster. Here's the link: pa-ching I didn't know either one, so I thought they'd both be good ("the weirder the better"). I guess I was right! that's from the 'open dictionary'; or, you could have made that up and entered it your own self! I think Sparteye's the person who had us doing something like this lo these many years ago: take the first and last headwords of an open dictionary, and make a sentence out of them--the weirder the better. I'm not sure if I have that right; I'll ask if she's willing to come take a look. But if there are any takers, I'll offer some from the Chambers Jo gave me:thymy and tight. When you do one, put two more for the next person. Hm. Where'd I get that crazy idea.... Oh yeah! At the top of the page, in the roolz!
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gee, and I took that to mean 'a dictionary wot's opened at random', probly based on the way we played at that time.
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HEH! Since we're online, I assumed "online" open dictionary. It really is funny, because you can totally see it both ways, which neither of us did at first. I do have a physical dictionary, but too lazy to go get it...
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When my brother called me a pinhead, I hexed a pimple on him.
WRETCH--WYVERN
Edit: FTR, I use the Chambers Jo gave me.
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Sir George was a strong and handsome fellow,
Whom many a maiden would catch;
He slew the wyvern for Gwyneth’s hand:
“Take that, you beastly wretch!”
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Rainmaker, who used to post here often, was quite a Raffish fellow indeed.
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Sam listened to ragtime music while repairing the radius bar on his old Buick.
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By over-cooking the tortelloni on the plate were totally immobilized and the only way out of this imbroglio was to transform the substance to tortelloni in brodo.
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'Pon a complex cooking question she pondered in the shower,
Should I add the flour to the shrimp or the shrimp to the flour?
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I was always so fond of my bartending craft, until the morning I awoke to find myself face down in a dusty cranny in the attic.
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Did Electra mourn because Eugene had to eke out a living while he wrote?
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My bichon frise cares to mind a minimum of the time.
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The Bichon Frise Rescue Effort endeavored to efficiently use the limited resources of volunteers with amazing resilience.
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Because their resources were so limited, the vounteers were forced to use the caterpiller as a cat's paw to catch the cat.
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