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They have some suggestions A C Bowden 04/25/24 12:58 AM
MOBSTER

B > O

MOOTERS
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Simple pleasures A C Bowden 04/25/24 12:42 AM
A dullard who lived in Dundee
Watched quizzes and games on TV.
He found it too boring
To follow the scoring –
He just liked the clapping, you see.

CITIES – CLASSED
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PHYTOPHOBIA - dislike of plants wofahulicodoc 04/24/24 05:30 PM
PHOTOPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed

PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"

PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record
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MACROSMATIC - a major attack of wheezing wofahulicodoc 04/24/24 05:24 PM
MACROSMOTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows

MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length)

MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed
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POP-RIO-CEPTION - Carnivàl party in Argentina wofahulicodoc 04/24/24 05:09 PM
PROPRIOCEPTION

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)

MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (one’s own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts

PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast

PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne
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Al Capone and friends wofahulicodoc 04/24/24 04:47 PM
BOOSTER

O ---> M

MOBSTER
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Re: Clerihews A C Bowden 04/22/24 03:02 PM
Israel's prime minister,
Whom his opponents think sinister,
Was told by Biden: "Here's some more cash,
But please don't do anything rash".
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Added power A C Bowden 04/22/24 02:50 PM
OCTOBERS

- C

BOOSTER
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Viennese delights A C Bowden 04/20/24 02:09 PM
In Austria's capital city,
The woods and the lanes are so pretty.
You can feast on cream cakes
And caramel bakes,
But they cost quite a lot, more's the pity.

DULLARD – DUNDEE
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SUBLIMATE A C Bowden 04/20/24 01:56 PM
SUBLINEATE - to underline.

S'BLIMEY MATE (contraction of "May Jesus blame me") - oath used in parts of 19th-century London.

DUBLINATE (adj) - pertaining to the style of James Joyce and his imitators.
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CRYPTOPENIC - not enough vaults in the cemetery wofahulicodoc 04/19/24 09:33 PM
CRYPTOGENIC

PRONUNCIATION: (krip-tuh-JEN-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Of unknown origin or cause.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek crypto- (secret, hidden) + -genic (producing, produced by). Earliest documented use: 1873.
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CRYPTOGENIE - Robin Williams blue cartoon character role in Aladdin at its most obscure

CRY "PETOGENIC" - claim loudly that something is the origin of domesticated animals

CRAPTOGENIC - describing the source of all b******t
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ZOOM: A TRY - first attempt at video-conferencing wofahulicodoc 04/19/24 02:03 AM
ZOOLATRY

PRONUNCIATION: (zo-OL-uh-tree)

MEANING: noun:
1. The worship of animals.
2. Extreme devotion to animals, for example, to one’s pets.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zoo- (animal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1784.
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AZO-OLATRY - worship of nitrogen

BOOLATRY - worship of simple logical concepts ( and, or, not, both )

ZOO, LARRY? - Curly and Moe are thinking of visiting the captive animals on display
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