[continued from
here]
...When last we left Our Heroine, she said:
we are now scoring a symmetrical 1001 posts on 101 pages (a good place to stop).
Of course the Wolfman is better add T
LETTERED in AWAD protocol, meanwhile our problem is how to keep the rest of us L -> F properly
FETTERED
We return you now to your regularly scheduled programming.
FETTERED
Carl Sandburg said the fog comes in on little catfeet.
So if the dew falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it come in on little
T-->E
DEERFEET ?
DEERFEED What now, four "e"s?
Oh my, what an inauspicious start.
Oh well one must do what one must.
But it's not fair that I be the one who has
F ->W REWEEDED our brand new playground.
REWEEDED
W ---- > S
...all I can come up with is
RESEEDED...and this has nothing to do with my hairline
...DEERFEED could have morphed to REFEREED.
But we're working with RESEEDED now.
I guess one good turn E-->V
DESERVED another.
DESERVED something better.
But now I have an even better idea.
Whatsay we put up a sign on this thread that says
_______________ [ RESERVED ] And restrict membership to only the best of people.
Messed up? I didn't see any messup. Are you sure?
And I thought one became among the best of people by showing up. (Sort of like the Mountain Climbers' club, no entrance requirement, everybody's welcome at the annual meeting at the top of Mount Everest.)
RESERVED
No sign needed. Except maybe one that says "Keep Off The Grass" ?
R-->O
OVERSEED
OVERSEED
...When Woody A showed up at the club Groucho was about to be admitted to...
O ---- > R
the latter REVERSED course and beat it (I know 'cause I oversaw -- but couldn't overlook --it)
Even the best racehorse
BREEDERS breed R --> L
BLEEDERS
____________________ Inbreeding is a bitch.
BLEEDERS
E ---- > N
... or with
BLENDERS
SLENDERS
You really don't have to...it's
R-->E
NEEDLESS
to get rid of one of the "e"s
which would have -
LESSENED
their apparent endless prolification.
" I have tried - and failed ..."
to get rid of one of the "e"s
which would have -
LESSENED
their apparent endless prolification.
(Did we just hear a Four-E requiem?)
" I have tried - and failed ..."
to get rid of one of the "e"s
which would have -
LESSENED
their apparent endless prolification.
A lesser me would have welcomed the two "e"ed
ENDLESS
and tried to
drop a d LESSEN the letters as well.
Not me I've a five "e" word waiting in reserve thanks to President Obama who crudely uses the childish term "wee-wee-ed" as in
"Now don't you folks out there get all wee-wee-ed up!" Tacky.
ENSUED
E ---- > D
..it was
SUDDEN
It came U --> O
SUDDEN
and it was
SODDEN but not Gomorrah (that's another story)
SODDEN
D-->T
It just DOESN'T make sense !
DONATES
D ---- > R
...until it hurts, to your
SENATOR
RESONATE ?
Loud and clear with my cornpone senators who askew action but are accomplished
O -> R
RANTEERS and ravers.
...and who is this person, anyway?
RANTEERS
E-->S
STRANGER
If you see me comin'
Put yo' man outdo's
I ain't no stranger
I been here, befo'
Don't need no transfer ain't got far to go
You got the right string, baby but the wrong yo-yo
REFASTEN your belt, bro'
I can see your drop your f
EASTERN bottom when you walk West.
A-->W
...and, of course, your WESTERN bottom when you walk East.
(Is this a cheeky post or what?)
Cheeky, maybe. Funny, lots!
WESTERN I am
W -> A EARNEST I'm not.
EARNEST
- A
...he became a NESTER
(I've wondered if Wilde titled this with ref. to Dowson...??? Also, could J-J's use of 'Eastern bottom' be whence 'keester' derived? Cheeky ref. real good, Doc!)
D-->T
Did somebody say Easy STREET ?
LETTER is nice
Wedding rice is
BETTER
RESTED
Slackards all,
I
DETEST R --> T the sloven.
But not a honest-to-God riot.
What
INCITES country folks is seldom a riot.
For that you have to go to the
drop N we'll be glad to see you
CITIES
CITIES
I ---- > P
... to be ag'in things that are
SEPTIC
PEPTIC
Beetles
help turn our deadwoods into a living forest
Thank you beetles except when you overpopulate and become
remove the good t and add the bad s
PESTIC
LEPTIS Museum
has a focus on the
T to V
PELVIS
Yes, I write
DRIVELS
But I'm not with the living dead
I'm with the living
DROP D
LIVERS
LIVERS
+ S
...can result in getting many
SLIVERS
EEK!
SLIVERS - like fingernail scratches on a blackboard;
give me the
L to H
SHIVERS
...like a whirling
S-->D
DERVISH
(Come to think of it - what must one do to be like a Derv?)
Come to think of it - what must one do to be like a Derv? Or to speak their language?
DERVISH
Speaking of the Derv's, one must not
Spinning with the Derv's think polka dot.
And think not of the Perv's
At least not a lot.
The Perv's are a bit D to P
PERVISH and a bit is a lot.
SHRIVEL
L ---- > N
(and there were lots)
...and was duly
SHRIVEN
after a few coats if
E-->A
VARNISH
VARNISH
- R
VANISH
(I just have to do one thing, and hope i don't cut myself)
VANISH VANISH VANISH VANISH BANISH BANISH BANISH __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________ BANISH
Well,
DANISH, she
D to T AIN'TSH.
whatever that was ...+ R
and, whatever we do, we mustn't let anyone her reputation
TARNISH
SHARING
- N
...and oh so very very ...
GARISH
(open) circles...
PARISH
H-->L
SPIRAL
SPIRAL
A ---- > E
..you just didn't know i wath a
LISPER
Stole that line from me, did you!
LISPER
S-->F
PILFER
LEAFIER
E ---- > L
...and you'll be an official
FLAILER
F -> L
Excuse me, but could I get a REFILL?
Welcome. Jo W
YOu can only refill if you have a
FILLER
RIFLES
R ---- > T
....to your enthusiasm, Josiah ...Greetings!
STIFLE
LEFTIES
L ---- > V
...and becomes, alas, less
FESTIVE
EDGIEST
+ N
...but they took it all in anyway
INGESTED
+T
I am now DETESTING that you are INGESTING so much.
DETESTING
T-->A
DESIGNATE
(A slightly late but no less warm welcome, Josiah ! [ You must be sick if being called "JW". Have no fear, we'll find some other way to shorten your nom in no time. ] )
- T
That's OK, I don't mind. That nickname's now SIGNETED with a seal of approval!
SIGNETED
T ---- > D
...or maybe Isaac M, or Stefano ...told me that's how it was
DESIGNED
...long has she
S --> R
REIGNED
REIGNED
E ---- > O
...and has never been
IGNORED
O -> M
What is this?
Am I DREAMING?
Did I get a new signature?
...is "It depends."
DREAMING
drop M
What have you been READING lately?
D -> T
Nothing. I was READING a magazine, but now I'm TEARING it.
TEARING
T ---- > H
... they tell me I'm getting hard of
HEARING
- G
And you're also getting a HERNIA.
Edit:
HERNIA + W
Hey, I noticed you got NEW HAIR!
HERNIA
To answer the 2d question, I'd say WHEN FAIR ...
H ---- > D
When it's not fair, that's a day it may have
RAINED
RAINED
I-->W
ANDREW
______________________________________
...and I figured out where your signature came from: Somebody said "Get with the program!" and voila!
ANDREA
A ---- > E
...as so many others, always have the ability to
ENDEAR
CAREEN
N ---- > R
...these two are synonymous
CAREER
REFACE
E ---- > A
...in a suitable
CARAFE
(typo...sorry!)
ARCANE
A-->D
DANCER
(...Santa's Reindeer or Moira Shearer ?)
DANCER
N ---- > A
...penny I played in the
ARCADE
- A, and then -C
I put my money in the ARCADE machine and RACED in F&F, but it was a bad DARE.
+ D
What is this? Is this a DREAM? Was another page created?
(...or at least her mother)
CREAM
M-->N
NACRE
NACRE
+ T
... Greek to me
CRETAN
+I am absolutely CERTAIN.
+G
CATERING
I am having log on problems again. Peter any solution?
GRANITE
A ---- > E
..at the deli...hey, Lady, take a number!
INTEGER
GREETING
T ---- > M
EMERGING
EMERGING
Drop your E, endy, you are past emerging.
But slowly and surely, like it or not,
here, into a motley group, your persona is
MERGING
MERGING
G-->L
GREMLIN
(if that's a little one, what does a full-sized Grem look like?)
GREMLIN
One day I saw some grown gremlins
skipping rope. They looked like
add Y
GIRLYMEN
GERMINAL
E ---- > A
... if they were trying to butter me up when they said I was...
MARGINAL
put the R back and get rambling
but let's add a G instead
GAMBLING
GAMBLING
Why do I feel like I've been snookered?
add O
GAMBOLING
______________________________________
Please, somebody; steal me a lamb
You beautiful people set this up for me!
GLOAMING
G-->A
MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIA
A to O We were supposed to ship you to
MONGOLIA
INFORMAL
Yes but, I don't want to
>L to T <
ANTIFORM among my betters
ANTIFORM
but wouldn't it be
F-->C
ROMANTIC ?
...compassing the death of the Heir Apparent.
CREMATION
O-->S
MISCREANT
(Vengeance pursues; they are heating the cauldron!)
CRESTING?
The CRIMSON TIDE is not cresting.
It is minus c
resting
until Saturday at 4:30 then it shall rise up and roll over Virginia Tech on the way to threepeat.
(RESTING)
... I've been
E ---> U
RUSTING
TRUSTING
T ---- > L
... who gets away with another's livestock, by
RUSTLING
+ M
I'm STUMBLING across longer strings every time I play this game.
Can someone set up GUACAMOLE + F = CAMOUFLAGE
M -> R
Why would you be BLURTING that out now?
...before you go in!
BLURTING
Something's TROUBLING me about the way this is heading...
TROUBLING?
What, me worry? I am a
> B to T <
TROUTLING
TROUTLING
- L
...I'm going to need some
TUTORING
Ah, grasshopper, to know the meaning of TROUTLING
You need not
TUTORING but an intuitive understanding of "fingerling"
Then drop your T and go motorboat
TOURING
Pay for your motor boat tour by taking passengers. You'll get them by
R ---> T
TOUTING
for customers.
POUTING
P ---- > R
...upset by the choice they'd made for his TOURING Motorboat's
ROUTING
with a rod of
drop U
INGOT
T -> I
My fourth favorite color is INDIGO.
Just wanted you to know.
INDIGO
O ---- > V
...ever went scuba
DIVING
+ V
OK, I think rules should be DIVVIED amongst all of us.
Like what words we should include or exclude.
DIVVIED
- V
I've been in SW Montana. so
... let me know if that was enough to pass the great
DIVIDE
or, to put it another way -
+D
DIVIDED
DIVINED
+ D
...I prefer to call mine a
DIVIDEND
+ U
OK, rules have been UNDIVIDED among us. Let's have some more rules, quick.
Not so fast, Winslow.
Before we become UNDIVIDED
I want to be declared the >
N to R <
UNDIVIDER
+ L
I DID UNVEIL a nice choice of words, did I not?
We could all deal with sticky situation by
employing two words. That's why our roolz
are
l) change a letter
2) add a letter
3) subtract a letter
DID UNVEIL
U > A
INVALIDED
We could all deal with sticky situation by
employing two words. That's why our roolz
are
l) change a letter
2) add a letter
3) subtract a letter
And another thing about roolz iz they must be clear.
[
Luke, are we to make all three moves listed above, or just one? ]
INVALIDED
D >R
And I want to be the ...
INVALIDER 
(Any one of the three, although "change" could perhaps be considered a sequential add-and-then-subtract. But it's any - and only - one of the three.)
INVALIDER
V-->G
REDIALING
I -> C
I am now DECLARING that a new rule must be used:
You must incorporate the word into a meaningful message. Some people haven't been doing that.
Now Josiah, you being a newbee, can't go around
DECLARING a new roolz without
[
drop your head and your D ]
CLEARING it with the person who initiated this thread.
You know...good manners and such.
This is the NINTH set of Anagrams, which were started over
for various reasons like hitting a snag, or taking up too many
pages.
This game is just fine as it is. I don't know who started the
"talk" with each post, but I won't do it.
Josiah if you want to start a game of your own, you are
free to do so, we may, some of us, even join you now and again.
BUT I FOR ONE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN YOUR SINGLE-HANDED
DECLARATION THAT POSTERS HAVE TO USE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE.
I've been on this game for five years and it has been just
fine as it is. I don't even read your sentences and
other gibberish which is added to the post, just the word
which I then work on. Thanks but no thanks.
And the "Subject" space is plenty of room to place an opinion.
[
C you later ]
/// LEANING ///
LEANING
Add R
LEARNING
No need for such vehemence, Luke! Just do it the way you want to. If you don't care to add subtext, don't ! I take the "Declaration" as a trial balloon, not an Imposition. People will follow or not if they find the idea tempting, and give it up quickly if it's more trouble that it's worth. Meantime we all have the Big Three roolz to fall back on.
Thank you. I consider myself 'chastened'. And I deserve it.
I guess I am still stinging from the other thread where
I was adding more than one letter: my fault, I did not
understand the roolz of that one. I do understand the
roolz of this thread. And my take of "declare" is more
in line with Congress has the right to declare war. We
have different takes on the word. Thanks.
I found myself
L > G
ANGERING
over a favorite of mine.
ANGERING
I ---- > E
GANGRENE
REENGAGE
- E
and be the INVALIDER and the DIVIDER, et al....
...I want to be the
ENGAGER
so how can I possibly
REENGAGE
G-->D
RENEGADE ?
ENGAGER
Strange how the medium is the message.
We've practically gone from ENRAGED (or at least ANGERED) to
add a I
AGREEING.
I'm not sure I like the idea of all AWADers
AGREEING And I like best those of you who global warm.
But I also like the few of you who spend your heartfelt time... .
A > N .
GREENING What a waste.
AGREEING
...is probably better than
GREENING E-->I
REIGNING
REIGNING
E ---- > O
...just
IGNORING
...and go eat cake with the rest
DROWNING
N ---- > S
DROWSING
WINDROWS
W ---- > B
... or was that Jeter bunting? I recall less&less now that I'm a
SNOWBIRD
COWBIRDS
maybe are a bad lot
But a
C > N
SNOWBIRD leaves smaller tips.
SNOWBIRD
D ---- > G
...to avoid revisiting a word just used, go back a page and try
BROWSING
WORDINGS
add another W WORDWINGS ?
OOPS! Sorry. I don't know what a wordwings be.
WORDINGS
W ---- > B
... was the
SONGBIRD
I cannot find wordwings anywhere, and I cannot do anything
with it. Anyone???
Sorry Endy, I was playing with wordwings when you submitted
SONGBIRD I had forgotten Sky King. Enjoyed that show.
SOBERING
is
worse
than add L
SLOBERING
in circles that I run.
SLOBERING
An existential post, that one. Two B, or not two B?
But I think I'm just
(add a T)
BOLSTERING your argument.
HOLSTERING
drop N
GHOSTLIER
HOSTELING
drop O <("drapeau")> and the load
LIGHTENS
TIGHTENS
T ---- > I
is better for
NIGHTIES
NIGHTIES
...otherwise they come out
H-->D
DINGIEST
INGESTED
N ---- > D
... it then became
DIGESTED
REVISED
S ---- > C
... but then it had to be
SERVICED
DEICERS
C-->R
"...warriors in SERRIED ranks assembled..."
-- (The Mikado, Act I)
READIER
than the Lower Creek Red Sticks band of
E > S
RED RAIDERS
Watch it, endy, if you
DERAIL a locomotive
You're gonna get
R > J
III JAILED III
JAILED
...and you better believe it or you'll hear next from the Prophet
D-->H
ELIJAH
Following
ELIJAH I could handle
but to follow
ELISHA
i > s
would be a
HASSLE
HASSLE
+ E
...hassles, Jenny ... ought to be kept on tight
LEASHES
EASELS
S ---- > Z
... call me a
SLEAZE
Uh...endymion.
You meant to say...
Did someone call me a Z --> P
SLEAZE, PLEASE.
PLEASE?
ASLEEP?
ELAPSE?
PELEAS?
Too many! I think I'll go pick some APPLES.
APPLES
P ---- > M
...back a
SAMPLE
PLUMAGE
Listen, Fletcher, go pluck your own wings because one of these days your sharp wit is gonna get you tar and
PLUMAGED
- M, then P -> E
By using PLUMAGED, you are now PLAGUED with a dark cloud LEAGUED against you.
DELUGE - does that mean we take away your sled?
- E
I'm GLUED to my monitor waiting for an answer!
Maybeso, but I both
BULGED and
BUGLED for help. Then I added an "N" and
BUNGLED my turn.
BUGLED
+ N
... the message got
BUNGLED
Sorry sir, you are not allowed to
LUNGE with knives in the dinning room
for that you must go to the
add O
LOUNGE
GUNNER
G ---- > R
..of a rum-
RUNNER
PS: Jen, Sorry I BUNGLED same time as you did yesterday..just noticed it now
GUNNER No,no, no firearms,
'cause I'm a lousy shooter
But blink your eyes and I disappear
'cause I'm a fast
G to R
RUNNER
RUNNERS
R ---- > T
...is a
STUNNER
Runner runners runner runners stunner, sorry, boys for the repeats.
I'll be more careful next go around and
ENTRUST my fate to the none of you. Sadly, I find that you boys
can't be
N to D TRUSTED to do what's right.
+ N
Nobody ENTRUSTS any of you to make real words.
...once you get your piano back on pitch!
UNRESTS
S-->E
RETUNES
ENTRUST
- T
...I'd be left with
UNREST
(sorry if this seems reptitious; I somehow got on p.27 and didn't realize I wasn't up to the minute)
Ha! This is life.
The more time and money we spend to
ENSURE happy days
The more happy days we waste as wait
because
unhappy days one day are certain to drop your R
ENSUE
I somehow got on p.27 and didn't realize I wasn't up to the minute)
BTW, the number of posts on a page is user-definable. If you want. The default value is 10, putting you on P. 27 after 270 posts. If you go to MyStuff>Edit Preferences>[down ten options] you can make a page be any number of posts up to 99; after doing that, the same 270 posts puts me only 3/4 of the way through page 3!
SCENIC
+ E
...art than
SCIENCE
LICENCES
C ---- > S
LICENSES
As I thought Rhubarb to be British, I'd expect his spelling of your word; in desperation, I'm taking the (poetic?) American variation ...
SALIENCES
C ---- > K
ALIKENESS
BLEAKINESS
- I
...has been gloomy, sad, and dreary, under an aura of
BLEAKNESS
BLEAKNESS
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Yon ahead lies only e > c
BLACKNESS
BLACKNESS
- S
... does this to the parts of his canvas that will be his background:
BLACKENS
Luke, I can't help but note that you used the word
SLACKENS
Are you not aware that we have slackers who post here?
Are you completely N to T
TACKLESS ?
TACKLESS
drop the K
CASTLES
CASTLES
C ---- > P
...but, nonetheless, Beckett and Rick are
STAPLES
...of network TV ...much like Vernon&Irene
STAPLES
S-->L
PALLETS
------------------------------
(btw - AFK much of the weekend)
BALLETS
A ---- > I
... or, 'sweet notes' found in officers' quarters?
BILLETS
LIBELS
minus I
BELLS
HEAR the sledges with the bells,
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars, that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells
LABELS
L ---- T
...in the icy air of night, is a warm, comfy
STABLE
(mead for my men, and you, knave, water the horses!)
With rude beasts those who don't appreciate Egar Allen Poe belong in crude
STABLES
Did you hear me? I said
drop L BEASTS !
BREASTS
S ---- > E
..hearing THE BELLS read aloud are saddened when J-J
BERATES
(them...and/or me)...Edgar, you da man!
(we of the big
BREASTS) went to Key West to play one day
The My-Oh-My bar was a disaster
But the Green Parrot was a blaster
We went back the next night and had a S -> L
REBLAST
Oh noooo...that endy beat me by an hour. Again my peers
BERATES my tardy posts.
REBLAST
- R
...when you were dancing on the
TABLES...(Would have liked to have been there) ...
Endy, it looks like you and I ran into the same problem
you and JJ ran into.
Either you can play with teaser or we could give the
next person the choice:
TABLES OR TEASER
what say you?
Ideally I'd like to be ever so diplomatic and post one word that could have come from either of them.
Too bad. No can do with ABLEST and EASTER. But the're different!
Oh well. Maintaining a stony silence I'll go with
TABLES
E--> A
BASALT
BASALT?
Ok I'll show where to find some
BASALT.
Drop the B and
Gimmie that
ATLAS
TALCS
T ---- > D
...to
SCALD
Sorry,Luke, I was away from this yesterday and am just now seeing your kind note; thanks!
+E
DECALS
Not a problem: we run into that periodically.
DECALS
...SCALED the mountain ... then I
S ---- > L
CALLED
...down for a helicopter to pick me up
In truth the mountain you
SCALED was a hill and
the helicopter you
CALLED was boy on a bike, and as I
D to R RECALL there weren't no motorcycle and you weren't there.
TALLER
L ---- > T
...Oh, what y'all
RATTLE on about ...
If he was
TALLER
He could have been a A > E
TELLER but he was a short order crook
so he stole hubcaps and sold them L > I
RETAIL at 50% off
He was a good boy.
RECITAL
- I
Rumpole's favorite was Chateau Thames Embankment
CLARET
CLARET plus S
SCARLET
(Well, it's better than TREACLE...)
STARTLE
if you must but don't startle a
STARLET who
RATTLES easily.
Especially one who is not just an actress but rather a L > I
ARTISTE
NASTIER
T ---- > H
... than pain ....
HERNIAS
HERNIAS
may hurt a bit but a
drop A SHINER (deserved or not} hurts a lot and is visible as well.
SHINER
another H, please
RHENISH
RHENISH by Schumann? Maybe...
But the best minus H
RHINES ride was Siegfried's Rhine Journey by Ricky Wagner.
According to me.
RHINES
E->U
Don't all come at once, now.
INRUSH
BURNISH
N ---- > B
last post was complete
RUBBISH
(I was several posts behind, unwittingly .. which these days goes without saying; sorry!)
HUBBIES
Who needs 'em?
Huba huba I got
I > L HUBBLE'S hubblesite
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
...always
BUBBLES
B-->T
STUBBLE
STUBBLE
B ---- > M
... have a tendency to
STUMBLE
...done it so many times my reaction to the event has been
M-->N
BLUNTED
Ok I'll play B > P
PUNTED ()
PEANUT, popcorn, Cracker Jack P > T
Say Luke, are you in
ATTUNE only with baseball fare?
ATTUNE
T ---- > R
...is to go back to
NATURE
NATURE
The best way to go to nirvana; to a rock fight; into the maw of a grizzly; is to go after you are very
N > M
MATURE
MATURE
+ A
...otherwise, you'll be treated as an
AMATEUR
...and that'll hurt!
- E
TRAUMA
Nope JJ -just happened that way here.
Wow! Left-handed Luke just threw me a solfball.
REACT
add D REDACT Thanks, Luke.
de nada!/ne rien!
C > D
DARTED
LADDER
- L
... is viewed with
DREAD
CARDED
R ---- > N
...oh, how he
DANCED
To be
CANDID
My dog "Frank" is a drop de D
CANID
CANID - nice one!
My teen-age son "Frank"'s skin is I-->E
ACNED
(I don't have a teen-age son, but it made an irresistible segue)
TRENCH
From whence in 1917 we tried to wrench the
FRENCH to fight the huns. Some said ok, some said "Go to hell!"
FRENCH
N-->I
Wasn't there a James Bond villain whose name was
Le CHIFRE ?
(Go to it, folks, that's a set-up line if ever there was one...)
CHIFRE
+ L
...If he were, I think he'd likely have been le CHIFFRE...
but in any event he was a
FILCHER
CHILLER
----for contemplating
add S
SCHILLER
"Eine Grenze hat die Tyrannenmacht"
"A tyrant's power has a limit"
(a Swiss freedom fighter, in: Wilhelm Tell)
COLLIERS
- R
COLLIES
(Was Lassie really a Lasso? I know it wasn't a Lhasa Apso))
FOIBLES
The crook asked me the time then he snatched my watch from it's chain and ran. Yes, I had been fobbed. He was a kind crook. He stole my pockect watch but he didn't leave me i > s
FOBLESS
FLOSSED
F ---- > H
...can get one
SLOSHED
Hope he didn't give you too much trouble.
SLOSHED
O-->A
HASSLED
HASSLED?
No, he hassled me until I became un-amused then I kicked
D > P
the
HAPLESS punk.
SPLASHED
- P
...as well, alas, as some tires in the parking lot, were
SLASHED
...and do we think one side will give the other a
D-->K
SHELLACking?
C > B
SHELAB
The spider who cocooned Frodo for late dinner.
SHELAB --> H to A SEALAB
SHELAB --> S to L HELL-LAB
According to project Director Craven: while divers were undergoing week-long decompression, repeated attempts were made to sabotage their air supply by someone aboard the command barge. A guard was posted on the decompression chamber and the men were recovered safely. A unstable suspect was identified by the staff psychiatrist but the culprit was never prosecuted. Craven suggests this may have been done to spare the Navy bad press so soon after the USS Pueblo incident. The SEALAB program came to a halt.
BLADES
+ T
...are the
BALDEST
STABLES
I've paid up, I'm TABLESS!
Now seat me and my snuff-spitting friends at ringside
minus S
TABLES
BLADES
Wofa, is today Groundhog Day?
Let me be blunt: Luke already used "blades".
We, being of high standards, must follow
the memes of the higher
B --> C CLADES
GLADES
D ---- > E
... with the
EAGLES
Now that's a common error - not seeing what's five or eight posts earlier and therefore scrolled up and outa sight...sorry 'bout that.
I'll just have to give up ownership of whatever-it-is and start
(+ I )
LEASING instead.
LEASING
Aw heck, to hear a grown man almost apologise is almost as sweet as hearing the King Sisters sing "Yesterday".
And almost as
add P PLEASING
and it's PLEASING to drink
NOG
making SPANIEL
be it Cocker or Springer or what-have-you
my dog's a Cavalier King Charles one of those things:
-S
ALPINE
ALPINE
- I
PENAL
(IF THE I were left in and a became E, it'd be another adjective)
So right you really are, Wolfman. The incongruousness of
CLEAVE is obvious when within the word we find the word "leave".
If someone wants to me to cling
I begin to think he has something up his C > S
SLEAVE
BEVELS
B ---- > R
...REVELS
in the beauty of it all
REVEALS
E ---- > S
..the opposite of the beauty of it all were...SLAVERS ...but let's go with
+ R ...making this a
REVERSAL
REVELERS
E >>>> I
... but I refuse to castigate people for being happy REVELERS, thus won't join the
REVILERS
SILVERED
S ---- > I
...is a chauffeur who's
LIVERIED
DRIVELED
- L
... we got to that ...it's what we
DERIVED
REDIVIDE
D ---- > S
...is
DERISIVE
READVISE
+ T
ADVERTISE
(This may be the British spelling, no, Rhub? ... but I believe it to be an acceptable variant ... at least, I hope so!) By your leave .. and buyer beware
ADVERTISE
Yeah, a snappy Z would give advertise more zing.
But as for me I am not
T > N INADVERSE to a change this late in the game.
DESERVING No Luke, your "minus A" makes you undeserving.
I once was a true believer of your unerring perfection
Now I'm changing V to T and
DESERTING
another minus for ya: -r
INTEGERS
"unerring perfection" rests with wofa alone
(assuming my connection holds...)
E-->S
STINGERS
STINGERS
+ R
While it was tempting to 'K'-o the G (Pepe LePeu came to mind) ...how odious it'd have been ...but, instead,
those writers hanging by a thread to newspapers (emphasis on PAPER) are...
STRINGERS
ASSERTING
Really? Well I'm a > i
RESISTING your bold asserting.
DESISTING
T ---- > P
DESPISING
SPEEDINGS
P ---- > L
...from tiny acorns grow
SEEDLINGS
SEEDLINGS
L-->E
will be your
DESIGNEES
Your
DESIGNEES
will soon become
D>R
RESIGNEES because...well, you know because what.
RESIGNEES
- G
... are haunted by this month's Halloween
EERINESS
From the perspective of a spector
ERRINESS is ADD (ch) ( yes, I know, but this message is uplifting <
CHEERINESS
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
SCENERIES
+ P
...as J-J said, and several blood-relatives are alleged to have whispered, even I'd be appalled at my
CREEPINESS
CREEPINESS
S-->T
EPICENTERS
Ok Mister Endy, if you are so damn
PRESCIENT
tell us who is to be our very next
C > D PRESIDENT ?
Oh NO! Not her! EEK! EEK!
EEK IS RIGHT! !
+A
PEDANTRIES
PEDANTRIES
A-->O
INTERPOSED
INTERPOSED
- N
... and when I get there, I'm going to be a
DEPOSITER
I hope you're the prescient one, Jen ...nicely done!
DEPOSITER
drop the I
REPOSTED
RIPOSTED
I ---- > E
... and when you did it was greeted with a quick, sharp return by one who
RIPOSTED
TOPSIDE
I could go OUTSIDE but to continue the story I'd rather write another
T-->E EPISODE
EPISODE
E ---- > R
... to myself, if it weren't for commas, there'd be times of our lives, undefined eons, eras, that would have to end in
PERIODS
PARODIES
drop O
ASPIRED
(No DIAPERS, please. PRAISES, maybe.)
You who
RASPED
Throw yourself upon your own
- D
SPEAR
GRAPES
(sour or otherwise)
DRAPES
R -> L The winner of the bicycle race is he who
PETALS fastest
or the one who takes the fastest dope.
PEDALS
No Luke, when I said "petals" I meant "petals".
Because piles of fallen flowers petals [
spill the P]
DEALS the bikers bad spills.
DEALS
E ---- > A
Oh, the deals I made back in my
SALAD
days .... PS: That was yet another good one, Jen ...Who'd've thought to PARSE the PEDALS
"Hearts just as pure and fair
May beat in Belgrave Square
as in the lowly air
of Seven DIALS"
DIALS
IF the red slayer think he slays
Or if the slain think he is [D -> N ]
SLAIN
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again
______________________________________Ralph Waldo Emerson
SLAIN
S ---- > Y
....and down the valley of the shadow, Ride, Boldly ride, the Shade replied, If you seek for El Dorado ....Or, (excuse me while I sniff against my bouffant cuff, the better to derive some snuff ) ... if you'd rather look at a secretary, please just step over here where I have a 19th century with a faux woodgrain and a leatherette ...
INLAY
INLAY
I have thought of many words that I could play here (trust me) but below is my final:
Y -> S
SNAIL
Now don't you think well of me?
JJ I know you meant petals. "Play on words" was what hit me\
first, then I caught your meaning. I should have changed the
headline after.
+A
LANAIS
LANAIS
A ---- > D
...is an
ISLAND (when the monks in Kentucky were allowed to talk, that is)
Did they speak in LADINO, then?
-----------------------------------
[If the red slayer think he slays
Or if the slain think he is SLAIN
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again
That's Emerson? Who knew? I thought it was instructions how to play Hearts !]
LADINO
O ---- > N
Who knows what the hand gestures turned into once the 'speaking lamp' was lit. They may have even used semaphores ... or smoke signals ...
...because they were so far
INLAND (By the way, that was really good ! )
Don't you? Trade an
ANNELID for a fish DINNER? Yes yum yum.
Years ago I LEARNED unscrupulous N -> G
DEALING from my good ole Uncle Dan and never went hungry.
DEALING
- G
That's where you belong, J-J ...as Sinatra sang, top of the heap, A-#1 ...
and I'd be there, too, if I weren't in
DENIAL
DENIAL is not a d in de Nile, Mister Endy.
Denial is you deciding whether you are as hip as Wolfman, the Lambsman, the Tromboneman or I.
Sad to say Endy, but you are
NAILED. I find that you are only as hip as Wolfman, Lambman, and the distant Trombone.
Best of luck in your next life.
NAILED
E ---- > G
...and for bidding (i hope that's not the one-word version) me Godspeed to Valhalla; which I'll take as your 'electronic signature' on my Bill of
LADING
FADING
D ---- > R
....I might know how we are
FARING
PURINA
A ---- > E
Our AU-PAIR wondered if, in the event of severe wind, the rainfall might turn to
uprain ... if it did, we'd be indoors and have to eat fruit that may be
UNRIPE
UNREAD
E ---- > O
..always be
AROUND
UNREAL maybe. But I squeal U -> Y
NEARLY every time I see one.
And I do get
AROUND when I crawl under A -> G
GROUND
NEARLY coming to GROUND
... - N and/or G -- > T
...to exercise if one is
ROTUND
ROTUND
But I never seem to get ahead because I can't
D-->U [b}OUTRUN[/b] anybody...
UNTRUE
minus T UNRUE that which is rude, untie that which has been wrongly tied.
Question: How did Luke get to UNREAL from your AROUND?
JJ: wofa's "unread" was the word I was working on.
I got to 'unreal' just by looking at the word. When I was in
the process of posting it, we had an electrical surge here,
and by the time I got the computer back on and posted it
endy's 'around' had not yet reached my email inbox. Logging
back on I still got 'unread' and posted 'unreal', and now
I see there was a 9 minute delay between endy and myself.
Sorry for the confusion, but 'unreal' was there when I
posted it. And yes, I do appreciate the correction. But
it happened unwittingly.
UNSURE
Reminds me of an old REONUS nightmare i kept having:
While deep in the woods I hurt my leg badly
then a bear started chasing me and magically my leg became
UNSORE
UNSORE
N ---- A
... or even when, for that matter ...
AROUSE
Oh my! (I can't think of a one-syllable opera, can you?)
AROUSE
U-->P
OPERAS
(an English plural of a Latin plural...!?)
Grease, but that is a musical, not opera.
A > B
PROBES
PROBES minus the p
The
ROBES - A comic opera about the Klu Kluck Klan
ROBES
O ---- > A
...But what have THE PRODUCERS done for me lately?
Ursa in (A) Major or Minor? Chicago? I'll call my classmate Walter Bobbie; maybe he'll know ... but I'll wait 'til I'm SOBER...
BEARS
This
BEARS investigating.
tears cares wares fares
years fears leers jeers beers...that's it!
Endy, get up off the floor, pick up those empty cans, and stop drinking those Pabst Blue Ribbon
BEERS
BREEDS
B ---- > F
...the Procrastinators' Society, I'll officially be one who
DEFERS
Jen, you're a hoot!
A den of latter day hippies here are rushing to post REEFERS.
They think (chant) that the word "refers"
REFERS to REEFERS. Good thing Mary Jane
F -> T RESETS their internal clock and makes them move r e a l s l o w.
RESETS
S ---- > O
... people to music, and tho' it's a partial word (hysteron/proteron?) that's become a word unto itself, turn up the
STEREO
STEREO (two) doesn't equal three (three) dimensions.
E -> P REPOST or I will expose your lack of depth.
REPOST
E ---- > A
..and based on my upbringing, I'd be the POSTERboy for sweetness & light, but then I went to a Jesuit college, and evolved to the farthest thing from Lake Wobegon's
PASTOR
STRESS
S ---- > I
and if I'd been paying closer attention, I'd've noticed that STRESS intervened...
as such, I was dissuaded by J-J's post but should have found a way to
RESIST
Sorry if I've caused confusion ...and I guess I should be sorrier that I didn't make it SISTER instead ...
RESIST
Can't quite get back to PASTOR from here, but perhaps we could substitute a
PRIEST
PIASTRE
- I
If you have enough, you can afford a
REPAST
REPAST
And if not, your meal must be more
E --> A
SPARTAN
Life is lived best if one is
SPARTAN P -> I
Be not an artist instead be an
ARTISAN
ARTISAN
+ P
I once knew a girl from New Jersey who was also a Spartan ... this seems an easy way out, but I'll take it, being PARTIAL to indolence as a rule ...
PARTISAN
...and, happily, I can fuse the two branches (and even make it into a Food thread!)
PARENTS + I is the same as PARTISAN A-->E
et voilà:
PANTRIES
Dig in, Folks!
Argggg! Sorry Indy, Luke beat me daddy eight to the bar, as in: My...
PARENTS sometimes go off on a
TANGENT when Luke beats me daddy eight to the bar.
------------------------------------
Thanks Wofa maybeso now we are back on script.
So to speak...our
PANTRIES have been re-stocked and our
PANTIES are no longer in a wad.
TANGENT
N ---- > L
...where two sets of tracks converge ...
GANTLET
(I should've noticed, Jen, but as usual I looked only at the last word, which I assume you usually have, no?)
I do the same thing, as you just did again, Endy.
Arent' we all great?
and we're not trying to deceive but certainly our web occasionally gets
TANGLED
Geek alert: I think some of the problem may arise from setting "viewthread" as opposed to "viewflat," which could put some replies up higher than we expect, and out of sight.
(I presume that is computerese, wofa, and I don't speak it.
Do I need to change something on profile, maybe?)
A > E
GENTLED
GENTLED
- T
..if only in one's own mind ...
LEGEND
Across the top is a bar reading
Forum List | My Stuff | Calendar | etc
Click on My Stuff
Fifth choice down is Topic Display Mode and choices are Threaded Mode or Flat Mode
Click on the window just below the title and select your choice
Change any other choice you want to. Play around with them and find out what they do. Don't worry, you can always go back and change back whenever you want.
Click Submit when you're done.
Not very D-->T ELEGANT but it gets the job done.
ELEGANT
E ---- > I
..that I'd like to characterize as GALLANT as that of a TANAGER; alas, I cannot..it is, nonetheless,
ELATING
ELEGANT
Thank you, endy.
What's that you say? Oh I see...it is Wofu that you find so
ELATING
Sorry.
Often I get confused and think that it is me to whom everyone is..
add R RELATING
I don't have topic display mode under 'my stuff'.
+S
TRIANGLES
Under My Stuff select Edit Preferences, then find Topic Display Mode.
Not too computer savvy here, Thanks, Peter.
TRIANGLES
L ---- > M
.. for convincing males to indulge in compliment-
STREAMING
STREAMING
...whole A-->E REGIMENTS of them
REGIMENTS
- M
.. bought into that devotion as if it were a REGIMEN, they were individually
INTEGERS
SENTRIES
- S
...you have to be on time with your
ENTRIES
requires more than a silly nilly
RETRAINER
Unwashing the unwashed brainwashed requires a transplant, in effect, a top-to-bottom... T to B
REBRAINER
REBRAINER
B ---- >F
...and then join in the alleluia after a few more bars
REFRAINER
(beware of Greeks in the chorus; some are RAINDEER and others, REBRANDERS, and then there are the UNK'S and the UNK-UNK'S, waterboardees,et al...Yesterday, I voted for the candidate from Manchuria)
and chant-don't sing-the
REFRAINER
Sell your children and your soul
and become a Constitution n->m-i
REFRAMER
REFORMER
Yesbut Luke! What if our ensconced scoundrels tell us that they have... R -> D
REFORMED
call me skeptic, but I would not believe them. But who
votes for them?
+A
FOREARMED
FOREARMED
D ---- > T
...High-value xylenes over mordite through conversion of heavy
REFORMATE
I'm proud to be an American!
REFORMATED
mimus R Our yesterdays were our halcyon days.
See? Now our days
DEFORMATE
bit by bit as do our words here by changing meaning with each changed letter.
Speaking of Yesterdays...if you can listen to this without chills you are a robot so go away.
http://youtu.be/gjjSURnhJwk
MODERATE
Sure thing, Catdaddy, moderate until they o to u
MURDERATE all opposition and then the new dark ages will last long until their end.
Oh well, living free was nice while it lasted.
Ah heck, Luke.
I had to add the R because MUDERATE (to cover someone with mud) just didn't cognate with my intended meaning.
Oh well, if you insist...
MODERATE
drop e
DEMORAT
Shucks, I sort of like muderate. Reminds me years ago
with a huge mud pile in my back yard (back fill, construction)
and all the neighborhood kids with hoses sliding, packing,
fighting, all covered in the stuff. Good memories.
We could add an "e', but that takes us backward. So + I
MEDIATOR
One sober moment (a while back) me and my former spouse asked a
MEDIATOR to mediate our troubled marriage and he did. He simply [ M to N ]
RATIONED our mutual bourbon consumption to just one quart a day.
We divorced soon thereafter.
rearrange: ORDINATE
if we were speaking of bishops,
but
A > E
ORIENTED
ORIENTED
O ---- > U
I thought I could contrast your mud-enjoyers,Luke, with I and my friends spending our time in DETENTION, but that would've been a two-letter swap ...so, I'll just hope that one day we'll be
REUNITED
I wish I knew you were trying.
R > B
BE-UNITED to the mudlarks
As long as we're bending the rules (in ways we've bent them before...)
BE-UNITED
U-->C
BENEDICT
ENTICED? Are you now... I hardly
E to O NOTICED
_____
NOTICED
D ---- > R
I've become so hooked on European autos, that I'm accused of being INFECTED by the
CITROEN
(Thanks for the comment,Luke; my critics--and they are legion-- say I've been 'trying' for decades!)
ORIENT
O ---- > E
ENTIRE (ly!)
RETINUE
E ---- > T
...including some who are rational, while others are
NUTTIER (and some are still on Daylight Time ! )
NUTTIER than whom?
If it is me you'd best go to the mirror, give it an I, and
REINTUIT
INTUITED
I ---- > L
... have lost their leather bindings; so, I say they're
UNTITLED
ENTITLED
ENTITLED
ENTITLED Yeah sure thing. Tell that to the people you've...
-i NETTLED
-->
NOT YOU LUKE!
TENTLESS
Me too. I see the sky and the stars overhead because I'm
RENTLESS
RENTLESS
N ---- > T
... but you'd get some shelter if you were under
TRESTLES
RESETTLE
- E
...need to have a box for
LETTERS
LETTERS
I don't think you boys understand my plight. Them what threw me out were my cropshare letters. I told them to go to L to B where they belong because they twern't my
BETTERS. That's when they called the police who put me in
FETTERS.
Least they didn't just throw you out in the STREET
STREET
No sir, they didn't. But it wouldn't have been much of a
TESTER for a girl named
LESTER even if they did.
FESTER
F ---- > P
... sure know how to
PESTER
PRESTER
T > S PRESSER - a silly word used by silly reporters for Jay Carney's periodic lectures to the American People about their unacceptable behavior while refusing to answer any embrassing questions from the doting press.
PRESSER
P ---- > G
...as Sartor Resartus knitted (oh, darn!) the flimsy threads of memory; but, instead of DIGRESSING, sadly I (in the words of J P Donleavy's Singular Man, I ebb )
REGRESS
...might be able to hasten said departure if we can S-->A GREASE the wheels along the way, yes?
Look...if your tires have a
CREASE c > l then use a
SEALER and offer them for
RESALE but r > p
PLEASE don't sell them to a Priest.
PLEASE
E ---- > T
..if you've run over an (industrial strength)
STAPLE
STAPLE
P - B
TABLES are flat most of the time and most tables are
STABLE but arithmetic tables are reserved just for the most
ABLEST
ABLATES
A ---- > O
... friars that I know are
OBLATES
Them
OBLATES should go to the ( - T)
EBOLAS (tribes living by the Ebola River) and ( + V )
ABSOLVE their guilt and try to save them from the virus Ebola.
Well, that problem ought to be SOVABLE, anyway.
SOVABLE
S ---- > P
.. a feast that, like Paris, is
MOVABLE (Play it, Sam, then round up the usual suspects...but don't disturb Mariel or her fiancee, they're picking organic avocadoes and playing with their orangutan, then they're biking to the South Pole...theirs is a beautiful friendship)
MOVEABLE
but better, let us hope that we always have > M > L<
LOVEABLE people around us.
LOVEABLE
- E
LOVABLE
Tennyson, anyone?
EVOLVABLE just to be +R
REVOLVABLE? I liked you best back when you were loveable, and not
V > T
REVOLTABLE
REVOLTABLE
T ---- > V
.. as usual ! " Trust " me, I think I'm as REVOCABLE as any (or many), but I'm striving to become
REVOLVABLE (and think we're pretty soon going to hit a wall )
I submit, Endy, you beat me by a few seconds.
I can do nothing with this selection, so
wofa???
Yours was 'good to be,' Luke ... also as usual! Now we'll patiently await the appropriate historical moment. Happy Trails ...
Maybe Wofa is in jail. Or worse, he could be watching Dancing With The Stars on his wide screen TV. Luke, you 'de whip, call up Wofa and tell him that one monkey don't stop no show.
Act mad!
Sorry, folks, busy at work. Maybe someday I'll go halftime and cut down to 40 hours a week.
From OBLITERATE we can get a three-part leaf:
TRILOBATE... but couldn't we go back to TOLERABLE and just do something less L-->A
ELABORATE ?.
ELABORATE but look, we must act like we are TOLERABLE here and accept obscure words like >
A -> T LABORETTE if we are to be happy campers.
And olly (good to see you on this thread, however)
that word has two letter changes instead of our usual one.
Yet we are almost in a pickle so it could be had.
+B
BATTLEDOREJJ telling Wofa to get off the TV would be like telling the
ranking member of a Congressional Committee to stick it where
the sun don't shine. 
BATTLEDORE
- O
.. no doubt Wofa (upon reading the J-J text) could only feel
BERATTLED (especially after hearing that Mad Max is returning to DWTS)
...and we'll all be
LIBERATED !
wofa: looks like you and I passed on the highway.
Dangit, Luke, fifteen lousy seconds!
OK, one T too many. Remove it from Huddy L, suck it in, and we're REBELTED.
(Though I must say I liked LIBERATED better.)
(P.S. Google gives Dancing With The Stars for "Mad Max DWTS".)
REBELTED Now now boys I think that one belting is punishment enough for poor Wofa. He is overworked. Once again I think that we all should give Mister Wofa a
> add A <
REBELATED and heartfelt Shout Out for his efforts such as they might be.
REBELATED
Now that we've settled this, we can all go out and
CELEBRATE !
You take the brunt of it all, wofa. It isn't easy being at the
top, is it? Lonely, that.
-E
BRACELET
BRACELET
T ---- > M
...had the effect on business of that of a
BECALMER (Wofa was right, Luke...MadMax is the volatile Russian on Jen's favorite show )
CLAMBERED [B -> I ] Dance today has
RECLAIMED the graceful dancing motion of a man being hung until dead along with the artful antics of a chicken running around with it's head cut off. It might be pretty
but it ain't Art.
MEDICARE --> C > L
REMEDIAL methods are needed to save Medicare from the greed of (spit) politicians.
REMEDIAL
R ---- > N
....was
ENDEMIAL
(...or, Was that nest eggs or goose eggs we're s'posed to be hiding from the snakes?)
REMEDIAL
E-->Y
DREAMILY
READILY and -> + D
DREADILY because I know that one day I will tire of his music and I will then find no other music here on Earth worthy to hear.
I know there are online 'scramble' sites, but I like to
do this game with pen and paper. Keep the old brain
working and all that. Must confess I am addled
over dreadily. Had one from readily, but cannot get
back to it. So it's in your hands JJ,wofa,endy,olly
or anyone else.
DREADILY /
D -> V \
Dear Luke, sometimes we hope that if we think
VARIEDLY we could say that Bach, Handel, and Mozart together might equal one Beethoven.
We would be wrong but don't tell Bach and Mozart.
And we should not mention the great Handel in the same breath.
Are we making this into a Food Thread now?
I'll have to drop V DERAIL toot sweet...
DERAIL ( musthurrybeforeendyslamsthissolfball ) R>F
FAILED
...and once you have PAILED, you are now
PALLID
Right?
PALLED
I don't like where this thread seems to be heading, but I, for one, would like it if the dead man [L>E]
LEAPED out of his coffin and said BOO!
PALLED
CALLED, you say?
Look Luke your word was L.E.A.P.E.D.
We can't have you playing with yourself.
It does not take much to lose me and I guess I'm lost, but
Jenny, Jenny is being
No Luke, I wasn't being nasty. You jumped the word I entered to follow your word PALLED which was LEAPED. Then you played CALLED off your own word PALLED ignoring my LEAPED. It's no big deal but I though you would thank me profusely for pointing out your mistake.
It's not Alzheimers, JJ, but it is definitely part-timers,
some-timers, or half-timers. I don't know what you said, but
if you say so, I agree.
If you please. What is the word now?
Take another look at JJs post above (# 213351, from 9:02 PM yesterday [barring typos]) and click on the SHOW ME button. The word LEAPED isn't in BOLD, but it is all caps. That seems to be the word on the table at the moment, and you can't go from LEAPED to CALLED in one step.
Let me add an S to LEAPED to move things along, since much has
ELAPSED since then.
Missed Leaped since it was not bold. So tried to rescue it
from Palled to Called.
My times are different from yours. But maybe we need
less chit-chat and go to caps or bolds or something to find
the word. Maybe use of < > or + - or some way to distinguish
just the word we are playing with, as we used to do.
PLEASES
E ---- > I
...I'm all shook up when I have
PALSIES
PAISLEYS
+ V
...for living
PASSIVELY
...d'ya think ?
MEDALISTS
drop the T
MISLEADS
you won't find your glamorous buys here
IDEALISMS (...didn't think it had a plural ! )
take out an S
MIDAISLE
you won't find your glamorous buys here
IDEALISMS (...didn't think it had a plural ! )
take out an S
MIDAISLE
MALADIES
A ---- > V
...are especially harsh in the
MALDIVES
(I thought about calling you SOCHI Kidder, and reverting to 'but one of your recently cited crowd --- i.e., MEDALIST,' but we'll leave that for another)
MIDLIVES add the p
MID-PELVIS
MID-PELVIS
D ---- > U
... and was deemed
IMPULSIVE ...so he left the building
IMPLUSIVE, Elvis? Never. Maybe exciting and
IMPLOSIVE but it was all just an act. When alone he was just a jerk.
IMPLOSIVE
L -->R
IMPROVISE
(and one who drops the second I makes it even better.. )
IMPROVISE. But my dropping-the-I improvisation hardly
IMPROVES the high nature of this intellectual discourse.
So I won't.
IMPROVES
M ---- > D
... and even some Women ... but God
PROVIDES
(A feeble attempt at improving the high-quality nature of this discourse!)
If someone taped Aida, would that qualify as an
OPERA-VID ?
OVERPAID
A ---- > S
DISPROVE
If Oprah did that taping, mightn't it be a DIVA OPUS???? Ouch
If someone taped Aida, would that qualify as an
OPERA-VID ?
I think it would
qualify as piracy?
BISECTOR
c->x
Snails mostly are, flatworms sorta are, and I even know a homo sapien who is a bona fide
BISEXTOR
BISEXTOR
...does this mean he's also one who from time to time EXORBITS? And does he have a sibling of his mom or dad who is perhaps an EXORBIT-ANT?
But, enough ... I am reminded of my, alas, late acquaintance Jason Miller, who played
on the screen IN William Peter Blatty's The
EXORCIST (B ---- > C )
Just do what? Are we possessed?
EXORCISE the O and play an E
EXERCISE -- yesterday's work; today's pretend.
Luke, if you would post the word you are changing in CAPS above the word you change we could catch you easily if you err without rolling back up.
What? Me Err?
I can do that since I don't engage in all the chit chat
like you all. But if there were none of that no one would
have to. But all seem so determined to do so, for whatever
reason, which totally escapes me, I can do that.
Since I have to leave to volunteer in VA hospital
I can simply add S
EXERCISE
EXERCISES
EXCERCISES. But now I must go to a voguish class where I teach
c>x
SEXERCISES.
SEXERCISES
S ---- > V
...things people can do; one day, I may avail of the assistance of someone like you (I'm a V-N era vet) ...and I'll try to be as thankful verbally as I can, as it's commendable work ... as is the work done by counselors attending to former married folk, who may also say they work in
EX-SERVICES (I'd hoped for a 'mot precis' for this, mais helas...non!)
PERCEIVES. But what matters is what your
c>w
PEERVIEWS.
PREVIEWS.
What matters is dropping the P and the
REVIEWS.
SWERVE
But only if you change w to n and got lots and lots of
NERVES
NERVES
N ---- > R
...call the
SERVER
SEVER the server? Sounds bloody...so why not s>t
REVEST your knife and clean the scene, and then
>--clean the scene--> .
REVEST
E ---- > Y
one on ... like an alb, maybe ...
VESTRY
STARVE
If you are lying in a dried out desert lake bed without any hope of food or drink (t>v}
Count the
VARVES to pass the time...it won't hurt.
AVERS
+ E
...for a seat that was vacant, but the party was
AVERSE to it (they said my poems were dirty limericks that they called Vice-a-verse)
OBSERVE
If your tennis serve is too often slapped back atcha, try a
LOBSERVE ...and then charge the net.
LOBSERVE - boiled, or baked stuffed ?!
EARLOBES - nice shift, Luke!
Plenty to OBSERVE besides earlobes if we change
A-->S and go
ROBELESS
ROBELESS
Well, if you boys want a robeless southern "belle" sitting between you two stolid Yankees you'd best
BORELESS and charm more.
ROBELESS is generally not boring, nor I'm sure are those stolid gents ...
R ---- > N
...to inform the
NOBLESSE (who prefer their chicken BONELESS)
NOBLESSE
Maybeso, Endymion VI, your refinded manner and your delightful wit
s > n
ENNOBLES the snuff-dipping dog-kicking ruffians here to rise up and do better.
But I doubt it.
ENNOBLES
N ---- > D
... and he truly means it .. he delved & delved, being so elated by Jen's comments (you're the best, J-J) ... but all he can come up with, after trying 'noisome' and 'lesion' attributes, and 'bolstered' by nothing much closer ...it's hardly noble ... is that upon impact he ...
NOSEBLED
BOLOGNESE
O ---- > R
...o' dem islands down dere, mon, was Sid Poitier's Dad, and his kinfolk were all
BELONGERS
...but as long as we're being geographic:
BELONGERS
drop S
GRENOBLE
'Alp yoursalf!
GRENOBLE
E ---- > I
... and then there are those that are even worse (i.e.,comparatively crummier? On a snowy day like this, you ask " Weather 'tis that's ignobler in the mind ..." ??!?)
IGNOBLER
IGNOBLER
Ah? You would prefer it
E-->I
BROILING ?
I coulda been
BROILING in the hot sun.
I coulda been
ROILING in the water with my big foot Mae.
ROILING
L ---- > N
...maybe on a waterfront a bit farther north ..or, you coulda been home doin' the
IRONING
NONRIGID
and she was
NONFRIGID
but both were happy because both had boyfriends.
NONFRIGID
D ---- > M
...nonetheless, it explains a lot, in terms that might be considered brief (by one)...
INFORMING might take on a new meaning (Jen, you've done it again!)
INFORMING and
n > b
BIFORMING ...and then twins and then twins!
LOOK LUKE! I'M NOT BEING CUTE!
BIFORMING
M-->E
BIOFRINGE(I dunno, I just made it up. It worked, and I was running out of options.
Then I checked and, lo and behold,
it really exists!
BIOFRINGE
Anecdote of the Jar
____________________By Wallace Stevens 1879–1955
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
Oops!
BIOFRINGE
n>d
BIOFRIDGE
I think everything in my refridgerator is or once was biological. I hope...I think.
GLORIFIED
Can we send last year's Christmas cards to someone else after
REFOLDING them?
REFOLDING
L ---- > D
' ...esp. for artistic creation,' to me ..
FODDERING (btw, kudos for the last two ... nicely done !)
I'm slow
RELOADING
so stop your
REGOADING I'm doing the best I can.
And stop
FODDERING the egos of the last two posters, but praise them if they can construct a word from
FODDERING I can't.
Let's see, now.
REFOLDING-->RELOADING came before
REFOLDING-->FODDERING. Too late; the cattle have to go hungry tonight.
Then RELOADING-->REGOADING, so let's just be glad that in the Spring we can O-->N and resume GARDENING.
Incidentally FODDERING can be made into DEROOFING, as any tornado survivor can tell you. But it's still too late, so put the roof back on.
And RELOADING also goes to CAROLINED, as in "I've heard so much Neil Diamond lately I'm all Sweet CAROLINED out," but that's kinda forced, so forget about it and go back to GARDENING.
GARDENING
N ---- > R
There's so much damage to the roads, they need
REGRADING
(something I used to beg of my professors years ago, to no avail!)...and, in addition to WOW, a wo-wo-wo as in Fenway Park in the 7th, the Neil D singalong)
RETRADING minus R
"Don't tread on me" said the Snake.
"Well then, Mister Snake" said the barefooted little girl, "where then am I to do my
TREADING?"
Then she hit him with a stick.
DREADING
- D
READING
...of the recent text indicates that Jen is not one who treads lightly
When silently
READING
who is it that does the
HEARING?
HEARING
+ C
...that's a stretch, who's doing the
REACHING
REACHING out to someone in need of advice is commendable
especially if what you say is well
INREACH of their ability to correct that which was wrong.
OK,
I am sure you are getting some thrill out of quoting people
and sending poetry, etc. But sometimes it is hard to figure
out what word we are working on.
I agreed to repeat the word so my mistakes could be traced
backward, could I now ask that everyone embolden the
word you are submitting for the rest of us to work on, please?
Sometimes you all are carrying on a conversation that makes
little sense to me. I don't mind if you want to chit-chat
since it seems to please you, but I really don't like to
have to read all of it looking for the word to work on. I'd
appreciate it, please and thank you.
HERNIA
I-->T
Makes a nice flower part. But better still,
...If called by a panther,
Don't ANTHER.
ANTLER
Here is what I
LEARNT
One is punished best by one's own virtues
ANTLER
A ---- > E
..British friend to never
RELENT (and I'd like to embolden. but ..when I was working, I was maybe low-tech; now, I'm virtually -- pun intended -- no-tech ...so ich brauche Hilfe von Wofa, wahrscheinlich) ...
ANTLER
A ---- > E
..British friend to never
RELENT (and I'd like to embolden. but ..when I was working, I was maybe low-tech; now, I'm virtually -- pun intended -- no-tech ...so ich brauche Hilfe von Wofa, wahrscheinlich) ...
Sorry, I don't speak German. And so, like so much of the
addenda in each post, I don't understand what you are saying.
Maybe so, Luke, but even as you read this you are holding in your hand a window to the repository of all knowledge. You just need the willingness to poke around a little. On your own, or with a little help from your friends to show you where to poke. In this case if you "Google-translate" (go to translate.google.com, or another free onlilne translator) and put in "ich brauche Hilfe von Wofa, wahrscheinlich" (no need to type, just cut and paste) it will give you the translation. (Or at least a first approximation of one; definitely it has its limits...though in this case, it gave "I need help from Wofa, probably" ! )
Endy - whenever you write a post, there is a row of icons across the top of the composing box. The smiley-face gives you a truckload of emoticons to pick from. The "world-with-a-paper-clip" gives you the opportunity to insert a link to another web page. B is bold, I is italicize, U is underline, and those three are almost-universal shortcuts; try them in your word-processor. There are others; have fun exploring!.
RESENT
drop N
RESET
RESENT
S ---- P
..I'm goin' to the Chapel, and I'm goin' to
REPENT
Ich bedanke mich dafuer!
RESET
+ T
When I was a kid, I was a pin-
SETTER
Thanks,Doc. I do know how to google translate, but don't see
why I should be the one doing it.
On the thread where you play with the word of the day, you
add one letter, or change one and make a new word, pratfall
being one last week I believe.
At the time I did not understand that it was only ONE letter
and was changing more than one letter. You kindly let me know
by going back to the origins of the thread to see how the
person who started it only changed one letter, and seeing
that I complied.
Now I ask you, is it possible for you to go back to the origins
of this thread and see how it started? Did it embolden
the word to be 'worked on'? Did it contain poetry, German
phrases, Nietzche, Shakespeare, et. al. I am just wondering
and would greatly appreciate knowing.
I don't know how to get back there or I'd do it. What did
the originators intend? Or perhaps you can tell me how to
do it and I'll do it. I greatly appreciate your help, you've
done so in the past and I'll need it in the future. I've
only been using computers since '08, and will never be
really literal in its use. My life does not contain the years
needed.
When they started, they all were well-defined and rigidly rule-bound. At time goes by (measured in month-to-years!) they've gotten more relaxed, sometimes because we didn't have anywhere to go without overlooking some of the rules, sometimes because we didn't want to be to too pedantic and self-righteous, sometimes because we were full of good cheer and tolerance, sometimes because we were just too tired to protest. Mostly it's been in the spirit of indulgence with the recognition and acknowledgment that we were breaking the rules, and overlooking it. We try to stick within them, most of the time.
Occasionally we arrive at a total dead end and have to start over. If it really bothers you to have rules available and to have people flout them, consider it a break in the continuity, and a starting-over.
As for the side comments, they are a little bit to show off how smart we are, and to share an insight, and to teach, and [quoting from my beloved Gilbert&Sullivan] to provide "corroborative detail, intended to lend artistic verissimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative..."
And by the way, I have no official standing or power whatsoever on this Board or this thread, so feel free to consider my thoughts and reject them utterly; your opinion is as valid as mine. It's just my nature to think I see a need and to step in and try to fill it, without even being asked. In this case I'm trying to be a self-appointed mediator/explainer/facilitator.
And you do that well. thanks.
...Daddy takes the T-bird away
FETTER
T-->B
BEREFT 
REBELT - is also TREBLE, and I sing Bass! (Although if I were an Alto I might be a BELTER...)
E-->U
The BUTLER did it, that's who.
BUTTER
T ---- > S
... ought to be called
BUSTER (sorry I missed BEREFT earlier; BC comic strip once said that was what it was to miss a flight on Japan Airlines...)
BLUSTER
add O, and I say we got
TROUBLES
JJ - used five posts up. Knew you'd love to know that.
Building on endy's
Butter
BLUSTERED
L ---- > C
CLUSTERED
Did you mean B > C ?
Clustered
-C
RESULTED
RESULTED
+ F
...so sorry, I must have been
FLUSTERED ... thanks for catching that, Luke ...PS to Wofa: Thanks for the tips, and I've tried B as in emBolden, but can't impress it enough to work ...yet
DEFAULTERS
F ---- > R
... going to be careful typing this one ...
ADULTERERS
That is to say, "No L"
ADULTERERS --> TREASURED
I guess the Control-B shortcut doesn't work here. It does in Word and many other programs. Here you have to click the B button or else type {b} [but with square-brackets rather than these curly-brackets] before whatever you want to bold and "[/b]", (see? square brackets] after you highlight whatever-you-want-to-bold to select it for Bold-ing.
TREASURED
T ---- > S
Thanks for taking the time to point that out; I'll keep trying, and think i'm omitting a key or two ...nonetheless, for your help I am
REASSURED
REASSURED
What do you call the guy who puts the names and destinations on Christmas cards?
D-->U
ADDRESSER, of course.
The [open-squarebracket[letterbee]close-squarebracket]selectedtext[open-squarebracket[/letterbee]close-squarebracket] method will avoid all need for control keys and even buttons. But it's cumbersome, and several keystrokes longer, each time, and fairly quickly gets tiresome.
REDRESSED - like leftover turkey
D-->T
DESSERTED - lavishly plied with after-dinner sweetmeats ?
Wof, here save ink, pls abbreviate succi.
DESSERTED
t>a
ADDRESSEE
DESSERTED
+ R
REDTRESSED ? (and a knockout at that!)
Hey, it worked ...thanks, J-J and Wofa)... even I can do that now
Destressed
D > R
RESTRESSED
RESTRESSED
And now if we remove one S we have Luke's
DESERTERS
Used 3 posts up, wofa, like JJ back a few posts.
We are repeating. Or I am messing up big time.
Yes, but it shouldn't have been, because ADDRESSEE came before Red-Tressed Rita...
No matter. We are where we are. Let's release the DESERTERS
and resume concrete thinking with
PRESTRESSED.
I see now.
Thanks. I guess I am too stressed.
and we can release buster/bluster and the twins.
I think I'm seeing that we have too many letters to work with easily. Let's knock off one or two...
PRESTRESSED
drop the R
SPEEDSTERS
SPEEDSTERS
drop a S
SPEEDSTER
I didn't think we were
S-->A
DESPERATE
They make a pre-nuptial agreement (unromantic though it sounds) - what if you had to sign one
PESTERED
E-->A
PREDATES ?
Shall we put the pieces together one more time?
PEDERASTS
S-->L
RESTAPLED
RELAPSED
S ---- > C
..that I could easily be
REPLACED
REPLACED
Yes you can, dear Endy. But here we will keep your memory in a
(add a)
DEARPLACE within our hearts.
DEARPLACE
...now that I've heard such tender words...a
PLACATEE
FEATHER
Look no farther: H-->S
FEASTER
EASTER
E ---- > T
...is initially a
TASTER
BASTER
+ O
....If I said it were I, I'd be not only a
BOASTER ... but also a liar ... Merry Christmas to you, too, Luke, and to Jen and Wofa and all our other partners in rhyme and rhetorical rantings and ravings
...bless us, every one !
And speaking of turkeys, O-->A,
If they were lined up side by side, would you prefer a leg or
ABREAST ?
Here it is not hard to keep
ABREAST of the context of this forum.
Highborn or (a>d)
BASTERD welcome to this forum.
B-->O
It's helpful to see this in the BROADEST possible context.
ROADTEST
O ---- > L
..I was
STARTLED
RATTLED
D ---- > T
...to be a
TATTLER
BEATLES
..anything but
BEASTLY
PS: Maybe Addison, Wofa ...maybe Steele, but never Steely Dan
BLEATS
B ---- > R
...TABLES sticky issues ... then adjourns with the 'SHADY' Sayonara
LATERS
LATTER
drop T
ALERT[endy - 
! ]
CARTEL
Pardon me while I make arrangements.
CLARET
Red wine, that is.
SCARLET
treacle
-t (we seem to be running in circles)
CEREAL
HECKLER
L ---- > C
...all right, you're a cab ...
CHECKER
REBCHECK
R ---- > D
... a real challenge for them would be an A-Rod
BEDCHECK
My lights are out ...
I'd thought about going to CHECKED from BEDCHECK ... that would have enabled CHOCKED then CLOCKED and CLOCKER to RELOCK, or CLOAKED and then..???
...but all I can come up with here is a 'two-switcher' (B --> T, and drop the C) to yield SKETCHED ... I KNEW referring to A-Rod was a mistake !!! sorry ...
I added the "S" because my lights are out too.
Perhaps it is time to bury Anagrams IX.
I dunno - if I hit the Powerball someday, and build a fantastically big house with not only a SUNDECK but also a S-->A
BEACHDECK, can we go anywhere from there? Other than just adding another S?
I added the 's' because I thought it would help, obviously it
did, since you traded it.
BEACHDECK
B > G
CACHEDKEG under your sundeck
CACHEDKEG (ouch!)
add an r uh
HEDGECRACK (ouch!)
Hedgecrack
C > N
GENDERHACK
GENDERHACK
E ---- > U
...and a VERB-ose one at that!
GERUNDHACK
Undershack
N > D
UDDERSHACK
...or is it Demolition Derby?
UDDERSHACK
Step away from the K !
CRASHDUDE
(We gotta get this down to a more manageable size somehow !)
I am in complete agreement.
CRASHDUDE
-C
RASHDUDE
HUNDREDS
I say I won't quit until all long words are fully
h>e
SUNDERED
ENDURED
N ---- > C
..employees in England back in the'70s, we made them REDUNDANT, and I'm haunted ever since by the thoughts that
REDUCED them and me
Their simple minds were much
REDUCED by smoking dope
Then later in my latter years I
c>x
REDUXED the Beatles and found that I liked some of their music
But the simple-minded hippie thoughts helped make our Culture simple-minded. And I don't like hippies to this day,
REDUXED
- R
...who thought they
EXUDED charm? We are of a mind, Jen ...
How does REDUCER become REDUCED(What happened to the
second "R")REDUCED preceded REDUCER. Now REDUCED follows it again
changing a c to an X and ignoring the second R in REDUCER?
then REDUXED, then EXUDED.
PLEASE SHOW ME THE PROGRESSION.
REDUCED>REDUCER>REDUCED>(C>x){forgetting an "r"}REDUXED????
As per above the current word is
REDUCER
CRUELER
E ---- > L
...but did you MEAN D->L? R&D tells me we should meet at the doughnut shop!
CRULLER
CURLER
- C
RULER [IIIIII]
RULE
RUE
UR
?
But the simple-minded hippie thoughts helped make our Culture simple-minded. And I don't like hippies to this day,
How many of us do you actually know?
I really don't think hippies monopolized simple-minded.
RULER
...Some RULER might seem CRUEL-er (can u hear C Porter ? I do)
if only CM but not inch ... but would they rue in a pinch ...without
taking their CUE (Q) to turn left ... except ...Le Roi can do whatever he chois...
so ... I ... opt to see (C) them all in the .... L ---- > N
RERUN ....... where my (and UR, as in Ursprung) one ... word.. is.. U (Jen)
REALM
...late-ariser, and late-comer ... so, call me anything but Late for Breakfast, but if I'm remiss (ergo, missed REALM) ...call me anything but
MEALY- ...mouthed ...and if I am/did ... let's go with what the Native Americans at Ivor's in Everett WA use to smoke their scrumptious seafood M-->D (Is there a Doctor in the House?)
ALDER
REDIAL
I ---- > D
... kick that one up the
LADDER
ADDER
...to have a LADDER made of the wood I use to preserve my cigars:
D ---- > C
CEDAR OOPS...I just HEARD I was on the wrong word, so it's H --> C..sorry! ...but still CEDAR
ACRID
+ N
...in a similar vein
RANCID
CANDIED
- I DANCED all night
DANCED
...candied my yams, but instead I simply
D ---- R
CRANED ...my neck
RAINED
A ---- > B
inter (or is it intra-?) marry ...
.... there's trouble on the ship of state
INBRED
RAINED
your (add b) brain debrained and became a
DEBRAIN for the rest of your inconsequential life.
DEBRAIN
Add G
BREADING
Saute to a light brown; serve with a garnish of lemon and parsley
BREADING
...lightly
B ---- > T
TREADING
FALTERING
no L (another Christmas greeting!)
Happy-Ever-
AFTERING (
see 1:25 to 1:40 here)
FARTHING
A ---- > O
FROTHING
It's just the icing on the cake
FROTHING
H-->S
FROSTING
ROASTING
R ---- > T
TOASTING
TOASTING first
then when drunk t>b
BOASTING
BROASTING
O ---- > E
..down
BERATINGS
BERATINGS
and oft times beratings (minus r)
become
BEATINGS
The moral of this post is to always be nice.
Sorry JJ,(trying to be as nice as possible)
I posted 13 minutes ago:
the word:
BREATHINGS
Certainly Luke, you beat my posting without question.
Now if you will simply post a coherent sentence using the plural form of
"breathing" I will gladly concede to your fine term
"breathings".
I don't think it is a matter of 'conceding'. No one challenges
anyone on their postings and words until now. It is not part of the "roolz".
If you desire to start a thread where the word must
be used a sentence that is a valid sentence then you are
free to do so. Proving anything to you is not a priority of
mine, nor does is affect my use of this thread. And it appears
a bit arrogant to me on your part.
There have been many words in the past six weeks that I cannot
find in any of my printed or online dictionaries.
But to keep you happy:
A huge cloud was mounting up the sky, and there were distant breathings of thunder.
Huxley, Aldous
The hearts of many throb at the very breathings of wealth through a flute, who would remain callous to the bitterest sighs of poverty.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Why not try, remembering, of course, to continue the same breathings, "I am Andrew Carnegie?"
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Her knowledge of divine things rapidly increased, and her earnest devotions seemed now to be the perpetual breathings of her soul.
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Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
n. Plural form of breathing.
http://www.wordnik.com/words/breathings*******
When its last breathings from the warrior's throat
Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent
Wind there was none; for she vacillating and uncertain air which, from time to time, distended for an instant the lighter canvas of the vessel, deserved to be merely termed the breathings of a morning, which was breaking upon the main, soft, mild, and seemingly so bland as to impart to the ocean the placid character of a sleeping lake.
The Red Rover
In the intervals between the soft breathings, the air grew heavy and balmy with the perfume of flowers and the exhalations of fat, living soil.
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
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Tonight, I decided to snatch an extra bit of Mother's Day, a few extra minutes of your shrinking little-girl-hood, an extra few breathings-in of your sweet skin.
Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, most complete sanctity, perfect justice, neither deceived by the persuasion of the serpent, nor infected with his poisonous breathings "Hom. i in diversa";
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom
Always a shock to remember them there, those great breathings close in the dark.
John Lundberg: Remembering Hayden Carruth
I see it not — I feel it not — it is but a shadowy name — a succession of breathings measured forth by night by the clank of a bell, by day by a shadow crossing along a dial-stone.
'the Talisman'
There are two overlaps and reprints in the above, but I
cannot get it to edit it any more to remove them,sorry.
But I do want to say this is the third time you've
ignored my post since early December. You asked me to
retype the word being challenged, and I complied, tho'
it was never done until you suggested it. Now I ask you
to pay attention to what you are doing. It started
with bluster/buster, and now this is #3. Thank you.
BREATHING(S)
B-->M
NIGHTMARE(S)
The word currently is
EMIGRANTS
I did not add the "S".
It has been here since post #213907
I did not add the S, to which you objected.
I added an "H" to create "Breathings"
And it is not just the 'S' you ignored, but the
4th time you ignored my word.
EMIGRANTS
EMIGRANTS
T ---- > I
MIGRAINES
...has been known to cause headaches in the susceptible (YCLIU)
MIGRAINES
I-->C
SCREAMING
AMERCING
G-->A
it's the AMERICAN way?
MERCIAN
Or at least
N-->C
CERAMIC
GRIMACE - nice one
drop C
Now you see it, now you don't
MIRAGE
BADGERED
D ---- > G
...BEGGARED description
PS: Wofa, was that YCLIU 'look it up' or 'lick it up'? It WAS i-c that was being bandied about; that was a good one!
...or else fix my yard so the rainwater doesn't all collect in my basement
RAGGEDER
drop G
REGRADE
...said the
ENLARGED
Drop L
GRANDEE
GRANDEE
E ---- > T
.. all my life i'll live for you (or whatever), as my wish has been
GRANTED
PS: Heard that song every year at our Little League banquet, played on the 'cordeen' (he couldn't pronounce accordion) by the manager's kid
TANGLED
D ---- > T
and Flannery O"Connor got on track ..
.. all that rises must converge ...
GANTLET
Can't resist the "U"
GAUNTLET
Teilhard is one of my favorites.
GAUNTLET
T ---- > N
...is hard to
UNTANGLE
ENTANGLE
- N
.. were as
ELEGANT
GENTLED
D ---- > C
..from
NEGLECT
CLEMENT
C ---- > E
..out of my
ELEMENT
TELEMAN (nicely done)
+D
LAMENTED
LAMENTED
+ I
..is what I need as I fear I'm becoming
DEMENTIAL
Nicely done by both of you gentlemen ...Congrats!
(And I'm not referring to an egg factory)
DEMENTIAL
E-->A
LAMINATED
ALIMENTED - drop T
...all covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed
In rain
Or shine
The smallest one was
MADELINE.
MADELINE
N ---- > R
...had to go back to the ecole; she needed reading that was
REMEDIAL
EMERALD
M ---- Y
..to ya
...and the rest of the day to yourself ..the exchange between two ould souls that was
RELAYED
ELDERLY
- R
...the 'R' go ????????? he
YELLED
YELLER
L ---- > P
...and a dog that yelps a lot is a
YELPER
DRAPERY
- P
...some are still
DREARY
RAGGEDY
G ---- T
Theirs was a sad story ...
TRAGEDY
LARGELY ( = GALLERY)
drop L
ARGYLE Sox ?
ARGYLE
+ L
...I couldn't help but think of the Peanut(s) (Lowry? ouch!)
GALLERY
GALLERY
R ---- L
...who took us back to where we'd been (LARGELY/GALLERY) ...I'm obligated to make a truer change ...
LEGALLY besides, I misspelled Lowrey !
GALILEO
I ---- > R
... as presto, but still
ALLEGRO
ALLEGORY
Drop o (as in "Walt")
We've had LARGELY and ALLERGY but no one has pronounced it
REGALLY yet.
Surely there's something new we can do with these letters, said the Queen
REGALLY
- R
...we could ensconce them in the dungeon, like they was in a GALLERY...or make them cook for us...like they was in the
GALLEY .... or, we could go bowling ...
LATELY
- T
...to the bowling
ALLEY
LOVELY
O ---- > I
...probably, but if not, certainly
LIVELY
I was going to follow VERILY with some DRIVEL, but you snuck in ahead of me by some
DEVILRY
[ = SILVERY S-->D ]
DEVILRY
+ E
... but even so, I thought for sure you'd have gone with SLAVERY ...oh well, maybe in another 12 years we can look back on this ...
DELIVERY
DEVILTRY
V ---- > C
DIRECTLY
DIRECTLY perhaps, and yet quite slowly...
Y-->K
TRICKLED
TRICKLED away drop...by...lousy... drop.
I've been minus L
TRICKED.
I asked you for one hundred dollars but you only gave me
ninety-nine.
..bad checks.
TICKER
Drop C
KITER
Very, very good, Endy
TAWDRY
T > B
BAWDRY
BAWDRY
- R
BAWDY
Thank you! My apologies for going for a cheap one here ...and I confess I didn't know your word before now ..Good on ya
Always a good thing to avoid the obvious if possible. And FWIW, good for you, you've been doing that (avioding the obvious) a lot lately !
BLEARY
I like BARLEY, so it's good that this land is (if only BARELY)
Y-->A
ARABLE
More fun this way, and again Parable would be too obvious,so
ARABLE
+G
ALGEBRA
ALGEBRA
A ---- > D
..but it was
GARBLED
GABLED
G ---- > C
a certain number of Gables; sent to me from HQ in Europe; it was encrypted, and
CABLED
CABLED
after the explosion there was
C-->M
BEDLAM
(Well, I figured that was better than whitewashing the whole affair with BLEACH)
BEDLAM
M ---- > F
..revealed, and certainly never whitewashed(!), they'll nonetheless live on in legend and lore among the cognoscenti (in Dos Equis commercials if nowhere else) as ..
FABLED
FABLED
They should be
TABLED
because you all apparently miss my point.
I'll be more direct...
"Her doctor bill was one thousand dollars and I only had nine hundred and ninty-nine."
TABLED
D ---- > T
.. and if she paid this she'll get to call us in the AM after taking one
TABLET
Stay thirsty, my friends
BATTLED
T ---- > S
..but where were their horses
STABLED
stabledgabled, fabled, cabled whatevers
+F
FLATBEDS
...I'm (T-->A) AFRAID I do! Tomorrow is
T-->Y
FRIDAY !
FLATBEDS
B ---- > E
... I don't know how we headed to either word from the flatcars carrying all those past participles ...the effect on me is that it
DEFLATES
DEFLATES
L-->N
Oops. I must not have seen that there was a Next Page with several additional entries already on it when I Fridayd. I'll have to make sure my attention is more carefully FASTENED on the thread to its very end, next time.
OK now I got her, as I do that frequently.
It's a good thing it is Friday.(I had a post which I deleted
-hope it did not confuse.)
FASTENED
f > H
HASTENED
HASTENED
+ C
...having been deflated, I'm now
CHASTENED .... (and two mea culpas followed by mea max-- was the lead-in to the Confiteor's Ideo precor ... back in my halcyon days)
Remember them well...understood what you meant.
CHASTENED
-E
STANCHED
STANCHED
- H
..is he who
DECANTS
SCANNED
N ---- > O
..were ordinary, but also a couple of arch-
DEACONS
ENCODES
+ D
...
SECONDED (or, as the old song goes, it's that Emotion)
DOCKETED
D ---- > P
...where the bailiff went to jail, because of funds he'd
POCKETED
COMPETED
+ L
..but in the end most are
COMPLETED
...You really made me do it...
COMPLETED
T-->L
COMPELLED
Completed
T > L
COMPELLED
wofa, you beet me by 23 seconds, lucky you
POMMELLED
D ---- > R
..would be a
POMMELLER
(After a day of trying to solve this one, I can come up with only this..nice, Luke!)
POMMELLER
I think we can go forward after taking a half-step back to M-->C
COMPELLER
thanks, endy.
good one wofa.
I worked a couple hours, then got interrupted.
Nice to have a new viewpoint
COMPELLER
L > T
COMPLETER
COMPLETER
...to swap the R for a S, to get
COMPLETES ... which, I'm sorry to say, is the best I can come up with
Completes
s > d
COMPLETED
and we may be
COMPETE
P ---- > L
...TimeWarner, I continue to be amazed at the developing world of
TELECOM Nice, Luke ..thanks for your diligence...
...without breaking a few eggs
TELECOM
drop the C
OMELET
Omelet
O > D
MELTED
thanks endy, did not want to totally give up, but don't like
doing it that way, does not give you guys a chance.
MELTED
T ---- > D
..game was
MELDED
Speaking of chance, I was in two NCAA pools last year, required to use a nickname, so I went as Slim Chance and Evan 'Les' Chance; seemed appropriate ...
Good work, Slim, actually clever.
Melded
M > P
PEDDLE
Whatever it takes, Luke !
PEDDLE
D--A
LEAPED
PLEADED
D ---- S
...I'm very well
PLEASED
ELAPSES
E ---- T
pencil, pen&ink, but rarely with
PASTELS
PASTELS
S-->R
PLASTER
(lust so it's not from Paris)
ASPIRATE
- A
...was Terry & The ...
PIRATES
Was it Milton Gould? Or did he do Steve Canyon? Can't remember ...
Pirates
+A
PARASITE
Terry/Pirates was Milton Caniff as was Steve Canyon
SEPARATE
S ---- > K
PARAKEET
CRAPPER
C-->E
REPAPER
(and be sure to PREPARE the walls properly before applying)
REPAPER
- E
..I want to be a
RAPPER
Nome sa'in' ?
before I can get any louder:
RAPPER
R-->M
PRE-AMP
PRE-AMP
+ S
..in the adult-diaper category? There are Depends, and someday maybe
PAMPERS
Pre-meds
D > I (Just for you, Doc)
PREMIES
PREMIES
+ S
..deal with these; the resst of us just loiter around the
PREMISES
PROMISES, promises...
PROMISES
S ---- > D
..there was land we were
PROMISED
MORTISED
M ---- > P
RIPOSTED
POETISED
...It's no-T time!
EPISODE
EPISODE
E ---- > L
Hardly ..we're subtracting
DESPOIL
OPALISED (from DESPOIL + A)
O-->A
PALISADE
PALISADE
A ---- > R
..we were rolling, tumbling, and we
SPIRALED
PARADISE
- A
.. to speed a poor loser to the brink of
DESPAIR
Rarebit (good one!)
A > H
REBIRTH
REBIRTH ("Great idea!" says Walter Mitty)
I-->U
THURBER
THURBER
U ---- > O
When I saw the biretta, I felt we'd need our ARBITER, then someone BRATTIER, but now feel we need a FRANCISCAN or Dominican or Augustinian
BROTHER
BROTHER
- R
..to messy; hope my digression yesterday didn't cause you too much
BOTHER
BOTHER and then some:
R-->D
HOTBED of seething discontent...
BOATED
Drop T
ADOBE
(and if you decide to move in, it becomes your ABODE)
BODEGA
D ---- > Z
..of the backyard it'd be a
GAZEBO PS: I'm cringing, hoping I haven't put us in a small corner; I was too late with BATHED above, that I envisioned flowing to RATHER,FATHER, FEATHER, blah blah ... but where am I going with this one?! A thousand pardons ...
and here's the antidote
GAZEBO
G-->R
BEZOAR
BEZOAR
and Pretty, at that ...nice, Wofa! Well, I figured out where I was goin' ... instead of the dead-end I feared, we can actually head over to ... O ---- > G
ZAGREB
ZAGREB
so that we can watch the
BARGES on the river?
BARGES
G ---- > I
..beef there ...they know how to
BRAISE
ASCRIBE
No..only that over the years it's had a lot of
I ---- > K
BACKERS
BICKERS
B ---- > D
..come from one who
DICKERS
DOCKERS
D ---- > H
..or maybe it's decreasingly, do we see things that we'd think of as being a
SHOCKER
SNOOKER
O ---- > B
..I've been accused of being
BONKERS
NOBLER (Good one, Luke)
N ---- > W
BOWLER
bowler
thanks endy
B > F
FLOWER
FLOWER
F ---- > P
.... might be someone making $ as a
PLOWER
WHORLED
H-->B
BOWDLERFWIW - he may have published the expurgated
Family Shakspeare, but it was actually his sister who did the editing...
BOWDLER
W ---- > N
... may have deferred to one who was
BLONDER
REBOUND
B ---- > G
...by what that BOUNDER made them
UNDERGO
REDOUNDS
D ---- > S
... what the sea has to say are the
SOUNDERS
DOURNESS
delete Thurber's Wonderful O
UNDRESS
UNDRESS
+ I
... and ( the plural of )
SUNDRIES
SUNDRIES
Sun-dries? Aren't they a kind of raisin? Or tomato maybe?
(If'n it was "-ied" instead of "-ies" there'd be no question!)
N-->E
REISSUED
(If there's anything left over you'll even have RESIDUES.)
DEBRUISES
S ---- > D
..assuming there's a present tense for this, I'll bet there's a past-participle:
DEBRUISED
PS: I thought SUNDRIES to be more common than is apparently so... "all& sundry" ??? ; and as a collection of misc. items, it's a section in some dept. stores, or was at one time ... ????
REBRUISED
- S
..it was necessary that they be
REBURIED
Deburies, reburies, running in circles.
REBURIED
U ---- L
REBRIDLE
Just a stab ..I thought I had de rigueur, but the second 'u' ended that ...
BARRELED
R ---- A
...it was also
READABLE
BEARABLE
R ---- > T
unbeatable; implying, I guess, that there are others that are (tho' I've never heard anyone say they're)
BEATABLE
(Sorry; couldn't resist)
TAMEABLE
E-->L
MEATBALL
LAMBASTE
S ---- E
... where the Ndebele roam ...
MATABELE
MUTABLE
B ---- > E
... you always were my hero?
EMULATE
ATHLETE
+ Y
...introduce Ethyl
ETHYLATE
STEALTHY
L ---- M
...is my birthstone; I'll have to look it up ...
AMETHYST
amethyst
Y > O
HEMOSTAT
this up your alley, doc?
HEMOSTAT
H-->O is a fruitful change...
TOMATOES
tomatoes
-a
MOTTOES
md wannabee
MALTOSE
Is it going around in circles if I make A-->E
OMELETS ?
OMELETS
O ---- R
SMELTER
I was cut off entering STOMAL, and mention of it as a form of therapy got caught in the buttons ...
WRESTLE
T ---- D
..plus they SWELTER in the heat from their torches, headaches are routine for
WELDERS
living here in the Great American Desert I saw swelter right
away, but Wrestle took a modicum of work.
WELDERS
+A
LEADERS/DEALERS
LEADERS
E ---- > I
..is great, until they become dealers, and the whole thing
DERAILS
...and other adventures episodic
SLIDERS
D-->A
SERIALS
SERIALS
S ----> M
.. he'd sent to the wrong address, he
REMAILS it
AERIALS
E ---- > T
..might also be done with
LARIATS
...LARIATS
A-->E is a
REALIST
TRAILER
- R
..with the director's cut, if you buy the DVD
RETAIL
CATHARISES (P.S. Onelook.com says it's misspelled)
drop the H
STAIRCASE
SCARIEST
T ---- > N
.. aren't the only things with an edge ...
RACINESS PS: Wofa, thanks for the bailout ...closest I could get was CAESARISM, but no cigar ... nicely done
CATHARISES (P.S. Onelook.com says it's misspelled)
drop the H
STAIRCASE
so I see, I wish I could find which online dictionary I found
it in, but it totally slips me now. If we want to go back
that is OK by me. Sorry. I know it shows up on Anagrams
by Anu. But I prefer pencil and paper and brain work. It has
to be correct, right, after all it is on the computer? ANd
Anu should know.
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=catharises&t=1000&a=n
No problem with moving right along!
ACRIDNESS
drop the A
RESCINDS
REDESIGNS
+ P
.. can, to the creator of an 'original,' be
DEPRESSING
...doesn't cut down any letters yet but maybe it's a more flexible substrate going forward?
PREASSIGNED
G-->T
PEDESTRIANS
PEDESTRIANS
- A
...is a 'high-' one of these:
SPEEDTRAIN
If this is unacceptable, A->S yields a Tiger feature: STRIPEDNESS (likely equally unacceptable, but tries for recovery nonetheless)
both better than I could come up with.
SPEEDTRAIN
N > B
REBAPTISED
REBAPTISED
B ---- > C
..or are about to ...
PREDICATES
PREDICATES
drop one E
PRACTISED
SCRIPTED
S ---- > E
..when I feel worn out by old age ...
DECREPIT
decrepit
+A
PREDICATE
sorry: used a couple posts up
RECEIPTED
E-->D
PREDICTED
I said that already
RECEIPTED
T ---- > V
..and ease before eyes...
PERCEIVED
(Not what was PREDICTED !)
PREDICTED
- P
..as I was
DIRECTED
Sorry, I must have been on the wrong page, Mr Scorcese; can we do another take?
Isle, say!
REEDITED
I-->S
DESERTED
DESERTED
S ---- > R
..but
DETERRED
DEFENDER
F ---- > A
..Like Bambi, when I stood in your headlights, I was
ENDEARED
ENDEARED - I was thinking of the more modern "FRIENDED."
But be careful; it takes only a minimal change to make it into
E-->G
ENDANGER
ENGENDER
D ---- > I
...and effect
ENGINEER
ENGINEER
E-->W
RENEWING
(We could also make N-->Z ENERGIZE but I fear that would lead to a dead end. This might, anyway...)
RENEWING
W ---- > G
.. resorting to this word makes me feel as if I'm failing to follow suit &
RENEGING
RENEGING
N ---- > M
..that there was also GREENING, so maybe something other than wofa's feared dead-end may be
EMERGING
out of the greenery came the EMERGING
G-->T
REGIMENT
GRANITE
- I
..an INGRATE, when she didn't do handstands when given
...the tiny ring with the even tinier
GARNET
TANAGER
T ---- > M
..is a favorite
MANAGER .... which might lead us to a subject-line
manager (too easy)
+B
BARGEMAN
BARGEMAN
G ---- > K
... on the subway is the
BRAKEMAN ... I was usually happy with the gentleman's C, and I noted that I couldn't get you to take the 'A' ... nicely done!
MANDRAKE
M ---- > O
...and go right to the root of it ...where someone garbed in a heavy coat with a hood might be said to be
ANORAKED PS: I feel terrible about this ...All I've come up with is a lament
(O!ARIADNE, get us out of this labyrinth, that this word has made us unable to PARADE ON ... My sincere apologies ...from one in bedlam ...
Could the New Jersey Turnpike (and others of that ilk) be said to have six, or eight, or even ten
K-->L
ROADLANEs ?
'Cuz from there we could easily get to ADRENAL and onward.
ADRENAL
A ---- > E
.. something that I
LEARNED
..from reading Ring LARDNER ...Well done, wofa! Thank you ...
Ireland
I > A
ADRENAL
Sorry, not paying attention
BRINDLE
..port or starboard? ...
I thought about BRIDLE ... and then RELINED ...( which i declined)
but the haunting memory of my ANORAKED ( that was a stretch to begin with)
led me to conclude that my only option is
BLUNDER
BLENDER
B-->I
REDLINE
(In Boston the Red Line [of the MBTA subway] goes from Alewife to Mattapan or Braintree. There's also the Green Line, the Blue Line, and the Orange Line.)
RECLINED
R ---- > S
SILENCED
DECLINE
+C
LICENCED
We seem to be dancing in circles.
LICENCED
C ---- > S
..by going to the dmv rather than HRH's Admiralty of Motors that are
LICENSED ... after which we'll stay Mum on the subject 'til others INCLUDE us
LICENSE/LICENCE - One is a noun and the other is a verb, by Eastpondian custom. (I'm so smart because I looked it up last night.) But already I forget which is which.
Won't you have some more T -
STENCILED
TINSELED
L ---- > R
..house?
RESIDENT
PRESIDENT
D ---- > C
.... you who are
PRESCIENT
ENCIPHERS
H ---- > T
.. is subject to
INTERCEPTS
(or something like that)
INTERCEPTS
E-->O
INTROSPECT
INTROSPECT
- T
...it was Endeavour Morse was me fav'rite Deputy Chief
INSPECTOR
RECEPTION
C ---- > S
INTERPOSE
INTERPOSE
E --> out!
POINTERS
POINTERS
O ---- > L
SPLINTER
TERRAPIN
Drop one R
PAINTER
INEPTER
N-->L
REPTILE
(Yes, I know, and some of my best friends are politicians...)
RELATE
E ---- > T
... or roll, Mr Wm Haley & the rest of the Comets ask that you please at least
RATTLE
in the Grand Ballroom of the
add S
STATLER Hotel
STATLER
L ---- > E
...and if I did, I'm sure Conrad H would ask that I
RESTATE
RESTATE
R ---- > T
.. there's a way ...
TESTATE
ATTESTED
S ---- > R
...be torn and
TATTERED
TITTERED
T ---- > M
..by mail ..
REMITTED
REFITTED
Drop one E
FRITTED (For filtering out the fines you can't beat a fritted disc)
FRITTED
T ---- > L
..one's emotions ...
TRIFLED
TRIFLED (also, FLIRTED ?)
T-->E
FIELDER
You know, Snider in center, Furillo in right...those guys
FIELDER (also DEFILER)
E ---- > L
(and Jake Pitler coached third, with Pignatano in the bullpen)...
to many they were PRINCES ...but if they were unfrilled, the Yanks were as ruffled as it gets
FRILLED
RALLIED
R ---- > D
...but once upon a time in the Lake Country, Wordsworth
DALLIED
ALLIED
+ H
...(Son of Sam?) ... you need a haircut, said
DELILAH
CEDILLA
L ---- > M
...is that those who proclaim are often those who loudest
DECLAIM ... or so I claim
...at least, in binary system. Though mostly here we use
DECLAIM
add S
DECIMALS
(Luke: "CEDILLA" was neat!)
DECIMALS
S ---- > X
... we
CLIMAXED Bo, that's not Ravel's Pavane in the background; it's the other one
EXCLAIMED
X ---- > D
.. with conviction (or, if a chef, convection)
DECLAIMED
but claiming
C-->G
MIDDLEAGE
I'm too inertial to figure out the next step...
as I too am middle-aged, I've struggled with this ... and had hoped you'd have gone instead from DECLAIMED to MEDICATED .. which might have led to MEDICATES ... then ESTIMATED .. ESTIMATES ...TEAMSTERS ...REMASTERS ...STREAMERS ..STREAMER..
DREAMERS ..REMARKED .. and we could have EMBARKED ...
but may there be no sadness of farewell, milord Alfred ... if we wind up with MIDDLE-AGED or MIDDLE EAR or a medieval MIDDLE AGES ... as I am stumped
If I try to sharpen my knife and I do lousy job, is it now
- I
MALEDGED?
And does that help us in any way?
YO! it does:
maledged
-D
GLEAMED
sharp or not, you sure have the edge, Doc.
GLEAMED
E ---- > N
MANGLED
PS: Thanks for the bailout, Wofa ...and to both you & Luke for your patience
MANGLED
D-->E
MELANGE
(which has an elegant follow-up, if you can find it !)
...but you may need to
LINEAGE
I-->R
ENLARGE your vision.
(spoiler: MELANGE M-->T gives ELEGANT )
ENLARGE
L ---- > D
..when a GENERAL gets all the glory, I get
ENRAGED ... but don't think I'm loony enough to go off at Ft Hood like those who are D- ...- D
ENRAGED (or DERANGED, if you prefer)
add N (or D-->N; same outcome either way)
ENDANGER is the result
Irony: the two male shooting victims at the Jewish Comunity Center in Kansas yesterday, the grandfather and his grandson...were Methodists.
ENDANGER
N ---- > M
..to win it is an
ENDGAMER
I hadn't heard about that tragedy; it's out of control
speaking of animals, two steps gets us a MENAGERIE
C'est bon! Noah a dit, deux par deux (speaking of two-steps)
GENERATE
G ---- > V
..to pay respects to the holy of holies at this sacred time of year ..
so can't VENERATE ..I blame it on what would
ENERVATE
NAIVETE
E' ---- > S
..self-absorbed, but that shouldn't make him the
VAINEST
VAINEST
drop A
The entrepreneur was invited to look at our project wearing a new three-piece suit.
He said he would come in jacket and trousers, and INVEST.
INVEST
N ---- > R
... and that suit was held together by
RIVETS
STROVE
O ---- > Y
..stopped at the
VESTRY
VESTRY
V-->O
OYSTER
(You knew that was coming, didn't you...)
ORATES
+ N
..and rarely at a loss for words ... Sacre Bleu! It's the
SENATOR
TENORS
+ D
...and then the fat guy
SNORTED
RESOUND
O ---- > A
He did ...and he was more discrete, rather than discreet, about it...
ASUNDER
ENSUED
U-->W
SWEDEN, of course
ENDWISE
S-->Z
WIZENED, of course!
WIZENED
W .... > N
and, by the way, who's down there?
..nobody, but us Dweebs...and Chaz Dean, and then there's Paula with 2 e's(WhoGnu?) and the rest of us who just got off DasBoot from Zweden with Anna (the Aunt Zest-or? of Kris?) Christie)...don't say another word..we want to be alone
DENIZEN
This is a family Board, you know.
EBONIES
I-->C
OBSCENE
DEACONS
If at first you don't succeed, try
dropping the A
SECOND
(What's on}
ENCORE
E ---- > R
I don't know what's around the
CORNER
Well, almost everyone, anyway.
CORNIER
R-->C
PORCINE
...went "Whee!!" all the way home.
PORCINE
P ---- > F
who PINES for him/her ...
CONIFER
CONFIDER
Oh, the L with it!
CORNFIELD
(but I think we'd better start cutting down after this)
CORNFIELD
L ---- > M
CONFIRMED
CONFIRMED
C ---- > U
..said the one who was
UNIFORMED
Let's do it one at a time ...
FOUNDRIES
O ---- A
..are people who like to
FUNDRAISE
FUNDRAISE
- S
FREUDIAN
Hope I didn't send us down another dead-end strasse
FREUDIAN
E-->A to UNAFRAID might well be a dead end, but
drop A
UNFIRED is what my pots are before they go into the kiln
(at least they still have a job...)
FIGURED
U ---- > N
...that stuff on top was
FRINGED ... but when I thought FREUDIAN could go to UNFRIEND (what we do for FACEBOOK, apparently), then it was UNFIRED that would have been next
I thought UNFIRED was going to go to FRIEND,
and here FRINGED could go there too.
But who am I to point a FINGER at anybody?
The concept is (D-->O) FOREIGN to me.
FOREIGN
O ---- > E
.. for foreign shores, If to shore they were keeping, would their sails be
REEFING
Sidebar? ...Is one who FEIGNS a FEIGNOR?, asked the cagy lady in the PEIGNOIR
TREEING
One firecracker is an INTEGER. How do we light it? With an
E-->I
IGNITER
GRANITE
A ---- > S
...they made me go on stage when I thought I should have been
RESTING ... but then a bee got in to my dressing room ...ooh!
...they made me go on stage when I thought I should have been
RESTING ... but then a bee got in to my dressing room ...ooh!
N ---- > A
...which made your performance much
STAGIER
STAGIER
A ---- > U
..your clever riposte, it'd've been TRAGIC ...alas! I'll have to (in Dowson's phrase) go with the wind ... even when it gets
GUSTIER (tho' that's a coward-ly --and less gutsy -- way out!)
GUTSIER
I've been sitting in the same place far too long and I'm
E-->N
RUSTING
RUSTING
+ T
..sounds like you were like Practical Pig, thinking your Heavy Metal garb would stave off all the elements ... but you were too
TRUSTING
NATURIST
T ---- > B
Calcutta and New Delhi was a turbanned
URBANIST
URBANIST
B ---- > C
as opposed to a
RUSTICAN
RUSTICAN
A ---- G
..into the recycling bin, but they tossed it back, 'cuz the rust was so hard it was
CRUSTING (This might have put us into a bit of recycling as well, but it's all I can come up with ...I see trusting, et al., above...???)
STEEPING
T ---- > W
..makes a change
SWEEPING
-S / or/ -W
your choice
SEEPING/WEEPING
I'll pick the W to drop
SEEPING
E-->O
PIGEONS
EPIGONE
P-->R
IGNOREE
(I just made up the word}
ignoree
e>s
I just unmade the word you made up.
SIGNORE
SIGNORE
S ----> F
...a word that is
FOREIGN
FOREIGN
- F
...but from which
REGION Ciao, J-J!
...but from which
REGION
N ----> G
From REGGIO Calabria.
REGGIO
O ---- > B
..Here's another: Calabria or Piemontese; which is
BIGGER
BIGGER
G-->D
Is there a BRIDGE between the two?
BRIGADE
- I
..GARBED in red ..courageous!
BADGER
BARBED
or, having a
drop a B
BEARD
(That is what a "barber" takes care of, isn't it?)
ABRADE
A ---- > B
..or maybe a 'B.' Get my cushioned
DABBER
URBANE
E ---- > T
Paris, you may be a BANKER; in Nancy, or beyond the Marais, you might wear a
TURBAN
...but I played hooky
TURBAN
B-->T
TRUANT
RATTAN
N ---- > R
.. I think it's rare.
To find a mon who likes his beef
TARTAR .. with an e, unlike as in the e-namel on those yellowed teeth; if it's not cooked well, that Tartan tartare gets a Highland fling
RATTAN
a>y
Beating children with canes just because they are wild brats is the stuff of a
TYRANT
RETYPE
E ---- > T
...Julie Andrews? I feel...
PRETTY ...Oh, so ...
I know, not allowed. But it's so
PRETTY...
T-->AX (the rushin' two-step)
...>APTERYX<...
(PS It was Natale Wood, not Julie Andrews, who felt so
PRETTY)
POTTERY
Y ---- > E
..and your mind is in a
TREETOP
PS: Thanks for the Natalie Wood correction..I think JA did a tribute album yrs later.Must have been how I got confused..couldn't be I'm just losin' it ...Nah!!!
PROTECT
C ---- > N
...it's ominous out there ...
PORTENT
or maybe a cigarette at the Folk Festival
PORTENT
T-->W
NEWPORT
NEWPORT
W ---- > D
..inous?
PORTEND
PORTEND
- E
..outta here!
DEPORT
REPORT
P ---- > T
...provoke a
RETORT
You'd best ask me politely please. Otherwise if you
REPORT
me to the authorities I will
RESORT to snitching. And tell them about your everyday off-the-wall behavior.
ROOSTER
- O
..sports the highest-paid
ROSTER
STORABLE
T ---- > B
BELABORS
SLOBBERS
S ---- > B
..coordination issues
BOBBLERS
PS: Would a shortstop causing a replay-review transferring the ball before a throw to first, costing his team the playoffs, still get a bobble-head doll?
BABBLERS
B ---- > O
..too many bees hovering; becoming preoccupied ...
BELABORS
BELABORS
B ---- > T
STORABLE
STORABLE
O ---- > E
..can be like little lambs ... the
BLEATERS
BLEATERS
drop the A
TREBLES
Not surprising that the little lambikins have high-pitched voices. Although it would be interesting if we had some basses for comparison...
TREBLES
E ---- > U
..and down the valley with BRAVADO ...too many of those lambs follow their leader, and jump off the CLEF (OUCH!) ...
BLUSTER ...It's Howdy Doody time ...
BLUSTER (was that Phineas T, or his kindly old brother Phileas [was it "Q"?])
B-->D
STRUDEL
RESULTED
T ---- > P
REPULSED
PRECLUDES
C ---- > A
PLEASURED
...PRECLUDES
D-->H gives
SEPULCHRE
and once PLEASURED came back to haunt us
U-->D
RELAPSED
DEALERS
L ---- > N
.. at the crypt, missing a SEPULCHRE (I should be so lucky downstream )to no one me
ENDEARS ... a thousand pardons ..I'll try to do better when I grow up...failing this outfit's LEADERS can be quite an ORDEAL..but, if I'd done SEPULCHRE, our task might have been HERCULEAN ...All I can think of is the quote: I looked down into my open grave, and became a profile in courage
DERANGE
the american way
must expect patriotic Americans to be
ENRAGED. -
-
DERANGE
the French way
must expect patriotic Frenchmen to call a
+ M
GENDARME
GENDARME
E ---- > I
...each typed page had to be equally
MARGINED
MAGNET
M ---- > R
GARNET Seems to me I've heard this song before ...it's from an
GARNET Seems to me I've heard this song before ...it's from an
That's almost STRANGE...
- - - - -
TONNAGE
Sophocles playfully said we should add an I
ANTIGONE
ANTIGONE
T ---- > C
AIN'T -'E- GONE yet? He's goin' now..boatin' he is ...
CANOEING
PS: The playful Greek reference was terrific!
LEGATION
E ---- > B
canoeing, sailing ..what's the difference ...As long as we're
BLOATING ...that'll put you over the edge (of the craft) ...
Sorry, it put me on the wrong page again, and I noticed it a bit late ...caught up now
(among other things)
BLOATING
G-->A
ABLATION
ABLATION
A ---- > U
ABLUTION
JOBATION
O-->S
BANJOIST
And if there isn't such a word, there should be.
OBTAINED
B ---- > N
..when one becomes the chosen one .. so
ANOINTED
INNOVATED
N ---- > C
It may have been archaic when we did it, but we said the prayer at the banquet's start anyway ...
INVOCATED
so I went to the seashore
INVOCATED
add A
VACATIONED
- - -removal of hair has me lost
DECALVATION
C ---- U
DEVALUATION
..or your patience. I wish I had gone with DEVIATION above, instead of INVOCATED.
I've come up with 8 variations emanating from DEVALUATION (besides the obvious D --> R, that may not move us farther anyway) ... but all involve two-step maneuvers:
ADULATION ANTEDILUVIAN DEFALCATION DEVOLUTION DEVOTIONAL
INVALIDATE VALIDATION VALEDICTION ...
hope someone else is faring better ... ?????????
DEVALUATION
Vestal is as vestal does - and we presume they were all
drop an A
UNVIOLATED
(think brand new parking meters...)
Hmm...maybe I don't get this game, Endy.
Are you saying that you won't use
DEVALUATION D to R because
REVALUATION might be to difficult for others?
Or are you trying to preclude others from using it?
...or because it's too obvious. There's nothing elegant about it.
unviolated
V > C
INOCULATED
INOCULATED
O ---- > C
...I kept telling them, my name is Rote, Harry Rote, Jr., and I wear RayBan, not Oakley
...even after it gets dark ...
INCULCATED
CULMINATED
C ---- > F
and I'm gun shy because everyone
FULMINATED
CULMINATED
Drop the T
UNCLAIMED
(translation: you read my mind)
Now to figure out where to go from here...
MEDICINAL
E ---- > O
DOMINICAL
PS: Wha' hoppen'd? Were we hacked into? It took me a good while to find this again, and I wasn't wearing shades!
Did you miss yesterdays'?
L > N
DOMINICAN
I logged in a couple of times; first, seemed normal except for a couple of crazy posts (from xyz...123etc???) about Oakley gibberish. Later, tho', there were about a hundred posts between the links for Wordplay & Anagrams IX ... seemed to be the same subject but without reference to the sender (the x-y-z #'s from China that I'd seen earlier)... so, paging thru them to try to find Ana/IX took forever ...
Seems as if it's back to normal now, so let's hope it stays that way ...Thanks, Luke!
see the announcement today under notes and
announcements. Anu has cleaned up the site and
requiring approval before xyzzzz654321 can join
again. There were over 1000 posts by him/her/them
yesterday. Took me a long time to delete them.
400+ the day before. Should be a while before
we see advs for Oakley sunglasses again.
all the way West, across the Pacific to the Philippine Islands
DOMINICAN
drop C
MINDINAO (alt. sp. "Mindanao")
So take note.
MINDINAO
eye to tee Your
MINDNOTA is all the history that you've got.
ANOINTED
D -> G
NEGATION
Two roads not taken:
-- MINDINAO -> AMNIONIC -> CINNAMON -> NONMAGIC
-- MINDNOTA = DOMINANT -> ANTIMONY -> ANTONYM
NEGATION
- E
...said ANTIGONE ...Tell Creon & the rest we're all going to be
ATONING
ANCIENT
I -> S
from the very old to the brand-new
NASCENT
NASCENT
- N
..and go to Innisfree...
ASCENT
somehow nobody now refuses (acknowledgements to W S Gilbert)
ASCENT
C -> S
ASSENT
ASSENT
N ---- L
.. was assured by the girl wearing the
TASSEL
PASSEL
P ---- > H
...and not the 'list' variety
HASSLE
sold by the seashore
HASSLE
A -> L
SHELLS
(sometimes sold not by the seashore but rather by the bushel)
SHE'LL
L ---- > A
...but maybe not 'til she feels better; when she
HEALS
Makes very little difference. The tiniest of differences, actually. Arbitrarily small, one might say.
LASHED
H -> T
DELTAS
DELTAS
D ---- > X
...her wounds were SALTED ...now, it's her perseverance that one
EXALTS
TREBLES
E ---- > A
..a boom box is a kind of
BLASTER
BLASTER
B ---- > P
...'cause there's nothing I shall want
PSALTER
BLUSTER
- B
..it shall have lost its
LUSTER ...but what's that in the bushes..thought I heard a RUSTLE
LUSTER
L ---- > N
.. what was the RESULT? A lot of
UNREST
My guitar sounds off-key; pardon me while I
RETUNE
RETUNE
Wasn't it plunk your magic twanger, Froggy? Hiya, Kids..Hiya, Hiya...Billy Gilbert???
Also, there was a lady named Bethune around that time, who has 0 to do with this ...
other than her surname almost fit ... anyway ...an E for an A is second
NATURE to me now ...like looking out & looking in ...
NATURE
E -> S
SATURN
(What do you call a denizen of the moon Titan? It's a "SATURNALIAN," of course!)
SATURN
- A
... if it weren't for that N, I'd have called that A TURN for the WURST ... and if NATUS weren't in Latin, your alien just outside of Saturn'd be a born-ag'in SIN-TAUR ...as it is, we'll just round up the li'l-un's out-the-back ...
RUNTS
RUNTS
T ---- > E
..if it's love among the (ouch!)
RUNES
ENSURE
U ---- > T
..I resemble that remark! ...
RESENT
You have nothing to lose but your scales.
PRESENT
sdd S
SERPENTS
SERPENTS
S ---- > D
...I was trying to think of a nice gift for that new couple, Adam&Eve...but they don't like anyone who
PRETENDS
PRETENDS
drop the T
"Hey, big SPENDER,
Spend a little dime on me!"
For extra credit - what product had that jingle? "I'm today's new ..."
(I thought I did this hours ago, but I don't see it. Grrr. Must have previewed it but not submitted it. Again.)
SPENDER
P ---- > L
..wouldn't hardly 'as made 'im this, wou'd i't now ...
SLENDER
ENDLESS
L ---- > R
..as there are
SENDERS
LENDERS
L -> D and we're off to
DRESDEN
(Maybe I should have said "we're off to China!")
DRESDEN
N ---- I
Such a voyage is immer to be
DESIRED
DESIRED
D -> R
SERRIED
(As in
"...Her warriors in serried ranks assembled
Never quail (or they conceal it if they do)
And I shouldn't be surprised is nations trembled
Before the mighty troops, the troops of Titipu!"
-- The Mikado, Act I)
REFRiED/FERRIED
R -> L
FIELDER
FIELDER
- E
...they went through all of those drawers in the Prince's desk, when it was
RIFLED
FURLED
F ---- > C
..we put away those sails, but kept alert, tho' on ice, pushing a stone 'til we
CURLED ...or did we CURDLE?
CURLED
L -> T
Not with voice so sweet, with tone so
DULCET
DULCET
L ---- > D
..1040?
DEDUCT
CAYUSE
C -> N
UNEASY
(Funny how you can go from here to both NAUSEA and QUEASY...)
I think that you are more than
UNEASY
I think you are getting
N > Q
QUEASY
QUEASY
Y ---- > R
..kids used to be considered
SQUARE ...but there was more at the root of it
Hey, Luke..glad you're better..hope this choice of words doesn't bring a relapse
A SQUARE
a>i
was always there to be my
SQUIRE
SQUIRE
+ E
..an honorific is added to each name ...no guarantees about magazine covers, tho'
ESQUIRE
ESQUIRE
Q -> S
Publish it again, please:
REISSUE
(jj: It doesn't just go to QUEASY. Highlight the bottom half of my UNEASY post...)
the pompous law graduates who required the pomp term
ESQUIRE were, after intensive
-> <-
QUERIES years later, were found to be in jail.
Dang, Wofa...now I guess you'll find wrong is my use of "QUERIES"
QUEERS
a nicer word might be
r>n
QUEENS
QUEENS
E -> I
SEQUIN
(What, me? See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, is my motto. Unless, of course, it suits the purpose...I'll just squiggle around and see if I can steer us to REISSUE again from the back door!)
SEQUIN and/or REISSUE
At ease ...smoke 'em if you got 'em ...
I'd add a T or deduct the U ...
Unless we need an
INQUEST ... to see which word is the last in the SERIES ...then it's Left Face ... and you, Private ...it's your other left ...
INQUEST + O makes...
Just what was the QUESTION again?
QUESTION
Just an honest answer is all that we are
o>g
QUESTING
QUESTING
Q ---- > G
GUESTING
SAUTEING
U -> R
TANGIERS
I think we've been here before...
TANAGERS
...that I'm to swap the T for an M ...giving
MANAGERS ...and the next line on the script goes to ...
MANAGERS
E -> D
GRANDMAS
Take a bow, ladies!
GRANDPAS
S ---- > I
...we'll have the whole troupe
PARADING
PARADIGM
P ---- > L
..love song, coming down in 3-part harmony
MADRIGAL
DIAGRAM
G ---- > L
Aye, aye, Sir ...
ADMIRAL (I used to love diagramming, but compound/complex could get really com-plicated!)
I was good at it but did not much like it.
L > D
BARMAID
BARMAID
D ---- > M
Strike up the band, Senor ...
MARIMBA
MARIMBA
drop I
RAMBAM
Moses Maimonides I think he was, a thousand years ago (give or take)
RAMBAM
- R
A snake in the grass, or a snake up a tree?
MAMBA
MAMBA
drop an M
'BAMA
(When Harvard beat Yale 29-29 in 1968, was that another "CRIMSON TIDE" ? )
BABA
..Great god of bubbling cups and chirping mirth ...
who no doubt inspired Baba au rhum, and maybe even my fave's ABBA ('tho' I didn't care for all of their rhyme schemes! ) ...but for other pursuits we'll pursue B --> L
BAAL ..and, as for the other BABA, she'll be ba-a-a-a-ck ...
+S
BA'ALS
and their Ashteroth
BA'ALS
- A
...wasn't their altar a mere
SLAB
HAULS
U ---- > W
...I shall, until stooped over with shoulders wrapped in a
SHAWL
WHALES
S ---- > T
... is one definition of
WEALTH
LATHE
A ---- > Y
..down at the gas station? I think her name is
ETHYL
y > O
Now she works as a call-in maid at the Blue Moon
HOTEL
LOATHE
H ---- > Z
..life-long loafer suddenly becomes a
ZEALOT
OBLATE
B ----- > G
..and the priests at St Joseph's Oblate Sem. in Pittston,PA ...the world's best treat is an ice cream cone from a place on the Ile de-la-Cite' in Paris, heavenly
GELATO
GELATO
o>e
As a self-elected
LEGATE
of this board I am duty bound not to.
BEAGLE
E ---- > D
...was seven-times
GABLED
BELUGA
G ---- > B
for some, the cachet that for others exudes from a
BAUBLE
I can't do that !
BAUBLE
B > N
UNABLE
TENABLE
T ---- > D
..is that I could have gone from BELUGA to BAUBLE or BANGLE ...a few panels back;
I'd been unwittingly Kismet-
ENABLED
LEADEN
L ---- >N
..among others
ENNEAD
...Towers of Ilium, Arma virumque cano and all that
ENNEAD
N -> I
AENEID
BEANED
B ---- > M
..should not be done to it, in hortatory or any other subjunctive...and that's my peroration...so do not hector this tongue, or it otherwise
DEMEAN I mean, Quae cum ita sint, Catilinae ...
DEMEAN
drop E
AMEND
I'll be AFK for the next few days- my wife has a 50th College Reunion and I'm going to play second fiddle and carry the bags...
Have a quiet and a safe Memorial Day remembrance, all, and a good week.
AMEND
A ---- > E
EMEND
Enjoy your trip ..and be careful totin' those bags!
EMEND
add a
And try not to
DEMEAN your run of stellar word manipulations.
MENACED
M ---- > C
..and what I learned to count at Ft Benning
CADENCE
CADENCE
c > f
At Ft. Benning they taught Endy to march foward while counting.
While over in England they teach aggressive
DEFENCE
CADENCE
c > f
At Ft. Benning they taught Endy to march foward while counting.
While over in England they teach aggressive
DEFENCE
the word is
FENCEDIf you don't like this thread ; START YOUR OWN, JJ.
FENCED
C ---- > D
..a promontory from which to
DEFEND
DEPEND
D ---- > E
... I feel this one will
DEEPEN
CADENCE
c > f
At Ft. Benning they taught Endy to march foward while counting.
While over in England they teach aggressive
DEFENCE
the word is
FENCEDIf you don't like this thread ; START YOUR OWN, JJ. I'm sorry, Luke. Bless your heart, I did not intentionally post out of order.
Good-bye. I promise not to post replies to your game again. - Jenny
BEEPED
B ---- > S
SEEPED
Believe it or not, I once heard someone say that she reacted when someone else BEPT his car horn
SPEEDED
E ---- > N
..many times over the years: Well, that
DEPENDS
DEFENDS
- S
..best I can do, but will at least give us some options ..
FENDED
NEEDING
- E
..unpredictability ..I thought you'd have gone to FINGERED ..so I'll bring this to its
ENDING
PENDING
P ---- > L
..their ears to him be
LENDING
either (take your pick):
+E: NEEDLING/ +B: BLENDING
NEEDLING N ---- > R
..for years! Thanks for providing a choice ...John Barth long ago wrote advice to reluctant decision-makers...Use Sinistrality,Antecedence, or Alphabetical Priority (meaning Choose whichever came first, or by letter of the alphabet, or ...in this case, the one on the left) ... and those thoughts with me have long
LINGERED
LINGERIE
- I
..wide shut? They'd better be shut. Else, you'd be accused of
LEERING