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Post by Phalon on Mar 1, 2005 1:51:20 GMT -6
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage." Alexander Pope
Muse
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 1, 2005 1:55:00 GMT -6
Wow that was a good one....
To muse and brood and live again in memory, With those old faces of our infancy Heaped over with a mound of grass, Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass! ATTRIBUTION: Alfred Tennyson
brood
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Post by Phalon on Mar 1, 2005 8:42:14 GMT -6
Brood. A homonym to broad. Tack on an ending of one to the other, and give the other a whole new meaning. Broadband becomes Broodband - the Jackson Five. Broadcast changes to broodcast - a movie starring the Sheens. Broad-jump...brood-jump, as in "If your sister jumped off the bridge, would you follow just because she did it first?"
homonym
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 1, 2005 22:01:54 GMT -6
Ok... you've got me. For the first time I have absoulutely nothing to put up here.......dang! Good job!
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 1, 2005 23:49:47 GMT -6
Homonym... To quote the dictionary: "One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning..."
The prisoner sat in his cell, studying the structure of DNA in hopes of finding a way to prove that no cell of his was found at the scene of the crime.
Cell
Skip me if I screwed it up...
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Post by guru on Mar 2, 2005 2:18:25 GMT -6
Some people don't believe in DNA. You try to explain it, and they say, "What bill of goods are you trying to sell me?"
(cell : sell)
Sell
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Post by Phalon on Mar 2, 2005 2:22:03 GMT -6
She sells seashells by the seashore. Dang, I could barely type that.
tongue-twister
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 2, 2005 14:50:55 GMT -6
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled......peck..uh peppers..lol Thought I was going there didn't you?
peppers
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Post by eirene on Mar 2, 2005 15:44:29 GMT -6
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Post by xengab on Mar 2, 2005 16:06:39 GMT -6
To hot for me.
hot
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Post by eirene on Mar 2, 2005 16:32:26 GMT -6
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Post by xengab on Mar 2, 2005 16:48:59 GMT -6
To hot to handle
handle
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Post by eirene on Mar 2, 2005 17:14:38 GMT -6
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Post by xengab on Mar 2, 2005 17:42:33 GMT -6
Deal the cards.
cards
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Post by eirene on Mar 2, 2005 17:50:10 GMT -6
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 2, 2005 23:21:17 GMT -6
Play that rock and roll!
rock
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 3, 2005 0:08:06 GMT -6
A rock hard steady...
Steady
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Post by Phalon on Mar 3, 2005 8:06:11 GMT -6
"Why, I hold fate Clasp'd in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea." John Ford
Ebbing
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 4, 2005 0:05:48 GMT -6
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side, on the ebbing tide, We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then. Langdon Smith
tadpole
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2005 0:12:32 GMT -6
pollywog...as in pollywog a cracker? Parrot is just a tadpole hungry right now.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 4, 2005 0:33:17 GMT -6
uh huh...so which word are you picking then? lol
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2005 1:27:33 GMT -6
pollywog...as in pollywog.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 4, 2005 1:59:45 GMT -6
Are you sure it's not cracker...as in cracker?
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2005 2:11:02 GMT -6
No, because cracker as in cracker would just be redunant.
Saltine.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 4, 2005 2:14:44 GMT -6
Like polywog wasn't...reminds me of a little poem I heard when I was a kid. Let me get some saltines while I try to remeber.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?
fuzzy
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2005 2:21:19 GMT -6
And pollywog has two Ls, as fuzzy has two Zs. Or it can also be spelled polliwog, with an i, instead of y, but never with a single L.
spell
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 4, 2005 2:23:39 GMT -6
Just couldn't resist correcting my spelling at least once this evening could you?....oh well....
correct
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2005 9:18:42 GMT -6
Yes, my dear Ms. Spell. Always ready for a corerection, though never prematurely, preferring instead things to come out satisfactorily in the long haul.
Wait, did I misspell something here?
misspell.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 4, 2005 21:16:02 GMT -6
Misspell... Is that like, when a witch makes a mistake with an incantation?
Incantation
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Post by Phalon on Mar 5, 2005 22:50:22 GMT -6
"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguised hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind." Percy Bysshe Shelley
verse
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