"brandy sniffers" Aaaaargh! Maybe the end is near... -gailr I think so too, for the same reason, and here's one that drives me wild, ".... 3am in the morning." lol Of course it was. Kt do they hire beagles(airport dogs) to sniff out brandy these days? or maybe it's still Saint B...

im·pe·cu·ni·ous (mp-kyn-s) adj. Lacking money; penniless. See Synonyms at poor. [in-1 + pecunious, rich (from Middle English, from Old French pecunios, from Latin pecnisus, from pecnia, money, wealth; see peku- in Indo-European roots).] impe·cuni·ous·ly adv. impe·cuni·ous·ness, impe·cuni·osi·ty (-s...

today I was reminded, by hearing myself, that there is a phrase "good of a" as in "I don't care all that much but it's really not that good of a paint job" Awkward to the max already, it's usually rendered down further to gudova, or worse gooda. suggestions? bricks? Kt A propos o...

I can't hear me using this word, ever, but hey it's out there iffen I need it.

Kt
no one would know what I was saying if I said my garden was verdant and pullulating with floral pulchritude.

Sapient sa-pi-ent adjective :: Wise; sage; discerning. "This, of course, brought down an avalanche of suppositions, flooded with the sapient arguments of the two officials, who sent back and forth to each other a wearisome flood of nonsense." --de Balzac, Honore sa·pi·ent (sp-nt) adj. Hav...

chi·can·er·y (sh-kn-r, ch-) n. pl. chi·can·er·ies 1. Deception by trickery or sophistry. 2. A trick; a subterfuge. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All right...

three times today I heard it pronounced Valentimes day, is it that hard to say?

Kt

Tim, 20,000 Leagues under the sea? actually it's three feet not miles, at sea it's knots not miles anyway. It's not perfect oc,

Kt

Larry, I thought that also, but checking the responses to the brain teasers I see that the tests are made up by very young people. I think Elite and League aren't that hard if you pick an easier of the two clues to unravel. Flam, it's lean....

Kt
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Many of our everyday words have more than one meaning. Below are eleven pairs of definitions. Both definitions in each pair fit the same word. When read down, the first letters of the eleven answers will spell out the name of a beloved TV celebrity. 1. Spend time idly or bread unit 2. Worker's orga...

[quote]ro·tis·se·rie (r-ts-r) n. 1. A cooking device equipped with a rotating spit on which meat or other food is roasted. 2. A shop or restaurant where meats are roasted to order. http://www.felpausch.com/Deli/images/ROTISSERIE.jpg this image just happens to come from our local grocery store, I goo...

Five words that contain AB as a letter-pair have had all of their other letters removed and placed into a pool. Put those letters back in their proper places. What are the words? -AB--, ---AB, AB----, AB-----, -AB---- Pool: C, E, E, I, I, I, L, L, N, P, Q, R, S, S, T, T, T, U, U, Y from http://www....

thanks, I hadn't seen that one.

Kt

I'm so sorry you are down, BD. I wish I had a funny joke to tell you. oh actually I do... A tree hugger bought a nice big forest and she went out to check it out. She climbed the biggest tree to see her whole domain. At the top a spotted owl attacked her so she slid down the tree to get away, unfort...

rooster
salt lion????
Giraffe
Alligator
rhinoceros

to use an anagram server is cheating when we are doing a 'brain' teaser, I'm afraid I couldn't get the other one. my poor brain just can't cope.

Kt
amended to put in stallion