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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on February 10, 2013, 10:15:30 AM
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THEME: Intrusive FL in phrases yielding humorous ones
GOOD ONES:
Salutation to an out-of-shape friend? DEARFLABBY [still laughing]
Turkeys no one knows about? COVERTFLOPS [turkeys can mean bombs or flops]
Mobile phone site? Abbr. ALA [city of Mobile]
Flower bed wetter RAIN [my last thought, of course]
Nuclear family? ATOMBOMBS
Big wheel in delis GOUDA
Common quality? SENSE [not as common as one may hope]
BTW:
LLB is not issued in the U.S. For some reason we went from Bachelor's degree to Doctoral, yet we don't call lawyers doctors.
I read Macbeth closely and yet don't recall his burial at IONA. Perhaps in real life...
Excessively fond of PARTIALTO ["partial to" does not connote excess; perhaps that is why "partial" has "part" as a root]
Parts of darts FLIGHTS [seems tortured --- to dart is to move quickly and suddenly while flight can be an escape or air travel --- in either case flight does not seem part of a dart --- or is there a meaning of flight synonyomus with feather?
RATING: ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
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I read Macbeth closely and yet don't recall his burial at IONA. Perhaps in real life...
Or in real death; wiki says his burial was at Iona -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth,_King_of_Scotland
Parts of darts FLIGHTS [seems tortured --- to dart is to move quickly and suddenly while flight can be an escape or air travel --- in either case flight does not seem part of a dart --- or is there a meaning of flight synonyomus with feather?
This page (http://dartsinfoworld.com/about-darts/the-darts/) says that a "flight" is a part of a dart (the tail end).
The "flight" of a dart is also described in this youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4Y6YUWMSA).
Never heard of it myself. Seems a bit technical, but valid.
- Marya
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Thanks, Marya.