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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on February 05, 2012, 09:55:56 AM
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Undercover Copse [not COPS but a grove]
:)
Theme: 12 trees hidden in phrases: BALSA, LIME, LEMON, TEAK, FIR, FIG, ELM, ASH, PINE, OAK, PECAN, YEW --- impressive!
Record holder? EXCON
Piece keeper HOLSTER
Athletic supporter? TEE
It’s in an old way TIS [without the comma it’s tough to see right off]
Mysterious character RUNE
Giant sound FUM [as in “Fi, Fie, Fo, Fum…”]
;) Mark must like the italianate: St. NICOLA [Peltz]; PAISANO; Mamma MIA [Farrow?]
??? “Baloney!” PSHAW [never understood this interjection {onomatopoeia?} since I never heard anyone say it --- I’ve only read it]
Who knew:
ELEANORA Fagan was Billie Holiday?
MIB was a marble [I thought it was the game, not a specific one --- is this correct?]
:(
“Stupid me” DOH [should be DUH]
Twice cinq DIX [I'd go with Dorothea or the fort]
RATING: ;D ;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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DOH is good - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'oh!
It's a Homerism :)
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Doh! Guess I'm just hep; I'd know a Spoonersim when I saw one but not hip enough to know a Homerism --- which I'm confident is from the TV show The Simpsons. I am rather well-versed, however, in the niceties of The Jersey Shore, The Jerry Springer Show, and Gilligan's Island. ::)