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Title: Sun., 3/29 Melanie Miller
Post by: magus on March 29, 2015, 10:22:49 AM
THEME:   EW inserted into random phrases creating odd ones
   
GOOD ONES:
Title:  ICK FACTOR {ew}   
Powerful Persian bloodline?   MEWING DYNASTY [the Persian is a cat]   
Beginning of Christmas?   CEE   
Hardly a pick-up expert   SLOB [she doesn't pick up after herself]   (is this sexist? I'm not using masculine pronouns for neuter nouns)   
Summers in China?   ABACI [sums = adds]   
Shaker unit   GRAIN [I thought furniture style]   
Told too much   OLD [that is, too often told]   
   
BTW:   
Want more   PREFER [much too far afield: preference does not suggest quantity]   
   
Castaway's signal   FLARE [only if he's stranded and happens to have one; I'd go with "Emergency signal" or "Elan homonym"]   
   
Wise men   MAGI [my fellow genii] :)   
   
"Wanna bet?"   YES IT IS  [No it isn't; bets do not presume a positive or negative]   
   
Bothersome   PESTY [I had PESKY, and I'm right; pesty is substandard]   
   
Cher's "Burlesque" role   TESS [sad that a great literary character is passed over for a cheesy movie role]   
   
RATING: ;D ;D   
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun