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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on February 12, 2012, 09:21:31 AM
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Good Ones:
More-than-one-hit Wonder STEVIE
How actors should appear ONCUE
It’s opened and shut DOOR
Calvary letters INRI [the mount, not soldiers]
Theme: phrase when ISH is added changes its meaning
Put Armor All on tires? BURNISHRUBBER
Display that’s both tasteful and ostentatious? REFINEDFLOURISH
Hold a surprise party for Scorcese? ASTONISHMARTIN
By the Way:
Abbr. in old dates BCE [don’t know what is “common” about the “era” or whether the succeeding one is uncommon --- it seems those who use the expression resent Christ as being so significant to Western Civilization that he divides the ages of man]
OSSA is famous in our language because Shakespeare used it in “to mount Ossa on Pillion” meaning to make matters worse.
Speaking of the Bard, I taught Macbeth years ago and didn’t know in what scene the dagger “appeared.” :-[
Like an extra sock ODD [I see the sock not as an extra but as evidence that its mate is missing. :D]
Who knew?:
EMUS lay green eggs
Some Nits to Pick:
GAI, SEIS are foreign words unused in our language
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