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Henny Penny

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Re: Henny Penny

#881 Post by animist » September 15th, 2014, 2:34 pm

Latest post of the previous page:

futtock shroud buttock loud?

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#882 Post by Tetenterre » September 16th, 2014, 2:01 pm

Yay!

Your go.
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#883 Post by Tetenterre » September 18th, 2014, 2:38 pm

Hey, animist, are you stuck for one?
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#884 Post by animist » September 18th, 2014, 4:24 pm

Tetenterre wrote:Hey, animist, are you stuck for one?
am I stuck for one after being stuck on one for so long? :smile: Well, in the euphoria of finally getting it (after a futtocking long time) I have dreamed up several goodish ones, usually while in bed, then forgotten them. Anyway, if you have another, go ahead! Maybe just a leetle bit easier this time tho'?

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#885 Post by Tetenterre » September 19th, 2014, 2:34 pm

Yup, "futtock" makes a marvellous expletive, not least because people think that I've sworn when I haven't. :D


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#886 Post by animist » September 19th, 2014, 3:10 pm

Tetenterre wrote:Yup, "futtock" makes a marvellous expletive, not least because people think that I've sworn when I haven't. :D


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sentimental ?entimental? (ie I cannot think of a rhyming word for sentimental)

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#887 Post by Tetenterre » September 19th, 2014, 5:58 pm

Yes. The second part is actually two clues to the same thing.
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#888 Post by animist » September 21st, 2014, 10:19 am

Tetenterre wrote:Yes. The second part is actually two clues to the same thing.
this does not help me find a word which rhymes with "sentimental"

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#889 Post by Tetenterre » September 21st, 2014, 3:14 pm

What is the word for a painting that has been altered, as evidenced by some of the original image remaining? Alternatively, what type of Journey did John Simon write about?
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#890 Post by animist » September 21st, 2014, 5:23 pm

Tetenterre wrote:What is the word for a painting that has been altered, as evidenced by some of the original image remaining? Alternatively, what type of Journey did John Simon write about?
pentimental! When you mentioned John Simon, I thought of the interwar Liberal politician of that name :D
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3 ... 4661158437

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#891 Post by animist » September 22nd, 2014, 8:00 am

East Asian seaman was born in east African island. Hennikinsy Pennitinsy!

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#892 Post by animist » September 24th, 2014, 3:22 pm

animist wrote:East Asian seaman was born in east African island. Hennikinsy Pennitinsy!
just realised that the word spacing is wrong! Should be Hennikinsy Penn i tinsy


Here is another one before I forget it; it is mainly francophone (but the two main words are used widely in English):
Business innovator opposes loafer. Hennikinsy Penni tinsy

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#893 Post by Tetenterre » September 28th, 2014, 10:59 pm

First one: just gone down a dead end by confusing Zanzibar (an E African island) with Dar es Salaam (which isn't)... will think more tomorrow.

The second one: Entrepreneur Contre [something]?
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#894 Post by animist » September 29th, 2014, 12:14 pm

Tetenterre wrote:First one: just gone down a dead end by confusing Zanzibar (an E African island) with Dar es Salaam (which isn't)... will think more tomorrow.

The second one: Entrepreneur Contre [something]?
first one - think big as well as more; second one - yes, and the last word relates to a kind of French 19C hipster

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#895 Post by Tetenterre » September 30th, 2014, 1:32 pm

Madagascar had a Lascar?
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#896 Post by animist » September 30th, 2014, 3:02 pm

Tetenterre wrote:Madagascar had a Lascar?
correct. The missing word in the other one: it has been applied to Baudelaire, Wilde, Eliot and more recently to Nicholas "Black Swan" Taleb

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#897 Post by Tetenterre » October 5th, 2014, 11:45 am

Another clue needed, methinks...
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#898 Post by animist » October 5th, 2014, 9:13 pm

Tetenterre wrote:Another clue needed, methinks...
sorry to prolong your agony, TT, but it is hard to give clues about a foreign word, and ISTM one which is an agent noun but which lacks a parent verb. Hope this helps :laughter:

(later) it rhymes with "planner" - and I really do mean "rhymes", as only the initial letter differs

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#899 Post by Tetenterre » October 6th, 2014, 1:01 pm

Must be a word I don't know then, as I've been from "alanner" to "zlanner"

(also, if it rhymes with "planner", it doesn't rhyme with "entrepreneur")

A bit later: Ah! Entrepreneur contre flâneur

(clue could have been "sounds like it might have something to do with quiche" :wink: )

Right, let me think....
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Re: Henny Penny

#900 Post by Tetenterre » October 7th, 2014, 11:41 am

OK, yer tiz; quite easy, I think:

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Re: Henny Penny

#901 Post by animist » October 7th, 2014, 1:07 pm

Tetenterre wrote:(clue could have been "sounds like it might have something to do with quiche" :wink: )
yes indeed, sorry!
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OK, yer tiz; quite easy, I think:

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humanist phillumenist? (nice one, if so!)

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