Words & Wordplay - July 2006

2006-07-28 16:37:29 · 8 answers · asked by withallthesethings 4

2006-07-28 16:18:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 14:57:44 · 17 answers · asked by :D 2

2006-07-28 14:05:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 13:48:30 · 8 answers · asked by Tyler P 1

It supposedly adds to the value of the coin. But in examining it, I can't find whats reversed.

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to find an apropos category

2006-07-28 12:55:09 · 2 answers · asked by Doc 1

2006-07-28 12:50:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please think of something cool.

2006-07-28 12:46:49 · 34 answers · asked by position28 4

2006-07-28 12:40:12 · 8 answers · asked by steven a 2

Please tell me soon.

2006-07-28 12:25:28 · 22 answers · asked by position28 4

2006-07-28 12:13:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The word free is used so often but with different meanings. Like Free with purchase of, or free phone with 10 year contract. Is it really free if i have to purchase something to get something free. I say if you use the word free it should be with no obligations. What do you think?

2006-07-28 12:09:50 · 6 answers · asked by justcurious 4

2006-07-28 11:34:51 · 14 answers · asked by Nickerbockers 3

What would you put in the space below - "and", or "but"? And WHY?

old-fashioned - a word that was commonly used in the past _______would sound old fashioned today.

2006-07-28 11:33:00 · 10 answers · asked by Maus 7

2006-07-28 11:25:11 · 26 answers · asked by Nickerbockers 3

ziiiiiiiip BOING! SqUiSh SLAP..... (pause) (window shatter) thunk "uh-oh...."

2006-07-28 11:20:46 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 11:10:47 · 6 answers · asked by bawa 1

Why is a London fog called a 'pea souper'??

2006-07-28 11:07:28 · 10 answers · asked by Buck 5

Good, thanks. Okay, here's my question. What would you put in the space below - "and", or "but"? And WHY?

old-fashioned - a word that was commonly used in the past _______would sound old fashioned today.

2006-07-28 11:06:30 · 12 answers · asked by Maus 7

i need to translate these words.... "worthy of love"

2006-07-28 11:04:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I will give you 3 random statements or words, you then get to make up a question for them.

Frenchfries please

I prefer to take a taxi.

Yes, I can do that, its easy.

2006-07-28 10:19:00 · 5 answers · asked by Umm Ali 6

I heard it was a house for crazy people, but im not certain. Can anyone explain?

2006-07-28 10:16:51 · 10 answers · asked by cheerchick3 1

OK, help me add some fun to my boring day, described below but with some boring words blanked out. Copy and paste it into your answer, typing over the 'BLANK's with your own words. Have fun, and the best story gets the 10 points. :)
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Typical day at BLANK, I got on the BLANK this morning. BLANKed my book. Said hello to the BLANK. Sat in front of the BLANK, answering emails and working on BLANK. Went to lunch with some BLANKs; that was BLANK. I can't wait to go home and BLANK in front of the BLANK with my BLANKs.

2006-07-28 10:07:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 10:02:53 · 5 answers · asked by Jonathan S 1

2006-07-28 09:46:59 · 6 answers · asked by Jonathan S 1

2006-07-28 09:41:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 08:58:58 · 15 answers · asked by AC 3

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.
In which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP .

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so........... Time to shut UP!

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"

2006-07-28 08:55:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can you read these right the first time?

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

2006-07-28 08:28:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 08:02:58 · 10 answers · asked by fazila m 1