Words & Wordplay - May 2007

Dormitory == Dirty Room

Desperation == A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code == Here Come Dots

Slot Machines == Cash Lost in 'em

Animosity == Is No Amity

Snooze Alarms == Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness == Genuine Class

Semolina == Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries == Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point == I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes == That Queer Shake

Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one

Contradiction == Accord not in it

This one's amazing: [From Hamlet by Shakespeare]

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Becomes:

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

2007-05-04 16:29:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have lived here for two years. or We have been living here for two years.


can anybody suggest a grammar link??

2007-05-04 15:33:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-04 15:22:06 · 15 answers · asked by anna 1

2007-05-04 14:45:04 · 13 answers · asked by i like turtles 3

this is for a project and my brain is not working.

2007-05-04 13:26:54 · 5 answers · asked by coldfire118 1

For example most people now say Skedule instead of Schedule and Paitriotic instead of Patriotic (think about it- its just plain wrong. Do Americans call someone called Patrick -Paitrick)

2007-05-04 13:25:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

1) That is a high price to pay for___________.
3) I saw a stairway That appeared to be leading_______.
3) He was rotton to the core of his black little__________.
4) Love means never having to_________
5) who knew that she was really_________!

2007-05-04 11:50:58 · 5 answers · asked by Silva 6

2007-05-04 11:17:07 · 4 answers · asked by jobees 6

2007-05-04 09:59:53 · 14 answers · asked by mohamed adam 2

2007-05-04 09:52:29 · 10 answers · asked by Seth187 1

What is it?

2007-05-04 06:52:44 · 14 answers · asked by Joe Mamma 2

the word queef means?

2007-05-04 05:13:08 · 24 answers · asked by Honey 78 1

2007-05-04 05:00:32 · 4 answers · asked by A R 1

Look at those who are talking. They drive you crazy. What's the matter with them?

2007-05-03 19:02:37 · 7 answers · asked by Basang Sisiw 3

"love is an illusion we create to comfort ourselves".

Can someone explain what that means exactly from a females perspective.

The reason I ask is that my ex girlfriend wrote that on her msn message. The day before I moved (to another state) I told her bye, she was sad that i didnt tell her i was moving until the day before.

When I arrived an unpacked and went online, she changed her msn message to "no more illusion, it's gone". Then she posted an old picture of her kissing an ex boyfriend

What does this mean

2007-05-03 18:45:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why has the media replaced the word 'social' with 'societal'?
These questions, and many more, keep me up at night. In fact, I've been impacted by them. But it's not life-threatening.

2007-05-03 18:08:02 · 5 answers · asked by sistergirl1950 2

GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN : When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE MORSE CODE : When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS


SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

MOTHER-IN-LAW : When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS : When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z'S

A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES : When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO : When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

2007-05-03 17:21:03 · 5 answers · asked by T C 3

To 'decimate' something means to wipe out, by some means, one tenth of its population. The word originated, if I'm not much mistaken, with the Romans, and is somewhat self-explanatory. So, how come it is endlessly used to refer to the destruction of huge quantities of something? It's even described as such in dictionaries now. If you're talking about wiping out 99% of the population, aren't words like 'destroy', 'annihilate', even 'wipe out' so much better?

2007-05-03 16:52:30 · 8 answers · asked by canislupus 3

2007-05-03 16:22:23 · 4 answers · asked by linda h 1

2007-05-03 16:16:34 · 1 answers · asked by Alberto R 1

Dog breed
Cartoon charther
Country
A colour
A toy

2007-05-03 15:26:45 · 6 answers · asked by jobees 6

2007-05-03 15:07:46 · 4 answers · asked by migratingmonkey 2

like using it by saying "I think people want to know more personable things about me."

2007-05-03 12:06:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-03 11:49:58 · 9 answers · asked by OSU Fan 1

i love this guy but he doesnt love me, we r friends and we talk a lot but he doesnt lov me and i dont want to keep loving him how do i get over him? how do i stop loving him?

2007-05-03 11:14:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see it alot and not sure if it means "Got you"... does it mean that ?
and how/why do they use it ?

and please please give me some good complete answers, lately I don't get good and complete answers to most all of my questions. and don't worry about the 10 pnts!! lol

thanks alot .
P.S English is my 2nd language .

2007-05-03 11:11:39 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't know how to spell it but the defanition is "Someone who has intercourse with dead bodies" I know the word starts with a "n" but how do you spell it?

2007-05-03 08:09:59 · 3 answers · asked by Li 3

Mine's desk

2007-05-03 07:28:31 · 25 answers · asked by Bread Crumb Maloy 3

Can you please define and give an example,THANKS!!!

2007-05-03 07:24:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-03 07:17:53 · 14 answers · asked by mod_83 2