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• Camouflaging Anagrams

  
  Crossword Unclued — Authority: 415
  Presenting a 2-part series of guest articles by Tony Le, a cryptic crossword setter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tony has been interested in cryptics for the past 20 years. His puzzles are available on his website Kryptonologist.com . He also contributes to BestCrosswords.com and is the ...
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• Daily Llama clique

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  They may look quaint and harmless, but theyre fomenting terrorism and conspiring to "weaken China" - oh yes.  Beware.  One llama - bad.  Multiple llamas - insurrection!  
  22 hours ago

• Dude and Dude: Dumbing and Dumber

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 125
  “Hey, dude!” “Who you calling a scarecrow , dude?” “You’d rather I called you a stuffed shirt ?” “ Sure , dude. That way, when I’m feeling insufficiently padded, I can fix it by knocking the stuffing out of you .” “ Hey!! “ “No, dude, that belly’s foam padding. Lot better than ...
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• Neologism of the Month

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 134
  The Republicans have their Santorum and now, the Democrats have their Stupak : Stupak (n) - The sepsis commonly experienced after unsafe back alley abortions This makes the baby whale cry. __________ More on Stupak. (Pun intended.) And be aware, as Scott Lemieux observes, there are … … 26 ...
  2 days ago

• Fish (Phish) on a stick…

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 502
  Fish (Phish) on a stick…
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• meditation on de-automation

  
  The Laughorist — Authority: 121
  On Tuesday, November 3, 2009, Election Day, I elected to become decarcerated, de-automobiled, vehicularly divested, unincarnated, car blanche, carnally challenged. You get the picture. Unwilling (and pretty darn incapable!) to pay $1,100 to $1,400 or more to repair the timing belt and valve(s), I chose to hand ...
  4 days ago

• Zmax

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 142
  Click on the image to see the full-sized ad and get all the info on AdPharm. Over 450 more Pfizer ads on AdPharm, click here AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
  5 days ago

• Whatever happened to the courtesans?

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  While scouring the Web for more information on the great "lion on the cheese grater" mystery , I turned up this interesting article on courtesans  on Salon , and thought it worth sharing.   Im still looking for my Aspasia.   (Or should that be Aphasia?)    
  5 days ago

• Ah, hes back!

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  I have muttered on here numerous times before about how almost ALL the scripts I record for English listening exam practice in Chinese schools and colleges get endlessly recycled - but you probably thought I was exaggerating a bit.   But no.  Further striking proof yesterday.  The talented "Mr Green" made ...
  5 days ago

• Does the clue make you happy?

  
  Crossword Unclued — Authority: 415
  Yesterday, The Hindu Crossword had the answer MENTAL ANGUISH in the grid. Today, it has TERMINAL ILLNESS. In the past, there have been words about various other ailments. AIDS, with its setter-friendly selection of letters, has been clued twice in Oct09 with reference to the disease. Sometimes, the surface ...
  6 days ago

• Wednesday Wordplay: No offense, Picasso

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 431
  Artistic Quotes I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.             — Kathe Kollwitz , O Magazine, September 2002 Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ...
  6 days ago

• The Department of Lovely Words: Cayuse

  
  Bookmaking With Kids — Authority: 114
  Since teaching my friend Debra’s 1st graders to make Haunted House books two weeks ago, I’ve had a tune stuck in my head. That’s because Debra teaches her kids lots of songs, and I got to hear them singing Cole Porter’s Don’t Fence Me In . By mastering the lyrics, the kids soaked up some wonderful ...
  1 week ago

• War on Chinglish (11)

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  been and gone       Its a curious little quirk of English that we use the Present Perfect tense of be rather go to talk about whether we have ever had the experience of visiting a place.  Hence:   He has been to New York several times.   He has been to the opera twice this year. ...
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• A Walk in the WoRds

  
  Writer Sites — Authority: 126
  A Walk in the WoRds This blog is subtitled “A linguistic tour for people who love having fun with words and language.” You’ll find wordplay in cartoons, advertising, and musings of the author.
  1 week ago

• Calling An Audible

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 125
  He and She were on their way home from a local sport-motif eatery, where the food was good but the noise … well, let’s just say that they were grateful for a table on the lanai by the water. He: “You do know what they call a TV that’s hooked to a really loud sound system, don’t you?” She: ...
  1 week ago

• Halloween punnery

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  Just to bring yesterdays collection of micro ghost stories  up to a Bakers Dozen , heres a final little spooky frippery for All Hallows Eve....     He haunts the back benches and the lobby bars: an old ghost Tory.  
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• Up yer bum!

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  Oh dear.  Ive been at it again.  A couple of months ago, I got dragged into a long comment-thread exchange here , on Stuarts Found In China  blog; and this week Ive found myself doing it again, here .  My recurring antagonist is a young man who calls himself Pffefer.  Hes a lot sharper and more ...
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• 12 spooky vignettes

  
  Froogville — Authority: 430
  Belfast-based author Stuart Neville has been running  a contest  this month, challenging his readers to produce some ghostly micro-fiction for Halloween, via Twitter.  Apparently this means that youre limited to 124 characters (including punctuation and spaces).  I suppose I should have given this a shout-out ...
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• Un Reve Peut-Etre (A Dream, Perhaps?)

  
  Nickers and Ink — Authority: 418
  
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• wednesday wordplay: Babs, Anna and Phil – you lie!!

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 431
  Quotes to live by   You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.             — Barbra Streisand Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.             — Anna Quindlen , A ...
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