Two Word Game

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im stumped a bit...

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lol...

open season

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open air

(I wonder if every so often, when a stumping occurs, we can liberally expand the rules to include more than two words? an occasional third word, or short phrase might do the trick nicely)

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sounds good to me :)

fresh air

[Danik 2016]

our rules aren't too rigid. I get stumped all the time
fresh water

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water lily

[Danik 2016]

water jug

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water bug

[Danik 2016]

bug nest

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bird nest

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never a big fan really, no pun intended, but...

big bird!

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big boy

[bounty]

boy howdy!

which I take to be an old southern exclamation.

[Danik 2016]

boy scout

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scout troop

I belonged to one once, for about 3 weeks.

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Indian scout

[Danik 2016]

Troop rest

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rest stop

[Danik 2016]

stop sign

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zodiac sign

[Danik 2016]

zodiac houses

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safe houses

[Danik 2016]

brick houses

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glass houses

[Danik 2016]

glass menagerie

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coke-bottle glasses

(do you know that expression danik?)

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rose-coloured glasses

[Danik 2016]

coke-bottle glasses

(do you know that expression danik?)

I know bottom of the bottle lenses in Portuguese for very thick lenses bounty.

[Danik 2016]

rose-coloured glasses

green card

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lol... my Mum had one :)

red card

[Danik 2016]

Interesting as I know that your mother was from England. It seems that the English in USA were considered foreigners as anyone else from outside the country. The Portuguese in Brazil have and had in the past some privileges as to identity documents and working license.

card box

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I like the saying: "we are separated by a common language" :)

lock box (hoping this isn't political ;) )

[Danik 2016]

Lol(snif)!
Box bed

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trundle bed

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bed cover

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bed post

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post office

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post hoc

[Danik 2016]

ad hoc

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ad lib

[Danik 2016]

women lib

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Liberté, égalité, et fraternité

vive le france!

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eat cake

[Danik 2016]

birthday cake

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crumb cake

[Danik 2016]

Wow!. Must be the German Streuselkuchen:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streuselkuchen#:~:text=Streuselkuchen%20(German%20 pronunciation%3A%20%5B%CB%88%CA%83t%CA%81%C9%94%CA %8Fzl%CC%A9%CB%8Cku%CB%90xn%CC%A9,1%3A1%3A2%20rati o.

Schokolate cake

[bounty]

patty cake

patty cake

bakers man...

[Danik 2016]

i see!

nut cake

[bounty]

do you know that danik? its a kid's game that involves rhyming with hand-clapping.

nut job! (how about that one?)

[Danik 2016]

do you know that danik? its a kid's game that involves rhyming with hand-clapping.

nut job! (how about that one?)

I didn't know it but I looked it up.
crazy job?

nut cracker

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you can also say "nut case" or just plain "nutty" or "nut." however the latter two terms can sometimes be used affectionately, or tongue-in-cheek or even in a complimentary way.

cracker barrel (it's a restaurant chain here in the states)

[Danik 2016]

cream cracker

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vanilla cream

[Danik 2016]

vanilla souce

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apple sauce

[bounty]

apple juice (goes great in tea!)

[Danik 2016]

Orange juice

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orange blossom

[Danik 2016]

flowers blossom

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rose blossom

[Danik 2016]

cherry blossom

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maraschino cherry

[Danik 2016]

cherry tree

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George Washington! did you chop down that cherry tree??

I cannot tell a lie, yes, with my trusty axe (or something like that).

cherry pie

(but apparently not the "sweet" kind by warrant. danik, whats your favorite cherry thing?)

[Danik 2016]

kidney pie ( a British dish)

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mmmm... I remember S&K Pie in my youth :)

kidney stone

[Danik 2016]

Ate kidney pie once in my life. Didn´t know there was a beef variant.

gem stone.

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My Mother always referred to the dish as 'steak and kidney pie'... https://www.food.com/recipe/the-classic-steak-and-kidney-pie-138782 :)

fidget stone

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so danik, your favorite "cherry thing" is kidney pie??

ive been to England bunches of times and before I become a vegetarian, I had that once. I kinda remember liking it and kinda being grossed out (no offense tailor) by it at the same time.

stone cold (steve Austin!)

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whet stone

[Danik 2016]

Ist a favorita dich in the books oficial Dickens só I was curious about it the one time I went to England. I didn't like it specially but I think beef makes all the difference. And here in Brazil we call pie a salt cake with a certain filling. This pie was a sort of pudding with a crust.

stone table

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Maybe Yorkshire pudding?.. https://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/yorkshire-pudding ... another favorite :)

table manners

[Danik 2016]

It might be, yes. Only the crust was much thinner and kidney instead of beef.

table game

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table tennis

[bounty]

table manners

what's a good one?

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pinky up when drinking peppermint tea :)

Miss Manners

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I have a "tea etiquette" book, i'll have to see if the "pinky up" refinement is mentioned there.

I might be partial to "chew with your mouth closed" one. and its interesting how, at least seemingly, putting your elbows on the table some places is bad form, and other places maybe okay.

swiss miss

(I actually had some hot chocolate a few days ago. was riding to the library, got drenched in the rain, and the library had a fan going inside for goodness sake!)

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Don't go with Swiss Miss myself... tall micro-safe mug (the sturdy ones from Dollar Tree) with milk & water in equal measure heated at 1100 watts in the microwave for 4-minutes, then 2-tbs Nestlé cooking cocoa and 2-tbs of Nestlé hot chocolate added together, stirred well... I think I'll make some now :)

Swiss cheese

[Danik 2016]

Mmmm! Nestlé cooking cocoa, here called the powder cocoa of the friar because on the package there is this picture of two friar enjoying the chocolate.
https://www.cenourao.com.br/produto/563932-chocolate-em-po-do-padre-nestle-200g/

white cheese

[bounty]

well on the topic of chocolate...

white chocolate!

tailor, I checked my tea etiquette book and scanned something for you, but my internet's too bad these days to attach anything. i'll have to keep you in suspense about your extended pinky.

[Danik 2016]

dark chocolate

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chocolate bunny

[Danik 2016]

Mmmm!

bunny ears

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bunny hop

[Danik 2016]

hip hop

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sock hop

[Danik 2016]

wool socks

[bounty]

bobby socks

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crew socks

[Danik 2016]

socks drawer

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rock 'em sock'em robots!

did you have those in brazil danik?

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pet rock

[Danik 2016]

No idea what you are talking about, bounty!?

pet animal

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when my internet cooperates danik, i'll attach a photo for you.

animal planet

sometimes I enjoying watching the zoo

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animal style

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:) bounty

animal care

Apocalyptic cat leaves tutor desperate during the postoperative period and goes viral​
"I never had a cat as mischievous as this one. I had to increase the number of weekly therapy hours, but it worked ", said the tutor in a video.

Marquinhos had to operate some fractures after being rescued Marquinhos had to operate some fractures after being rescuedDisclosure / Andreza Ferreira ( personal file )
Bruna Rioscollaboration for CNN

Sao Paulo

08/16/2023 at 2:51 pm | Updated 08/16/2023 at 2:58 pm


Nicknamed “ Hurricane Marquinhos ”, a rebellious kitten gained more than 1.5 million views thanks to his temperament after passing through a complicated surgery.
In the video, published in June, but which still goes viral, veterinary student Andreza Ferreira, reports her surprise when she saw that the only six months old puppy behaved like that. After 24 hours of surgery, the cat was already running around the house, even after the veterinarian recommended rest.

“ I never had a cat as lunatic as this one. He was rescued with a horrible fracture, had to put external fixators on his paws. But the post-surgery of this cat has been crazy ”, says the student in the video.
In the video, Andreza says that she preferred to put him in the cage so he wouldn't get hurt. “ When I let it go free, despair immediately hits because the cat wants to do mischief ”, he said. “ He should walk straight, but out of nowhere he starts to run, to freak out and to go nuts ”, she joked.

In an interview with CNN, Andreza explained that he was one of the kittens saved in the project “ Room Cats ”, in Recife.
“ He arrived with several fractures in the right pelvic limb. We did donation campaigns and managed to do his surgery at the Setúbal Veterinary Unit in Recife. It was planned to remove the fixers at 60 days, but when we did a new x-ray, it was not fully healed yet, and the orthopedic surgeon asked for another 30 days ”, he explained.

To Andreza's joy, “ Wild Marquinhos ” remains as calm as a hurricane. “ In those two months, my pressure rose fifty-seven times ”, she said on another video.


“ I lost half of all the hair I had on my head, I had to increase the number of weekly therapy hours but it worked. His recovery was a show ”, she celebrated.

Andreza told CNN, that the cat remains in the project. “ He continues to be impossible, but he is recovering very well. He walks normally, runs, plays, runs into a lot of mischief. After full recovery, he will be available for adoption ”, she warned.
On social media, Marquinhos, the kitten's original name, won the hearts of his followers. “ One of the most impossible cats I have ever seen ”, they said. “ Beloved Jesus, how apocalyptic ”, “ Jes, how peaceful, loving the evolution of this kitten ”, they wrote.

​https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/entretenimento/gato-apocaliptico-deixa-tutora-desesperada-durante-pos-operatorio-e-viraliza/

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Lol... "After full recovery, he will be available for adoption ”, she warned." :)

hospice care

[Danik 2016]

hospice ward

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that's a doozy of a story danik, god bless the little fellow and the people taking care of him.

psych ward

[Danik 2016]

Psych care

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care free

[Danik 2016]

free shopping

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shopping spree

[Danik 2016]

shopping cart

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apple cart

[bounty]

oh im too late to write "free Tibet!"

which do I like better?

apple sauce or a go-cart?

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go sauce

[Danik 2016]

Sorry, bounty. I should have waited

lol!

tomato sauce

[bounty]

it actually works out better after the fact though doesn't it?

tomato juice

one of my all-time favorite foods/drinks. its really odd, I cant eat a raw tomato on its own, but I love everything that can be made from them.

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Juice Newton

[Danik 2016]

orange juice

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orange blossom

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cherry blossom

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cherry coke

[Danik 2016]

cherry orchard

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cherry bomb

[Danik 2016]

bomb shell

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tailor---no coke, pepsi! (do you get the reference?)

tortoise shell

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re: "no" - vaguely

oyster shell

[Danik 2016]

Oyster dish

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soap dish

[Danik 2016]

soap opera

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soap bubbles

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bubble gum

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bubble boy!

(from Seinfeld)

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boy howdy!

[Danik 2016]

boy scout

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girl scout

[bounty]

on scout!

if I remember rightly, that's the next line after "hiyo silver, away!"

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I think you're right :)

on Donner

[Danik 2016]

on music

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on Blitzen

[Danik 2016]

on leave

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on watch

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santa can fly his sleigh with only two reindeer!

en garde!

[Danik 2016]

en attendance

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en prise

[Danik 2016]

under prise

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under scrutiny

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under hill

Frodo's alias at the prancing pony!

[Danik 2016]

hill vegetation

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vegetation fire

[Danik 2016]

fire alarm

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fire away

[Danik 2016]

right away

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right on

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rock on!

which is also an old song from the early 70s by david Essex.

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(great song: "Still looking for that blue-jean baby-queen / Prettiest girl I've ever seen") :)

on demand

[Danik 2016]

on trial

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trial balloon

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it is a great song isn't it, and sooo unique also.

trial date

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blind date

[Danik 2016]

blind code

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binary code

[Danik 2016]

code word

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last word

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[the] last starfighter

a cute old movie from the late 70s/early 80s maybe.

[Danik 2016]

starfighter luck

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last starfighter - a cult favorite of mine :)

dumb luck

[Danik 2016]

dumb creatures

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feature creatures

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creature from the black lagoon!

(every so often I wanna break out of the two word prison!)

(there is a hysterical scene in the forrest gump book involving this that didn't make it into the movie)

[Danik 2016]

blue lagoon

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blue moon

[Danik 2016]

moon song(fav)

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moon dance

(by van morrison and used very erotically in an American werewolf in London

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barn dance

[Danik 2016]

dance party

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party hearty

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i remember when campbell's "chunky soup" burst onto the scene, I think "hearty" was maybe one of the descriptors.

party bus

would you go on one?

[Danik 2016]

bus stop

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no party buses here :)

sudden stop

[bounty]

stop, in the name of love!

(I watched a bit of a show yesterday about diana ross and the supremes!)

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be in

[Danik 2016]

be even

[bounty]

even Stephen

or maybe its "steven"

either way, I have a book called that. its a collection of where we got many of these weird phrase.

[Danik 2016]

even so

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just so

[bounty]

a book by Rudyard kipling!

so what?

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say what?

[Danik 2016]

what game?

[bounty]

game boy

did you guys ever have one of those?

[bounty]

by the way danik---rock 'em sock 'em robots!

9953

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(neither)

boy howdy

[bounty]

I have an interesting linguistic/literary "howdy" story. I used to use the word relatively often a long time ago, and lots of times when id say it, people would respond with "good (or fine), how are you?" and I would think, oh, they must have misheard me and thought that my "howdy" was "how are you?"

and then some years ago I was reading an old western where one of the characters said "howdy" and the person responded with something like "im good."

all this time I had been thinking "howdy" was just "hello" and it turns out its at least also "how are you?"

this might be tough to move on with but....

howdy doody

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I often use Howdy, it helps me with my anxiety.

Howdy y'all

[Danik 2016]

:) I´m fine! And you?

I always thought Howdy= how do you do

No, bounty, didn´t have any robots. The nearest I come to robots is my cell phone. Or dialing a number and the call being answered by a robot.

how nice!

[bounty]

that's an another interesting take danik---"how do you do" seems to be another sort of greeting that combines "hello" and "how are you?"

nice try!

(which danik, might well be an American euphemism for "loser!")

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re: greetings - "aloha" also means hello and goodbye.

nice shot

[Danik 2016]

Learning a lot here with you guys!

try out

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try again

[Danik 2016]

try out

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strike out

[Danik 2016]

out cry!

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far out

[bounty]

far side

and what might be my favorite comic of all time!

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lol !!! ... one of my all time favorite comic also. A tie in to my use of "howdy" is my favorite classic Larsen comic of a vulture wearing a 10-gallon hat saying "look at me, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy" while 2?- fellow vultures are picking the carcass of a cowboy clean :)

side arm

[Danik 2016]

arms prohibition

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prohibition era

[bounty]

I just picked up a book about mobs and gangsters in buffalo, ny. I bet a lot of the time period is prohibition.

earned run average (I cheated!)

[bounty]

ack, double post!

[Danik 2016]

Lol!

average prices

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bowling average

[bounty]

bowling balls

when I was a kid my parents belonged to a bowling league on Friday nights. they would come home from a fish fry dinner, bring me a can of hawaiian punch or hi-c, and a bag of taco doritos and I would spend the night watching the brady bunch, the partridge family, room 222, the odd couple and love American style. later, the night stalker factored into that and my father would be mad because theyd come home and id have all the lights in the house on.

[Danik 2016]

ball games

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ball bearings

[bounty]

game ball

informally awarded to the most valuable player of the game. now that I say that, you only ever hear about that in football, and not in any other ball games.

[Danik 2016]

Not even in football, bounty!

game console

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game on

[bounty]

gamer girl

[Danik 2016]

girl ambitions

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girl Friday

[Danik 2016]

Black Friday

[bounty]

black jack

seems like there was a gum called that when I was a kid, lemme look.

yes...

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I liked black jack gum :)

Jack Sparrow

[Danik 2016]

sparrow nest

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nest egg

[bounty]

black jack and teaberry and beemans and fruit stripe.

danik did you have any of those gums in brazil?

egg head

[Danik 2016]

No, bounty, our classic was this one, today belonging to another concern:
https://shopee.com.br/Chiclets-Adams-Chiclete-De-Caixinha-100-Unidades-i.747524063.14078566137

The currently most consumed bubblegum is Trident.

head dress

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dress down

[Danik 2016]

Salad dressing

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fruit salad

[Danik 2016]

fruit tree

[bounty]

i couldn't get to the page danik, but we have chiclets here too, and way back when also.

the unfortunately much maligned but surprisingly good...

fruit cake!

[Danik 2016]

It was Adam's. I suppose you have that too, bounty.
Birthday cake

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sponge cake

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sponge bob SquarePants!

I know that's more than two words but I didn't want to resist.

[Danik 2016]

square glasses

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square deal

[bounty]

square dancing.

if you have never been, I recommend it!

do you have that in brazil danik?

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dancing queen

[Danik 2016]

queen bee
Bounty,, I have to remember square dance but I never was good at any kind of dance.

PS- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rIK3fo41P4&t=59s

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bee pollen

[bounty]

that's a sort of fun thing about square dancing danik, its less "dancing" per se, and more walking to the beat.

bees wax

[Danik 2016]

looks like it is for middle aged couples on.

Wax figures

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wax beans

[bounty]

noooo danik, family fun for all ages!

ive been to madame Tussaud's in London, wax figures galore.

wax on, wax off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg21M2zwG9Q

[Danik 2016]

I´ve also been to Madame Tussaud´s.
get on

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get back

[bounty]

back burner

[Danik 2016]

back stage

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aching back

[bounty]

as in, "oh my....!"

for you gymnastics lovers:

back bend

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back board

[bounty]

above board

[Danik 2016]

board rules

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20th board (bowling term)

[bounty]

I don't know that one tailor. can you spillane it to me?

buck board

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• 20th board: fourth "arrow" target from the right (as seen from 15-feet beyond the foul-line, or mid-lane, or 20-boards from the right) - one stands full left on the approach (if right-handed) to hit this target at 15-feet with speed and spin/torque on "dry" lanes or oil patterns conducive to getting the bowling ball out to the right of the headpin in a wide arc so the ball "turns over" on its axis at about 50-feet down the lane (+ or -) and "sets" into the 1-3 pin "pocket" for a strike... http://www.iowabowl.com/jcusbcba/tips/bowling_lane_dimensions.htm

buck buck (game)

[Danik 2016]

buck points