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Illusion
Illusion: Making indirect references to diseases or maladies in a literary work, or to famous individuals who suffered from such health problems.
Garnish:
Garnish: That part of a meal used to flavor or enhance the beauty of prepared foods and best left for the Gods--unless you are very hungry--except when it is red chili peppers used to flavor a stir-fry, delight the sight of connoisseurs and tease greedy devils.
Stir-fry:
Stir-fry: Process for Tanning on the Beach. Roll over...fry...sit-up...fry...apply lotion...fry...repeat
Sling-shot:
Hi Melanie !
Sling-shot: 1) Goliath was sling-shot (or slanged) 2) The Singapore sling-shot recipe may be found here (and elsewhere, but here is where I found it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Sling ; the non-alcoholic virgin (sic) here: http://www.ehow.com/how_4119_make-virgin-singapore.html
Recipe:
(^Hi tailor!! I've missed everyone)
Recipe: Instructions for making burnt offerings. Directions like an online dating service where the picture never looks like the outcome.
Determination:
Determination: Constantly trying to put square pegs into round holes
Grit:
Grit: Pigheaded refusal to give up because it is so much fun not to.
Pigheaded:
Pigheaded: Driving in the direction of a pig.
Square pegs:
Square pegs: a snarky slang expression for all women named peggy
Flashlight:
Flashlight: A tool that usually doesn’t have batteries when one needs it.
Snarky:
Snarky: The cousin of Malarky
Crepuscular
Crepuscular: That muscular creep that's always chatting up the ladies.
Fitness Club:
Fitness Club: A place where you can watch TV while walking on a treadmill.
Treadmill:
Treadmill: A tire breeder that abuses it's tires, makes too many, forgets to give them water, falsifies their pedigree, and charges too much.
Factory:
Factory: Legalized compulsive labor, only the pay, meager as it may be, separates it from slavery. They pay you just enough to keep you from quitting, while managing to make you feel less important than a used condom.
Labor:
Labor: A political party, like giving birth, in some countries.
Politics:
Politics: The art of promising something and doing the opposite.
Homeland:
Homeland: A dwelling touching down again, e.g. Dorothy's house in Oz after the tornado.
Witch
Witch: A lady endowed with some itching wit and science, which arouses the suspicion of her neighbors.
Neighbor:
Neighbor: Someone who lives near horses.
Brooch:
Brooch: That repulsive piece of jewelry that you inherited from your mother. It has been passed down through generations of your family but you have yet to see anyone actually wear it. And you have fond memories of your great-grandmother!
Ostentatious:
Lol. I remember a brooch of my grandma with a llama on it. I quite liked it.
Ostentatious: Why be content with white teeth if you can have golden ones?
Gold:
Gold: A soft mineral sometimes used by Bond villains to cover women or guns. Often sent into space.
E-book:
E-book: Wrong pronunciation of "a book".
Commerce:
Commerce: The art of buying a horse for $25 and selling it for $2,500
Profit Margin:
Profit Margin: That part of a page left blank so readers can rest their weary brains and wonder if there is any profit in reading further.
Unicorn:
Unicorn: Literally 1-corn - a limit dieters give themselves at picnic gatherings; a variation of the tricorn ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne ) which is essentially a round head covering; a beast, similar in appearance to a horse with a long pointed/spiraled protuberance growing from its forehead, of which only one in love can see; an unattainable paragon of beauty.
Picnic
Picnic: To choose an online alias.
Profit margin: The social outskirts to which speakers for fringe gods are relegated.
Animus
Animus:Your ideal mate (animus or anima).
Origami:
Origami: A simple paper-folding technique that can be used as an exercise in futility, the Japanese make it look easy but it isn't
Feng Shui:
Feng Shui: "Wind Water" Chinese philosophic system. Those who don’t like it call it a superstition with no demonstrable evidence showing it is beneficial, yadda, yadda, yadda. Those who like it use it to orient themselves to what’s around them and enjoy whatever benefits they enjoy.
Futility:
Futility: Objects that are useful for the feet.
Vintage:
Vintage: The term only makes sense when it refers to wine in which case it is the year and place where the wine was made. That doesn’t stop it from referring to something a tad bit too old and out-of-date to be considered “new”, but not quite ancient enough to be a collectible “antique”.
Antique:
Antique: Belonging to a bygone age and therefore sought after. People will buy antique items that have become so obsolete that people have to ask "What the devil is that?!"
Devil:
Devil: The opposite of angel. It is often thought of as male while the angel is female. It is usually well-dressed and handsome with a quick wit and eager to get you to sign your soul away. Of course, once you sign and meet it in hell appearances change.
Angel:
Lol!
Angel: 1- A representant of heaven. 2-Name of a rather relentless character in "Tess of the Ubervilles". Mollified after getting a fever in Curitiba of all places.
You tube:
You tube: or Euphonium... Instrument not too unlike a Tuba, also called a Baritone Horn; YouTube: a place to explore music and/or videos that whimsically may or may not be available albeit listed.
Facebook:
Facebook: The book that shows ones faces to the world, and the faces of the world to one.
Twitter:
Twitter: What birds do to waste time.
Waste: