Improving words (22)
Abundance: A performance of moving to music, with a bread roll
Adolescent: A smell given off by a handout
Beanstalk: Well, if you hear them doing so, you are probably delusional (could also be an euphemism for farting)
Bobbing: Hope and Crosby
Catatonic: A feline used for medicinal purposes
Charming: To roast a Flash Gordon villain
Covet: An assistant animal doctor
Electron: Vote for Ronald!
Gargoyle: A small non-Jewish person who is also a specific type of fish
Glutton: A supply so excessive it weighs 2,000 pounds
Heathen: To warm up a chicken
Horn: A prostitute who is also a registered nurse
Impact: The action of a small demon
Intern: Swallowed by a seabird
Kindred: A benevolent communist
Nightingale: The hours of darkness spent in a high wind
Noticed: Never frozen
Paltry: A friend's attempt
Patriot: To caress an outbreak of street violence
Shambling: Fake jewelry
Spanking: A monarch of bridges
Tartan: A sunburn caused by asphalt
[The previous "improving words" post is here.]
posted by Infidel753 at 12:20 AM
8 Comments:
I think I'll head out to a bridge now and declare myself, SPAN KING! But I want to be careful not to fall into the cold water. I want to be noticed.
Beanstalk - I like that as a euphemism for farting! I thought abundance would have had something to do with ones behind instead of bread but I guess you just not as sketchy as I am.
I find these always very funny. But, here's another challenge... How about collective nouns? I mean English has some excellent collective nouns (I like "a shrewdness of apes" but could with some more: "an hypocrisy of Conservatives"?
Euphemeism = opposite of
Meforyouism ?
Mike: As long as you don't spend a nightingale, you should be OK.
Lady M: Hmm, I need to raise my game. I don't want to be out-sketchyed.
NickM: I'm sure there are plenty of those one could come up with, but I think I've found my own niche here.
Phat: Plausible enough -- but mine are based on spelling rather than pronunciation.
In the late '90s the UK based utilities company Powergen decided to get into the Italian market and therefore needed a website for this new venture. They registered... "powergenitalia.co.it" to much ribald comment from Shetland to Sicily...
Some of these made me LOL!
NickM: I think all corporate names, logos, URLs, etc should be pre-reviewed by a committee of 13-year-old boys who would be able to spot blunders like that, since overpaid executives don't seem to be able to.
Ricko: Then I've done my job.....
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