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PAINSTAKINGLY ZANY
Copyright: 10/19/07 - Tom Hyland
To repeat, do over, OOPS!- Again
A good shopping deal is a - Bargain
Ruin, destruction, fatal, a poison - Bane
A walking device, or sugar stalk - Cane
A bird, or lifting machine for heavy objects - Crane
A person from Denmark, or a dog breed - Dane
A favor beneath your dignity - Deign
Contempt or disgust - Disdain
A pretense, fabrication, or show, FAKE - Feign
Obtain through effort, skill, or merit - Gain
Suitably related to discussion - Germane
That stuff that both cereal and alcohol are made from - Grain
A loud, forceful criticism - Harangue
Empty, insubstantial, or void - Inane
Legally incompetent or ir-responsible, crazy, NUTS - Insane
Spot saw her jump, or Tarzan’s Helpmate - Jane
A Citizen - Kane
A country path, or Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois - Lane
Now Archaic, former past participle of lie, now LAID - Lain
( what Tarzan and Jane did mainly )
Greatest in size or importance - Main
A horse, lion, giraffe, or other animal’s neck hair - Mane
A New England State, noted for Lobsters, and
Home of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - Maine
To appoint officially, or formally - Ordain
To get possession, especially by qualifying - Obtain
A glazed section of a window or door - Pane
Acutely unpleasant physical discomfort, like in the Neck, or ARSE - Pain
A Patriot and Pamphleteer named Thomas - Paine
A flat surface, machine that flies, or a hand tool for smoothing - Plane
( De Plane, Boss, De Plane! )
A flat dry land, or unadorned item, or simplest stitch in knitting - Plain
An old dead actor named John - Payne
A manmade fuel for cooking and heating C3H8,
Which Suburban FRIGGING OVERCHARGES ME! - Propane
Foul-smelling, nitrogen-based, decayed protein matter - Ptomaine
Four lined verses of Poetry, rhyming alternately - Quatrain
( gee, who’d a THUNK? )
That wet stuff that falls out of clouds - Rain
To guide, control, or restrain something, or somebody - Rein
The dominant or controlling power or factor in something - Reign
The opposite of the aforementioned above, NOT NUTS! - Sane
A type of net, or a river in France - Seine
That place where the RAIN is MAINLY on the PLAIN - Spain
The topography of a surface of land - Terrain
That which Hamlet was, a Danish Nobleman - Thane
Showing sophistication, refinement, or courtesy - Urbane
A part of Mother Russia, where the UKS live - Ukraine
Ideal state or place, usually unreachable,
Pertaining to Paradise, or Eden - Utopian
The Wind Direction indicator on the peak of the Barn - Vane
An egotistical MUVVA in the song, You’re So - Vain
The blue thingy under the skin, that Druggies
Try to SHOOT UP in, or -
The place where gold or silver is found - Vein
To decrease gradually in intensity or power - Wane
Another old great dead Actor, John - Wayne
That pain-numbing stuff the Dentist shoots YOU up with - Xylocaine
It is made from the liquids extracted by
Melting Xylophones!
A SOURPUSS, as in - Y-ain’t U Laughin Yet?
And finally, another Pain-killer, inflicted by a Sword - Zorro-Caine!
PAINSTAKINGLY ZANY
Alphabetically
From A to Z
Oops! Missed One!
SPLAIN, LUCY, SPLAIN!
Pax Tecum - Tom
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PS I like your cap!
Be safe,
Karen
Smooch...sorry I haven't been by. Been busy trying to get some books out.
Elizabeth