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Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/28/09 at 3:49 pm
November 5th is Guy Fawkes Night.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/28/09 at 6:00 pm
Night Fever was a famous song from Saturday night fever.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/28/09 at 10:58 pm
Saturday Night Fever was a popular movie in the late 1970's, featuring some music by the Bee Gees; one of the songs was "Night Fever" (as mentioned above); that was a follow-up #1 to "Stayin' Alive."
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 12:08 am
A live show is better than watching it on DVD
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/29/09 at 7:33 am
Watching it on DVD is alright if you have never seen it before.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 1:20 pm
Before today, there was yesterday
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Layla on 10/29/09 at 2:16 pm
Yesterday is but a memory.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 3:37 pm
a Memory is something to cherish, unless it's a bad one.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/29/09 at 3:47 pm
A bad one is how lots of people describe a cold they may have.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 3:51 pm
Have gun, will travel is an old TV show
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/29/09 at 4:14 pm
An old TV show that I watched once in a while.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 5:26 pm
Once in a while, I will play tennis
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/29/09 at 11:25 pm
Tennis is a sport that I have not played in a while, but I did take a tennis class in my sophomore year of high school, which was almost half my life ago already...my how time sure does fly. :o
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/29/09 at 11:34 pm
Time sure does fly, half my life ago I was just about graduating from University.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/30/09 at 4:56 am
University of Rochester students do graduate work at Strong Memorial hospital.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/30/09 at 1:11 pm
Hospital workers usually have plenty of experience and training in the medical field before they obtain their positions doing what they do.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/30/09 at 10:22 pm
They do not know what they do, but they do it anyways.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: gibbo on 10/30/09 at 10:34 pm
Do it anyways but loose...
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/30/09 at 11:44 pm
Loose papers in a notebook can easily fall out.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/31/09 at 7:59 am
Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/09 at 10:08 am
Illinois, the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/31/09 at 1:22 pm
The National League this year is represented in the World Series by Philadelphia
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/09 at 1:25 pm
Philadelphia-style cheesecake is lighter in texture, yet creamier in flavor than New York style cheesecake
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/31/09 at 1:41 pm
Cheesecake is my wife's favorite western style desert.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/09 at 1:42 pm
Cheesecake is my wife's favorite western style desert.
...dessert.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/31/09 at 2:13 pm
Dessert is sweet food eaten after a meal, while desert (with one S) is a geographical area that gets very little rainfall each year; such areas often contain cacti and sand and things of that nature.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/09 at 2:17 pm
Nature is a prominent British scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 10/31/09 at 2:18 pm
1869 was 140 years ago. It was the year that marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad across the United States.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/09 at 2:19 pm
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 10/31/09 at 4:14 pm
District of Columbia is one of the US States.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/31/09 at 6:27 pm
The US States vary in sizes.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: star80 on 10/31/09 at 7:13 pm
Sizes are divided into various types, depending on the overall height and the relative heights of the bust and waistlines of women.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 10/31/09 at 7:18 pm
The bust and waistlines of women are what some men are interested in.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/09 at 4:27 am
Some men are interested in only sport.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/01/09 at 11:46 pm
Sports are fun to play and to watch on TV
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 2:28 am
TV is an abbreviation for television
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/02/09 at 12:48 pm
Television has lots more channels, especially in the digital cable lineup, than it did 10 or even 20 years ago...which has forced cable lineups around the world to include triple-digit channel numbers; some high-def stations probably have channel numbers over 1,000.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 1:21 pm
1000 AD (according to the then used Julian Calendar) was a leap year starting on Monday.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/02/09 at 1:23 pm
Monday is today.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 1:55 pm
Today was an R&B vocal group formed in 1988.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/02/09 at 1:56 pm
In 1988, the Dodgers last won the World Series. :)
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 1:56 pm
The World Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada since 1903, concluding the postseason of Major League Baseball.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/02/09 at 1:57 pm
The postseason of Major League Baseball is so much more fun when the Yankees don't steal the show.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 2:01 pm
The show must go on.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/02/09 at 2:03 pm
"Go on, go on, leave me breathless" is the first line of a hit song made popular in the early 00s by the Corrs, a band of siblings from Ireland.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/09 at 2:05 pm
Ireland has a rich history in science and is known for its excellence in scientific research conducted at its many universities and institutions.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/02/09 at 11:55 pm
Ireland has a rich history in science and is known for its excellence in scientific research conducted at its many universities and institutions, but is also known for it's heavy drinkers
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/09 at 2:27 am
Drinkers are those people who drink.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/03/09 at 8:12 am
People who drink sometimes have liquid courage.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/03/09 at 7:55 pm
Courage should be used to perform good things...but mainly to accomplish something.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/09 at 2:39 am
Something in the way she moves.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/04/09 at 8:59 am
The way she moves attracks me like no other lover.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/09 at 1:14 pm
Lovers of the world unite, you alone know what is right.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/04/09 at 7:31 pm
what is right maybe wrong to someone else
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/09 at 2:36 am
Someone else is somebody else
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/05/09 at 7:08 am
Somebody else,lives somewhere else.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/09 at 2:46 pm
Somewhere Else is Marillion's 14th studio album, released on 9 April 2007.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/05/09 at 4:03 pm
9 April 2007, was my dad's 54th birthday...and the day I went back to school after the spring break...which for me has usually been during Holy Week.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/06/09 at 1:51 am
Holy Week is an important week for the Christian and the Catholic church
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/06/09 at 2:39 am
The Catholic church was behind the conspircy of the Gunpowder Plot.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/06/09 at 8:49 am
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics against King James I of England and VI of Scotland
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/06/09 at 1:33 pm
Scotland is to the north of England.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/06/09 at 11:45 pm
England last won the World cup of football in 1966
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/06/09 at 11:48 pm
In 1966, the Dodgers were swept in the World Series by the Baltimore Orioles.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/06/09 at 11:53 pm
The Baltimore Orioles lost the World Series to Pittsburgh in 1979
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/06/09 at 11:55 pm
1979 was the last time that the Pirates made it to the World Series. They've reached the postseason a couple of times since then, but did not survive the National League Champion Series.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 12:01 am
the National League Champion Series featured L.A and Philadelphia this year.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 12:04 am
This year's NLCS featured those two teams, just like it did last year! The ALCS, on the other hand, featured two completely different teams than those of last year.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 12:07 am
Last year was 2008
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 12:10 am
2008 was a leap year in which Leap Day fell on a Friday. So was 1980.
2008 was a year in which the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series. So was 1980.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 12:14 am
1980 was my last year of high school.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 12:15 am
My last year of high school was 1998. I guess I was born around the time that ^ was finishing high school!! Did you then go to college?
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 12:26 am
To college? Yes I did go to college in Canada right after High school.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 12:27 am
Right after high school, I enrolled in college too! But it was a community college, since I was unsure about what course of study to pursue. But after three years in community college, I was ready to transfer to a four-year university, where I ended up spending 7 years!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:16 am
Seven years is the length of the "Seven Year Itch".
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:23 am
The Seven year itch was made 7 years before I was born
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:24 am
I was born in the same decade.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:33 am
In the same decade I was born, Pres. Kennedy was shot and killed.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:35 am
Pres. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, as the open limousine drove down Elm Street.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:43 am
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, as the open limousine drove down Elm Street, which happened when I was a mere toddler.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:48 am
I was a mere toddler when that happened, but I do recall the assassination of his brother Robert.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:50 am
I was a mere toddler when that happened, but I do recall the assassination of his brother Robert.
I do recall the assassination of his brother Robert as well, that was probably my first sad memory from childhood.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:51 am
My first sad memory from childhood is watching the funeral of Winston Churchill.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:59 am
Winston Churchill died in 1965.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 3:02 am
In 1965, the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 3:04 am
the Red Planet is a place that many, in 1965, thought they might be traveling there by the year 2000, but that did not happen, as so far man has only been to the moon.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 3:05 am
The moon has had sport played on it.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 3:12 am
It has, people played golf .
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 3:16 am
Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/07/09 at 9:41 am
Strokes can be very dangerous.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 10:52 am
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:10 pm
Thurman Munson was a famous baseball player who died sadly in a plane crash in 1979.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 2:17 pm
1979 was 30 years ago.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 2:59 pm
30 years ago we didn't have the internet
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 4:13 pm
30 years ago we didn't have the internet as we know it today, for in 1969 work on the first Internet then called ARPAnet began to protected the flow of information between military installations.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 6:24 pm
In 1969 work on the first Internet then called ARPAnet began to protected the flow of information between military installations; that is true, but that was 40 years ago!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 6:25 pm
40 years ago, people were getting ready for the 70s.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 6:31 pm
The 70's had Richard Nixon as president of the U.S. during most of the first half; in August of 1974 he resigned from office and was succeeded by Gerald Ford, who had never been elected to the presidency or vice-presidency; he had been appointed in October 1973 to replace Spiro Agnew, who had resigned as vice-president shortly before then.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 6:33 pm
Then came Carter following Ford
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/07/09 at 6:34 pm
Ford cars have been made in the United States for over a century.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/07/09 at 6:38 pm
Over a century ago, the civil war was fought.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/09 at 3:04 am
The civil war was fought to preserve the Union.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/08/09 at 3:59 pm
The Union was on the north side, and the Confederacy was on the south side.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/09/09 at 1:09 am
on the south side of Chicago, lives a man named Leroy Brown.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/09 at 2:58 am
Leroy Brown was bad bad.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/09/09 at 8:52 am
Bad Bad Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/09 at 2:47 pm
Town criers are used to make public announcements in the streets.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/09/09 at 2:52 pm
"Streets Of Philadelphia" was a 1994 hit song from Bruce Springsteen, from the movie Philadelphia.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/09 at 2:53 pm
Philadelphia is also a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/09/09 at 5:52 pm
United Kingdom is sometimes simplified as UK, and sometimes called England..
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/09/09 at 8:43 pm
England is the common name for most of that area.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: coqueta83 on 11/09/09 at 9:09 pm
Area 51 is a military base located about 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/09/09 at 9:25 pm
Las Vegas is famous for casinos.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/10/09 at 12:05 am
Casinos are usually found in geographic localities where people like to gamble, such as Las Vegas and nearby Reno, as well as Monte Carlo, which is in an area called Monaco, situated near France and Italy.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/09 at 2:05 am
Italy has a global influence in politics, culture, science, education, fashion, art, archaeology, religion, cuisine, business, healthcare, sport, architecture, design, cinema, finance and music.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/10/09 at 2:34 am
Musicals from the 1950s and 60s are pleasant to watch
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/09 at 2:36 am
To watch is to keep your eyes open.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/10/09 at 2:39 am
Open the window when it's raining, and the floor will be wet.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/09 at 2:43 am
Wet is not being dry.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/10/09 at 7:51 am
Not being dry when it is cold out,can lead to one getting the cold or flu.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/09 at 2:35 pm
Flu, is better known as influenza, is Italian and means "influence" (Latin: influentia) and tThe most common symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/10/09 at 3:55 pm
General discomfort can be very annoying.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/09 at 3:57 pm
Annoying songs are painful to the ear.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/10/09 at 5:52 pm
The ear of a human being is composed of many small parts.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/09 at 2:11 am
Small parts are very tiny.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/11/09 at 11:17 pm
"Tiny Dancer" was one of Elton John's earliest hit songs; the title has often been misheard as the name of a famous American actor, Tony Danza.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/12/09 at 2:33 am
Tony Danza was in the TV show Taxi.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/09 at 2:35 am
Taxi is a form of motor transportation.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/12/09 at 2:37 am
a form of motor transportation can be an Airplane
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/12/09 at 8:58 am
Airplane! the movie was a huge financial success, grossing over US$83 million in North America alone, against a budget of just $3.5 million.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/09 at 1:48 pm
"Million love songs later, and here I am trying to tell you that I care, a million love songs later, and here I am."
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/12/09 at 11:56 pm
Here I am, finally on the computer at a late hour; I had no time during the day to be online because I was busy with a project that took hours to complete.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 1:59 am
Complete is to finish.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 3:02 pm
To finish in a marathon race is quite the achievement.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 3:14 pm
Achievement test is a test of developed skill or knowledge.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 6:16 pm
Knowledge is power
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/13/09 at 6:40 pm
Power is a common word for electricity.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 6:45 pm
Electricity makes my power chainsaw do lots of damage in my backyard
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/13/09 at 7:28 pm
My backyard is kind of small, but a good size nonetheless. Tomorrow I need to go out there and mow the lawn, since I haven't done that in more than a week.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 7:32 pm
A week ago, it was one week from today
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/13/09 at 7:33 pm
Today is still Friday the 13th, where I am! :D
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 11:43 pm
Where I am it is now Saturday.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 11:50 pm
Saturday won't arrive here for another 3 hours.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/09 at 11:51 pm
Three hours time, I may be back in bed.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/13/09 at 11:58 pm
Three hours time, I may be back in bed.
In bed I shall be also, in three hours from now.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 12:00 am
Now my eyes are beginning to close.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/14/09 at 12:03 am
Close to you was a song by the Carpenters
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 12:04 am
The Carpenters sung a many of a wonderful song.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/14/09 at 12:07 am
The Carpenters sung a many of a wonderful song and it was sad when Karen died back in the early 1980s
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 12:09 am
When Karen died back in the early 1980s it came as an awful shock to us all.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/14/09 at 12:11 am
All in the family was a famous North American TV show
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/09 at 12:15 am
All in the family was a famous North American TV show which was based on the British television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/14/09 at 12:22 am
Part 1 of a film series is usually better than the other parts
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 5:53 am
Parts of the world are covered with water.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 9:17 am
Water now comes flavored.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 9:18 am
Water now comes flavored with a hint of various fruit.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 9:24 am
Various fruit comes in the Edible fruit centerpiece.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 10:12 am
"Piece Of Me" was sung by Ashlee Simpson
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 12:37 pm
Ashlee Simpson is married to Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 1:33 pm
Pete Wentz is an American musician, lyricist and Music video director, most famous for his work with the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 2:35 pm
Fall Out Boy reached mainstream success with its major label debut, From Under the Cork Tree.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 2:36 pm
The `Cork Tree` is a very famous tree in India and has been cultivated in most parts of India in the gardens and avenues.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 2:48 pm
Avenues can mean a means of access or approach.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 2:50 pm
Approach, in golf, is the area of grass in front of the green.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 3:12 pm
Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/09 at 3:13 pm
Nanometres are a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a meter.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 4:45 pm
A meter is the international standard unit of length, approximately equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/15/09 at 7:30 pm
"Seconds out" was a title of a 70s live album released by Genesis
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/15/09 at 7:32 pm
Genesis was also the name of a book of the Bible; it tells about the beginnings of life.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/15/09 at 7:36 pm
Life of Brian was another of those wacky films by Monty Python.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 7:41 pm
Monty Python use to be shown on our local PBS channel.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/15/09 at 7:51 pm
Monty Python use to be shown on our local PBS channel as well, back in the 70's and 1980s
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/15/09 at 8:00 pm
Back in the 70's and 1980's life seemed so much simpler.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:44 am
Life seemed so much simpler when we had no Internet.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/16/09 at 2:51 am
Internet can be addictive to some.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 7:19 am
Internet can be addictive to some, according to my husband I am one of those people.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/16/09 at 2:24 pm
people who need people are the luckiest people
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 2:56 pm
People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/16/09 at 2:58 pm
The world's population is well over 6 billion now..
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 3:03 pm
Now is the time.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 3:43 pm
The time has come.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/09 at 3:50 pm
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 3:54 pm
"Pigs with wings," the Walrus said,
"Now there's a clever thought,
I s'pose there might be some around,
But none have yet been caught,
And seeing as they fly about,
I think I know why not.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/16/09 at 5:23 pm
not familiar with the previous poem or story
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/16/09 at 5:54 pm
The previous poem or story is a poem called The Walrus and the Carpenter, by Lewis Carroll.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/16/09 at 11:50 pm
Carroll O'Connor was the star of the 1970's TV sitcom All In The Family.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/17/09 at 1:01 am
All in the family had a few spin-off shows
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/17/09 at 7:18 am
Spin-off shows like Maude, The Jeffersons and Archie Bunker's Place.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/09 at 2:34 pm
Archie Bunker's Place was somewhere in the USA
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/17/09 at 4:55 pm
The USA is the country directly south of the country where I live in
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/17/09 at 7:26 pm
I live in the state of California, which is in the southwest portion of the continental U.S.A.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/18/09 at 1:14 am
The continental U.S.A. does not include Hawaii
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 2:15 am
Hawaii was the home island of Pai`ea Kamehameha, called by Westerners Kamehameha the Great, who by 1795 had united most of the Hawaiian Islands under his rule after several years of warfare and conquest.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 7:34 am
Conquest is the act or process of conquering.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:39 pm
Conquering Bear was born around 1800 a Brulé Lakota otherwise a Sioux.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 1:43 pm
Sioux City is the capital of the state of Iowa.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/09 at 1:48 pm
Iowa was a part of the French colony of New France.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/18/09 at 2:44 pm
New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/18/09 at 11:59 pm
"River of Dreams" was a big hit for Billy Joel in the 1990's.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 1:29 am
In the 1990's, people were worried about Y2K
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:18 am
Y2K never appeared
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 2:30 am
Y2K never appeared but lots were worried
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:32 am
Y2K never appeared but lots were worried, and made their computers safe to the best they could.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 2:34 am
could a similar thing occur at Y3K? Time will tell
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:36 am
Time will tell, but I will not be here for that.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 2:37 am
I will not be here for that either, in fact none of the current members will be alive at that point
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/09 at 2:41 am
I will not be here for that either, in fact none of the current members will be alive at that point, unless the Elixir Of Life has been found.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/19/09 at 2:43 am
Life has been found on other planets, or has it.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/19/09 at 6:37 am
It will surely remain a mystery in our lifetime.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/19/09 at 5:31 pm
Lifetime is a cable network that has been around for quite a while now.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/20/09 at 1:07 am
Now is it raining again, it has rained everyday for 2 weeks here.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/20/09 at 1:09 am
Here in southern California, we get a fairly decent amount of rain, depending on the time of year. There is rain in the forecast for this weekend, but we're hoping there's none at all on Saturday because my mom's birthday is that day.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/20/09 at 1:37 am
That day it will rain here, since the forecast calls for rain everyday in the next 6 days.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/20/09 at 7:17 am
6 days from today is our Thanksgiving.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/20/09 at 5:20 pm
Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, and is an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/20/09 at 6:26 pm
1863 was the year in which President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "Gettysburg Address"... in fact, yesterday was the 146th anniversary of that historic speech!! :o :D
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/21/09 at 12:15 am
Speech therapy was a profession that a friend of mine went into, some 20 years ago.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Womble on 11/21/09 at 12:25 am
Years ago, There was never any leftover candy after Halloween.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 12:56 am
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/21/09 at 12:57 am
Horror films are not my favorite type of films
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/21/09 at 9:10 am
My favorite types of films are usually comedies.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/09 at 9:10 am
Comedies can make you laugh.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/23/09 at 1:48 pm
Laughter is the best form of relieving stress.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Silver Power on 11/23/09 at 4:31 pm
Relieving stress is easy when you have cigarettes.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/23/09 at 5:07 pm
Cigarettes are addictive and are unhealthy for you.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/23/09 at 11:32 pm
You are absolutely right, Frank; they can do serious damage to your body. You only get one body, and it's gotta last a while. If not, then you could die at an early age. :\'(
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/23/09 at 11:50 pm
At an early age, I got the measles and the mumps
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/23/09 at 11:54 pm
The measles and the mumps were avoided by me, because I got the shots/vaccinations for them while still a baby.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/24/09 at 12:06 am
A baby can't speak 18 different languages while doing high school math
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 5:10 am
While doing high school math calculators are permitted.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: star80 on 11/24/09 at 6:01 am
Calculators are permitted in some cases.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 6:16 am
Cases can contain many items even musical instruments.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 8:34 am
Musical instruments can have strings on them.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 8:43 am
Them! is a 1954 black and white science fiction film about man's encounter with a nest of radiation-giganticized ants.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/24/09 at 8:57 am
Ants love to ruin a picnic.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/09 at 9:48 am
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir, adapted from the novel of the same name
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/24/09 at 7:15 pm
"Same name" is a common category for puzzles on the game show Wheel Of Fortune, but these days it doesn't often use proper names of people.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 9:13 am
Names of people can be different or the same.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: ninny on 11/25/09 at 10:01 am
The same old song and dance.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 11:22 am
Dance the night away.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/25/09 at 12:35 pm
Dance the night away was a song by Van Halen some 30 years ago.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 12:37 pm
30 years ago was 1979.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/25/09 at 12:40 pm
1979 was the last year of the 70s
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/09 at 1:43 pm
The 70s was the decade that ran from January 1, 1970, to December 31, 1979.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/25/09 at 7:04 pm
December 31, 1979, was the birthdate of one of my high school friends; I am currently keeping in touch with him on Facebook.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: DJ Blaze on 11/25/09 at 10:00 pm
Facebook is nowhere near as addicting as this site!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 11/25/09 at 11:14 pm
This site will probably not change its name to "inthe10s.com" come January, although at some point it might. I never thought that this decade would go by so quick!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/26/09 at 12:19 pm
Quick everyone, it's Thanksgiving, eat some turkey!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/09 at 2:35 pm
Turkey is not on our menu tonight.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Frank on 11/26/09 at 5:08 pm
Tonight we are having pasta
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/27/09 at 2:13 am
Pasta with turkey?