Conference thebay::joyoflex

    "Lock up your daughters, here comes that bubbly-jocked, realm-sucking
    Prince!"
    
    "The dragon-ridden kingdom finally had to resort to regicide, when they
    realized that his realm-sucking profligacy had reduced his now
    carriage-free subjects to swan-eating." 

    Not to spoil the fun you're about to have making up sentences, I think
    I saw this before somewhere.  (Who knows?  Maybe even here!)  It's a
    off-by-one error in the database.  Can you come up with the words they
    are supposed to be?  For example, the first one: "bean-counter."
    
    --Simon
    

    Not all of these words are unknown to literature.  For example there is
    a poem called "The Bubblyjock", by Hugh McDiarmid.  It is a Scots
    dialect word for the turkey.
    
    ijh.

    I agree with ijh.
    
    "The children of my mother's sister, and of my father's brothers
    are my ortho-cousins.  The children of my mother's brothers, and of
    my father's sisters are my cross-cousins."
    
    						Ann B.

    Two sidewalks were running down the street, and upon seeing a saloon,
    one turned to the other and said, "what do you say we go in there and
    get cement-faced?"

    Well at least SOMEONE's "gettin' with the program" 'round heeyah!! 
    (-:Of course I could be wrong and perhaps Ann B's .4 is in fact a
    virtuous attempt to create, out of whole JOYOFLEX cloth, a NEW context
    within which "ortho-cousin" is valid.:-)  
    
    But to THESE eyes at least, .5 is the (-:first?;-) response without the
    characteristic thwart-marks of those hookem-snivey, nook-shotten
    ruin-breathers who would beauty-proof our Fair File.  :-)
    
    So There.  
    
    Onward to new sun-affronting heights, my wry-toothed brethren, sistren,
    and ortho-cousindren!  Better hurry before I use 'em all up!!  :-) :-)
    
    PS -- I humbly offer this extension of Ann B's definition of ortho- and
    cross-cousins in .4:  The children of any of my mother's or father's
    brothers or sisters who live in the Mid-East are my cous-cousins.

And I suppose that the children of your father's brothers and those of
your mother's sisters are para-cousins to each other, while those of
your father's sisters and those of your mother's brothers are
meta-cousins to each other (that is, unless your mother's sisters are
married to your father's brothers, or, er, ah, this is getting to
complicated).

Dave C.

    Isn't this list part of the advert for Coca Cola(tm)?  I think that
    thirst-quenching is missing...
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
    

    Leaving behind the ruin-breathing dangers of the dragon-ridden, 
    tree-clad land, Ulysses - with thwart-marks on his back-side -
    sailed in his whale-built boat past the rock-wombed Sirens, but 
    luckily he had his beauty-proof tunic on.
    
    How many's that? But I cheated a bit - everyone in Homer's either
    well-greaved or rosy-fingered.
    
    b

    Regency bucks who found themselves a bit short of the ready before
    quarter-day would often hie themselves off to a brass-renting gent.
    
    In the old canning factories, two idiosyncratic dances were invented:
    a slow, gliding dance called the bean-caster, and a bouncy, lively
    one called the bean-caper.
    
    						Ann B.

    He was old, and gravel-blind.  His rock-wombed wife, forever childless,
    was stone-blind -- and deaf, besides.
    
    					andrew

    The trout-famous Jonah emerged from the belly of the whale, now rushing
    to attend the local smell-feast contest. To expedite his trip, he
    engaged the services of a seaside 18-wheeler, a Whale-Built truck. He
    could tell it was a serious machine, based on the thwart-marks it bore. 

	Any long poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins is bound to have most of
	these in it.

		-- C