Fifi Trixibelle Geldof has a name only slightly more bizarre than her sister, Peaches. And dare we mention Sage Moonblood Stallone or Kal-El Cage?
Meanwhile Dweezil Zappa is still cranking out rock riffs, almost twenty years after losing his dad, Frank. Though lately Zowie Bowie directs films (including the recent Moon) under the genteel alias of [...]
You lot found ‘1000 uses’ for those famous Greek girls. Puns. Hiddens. Anagrams. Sandwiches. Every recipe the tenth Muse (Cryptica) murmured in your ear. So now it boils down to who did what best with which sister, and the aftermath looks like this:
CALLIOPE = Howl at the moon sport [AS]
(DG went very close. May I suggest [...]
Two months ago, we did reindeers. This time round, going up a brow or two, we turn our focus to another notable nine – the Muses. You know these inspiring sisters by heart, I’m sure:
Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry
Clio, history
Erato, lyric poetry (as opposed to net porn)
Euterpe, music
Melpomene, tragedy
Polyhymnia, choral poetry
Terpsichore, dance
Thalia, comedy
Urania, astronomy
Your [...]
‘You buggers don’t make it a picnic to choose three winners,’ the judge appraised. Our Gifted Gabs drew the biggest load of posts in storm history, and most of this swag was worth a mention, if not a Certificate of Merit.
Since the ex- prefix was so popular, I decided to demote their glory as a [...]
Puns this week, where the vavavoom lurks in all the variants on the verb to ’say’. Like these for example:
‘These papers need to fresh assessment,’ she remarks.
‘Gluttony is wrong,’ the priest insinuated.
‘I’ve lost a little weight,’ I announce.
‘Your turn to bat,’ Ponting declares.
Be inventive. Be sly. But most of all, be remark-able. Three prizes to be [...]
Not a challenge for the coward last week – or the yellow fellow. We had to dream up paired rhymes that satisfied a single-word definition.
The fact that Rudd’s rival is liking biking, makes the sport an Abbott habit. And once we warmed up, much like the peloton, the best impressed. CRD in fact got so [...]
What word (invoice, overland, subway, backhand or tiptop) belongs with light lunch, squeeze out, black glove, poor suggestion and letter X?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB244 SOLUTION: Biggins/Higgins/Piggins, Mills/Hills/Stills, Ward/Lord/Ford, Dyson/Tyson/Bryson, Kahlo/Harlow/Marlowe, Stokes/Oakes/Folkes, Cox/Knox/Fox, Horne/Warne/Bourne, Goss/Moss/Ross
Two-horse race this week, the battle of the rhyming slangers. (We may need to do some Storm recruiting, a little like the NRL version.) But the modesty of the field didn’t dent the quality of the results.
A bottle of Peter Landy (brandy) to Mr X for his précis of the MP3 climate:
Record companies would Josh [...]
Dog’s Eye and Dead Horse is a new ABC book by Graham Seal that holds the wealth of Australian rhyming slang. Wait. Did I say wealth? Compared to Cockneys, we’re bloody ’opeless.
Even in the category of ‘famous people’, the list is slim. I found tennis champ Adrian Quist (pissed), keeper Wally Grout (shout) and Bass & [...]
Three rhyming surnames await each trio of people below. Pru, John, Noel equals Goward, Howard, Coward. (For offshore browsers, as the example has warned, some trios may have a parochial flavour.)
Jonathan, Missy, George
Heather, Adam, Stephen
Rachel, Gabrielle, Michelle
Mia, Mike, Bill
Frida, Jean, Christopher
Kerry, Laurie, Steve
Eva, Malcolm, Lindsay
Donald, Shane, Shane
Wayne, Ian, Ian
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB243 SOLUTION: Swap one word in [...]