Showing posts with label wordsmith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordsmith. Show all posts

12.30.2010

NYE: WACKY WORD PLAY:WIN $50!!


G'mornin'. How'ya feelin'? The cawfee is fresh an hot enough to matter, so sip it first.
I'se heade over to EGGY'S Brunch...please come along too, everyone wants to see ya!

The word games remain open until noon EST today. I'll post the winners tonight 9pm EST.
Haven't left an entry for the wordplay? Jes' scroll down this post an see if yore brain will fire up--love to have yore entry afore the game closes. (there may be honorable mention for late entries, but $ to timely submissions)

Well, I gotta git over to Eggy's so I can git back an tend to the New Year's Day black-eyed peas.

OH, yeah, mah GARLAND?? grrr! It's posted at Ether Capacious--click here.

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The next wordplay game ( winner takes $50! ) is

Fill -In-the-Blanks.

The funniest entry wins--an' be sure to check back an' cast yore vote on this one--Aunty will take yore votes as the decidin' factor on this game. So grab yore next wet refreshment an sharpen yore pencil. Answer in the combox, numbered 1 thru 5. You may enter as many times as ya wish. Ready?


1. A New Year's Eve Party _____________________________ .


2. The ______________ of my ___________ is _____________.



3. Forget____________, give me ________________________ .



4. I predict_____________________________________in 2011.



5. My New Year's resolution____________because____________ .


(the other word games is still open--no winner decided yet;scroll down the post iffin' ya want to add a new entry. $50 goes to winner of EACH game as a donation to the food bank or homeless shelter in the winner's hometown, or, a donation will be made to a scholarship fund for children or spouses of disabled veterans in the winner's state.)


XOXO fer now Sweet Thangs, I has a late date but may look in at Boxer's in the wee hours of EST--see y'all thar'!


* * * * * * * earlier today * * * * * * * * * *

BOXER'S BLOGGERIFFIC NYE PARTY!!

(click icon on right fer party info)





WACKY WORD an' BLOGGER DOSSIER CONTEST fer scrambled brains




Update:


hey all y'all! WELCOME to the Front Porch whar' some of the FUN an GAMES of BOXER's party "rooms" takes place. Doan be shy, jes' plunge right in! On the Porch ya can win $50 fer yore own local food bank (or two other local charities in the winner's hometown--see post below)

Fer now, thar's two word-oriented contests runnin' ( more to come in the hours ahead). The newest competition is to write the best Limerick.


Jes' to refresh any (no!) drink fogged brains, Limericks are five line poems meant to be funny or ironic, the rhyme scheme is AABBA. The A lines are 7-9 syllables, the B lines 5-7 syllables. Like so:

The limerick is furtive and mean

You must keep her in close quarantine

Or she sneaks to the slums

And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk and obscene.


It's fun an clever to make up words to fit the limerick, thus:


There once was a sculptor named Phideous

Whose sculptures by most were thought hideous

He carved Aphrodite

Without even a nightie

Which shocked all the fussy fastidious

I totally cribbed these samples : )

Extra points to the limericks that use any fellow blogger's name.

Of course, the INVENT a WORD contest continues jes' under these masked marauders.



Words ain't yore thang? Click the fashion video links at the end of the post...ooooh ooooh oooh
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Next up? Hilarious Fill in the Blank word play (6pm, EST)

Hey y'all!! WELCOME ever'body!!

Iffin' ya arrived here from Boxer's FAB-u-lous NYE party, an never been to the Front Porch afore now, double welcome!! ( hope y'all fergive the Cracker -speak)

I reckon Boxer-Babe fixed ya' up at her libation station (the Vodka Fountain is up an runnin' now?) so quick! --while ya still have wits, see can ya' win a prize donation to a charity
in yore town (detailed in post below, "Let the games Begin")

First up, try yore hand at
Word Invention.


WORD INVENTION RULES

Option I: Combine the names of any two or more movie/sports/chef/design stars an' give the definition of the new word.

Example: J-Lohan: a cushioned landing when ya' gits so zonked that ya' fall on yore fanny.


Option II: Invent a word that describes familiar situation for which no specific term exists.

Examples:

Someone who insists on rearranging the way you load the dishwasher suffers from
obsessive compulsive dishorder... a dishtraction .

The ubiquitous item seen everywhere until you decide to buy it, then it cannot be found:

Neverywhere… unbiquitous…fewbiquitous.

(Uncle's entry is, When a situation cannot be justified
an' things need to be equaled out, thas' a situation that ya need to "equify." Legal term; Equification)


Option III: Invent a word from the name of a famous person and use it in a sentence.

Examples:

Boycott is from poor ole Mr.Charlie Boycott, a hated landlord in Ireland, whose tenants an' vendors refused to have social congress wif' him--thus to refuse acknowledgment or patronage is to Boycott.

"Unbiden" a verb that means to swear or misspeak during tense moments; "The organizers feared their candidate would unbiden at townhall meetings" (Joe Biden)

Have fun--come back to see what entries others left in the combox.

New Game will be posted noon (EST) Dec 31st.

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Ladies only: As fer what I'se wearin' fer this segment of the party? Why that simple silver Dennis Basso gown that could jes' as easily be a nightgown-- @46, cause I'se too ole now fer those dear li'l sashay dresses.

But, ya know what'd be real funny? Wait til folks is under the influence then come out in something Galliano an' shake people to their socks--what is with all
them headdresses??

1.21.2008

WORDSMITH'S GAME ( Don't Cheat !!)


Some of ya'll is wordsmiths in one form or t'other. Iffin' so, you'll have fun on this heah post. If not, well at least youse gonna learn some two dollar words.


On the Porch we have us a game we likes to play--it is hilarious and we learn to mind read when we plays it, 'cause after a bit, ya sorta figger out who is likely to craft his word this way or thata way....



Now, no cheatin', ya hear? It ain't No fun iffin' ya'll cheat.

Ready? Here we goes:

The rules is that Aunty puts out an akshull and real, but, strange or funky word, then ya'll write in what ya think the definition is. DO NOT GIT YORE DICTIONARY OUT TO CHECK! Play fair folks.

Here is an example:

Word is "athelia"

It means______________

1. A huckster's apprentice
2. A person without nipples
3. Euphoric during intimacy
4. The female platypus
5. Tartan kilt donned for battle



Another example:

Word is "longanimity"

Do it mean____

1. The ability to stretch one's limbs beyond the norm
2. Equidistant axises
3. Fermented sugar cane sediment
4. Patient plotting of revenge
5. A tendency to prissy speech


One of these is correct in each example ( answers is hidden in this post) but, them others? Why Aunty jes' pure-T made 'em up. Thas' what ya' does iffin' ya doan know the akshull definition.

Now, here is the word ya'll need to write the definition for:

"geloscopy"


Check back an' see what others wrote as the proposed definition of "geloscopy" an' then on Wednesday vote on the one ya think is closest--we's gonna see whose definition gits the most votes--



But DOAN PEEK at no dictionary or dictionary.com neither, ya'll. (Winner gits a mint julep while the rest of us sip lemonade)