Did you happen to hear about the UNC student
who went to buy some camouflage trousers the
other day but...
*The Rest of the Story:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{Kitty's Revenge!}
See Picture:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{An Important UNC Question}
Q: Why did the UNC student bake a turkey
for 3 and a half days?
*The Rest of the Story:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{America's Most Sinful Cities}
They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is
damnation as well.
We have unveiled the American city that has fallen
the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly
sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy
and
pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to
find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per
capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available
data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were
surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City.
Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.
*The Rest of the Story:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{Wednesday's Word Puzzle}
Match the words in the left-hand
column with the correct definition
in the right-hand column.
1. luminary ......... A. Added extrinsically
2. panache .......... B. Peevish; cross
3. mordant ......... C. Biting; caustic
4. capacious ....... D. To beg or obtain by begging
5. twizzle ............ E. A very wide mouth
6. rictus ............. F. Dash or flamboyance in manner or style
7. frampoid ........
G. To twirl or twist something vigorously
8. epigone .......... H. An inferior imitator
9. adventitious ... I. Any body that gives light
10. cadge ........... J. Having capacity
*ANSWERS:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{A Word From Prof Howdy's Dog:}
{Can You Translate These?}
THESE ARE WELL KNOWN SAYINGS -
CAN YOU TRANSLATE?
1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.
2. Members of an avian species of identical
....plumage congregate.
3. Surveillance should precede salutations
4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely
....coetaneous profundity.
5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over
....precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is
....contiguous to rectitude.
7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.
8. It is fruitless to attempt to
indoctrinate a
....superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate
....the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an
......unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 F'.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence
.....are not truly auriferous.
12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited
.....carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14. A plethora of individual with expertise in culinary
.....techniques vitiate the potable concoctions produced
.....by steeping certain comestibles.
15. Eleemosynary deeds have their insipience intramurally.
16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
17. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices
......would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous
......projectiles.
18. Neophyte's
serendipity.
19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without
......interludes of hadonisita diversion renders John a
......habatudinous fellow.
20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no
......congaries of a small, green bryophitic plant.
21. A person presenting the ultimate cachination possess
......thereby the optimal cachination.
22. Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes
......a potent potential escalation of lucrative nature.
23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the
......potential of fracturing my osseous structures but
......appellations will eternally name innocuous.
*ANSWERS:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{Prof Howdy In Counseling}
See Picture:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{Question}
What is the UNC student doing when she
holds her hands tightly over her ears?
*The Rest of the Story:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.com{Wednesday's Riddles}
1) I went to the park and there were several boys with their
dogs. Counting heads there are 22. Counting legs there are
68. How many boys and dogs are at the park?
2) Assuming that the vowels are A E I O & U,
name a six-letter word that has no vowels?
3) What do you throw out when you want to use it,
but take in when you don't want to use it?
4) A word or name that is spelled backwards the same as it is
forwards is a linguistic curiosity call a "palindrome." Words
such as BIB, SEES, and MADAM are examples of ordinary palin-
dromes. Many
everyday words happen to be palindromes. Listed
below are the definitions of 10 such words, with the numbers
of letters in each palindrome shown in brackets after the
definition. How many of these commonplace palindromes
do you recognize from their definitions?
A) a notable achievement (4)
B) not sloping (5)
C) more blood-colored (6)
D) 12 hours after midnight (4)
E) males and females (5)
F) one who resuscitates another (7)
G) narratives of heroic deeds (5)
H) pertaining to public affairs (5)
I) made wet with dew (5)
J) a mechanical part that causes rotation (7)
5) Can you decipher this famous saying?
That prudent avis which matutinally
deserts the coziness of its abode will
ensnare a vermiculate creature.
6) What has one leg,
but not two.
Never gets fat,
has 15 teeth,
but doesn't chew.
All green and no blue,
bugs don't like them but I do.
What are
they?
7) Without a bridle, or a saddle,
across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me,
though almost blind, are made to see.
What am I?
*ANSWERS:
http://ThoughtHumorHowdy.notlong.comMichelle Obama's America -- and Mine
Which Michelle Do You Believe???
***Guest Op-Ed***
Like Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color."
Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother
of two young children. Like Michelle Obama,
I am a member of the 13th generation of
Americans born since the founding of our
great nation.
Unlike Michelle Obama, I can't keep track
of the number of times I've been proud --
really proud -- of my country since I was
born and privileged to live in it...
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