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Post 61

Kumetanzuka the capricious

Neon lights don't burn
Eyebrows like candles do. But
A bug-zapper might!

nt: separating egg yolks and pencil sharpeners


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Post 62

Kumetanzuka the capricious

This one seems to have
stumped the populace. Can I
get this ball rolling??

Merengue -- no yolk please!
Oh! The bowl's edge is like a
fresh-sharpened pencil!

nt: tough topics and telephones


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Post 63

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

Ring, ring ... what?? Hello!
Thirteen across in The Times??
That's way too hard! Click!


Next: Challenges and Hitting the "mute" button


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Post 64

Percy the Snoodle

It is a challenge
To cope with the inane noise
I must click on 'mute'

Next: Hell and Pizza


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Post 65

Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old.

Cheap pizza will be
your fate for eternity
if you have been bad.

next: teeth and umbrella trees


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Post 66

Honey³

In the lovely shade
of a nice umbrella tree
I once picked my teeth

next : zombie and rectangle


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Post 67

Percy the Snoodle

Zombies in the strip,
"Triangle and Robert" are
all rectangular

T&R rules.

Next: Mooses and Mongooses


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Post 68

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

Horns on a mongoose?
Turns it to a tiny moose
Can it kill a cobra?


Next: cricket balls and tennis rackets


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Post 69

Wandawoman

OOh Feisor what a
big serve you have.... just reach more....
a flash of green frill!!

Next: Missing cricket balls


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Post 70

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

We have searched well
But the orbs are truly lost
Pack up the wickets

Next: late nights and h2g2 addiction


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Post 71

Thorfin Skullsplitter, berserk warrior (1+6)*(1+7-2+0)=42

I'm not addicted
So when I'm up late I watch
Conan O'Brien

nt: weasels, unsalted butter


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Post 72

Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly

those weasels, who do
market butter, did not say
it was unsalted!

(can't believe the one before this wasn't used sooner, so:
it's late at night, yet
this is when, all the others
are here. addicts, all.)

Deacon Blues and Odyssus(there's a link in there inone of his songs, if you can catch it.smiley - bigeyes)


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Post 73

Thorfin Skullsplitter, berserk warrior (1+6)*(1+7-2+0)=42

Odysseus carved
his bed out of an oak tree
Who is Deacon Blues

next: elves, baseball


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Post 74

Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly

on Steely Dan's cd "Aja", there's a song called "Deacon Blues". it the phrase ".... danger on the rocks is surely past/still i remain tied to the mast", like Odysseus, when getting past the sirens.


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Post 75

Thorfin Skullsplitter, berserk warrior (1+6)*(1+7-2+0)=42

Oh, that explains why I didn't know it, it was on a freakin Steely Dan album, who listens to them anyway.


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Post 76

Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly

oops, it's a dif song on the same album w that phrase. but since "no one listens to them anyway", i guess it doesn't matter.*looks irritated*


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Post 77

Existential Elevator

Elves will celebrate
When Frodo hits ring afar
With large baseball bat

nt: "flares" and "ice picks"


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Post 78

Hoovooloo

when mountaineering
vital safety kit includes
your flares and ice pick

Easy enough.

Next topics:
kidneys and copyright


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Post 79

Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly

think i'll write a book.
about theives who steal kidneys.
oh, wait, it's been done.

permanent markers and tissues


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Post 80

Existential Elevator

Permanent marker
Makes me sad. I think I need
A box of tissue

nt: 'golden Jubilee' and 'goldfish'

ps- sorry, I meant flares as in jeans!
smiley - smileysmiley - peacesign


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