h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I use unmitigated with success.

Magwitch you're giving me flashbacks to my phenomenology lectures. Such dark, dark times.

A blatant _____?

To be blatantly ________?

Iago, you were taught by Tim Dant?

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/tim-dant

Not sure about 'blatant', KB. Is it 'disregard'?

Many things can be blatant

That's blatantly obvious.

RF

I thought blatantly obvious was a tautology. Isn't it a mistaken version of 'patently obvious'?

A dingly dell?

I think you can say, dingly, dangly about other stuff though..

Actually maybe it's a dingle dell?

(I haven't looked up on google, to not spoil my fun)

Can "laughing" be used to describe anything other than gnomes?

RF

Is anything other than a pause ever pregnant?

This question is one I've asked myself a thousand times over the years.
And I used to have a mental list of my favourites.
There are several very conspicuous ones.


But I can't for the life of me remember any right now.

They'll come to me eventually.
I'll be back. I'd love to share them with you.

~jwf~

I'll keep my lips hermetically [....] until then, then.


I must say, though, that I am diametrically [....]

to monosodium [....]!

Crystal [....]?

Ashes Breakfast.

(The name for the radio 5live morning programme at present).

It took a while and I only managed to retrieve one from my memory
files. So far...

And it reminded why I can't remember the list and why I've never
had the opportunity to articulate my thoughts on these things.

Most of them are so uniquely one-use adjectives that they have
been branded as cliches.

Heinous crimes.


In avoiding cliches I have lost most of them to the depths of
memory files labelled 'never called upon for creative writing
or conversation'.

Many may also be of war, crime and assorted unpleasant horrors
all tagged with 'repress this file' labels.

But now that I have a foothold I'm sure I can wrench out a few more.

~jwf~

Bird's nest soup

As a professional chemist can I just at the idea of monosodium being a single use adjective

For a start it's not an adjective. It's part of the name of the chemcial

Secondly, there are many many compounds that can be counted as monosodium salts.

Oh and laughing policeman?

That sounds like a good 'philistine test': What noun do you associate with the adjective 'laughing'?

I thought Cavalier.

I turned to the cricket with bated [....] this morning, expecting England to have batted well.

Wishful [....]

Laughing Cow.