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A list of 200 words by sionnach.

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  • dontcry The old grey mare ?
    May 26, 2012

  • scarecrow where's brownout (wartime 'lite' blackout) and whiteout (film technique).... Feb 23, 2010

  • scarecrow shoeblack = shoe polish Feb 23, 2010

  • reesetee *blushes* Feb 18, 2010

  • hernesheir Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical theater production - can you imagine Donny Osmond and Richard Attenborough on the same stage? Feb 18, 2010

  • hernesheir green eggs and ham, "a good egg" from one of reesetee's lists. Feb 18, 2010

  • hernesheir blue daze - name for the showy garden flowers Evolvulus pilosus and E. glomeratus Feb 18, 2010

  • reesetee Re resisting Facebook: Wise man. It's too late for me.

    I'm not sure how FB posts could relate to your getting quadruplicate posts from Wordnik, though. Feb 18, 2010

  • hernesheir blue peter, or Blue Peter if you're referring to the name of the famous RNLI lifeboat or the television programme. Feb 18, 2010

  • yarb blue funk Feb 18, 2010

  • sionnach Thanks, r_t. I have so far managed to resist Facebook. But at least I now understand what has been generating all those quadruple comment notifications in my e-mail inbox.

    Hoping that this comment doesn't show up in quadruplicate in other people's e-mail... Feb 18, 2010

  • reesetee Sionnach, don't know whether you're on Facebook, but the Wordnik group there is coming up with all sorts of suggestions for this list (it's List of the Day, in case you didn't know). Not sure why they don't just pop in here and post, but for what it's worth.... Feb 18, 2010

  • rogerb blue funk Feb 18, 2010

  • rogerb primrose path Feb 18, 2010

  • rogerb purple patch Feb 18, 2010

  • whichbe brownnose Oct 31, 2008

  • sionnach Is "red tide" different from crimson tide? Oct 30, 2008

  • mollusque Red tide? Oct 30, 2008

  • sionnach Yes! Thanks, whichbe. Oct 29, 2008

  • whichbe blue in the face Oct 28, 2008

  • thtownse Cool list sionnach. It really shows a way we like to combine concepts into phrases. Aug 13, 2008

  • sionnach These are all good suggestions - thanks! Wikipedia on "black spot"

    The Black Spot is a fictional literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island. In the book, a pirate is presented with a "black spot" to officially pronounce a verdict of guilt or judgment. It consists of a circular piece of black paper or card placed in the hand of the accused.

    but later in the Wikipedia piece

    There is no record of "black spots" in reality and how Stevenson came up with the idea is unknown.

    So (probably because I was never a fan of "Treasure Island" as much as anything else) I've decided against it.

    What joy there is in this ability to exercise power while making petty decisions about questions of no import whatsoever!
    Feb 25, 2007

  • oroboros The black spot corresponds to the 'short stick' in drawing straws...'cept yer marked for, gulp!, death! (used by, gasp!, pirates!) I think this comes from Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver, the pirate, character of "Treasure Island". I think...mebbe...yas, mebbe. No money-back garuntee, 'course. Feb 25, 2007

  • reesetee How 'bout tickled pink, blue laws, red herring, red handed, blue blood, rose-colored glasses? Feb 24, 2007

  • sionnach what is the black spot? Feb 24, 2007

  • reesetee A zebra with diaper rash? Feb 24, 2007

  • sionnach pregnant nun in a confessional; newspaper? Feb 24, 2007

  • palooka Great list! Favorited Feb 24, 2007

  • oroboros blackball; the black spot; blue moon Feb 24, 2007

  • oroboros "What's black and white and "Red" all over?" Feb 24, 2007

  • reesetee Nice list, sionnach! Feb 24, 2007