Add a Word, Drop a Word #18

Last three posts:

Easter bunny

Easter bonnet

Easter parade

My addition:

Easter egg

eggs benedict

Arnold Palmer

college football

college student

student loan

Loan Collector :(

antique collector

Vanity Fair

vanity mirror

magic mirror

black magic

the black knight

White knight

Nights in white satin

folio sheets

Folio Society :)

society pages

Yellow Submarine

submarine sandwiches! Mmmmmmmm......

Earl of Sandwich

Duke of Earl

Patty Duke

Beef Patty

Where's the Beef?

where's Waldo

salt and pepper

salt pork

pork chops

chop sticks

Chop Suey

Karate Chop

Hai Karate

The Karate Kid

Cincinnati Reds

Cincinnati chili

chili verde

Verde Canyon

Grand Canyon

Grant Notes

Art Grant

Art Nouveau

Nouveau cuisine

haute couture

couture hats

Off Vine

*restaurant in Hollywood

off licence

fishing licence

pole dancing

dirty dancing

dirty laundry

Green Day

day break *hi Jenni*

break time

coffee break

vanilla bean

ice skates

Nissan Cube

cube net

*A net is a two-dimensional figure that can be folded into a three-dimensional object

net worth

shark net

shark fishing

Frontier expedition

freedom fighter

cheese on toast

master of ceremonies

closing price

line dancing

waltz dancing

Rupert the Bear

Rupert Friend

*swoon* plays Mr. Wickham in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film

Rupert Grint

Arthur Brooke

King Arthur

Land of the Midnight Sun

Sun Glasses

Opera glasses

soap opera

"No SOAP!"

soap box

batterʻs box

chocolate box

chocolate frog

chorus frog*

*as in The Frogs / Batrakhoi / Ranae
by Aristophanes

chorus girls

Les Girls*

*film starring Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Gene Kelley

Les Dennis (British comedian)

Dennis Johnson novelist

Dennis Hopper

Edward Cullen

Edward VIII briefly King of the U. K.; after abdicating under pressure, ,he was given the title Duke of Windsor; pre-reign forename: David

Henry VIII The Zsa Zsa of his day...

Henry VII Father of (128), and probably a much more effective ruler; the First Tudor; he freed England from the rule of Richard III

Oh, Henry!

O. Henry pseudonym of William Sidney Porter

Henry Jones

*I do love me some Indiana Jones ;)

Tom Chamales novelist

Tom Hanks

Nancy Hanks

Nancy C. Dorian* linguist

*Havenʻt met, bu thave corresponded with Author.

Dorian Gray

Gray squirrel

squirrel proof

proof reader

geometry proof

One hundred Proof is the strongest possible

Everclear 190-proof

EverReady batteries

car batteries

car lots

car barn*

*obsolete (?) name for a trolley car terminal.
1st half of 20th c.

The Murder in the Red barn

red rum (as in The Shining)

"A rum asks, . . ."

*Louis Zukofskyʻs translation of the 1st word of a cCatullus poem: "Oramus . . ." (literally, we pray; we ask". How the asker is "a rum" isnʻt in the Latin wording; it must be deduced from the rest of the poem.

hot rum toddy

"Toddy" Hall,*
Radio drama character played
by Ronald Coleman (?) in "The Halls of Ivy", one of the few unabashedly intellectual radio serials.

*Character was an academic whose full name was
William Todhunter "Toddy" Hall

Hall of Mirrors

"Sam Hall"*

*unedifying folk song, aka "Jack Hall"

Sam Snead

Sammy Baugh outstanding passer of the 1930s-40s: Texas Christian, Washington Red Skins

jacket potato skins

Columbus Blue Jackets NHL hockey team

The Yellow Emperor
legendary early Chinese emperor, reputed author
of a Classic of Internal medicine

The Emperor's New Clothes

control freak

freak out

LIST freak*

e.g. me; I like that phrase better than "List Junky"

shopping list

bucket list

"Bucket", instructor*

*minor character in Malamudʻs A New Life

Charlie Bucket

water bucket

ʻBucket of Blood" *

*Nickname of a bar in Gardner, MA
-- (and many other places?)

Blood Brothers

I. J. Singerʻs The Brothers Ashkenazi

The Flying Karamazov Brothers

Band of Brothers

Warrenʻs Band of Angels

wedding band

wedding vows

Royal Wedding (1951 film)

Royal throne.

royal pain

the Emerald City

L. Gardnerʻs Fat City

fat cat

Cheshire Cat

Cheshire Cheese

cream cheese

Arnold Cream aka "Jersey Joe" Walcott

sour cream

cream soda

soda pop

"Pop" Warner

David Warner

Warner Brothers

brothers and sisters

B. Yatesʻs Brothers Bishop

The Bishop of London

tower of London

The Tower of Pizza*

* defunct (?) drive-in pizza business

pepperoni pizza

pizza-face

bookshelf

book case

book tickets

Buy the Book*

*Name of Ellen Morgan's (Ellen Degeneres) book store in the TV classic Ellen

throw down

Town Team

team player

player piano

V. Baumʻs Grand Hotel

N T Rosenberg's California Angel

California dreaming

Isaacsʻs Australian Dreaming

Dreaming Spires

active listening

active lifestyle

voice lift*

*as in James Weldon Johnsonʻs Lift Evʻry Voice and Sing

Van Drutenʻs Voice of the Turtle

turtle doves

Hobanʻs Turtle Diary

The Diary of a Nobody

Addictʻs Diary*

*As in: Diary of a Drug Fiend
by Aleister Crowley

What Mad Universe by Frederic Brown

Mr. Universe and other plays
by Jim Grimsley

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

Miss Universe

Miss Zukas and the Island Murders
by Jo Dereske

Island breeze

morning breeze*

Thanks for accepting 248; I inadvertenlty played by the rules of "Silly Game..." in that one and in 245; i notice that 246 also ignores the rule of ONE-word substitutions. Who am I to complain about that?

*as in A Breeze of morning by Charles Morgan

Good Morning

Good "Getting" *

*as in the classic movie lines:
--"Get it?
--"Got it!."
--"Good."

Good food

food fight

title fight

book title

book value

Value Jet

"wearing" a jet*

*based on a memorable line in a very forgettable movie: "You donʻt FLY a jet; you more WEAR it."

Jet ski

ski mask

goalieʻs mask

hockey goalie

hockey puck!

hockey stick

walking stick

walking shoes

dressy shoes

"Iron Shoes"*

As in: Mullerʻs Edwin of the Iron Shoes

Iron Man

"Iron Mike"*

*Nickname of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and (very briefly) of Boston Red Sox manager, Mike "Pinky" Higgins"

golf mulligan

mulligan stew

stew pot

beef stew

beef ribs

spare room (or oom)

mud room

mud pies

NAME as "mud"*

*as in the old (not even sure if it is old) saying:
"....his/her/their name is ʻmudʻ "

as in Dr. Mudd (who set John Wilkes Boothe's broken leg)

..as in DR> Mudd..." * (286)

Suspected that. Thanks for the data.l

*The strange part of the Booth flight and post-flight t rials was that a guy who sheltered Booth much longer than Mudd did was never prosecuted.
A Mr. Jones, who long after even wrote a book
about his adventures . Living in a state which did not secede (MD.) he was said to be an on call employee of the COnfederacy.

not 100% sure what we are working on here but I guess it's 'name as mud'

The Name of the Rose

pen name

(Yes, "name as mud" (265) was the last one that was an actual "Add a Word..." game entry).

pen pal

OʻHaraʻs Pal Joey

"kangaroo court"

basketball court

basketball league

league of women voters

swing voters

Raymond Swing* old time radio news commentatot.

aka Raymond Gram Swing

Raymond Chandler

Spurgeon "Spud" Chandler
NY Yankees pitcher, for many decades a record holder for single-Year Won/Last percentage

"Chandler Bing" one of 6 Friends in the classic sitcom of the 90s--2000s

Bing Cherries

cherries jubilee

Year of Jubilee

skin diamond*

* a description of a baseball diamond in another
town, mentioned by my home town newspaper
ca 1942; it was said to be the only baseball field in E. Massachusetts that was worse than our own high school field. But I have never heard this phrase since then, and Iʻm still not sure
what the adjective "skin" means here.

baseball diamond

Marian C. Diamond
author of The Human Brain Coloring Book

diamond ring

playing on #311

Diamond Jim

Jim "Catfish" Hunter
old time American League All Star pitcher

fried catfish

American Fried

*as in: {American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin

Ellroy's American Tabloid

b t w, Varielle I don't get how your last post, in the WORD ASSOCIATION... thread plays on the previous:

Archie Leach aka Cary Grant > Dyann Cannon ?

Dyan Cannnon is all right with me, but I foresee someone --about 20 posts later -- saying that the previous is "the Last Correct Post".

Tabloid press

cider press

Irvingʻs Cider House Rules

Willinghamʻs Natural Child

Wonder Bread

American Psycho

Shaaraʻs Killer Angels

Hell's Angels

Poeʻs Bells...*

*As in The Bells and other Poems
by edgar Allan Poe

The Bells of St Mary's

Christmas Bells

Christmas traditions

Family Reunions

Class fieldtrips

Class discussions

preliminary discussions

discussion boards

"treading the boards"

treading water

hot water

bread and water*

*Muhammad Ali, asked whom he supported in the 1964 election, said, "Goldwater in ʻ64; HOT water in ʻ66; BREAD and water in ʻ68!" It may not have been original to him.

bread pudding

Chocolate pudding Yum

chocolate torte

Dove Chocolates

chocolate cooking water*

*as in Esquivelʻs Like Water for Chocolate

Melting chocolate

Point Blank classic* film of the 1960s

*whether or not it deserves classic status is
debatable. Has some of the things that became cinematic cliches of the era.

shooting stars

Don Blanks Californian Bahaʻi Faith Pioneer in Tonga

California girls

girls' dorm

"Boy's Dormitory is upstairs on your right, girls on your left" - Percy Weasley

Girls Lavatory

Prefect's Lavatory

prefect's badge

Hufflepuff badgers

Wisconsin cheese hats

Gambling hats*

*as in Frankelʻs Hats & Eyeglasses; a family love affair with gambling

Hats Off to Larry

Larry the Cable Guy

Cable news

Action News

News boy

News Reporter

Newsroom

Nice View

Nice, France

Niceville, Florida

Florida, Missouri*

*Birthplace of Mark Twain and source of the trick question: "Mark Twain was born in Florida?--
True or False?

The Missouri Breaks

Making your OWN "breaks"

lunch breaks

Burroughsʻs Naked Lunch

Naked truth

The whole truth

Ferris's Whole Shebang

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris wheel

wheel well

Panshinʻs Star Well

Star gazing

Star Wars

Yorkist/Lancastrian Wars*

*As in Weir's Wars of the Roses

World Wars

Willkieʻs One World

Wilkie Collins

Initiatory Word*

*as in St. Johnʻs "In the beginning was the Word..."

(405 was not on the screen yet when 406 was played -- on 404.)

>Playing on 405

Michael Collins

The Caine Mutiny

Mutiny on the Bounty

Bounty Hunter

Fossil Hunter

Evan Hunter*

aka Ed McBain

trash hunter

"Glorious Trash" *

* a phrase used by the Friendly Islands Books Store,
Nukuʻaofa, in the 1980s to advertise a sale (primarily of popular fiction).

Revolutionary War

"Thirty Yearsʻ War"

Civil War

Harrʻs Civil Action*

*Takes place in my native town, Woburn, MA}

Civil liberties

Taking Lives

Steinʻs Three Lives

Three Coins in the Fountain

A Coin for the Ferryman

coin laundry

Laundry Soap

soap bubble

stock Bubble

Bubble gum

gum shoe

Please continue the game on this New thread!