Add a Word, Drop a Word #20

Last three posts:

half baked

baked potato

hot potato

My contribution:

hot shot

Westlake's Hot Rock

Pop Warner football

soda pop

club soda

chess club

lemon chess pie (Yum!)

bumbleberry pie

pie chart

a provided chart*

*as in E. DIckinson's "...Certain am I of the place
As if the chart were given."

off the charts (is that ok? i am new here!)

On 12:

Yes, chart (11) > charts (12) is ok.

In this game the idea is to put down anything that comes to mind -- evoked by the previous post, with or without any exact words from the previous. (The game that insists on an exact word from the previous post* is "Another Silly Book Game, pt. 88").

.*and where, e. g. chart > chartS would be ineligible

#13 -- I think you've got this game confused with Word Association, but I agree that chart/charts is close enough for us here.

Continuing the game:

off the record

On 13, 14:

Yes, sorry, I wrote 13 as if this were "Word Association".
But thanks for the corroboration of "Chart"> "Charts" is okay.

modern era record

record player

position player*

*definition? --means any baseball player other than a pitcher; or (American League) Designated Hitter. The phrase reminds me of the old Library Science phrase "subject degree" -- which meant a degree in anything EXCEPT Library Science!

fetal position

fetal pig

potbellied pig

teacup pig

over a teacup*

*As in Holmes Sr.ʻs Over the Teacups

over the moon

shut put

side out

side swipe

sidecar

car show

Dog leash

shorts and t-shirts (so that IS legal??)

(I vote yes :) )

movie shorts

". . .the MOVIE" *

*phrase attached to moviie titles, when the title is believed to be better known from some other medium.

movie theater

Globe Theater*

*as in Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
by Anne Terry White

operating theater

operating engineer

NOT operating*

*describes the "new and improved" message service on my land-line telephone. We haven't been able to retrieve a message since it was installed.

operating income

income tax

income mathematics*

*As in Fabozzi's Fixed Income Mathematics

advanced mathematics

the "New Mathematics" *

i.e. "new" over half century ago

New car smell

The Low-Backed Car, Irish folk song

Irish Brogue

the luck of the irish

Irish whiskey

Fire Whiskey!

Fire Fighter

prize fighter

Roxanne Pulitzer

"Roxanne", cousin and love of Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac"

kissing cousin

French braids

French pox

chicken pox

"Nay -- prithee-- Pox!"*

* by Alexander Pope one of his less memorable
half-lines.

small pox

small beer

beer goggles

". . . back to the goggles..."*

*a last-ditch attempt to disparage Dan, the hero of The High and the Mighty (John Wayne), when he is about to be vindicated.

Back to the Future

Tofflerʻs Future Shock

toxic waste

waste product

hair product

Hair the musical

overstuffed chairs

" a BIG department" *

*an instructor's translation of Mr. Kaplan's pronunciation of
"I beg your pardon" ("I big de potment") in a Leo Rosten story

Cozzens's By Love Possessed

Translated: Demons*

*A title used for a new tr. of Dostoevsky's Vysi in the 1950s, after it had long been known as the Possessed

translated languages

languages as "dialects"*

*Classicists of 1st half of the 20th c. used to call the ancient Indo-European languages in Italy (except Greek)
"Italic Dialects", although being "dialects" (of Latin) was the farthest thing from their
speakers' minds.

language arts

the Dark Arts

the Martial Arts

martial law

bank clerk

Gringott's Bank

Gringott's goblins

goblins with ghosts*

*as in Matthewsʻs Barefoot Book of Giants, Goblins, and Ghosts

Mars bar

local bar

local yokel

"Local Nation"*

*suggested by Hawai'i (not HawaiiAN) writer Candace Fujikani
as an entity of equal importance to the Hawaiian Nation

alien nation

Ledererʻs A nation of Sheep

H. Rothʻs Call it Sleep

Ronanʻs Deep Space

parking space

free parking

Free French

"French leave"*

*How do you say "taking French leave" IN French?
-- "filer a lʻanglaise" (marching ENGLISH style)

home alone

sea sick

sea monsters

sea spray

"sea of stories"*

*As in Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Charley "Bird" Parker musician

Charlie Weasley

clothes horse

dress-up clothes

playing possum

(or is that opossum?)

Practical Magic

magic man

Magic Johnson

magic trick

Hat trick

Card trick

Cheap Trick

cheap rhinoceros*

*as in Silversteinʻs Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?

Cheap threat

death threat

political death*

*as in John Tylerʻs "Here is my hand, Mr. Webster, **
, and I
promise you that Henry Clay is a dead man from this time forth."

** the reference is to Henry Clayʻs (W KY) arch rival
with in the "Whig Party: Daniel Webster (W, NH)

political party

". . .to the Party that was prior
In your parley-tickle heart?" - Walt Kelly

Party time

Miller time

fairy tale

R.Goddard's Into the Blue

Blue skies

Identity of Blue*

*as in Fredrick Exleyʻs cryptic chapter heading: "Who, who, WHO is Mr. Blue?"

Secret identity

secret Santa

Rosa Parks

Physical Ed. & Recreation

Physical Chemistry*

* A Lame 1950s joke about academic disciplines:
A student asks a faculty scientist, "What is the difference between PHYSICAL chemistry and CHEMICAL physics?"

The scientist answers, "About $2,000 a year."

organic chemistry

The Chemistry of Matter (pub. by) Prentice-Hall

dark magic

Alvin Dark Great NL shortstop; later manager of Indians, Athletics, author*

*wrote When in Doubt, Fire the Manager

Alvin and the chipmunks

Alvin Ailey

"Allie McBeal" played by Calista Flockhart

Alley Oop

Tin Pan Alley

The Tin Drum

soldier boy

soldier hat

"tin hat"

*obsolete(?) slang in Cribbage for failing to reach
even SIXTY-one before opponent reaches 121.

tin ear

ear wig

big dog*

*as in Bridwell's Clifford the BIg Red Dog

" I be dog!" euphemistic swearing, done by
ma ny of William Faulknerʻs characters

Be yourself

fixing for yourself*

*as in Readers Digestʻs Fix-it-yourself manual

fixing dinner

frozen dinner

Dinner Guest*

*as in Hart's The Man who Came to DInner

guest star

All Star*

*As in the Major Leaguesʻ July "All Star Game" 1934 -- Present

Star Wars

lack of wars*

*as in Edward IIʻ ;s remark in the play of that name by Christopher Marlowe:
"Why, there are hospitals for such as you!
I have no wars, and therefore, sir, be gone!"

lack of wit

Lack, Ireland

David L. Lack

ornithologist, evolutionist

David Copperfield

David Ortiz great Boston Red Sox designated hitter

David & Goliath

David and Bathsheba

David and the Lion

lion king

a named lion*

*as in Ralph Allenʻs Ask the Name of the Lion

named respondent

named after

after thought

second thought

Thought thought about*

*as in Anthony Flewʻs Thinking about Thinking

about face

round about

buy a round

round-to-it

*a wooden coin passed around my family any time he/she said "when I get around to it..." :)

"something TO it"*

*As in Ogden Nashʻs "A Drink with something to it"

something else

Hellerʻs Something Happened

"...Happening upon Jesus..."

*As in Calvin Miller's Happening upon Jesus in the Happenstance of Life

playing soon*

*as in the old advertisement "Playing Soon in a Theater Near You"

soon enough

enough already

not now

now then

out there

way out

far out

so far

so so

so cool

cool beans

bean soup

stone soup

soup kitchen

kitchen sink

hell's kitchen

christmas bells

Silver bells

jingle bells

LAME SAUCE

"Bells of St. Maryʻs"

cow bells

Nashʻs ʻA Purple Cow"

purple rain

rain drop

drop cloth

Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise

cloth diapers

disposable diapers

Donald "Diapers" Galante
father of the first baby* born in Massachusetts in the decade of the 1960s

*Donald, however, had his nickname long before that birth.

biodegradable diapers

biodegradable plastic

plastic surgery

laser surgery

laser gun

L T tag*

*aka subject heading

toe tag

toe rag

rag doll

Bob Doll great St. Louis Hawks
NBA player, 1940s--50s

baby doll

warning to BABY*

* as in Burroughsʻs 5-word poem:
"JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY" (followed by variant orderings of the same 5 words)

warning label

off label

off topic

hot topic

hot momma!!!

" ʻMommaʻ Montana" the protagonistʻs mother, in
Baldwinʻs Just above my Head

Hannah Montana

Hannah, mother of Samuel, Old Testament character

Hannah Abbott

Bud Abbott of "Abbott and Costello", comedian,
1930s -- 50s

Bud lite

flower bud

Fiorello "the Little FLower" LaGuardia NYC Mayor, 1930s--40s

The Little Flowers of St. Francis

Malcolm X (original name: Malcolm Little

Malcolm Lowry novelist

NoveList database

design a database*

*as in Paul E. Jonesʻs Logical Data base Design

interior design

Interior Department*

*as in U. S. Dept. of the Interior, headed
by a "Secretary of the Interior"

Shoe Department

Warholʻs Shoes... (3x)*

*as in Shoes, Shoes, Shoes by Andy Warhol

E. OʻConnorʻs I was Dancing

dancing queen!

Dancing Masters*

*as in Zukavʻs Dancing Wu Li Masters

Masters of the Universe

Mister Universe*

*very forgettable movie, low-keyed comedy, about an honest wrestler,
c a. 1950; its first word may have been spelled "Mr.".

Mister Majestic

"I donʻt want your millions, Mister;
I donʻt want your diamond rings..."
--Guthrie

dimonds are a girls best friend

crime figureʻs "friends"*

*as in Higginsʻs The Friends of Eddie Coyle (the word "Friends" is used sarcastically in this title.

"The Green Wave" (Tulane University)

The Green Hornet

The Wearing of the Green

tavern on the green

bowling on the green

bowling shirt

golf shirt

golf club

billy club

club soda

country club

club sandwich

wicked witch of the west

"The Red Witch" *

*as in Roarkʻs The wake of the Red Witch

S.W. Mitchellʻs Red City*

*A historical fiction on Philadelphia in the
1790s. "Red" in Mitchellʻs time meant
"radical", not "conservative (as in "Red State").

Silver City

hand bells

sign language

Mertonʻs Sign of Jonas*

*Jonas: transliterated in Protestant Bibles as "Jonah"

The Lily Brothers and Don Stover
Blue Grass band, 1950s -- 70s

". . .gilded cage" --phrase from an old 1890s song

"cage"* and "hoops" slang terms for "basketball"

* "Cage" was used mainly in newspapers,
and by them mainly in headlines; corresponding
to the use of "grid" fopr "Football"; it is
probably obsolete now.

hoola hoops

burning ring of death.

follow through

leap frog

faith as law-giver*

* as in: "The laws will be given by Vesta, by ancient
Faith, and by Romulus WITH his brother Remus.
--Vergil, Aeneid

blind faith

blind drunk

"Drunk Last Night" folkl song