Add a Word Drop a Word, #10

Last three:

pancake syrup

maple syrup

maple tree

My addition:

family tree

tree branch

tree trunk

car trunk

elephantʻs trunk

elephant's ear

lend an ear

lend a hand

hand held

Woody Held

Woody Woodpecker

"Faunus, son of Woodpecker" -- Vergilʻs Aeneid

Kitchenerʻs Mob

italian mob

Grayʻs "Italian Job"

new job

job lot

job fair

Fair Deal

Square Deal

Madison Square Garden

Herald Square

Herald Angels

City of Angels

city editor

managing editor

editor in chief

Chief Little Turtle

Fire Chief

Seattle Pilots*

*franchise which is the main team in
Jim Boutonʻs Ball Four. After 1 year it became the Milwaukee Brewers.

Seattle Mariners

The Ancient Mariner

Wardʻs Ancient Lowly

Upper Egypt

upper crust

thin crust

Hammettʻs Thin Man

Goldmanʻs Marathon Man

Marathon run

Boston Marathon

Half Marathon

dance marathon

Dance of the Cucumber

The Last Dance by Ed McBain

The Last Waltz

The Nobel Lecture in Literature by
Toni Morrison

lecture hall

Liberty Hall

Liberty Bell

Ma Bell

Marge Bell*

*original name of great dancer Marge Champion

bell pull

First thought wasn't appropriate... um...

Leg pull

Pull, crew*

*Poet Louis Zukofskyʻs strange translation of Catullus uses this phrase to translate the SOUND of Latin "pulchre" and the Sense of Latin "convenit".

pull over

pull the pitcher

pull the plug

Plug in

nose plug

nose guard

guard dog

security guard

Security Deposit

deposit box

box cutter

#60 - Louis Zukofsky has a strange idea of Latin! It's "pull, cray".

metal box

heavy metal

heavy heart

heart ache

stomach ache

stomach flu

Swine flu!

Pearls (before) swine

Pearl Jam

string of pearls

string theory

game theory

newlywed game

game board

board of directors

directors chair

chair dance

pole dance

hey its excercise!

may pole

Merry Month of May

Mother May I?

Mother's Day

St. Patrick's Day

All Saint's Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Hehehehehe!

Day of the Dead

the Dead sea

The evil within

the evil twin

twin peaks

twin towers

tower room

Dixon's Tower Treasure

Island (in the) Sun

Long Island

Hawai'i Island*

*often (mis?)called "The Big Island", by both tourists and residents.

Island Mists (violin ensembles)

"Island Girl"

office girl

office pranks

Oval Office

oval face

Face Off

Dust off

Easy off

The Big Easy

big, fat . . . *

*as in: Franken's Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

fat Tuesday

Ruby Tuesday's

Ruby Slippers

glass slippers

sliver slippers (original color from The Wizard of Oz)

silver dollar

dollar bill

Kill Bill

Bill ("Ike") Bevins

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Sir Henry Clinton

Henry Ford

Henry Fonda

Jane Fonda

Jane Eyre

plain Jane

Jane Doe

doe eyes

green eyes

green giant

Green Cross Code

Red Cross

cross stitch

cross reference

reference checking

reference guide

native guide

native dance

latin dance

Latin language

Romance language(s)

language barrier

Barrier Reef

Reef shark

nurse shark

Shark Tale

Tall Tale

tall latte

moche latte

moche grande

Rio Grande

Rio de Janeiro

Rio diablo

Al Roker

Al Pacino

John Pacino

(I was going to say Al Schacht, but
didnʻ t want to leave you committed to "Al" as retained word.)

King John

King Henry II

King for a day

King Arthur

Arthur Murray

Arthur C. Clark

Will Clark

Will Smith

granny smith

John Smith*

* Which one? Doesnʻt matter for this thread, does it? --20-21st c. Scottish politician; 17th c. English explorer. (Of the latter, Ogden Nash said, his biggest life problem was making people believe John Smith was really his name.) Or your pick from a cast of thousands.

Hammersmith

Arm and Hammer (baking soda)

M. C. Hammer

"If I Had a Hammer......."

If I had a haddock...

Haddockʻe Eyes*

In an "Alice" book; NOT the name of a song, but "what the name of the song IS CALLED".

evil eye

*Help i'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer.* all this talk of hammers made me think of those song lyrics

evil sign

stop sign

Stop! In the Name of Love

Love fool

love potion

Love Potion No. 9 *with Sandra Bullock

Engine Engine No.9

Steam Engine

steam bath

Bath, Maine

bubble bath

South Sea Bubble

Monsters, Inc.

Boo

Boo Radley

booyah

*an exclamatory statement, often said when someone is extremely overjoyed. Often people do a hand movement simultaneously as they say 'Booyah'(clinching fist and thrusting their elbow downward vertically)*

. . .Versus....

I thought it was "Association", not "Drop",
hence a wrong *214

I think you're right, roland!

Kramer versus....

To hemiokgang et al.:

I didnʻt mean that "....versus...." was my "wrong" word of 214; I had gone
cramer* (213) > Nero Wolfeʻs monitor (214), then couldnʻt get "Nero Wolfeʻs monitor" off
the screen. It finally did get replaced:

I changed it to "... versus..." (as in 215: Kramer vs. Kramer)

The complications of having a one-word post to build on, when there should normally be two.

As of now: ...versus ...

Monsters vs. Aliens

alien invasion*

*Whatever real aliens do, wasnʻt that what "aliens" did, in the old Science Fiction? And they were almost always more inteligent than us (otherwise, we would have invaded them first?)

bike pump

bike ride

bike path

cafe society

cafe mocha

mocha latte

peppermint mocha *yummy*

Peppermint Patty*

character in Schultzʻs Peanuts

peppermint tea

Andersonʻs Tea and Sympathy

tea leaves

Bermuda grass

Bermuda Triangle

Triangle Pose

equilateral triangle

golden triangle*

*as in Gilmanʻs Mrs. Pollifax and
the Golden Triangle

golden mean

Hoganʻs Mean Spirit

Hogan's Heros

super heroes

super bowl

Sugar Bowl

Orange Bowl

chicken soup

playing chicken

playing hookie

Playing the Fool

The Queen of Hearts

heart ache

heart felt

heavy heart

heavy metal

heavy load

wide load

wide receiver

stereo receiver

stereo surround sound

sound track

race track

human race

human being

Rothʻs Human Stain

coffee stain

coffee hour

The witching hour

water witching*

*water witching, is a practice that attempts to locate hidden water wells, buried metals or ores, gemstones, or other objects as well as so-called "currents of earth radiation" without the use of scientific apparatus.

water divining

(exactly the same thing)

water horse

*Veta, that sounds very interesting! I've never heard of it before

horse breeds

*i find the strangest things on google sometimes...*

horse sense

sixth sense

non-sense

non sequitur

sequitur algorithm

computer algorithm

computer virus

flu virus

swine flu

flu epidemic

Spanish Flu

Spanish fly

fly by night

fly swatter

fly fishing

fly tying (taking off on the fly fishing)

fly away

fly boys

lost and found

Event Horizon

Event planner

main event

main street

State Street

State bird

bird feather

feather bed

river bed

intentional walk

intentional foul

foul line

line ball

line drive

Park Drive

flash drive

Gordon "Flash" Hollett

Gordon Ramsay *Hell's Kitchen*

kitchen god

kitchen nightmares

private and confidential

Private Schein*

* figure in the "Army/Mccarthy hearings of 1954

Private Benjamin

I watched this a couple of weeks ago; still pretty funny

"What is this, Hell Week?"

"So that's what I've been faking all these years."

Private Ryan

Australian Rules

Australian Outback

Outback Steak House

t-bone steak

Charlie Bone

slim jim

Walt "No Neck" Williams

Walt Disney

Roy Disney

Disney Dollar

Dollar Tree

Trudeauʻs "The Tree" *

*football-playing character in early episodes of Gary Trudeauʻs Doonsebury}

tree bark

bark at the moon

Brownʻs Goodnight, Moon

Goodnight (and) Goodluck

"Goodnight, David"

Michaelangelo's David

David and Goliath

Goliath beetle

Bailey's Irish Cream

"Bill Bailey"

Miranda Bailey

Miranda Richardson

Elliot Hospital

General Hospital

Vivian Leigh

Vivian Vance

*she played Ethel on "I Love Lucy"*

Bagger Vance

Jack in the box

crackerjack boxer

peanuts and crackerjacks

Schulzʻs Peanuts

peanut allergy

peanut cluster

Harry "Peanuts" Lowery

boiled peanuts

Schulzʻs Peanuts Classics

classic cars

Pixar's Cars

"Calling All Cars"

calling long distance

long distance plan

The Earl of Sandwich

Keith Emerson (vomit, fetch earplugs, get out Sex Pistols album)

Where the Wild Things Are

*Where the Stress...

*As in Sontagʻs Where the Stress Falls

Stress Test

Math Test

Math equation

linear equation

linear B

B-line (suddenly wonders if that is the way it is spelled)

line ball

eight ball

four by four

four-wheel drive

300-yard drive

drive in movies

cult movies

cult leader

band leader

Warrenʻs Band of Angels

Marching Band

Kornbluthʻs Marching Morons

marching band

stage band

monkey brothers

monkey pod

"Monkey see ..."*

* as in "Monkey see, Monkey do."

Monkey do

:-)

How do they do That? by Caroline Sutton

how do you do

do that thing you do

doobie doobie doo

doo wop

Doo Wop 50 More by DVD

DVD player

Vonnegutʻs Player Piano

piano solo

...easy piano*

*as in: The Beatlesʻ Best; Easy Piano

piano man (sing us a song)

Shawʻs Man and Superman

tin man

Sheltonʻs Tin Cup

tin whistle

whistle stop

stop sign

bus stop

bus driver

bus line

line drive

clothes line

clothes horse

horse race

the Amazing race

Grace Kelly

Green Giant

Friendly Giant

"Johnny Friendly"*

*character in On the waterfront (played by
Lee J. Cobb, 1954)

Johhny Depp ;)

Goblin Liaison Office

sorry for the double post

Green Goblin

New thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/75530&newpost=1#lastmsg