Add a Word, Drop a Word #13

Previous entries:

stuff mart

working stuff

My addition:

working stiff

bored stiff

bored chairman*

*as in Streeterʻs Chairman of the Bored (sic)

Chairman of the Board

board meeting

meeting of the minds

meeting adjourned

adjourned early

early retirement

retirement fund

Jamesʻs The Coxon Fund

Go-to-Hell Fund

(Basically money set aside at your job so that if your boss tells you to do something you really don't want to you can tell him and leave.)

fund raising

Raising Helen

Helen of Troy

Troy University

University of Oklahoma

Ohio State University....GO BUCKS! Winners of the 2010 Rosebowl!!!!

O! H! I! O!

Oregon State University

Polly i love how dedicated Ohio fans are :)

Oh...ahem...uh...great game, those ducks were tough.

Yes Its hard to find fans more dedicated than BUCKEYE fans!
WhooHoo!!

Go Bucks!!!!!!! Just dropped my son back at OSU.

Oregon Trail

Oregon State*

Said to be the U. on which Bernard Malamudʻs
great A New Life was based

State of the Union

Union Square

Red Square

Red Clydeside*

*as in: The Legend of Red Clydeside
by Iain McLean

Red dawn

red pepper

Dawn Casey*

*Librarian and Hawaiʻi based author of a classic
childrenʻs Christmas story.

pepper steak
oops sorry roland!

T-bone steak

steak sauce

Steak house

arrested developement

brain development

brain storm

perfect storm

picture perfect

picture frame

frame of reference

reference book*

*Ever wondered what people did before Google?

obscure reference

annotated reference
(#43: staring up at the encyclopedias I rescued from the library discard pile)

new math

"Whiz Kids"*

*a nickname of the 1950 NL champion Philadelphia Phillies

cheez whiz

Whiz Tattoos

pool parlor

pool party

Socialist Party

Party room

green giant

sergeant York

staff member

wedding member*

as in Mc Cullersʻs Member of the Wedding

wedding party

house party

town house

Faulknerʻs The Town; a novel

Crazy Town

I'm So Good I Must Be Crazy by Margaret Jano

I wouldn't be surprised if no one's heard of it. Terrible book. Don't try reading it.

must advertise*

*as in Sayersʻs Murder Must Advertise

must sleep

Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

Phonecall

HOLD the phone

HOLD ON

HOLD UP

Up, up, up, and away!

and away we go!

G. Higginsʻs Bomberʻs Law

Law of the Battle

Battle Creek

feeding frenzy

People Magazine

independence day

bed time

story time

time warp

warp speed

Need for Speed

Speed racer

speed limit

the sky's the limit

sky light

sky high

high school

school of rock

folk rock

folk lore

guitar hero

everyday hero

everyday person

people person

people watching

bird watching

Robert of Locksley

Hall of Fame

Fame Monster

"Cookie Monster"

Cookie Bumstead

Give a Mouse a Cookie............

house of mouse

Out house

burn out

Burn Notice

short notice

short order

"IN short, ....."*

*Dickens's "Mr. Micawber" uses this phrase to close a paragraph.

stop to a carnival*

*as in Wouk's Don't Stop the Carnival

stop sign

astrological sign

sign out

pass by

by line

by the by

by the way

highways and byways

highway man

Fit for neither man nor beast

Zelazny's Dream Master

Master Sword

sword & sorcery

Saint Bernard

um....Norman Mailer(sp?)

Norman O. Brown

#!55: The Mailer spelling is o k

brown study

thx Roland

"Valentine Brown" *

*character in an Irish Gaelic poem of the 17th c., in Frank O'Connor's collection Kings, Lords, & Commons

Lavender Brown

Valerie Lavender

lavender scent

lavender look*

*as in John D. Macdonald's The Long Lavender Look

old fashioned lavender border

border spirit*

*as in Zane Grey's The Spirit of the Border

Earth Spirit

Earth Day

Boxing Day

boxing ring

Boxing Day

Day After Tomorrow

owning tomorrow*

*as in the song:"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"
in Cabaret

(there's) always tomorrow

*As in the song in Annie*

Tom & Jerry

172> psst There always tomorrow is from Rodulph

The sun will come out tomorrow is from Annie

Tom Cruise

"cruise to nowhere"

Baldwin's Fire Next Time

The Man Who Was Thursday (One of my favorites)

Who was Socrates by Alban Dewes Winspear*

*A short book that has to be taken with at least a shaker of salt. It is anti-Socrates, (and the only thorough-going anti-Socrates book I have ever seen). Easy to get hold of? --Not much "danger". I haven't seen a copy of it since the 1950s, and saw it then not in a public or U. library, but only because it had been left in a house that my family moved into. Winspear's {Genesis of Plato's Thought is a good book; it made winspear merit being put on my "Favorites: List

". . .Little man" *

*as in Fallada's Little Man, what now?, a story of alcoholism. Others have used some variant of this title.

big man

Big Love

love letter

love poem

Love American Style

Style affair*

*as in Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles

shared network

network news

Network , the movie

network of friends

(the) best of friends

best of 2009

show us what you've got

TOP dog*

A favorite phrase of 1 of my professors, as in: "Sparta was top dog for centuries.

Top Gun

slingback shoes

horse shoes

horse thief

greased lightening

greased pig

pig tails

puppy dog tails

coat tails

coat of paint

Paint sunlight*

*as in Ferlinghetti's How to Paint Sunlight; new
poems

Wagon trail

trail mix

Oregon Trail

Pinewood Trail

Lonesome Pine trail

Appalachian trail

trail mix

mix up

Tom Riddle

Riddle me this, Batman!

Johnny Riddle

johnny cake

birthday cake

birthday party

Birthday suit

swim suit

competition swimming

spitting competition

spitting Cobras

spitting image

mirror image

sword image*

*as in Brooke's Image of a Drawn sword

sword in the stone

rolling stone

sorcerer's stone

sorceror's apprentice

carpenter's apprentice

+ Prof. Richard B. Carpenter + (1927-2010)

Richard III

Richard II *

*Warning: there are no other Shakespearian "Richard"s than the 2 in 252 and 253.

Supposedly there must have been a Richard the I somewhere in History tho, I hope

" . . .a Richard I somewhere in history..."

Yes. in the late 12th, early 13th century, the brother of the notorious King John who took over for Richard during a crusade that Richard went on. Curiously Shakespeare wrote a King John but no "Richard I". Historians have noted that Shakespeare's King John makes no mention of the most famous event during John's troubled reign: the signing of Magna Charta.

Richard fought the Muslim commander Saladin -- unsuccessfully. On the way back to Normandy-Enlgnad, Richard was captured in Austria by another Christian; he got back home only after being ransomed. He was "I" but is better known as "The Lion-hearted (Coeur de Lion)"

OIC. Thanks Roland. On with the game

richard Simmons

Simmons Beauty Sleep Mattress

Once upon a mattress

King Kong

O. Henry

O Canada!

O, Pioneer

Pioneer stereo

Cather's O Pioneers!

" 'Thou' him some thrice..."
-- Toby Belch in Twelfth Night

I and Thou by Martin Buber

Asimov's I, Robot

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

Miss Lonelyhearts Nathaniel West

Strindberg's Miss Julie

Julie Skinner Hernandez

Leonard Skinner

Bob's your uncle

Uncle Buck

buck the trend

Bobby Trendy - Anna Nicole Smith's interior decorator

trendy look

blank look

blank slate

Blank Stare

hypnotic stare

Vitale's Hypnotic Writing

Automat

ghost writing

automatic writing

automatic breathing

Tyler's Breathing Lessons

ballet lessons

golf lessons

golf pants

golf clubs

clubs and spades

clubs and diamonds

forever in blue jeans

Rhythm and Blues

Music and Rhythm

music joy*

*as in : L. Bernstein's The Joy of Music

music class

The sound of music

sound dues

pay your dues

your risk*

*As in: Bushworld: Enter at your own Risk
b y Maureen Dowd

your turn

Point blank

point of no return

native land*

* as in: Kame'eleihiwa's Native land and Foreign Desires

son of battle*

*as in: Olivant's Bob, Son of Battle

battle axe

Undset's Axe, etc. saga

Twilight saga

strange saga*

*as in: H.Thompson's Hell's Angels: a Strange and Terrible Saga

strange happenings

what's happening?

what's up?

"whatʻs what" *

*as in G. B. Shawʻs
Everybodyʻs Political Whatʻs What

say what!?

"HEAR a say"*

*as in the famous (?) Finnegans wake
quote: "Hear a say in Paradox Lust

I say, i say,I say!

you say

I say, she, he or it says; we say, you (pl.) say,
they say

say the word

wordsearch

word warrior

Golden State Warrior

Road warrior

Road hog

road rage

O'Hara's (and Pope's, from swhom he got the name)
Rage to Live

Rage Against the Machine

machine ghost*

*as in: Koestler's The Ghost in the machine

Ghostbusters

Ghost Hunters

Hunters Dreams.

Hunters Moon

Blue Moon

Paper Moon

Paper Towns by John Green

Towns van Zandt

Ghost Towns

ghost getting in*

*as in Thurber's "the Night the Ghost Got in"

Ghost Writer

ghost death*

as in: Allingham's Death of a Ghost

In living color

color my world

a world of your own

Peace --it's wonderful

peace sign

Times Square

NY Times

NY Post

Canada Post

Canada goose

goose down

pillow mmmmm

mmmm mmmm good!

Campbell's soup

soup du jour

(why do I get the feeling this thread is being confused with the random association one? hee hee...)

flavor du jour

Belle Watling

watling Street*

*Used in a novel title way back, I think by Bill McNaughton: Late Night on watling Street. I think it's really a highway, not what Ameridans call a street.

Jump Street

42nd street

Dos Passos's 42nd Parallel

parallel universe

parallel lines

Barstow, CA

California Rolls

Waymar Royce

Royce Mills (UK actor)

John Mills

Mills Brothers

Hockey Hall of Fame

hockey stick

Lechner's Clever Stick

stick gum

gummy bear

teddy bear

Teddy Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

James Franco

Alan Alda

foster parent

Mike Wallace

George Wallace

Wallace Shawn

(inconceivable!)

william of orange

Orange Crush

Orange Nehi

orange and black*

*The football colors of my home town's high school, Woburn, MA, of Newton MA and of Prin cetonU. (nd many others?)

Black & Blue

Red,white and blue

Dane's White Ben

Uncle Ben

Casey Jones

Davy Jones

Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Bogart

Mrs. Humphrey Ward*

*A Victorian writer; and so she used to be called in library catalogs, long after the Victorian Era-- not allowed even a first name other than her husband's! Which makes me hate to use the name, but it's convenient for this thread, as I wouldn't be able to play on Bogart". The only parallel case close to modenr times I can think of is "Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss", as the media used to call Janet Auchincloss.

hospital ward

animal hospital

subsistence farm

funny farm

Funny Honey

Boston Bee*

*Very briefly in the 1930s this was the name of a baseball player for the franchise which is now the Atlanta Braves

Boston Cream Pie

apple pie

bumbleberry pie

meat pie

#448: reminds me of Sweeny Todd

meat grinder

Monkey grinder

monkey wrench

Adventure Island

BEING an island*

*as in Thomas Merton's (and john Donne's before him No Man is an Island

treasure Island

Fantasy Island

"Mind" Island*

*as in: Ferlighetti's
A Coney Island of the Mind

Time for a new thread.