Add a Word, Drop a Word #17

Last three entries:

Forgery with Lies

Lie Down with Dogs

Lie to Me

My addition

Two Truths and a Lie

dare devil

egg and tomato sandwich with mayo

Romalottiʻs Salad Days

salad recipes

Waldorf salad

Statler and Waldorf

Irvingʻs Astoria

Irving Berlin

Berlin wall

D. Steinʻs Wall of Noise

Great Wall of China

American wall*

*as in Thomas Dischʻs Wall of America

American Pie

Simon, pie-taster*

*as in: "Simple Simon Met a Pie Man"

Simon Says

"Says who?"

Doctor Who

Pasternakʻs Doctor Zhivago

Kerouacʻs Doctor Sax

Sax, Fifth Avenue

Park Avenue

"Electric Avenue"

Electric Slide

C. O. Harrisʻs Slide rule Simplified

Lambertʻs Slide Area

slip 'n' slide

Devil's Slide

Martinʻs Devilʻs Prize

Devil's Snare

The devil makes work for idle hands

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

Dust to dust

Asimovʻs Stars, like Dust

dust mites

dust mystery*

*as in: Dust; a Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes

dust jacket

a Columbus Blue Jacket

Yellow Submarine.

submarine rescue*

*as in: Maasʻs The Terrible Hours: the Man behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

dog rescue

dog days

walking the dog

Conradʻs Under Western Eyes

Under Milk Wood

Under the Milky Way

Under the Dome*

*book by Stephen King

Lowryʻs Under the Volcano

Queen Elizabeth

Taylor Lautner

Gen. Maxwell Taylor

Mawell Smart

Maxwell House Coffee

Orson Bean*

*Knew author; original name: Dallas Burrows

Orson Welles

Card game

Chicago, St. Louis, or Arizona Card

Identification Card

old can identification*

*as in: Antique Tins: Identification and Value
by Fred Dodge

old timer

"Timer" OR
"Wheel of Death"

*Expressions used for the moving
wheel icon that indicates an ongoing process on line;
"Wheel of death", I hear, is widely used, while "Timer" used to be used by people with A O L accounts.

Egg timer

"good egg"

egg and bacon

English bacon (an item, I was amused to find, that English people are fond of smuggling into the States)

Canadian Bacon*

*Movie, and substantial meat dish (more like ham that American bacon. This may be an exception to "Perkinsʻs Law". That is, there may actually be something Canadian about it.
In general, however, never trust a dish to be anything like the ethnicity that itʻs named after.

Canadian passport

looking like passport*

*as in: Bombeckʻs When you Look Like your Passport Photo, itʻs Time to Go Home

forged passport

forged painting

error chains forged*

*as in Dobbinsʻs Errorʻs Chains: How Forged and Broken

Snow chains

snow flakes

corn flakes

corn on the cob

corn husk

green corn*

*as in: The Corn is Green, with 2 Other Plays by Emlyn Williams

green tea

Andersonʻs Tea and Sympathy

sympathy pains

Perelmanʻs Acres and Pains

Conwellʻs Acres of Diamonds

Hope Diamond

daring to hope*

*as in The Audacity of Hope; Thoughts on Reclaiming the American dream
by Barack Obama

hope & faith

hope is the worst of all evils Nietzsche

lost hope

OʻHaraʻs Hope of Heaven

vault of heaven

pole vault

polecat

crazy cat*

*as in: Herrimanʻs Krazy Kat (comic strip) and Jay Cantorʻs Krazy Kat
(novel)

crazy quilt

Crazy Eights

eight ball

Asinofʻs Eight Men Out*

*baseball non-fiction; later movie

men in Black

The All Blacks*

*A New Zealand team

All American

American beauty roses

rose water

rose bush

rose red

sibling red*

*as in: Keneallyʻs Blood Red, Sister
Rose

Harvard -- Yale rivalry

cross-town rivalry

Cross Country

fir tree country*

*as in" Jewett's Country of the pointed Firs

country singer

country and western

western region

Union Army

Longshoremenʻs Union*

* official name, in Hawaiʻi, International Longshoremanʻs
and Warehouse Workersʻ Union (ILWU)

Union Station

Sticking to the Union

sticking to plan

game plan

game cube

Ice Pop

Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Sky

MacLeodʻs Sky Road

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

"Tom Tomorrow"*

*socio-political comic strip

Shawʻs Major Barbara

Barbara Boxer

Tanʻs Boxer Catastrophe

Boxer Rebellion

Da Cunhaʻs Rebellion in the Backlands*

* Brazilian; original portuguese title: Os Sertoes

whiskey lullaby

Bella's Lullaby

P. Leonardʻs Venusian Lullaby

F. Saganʻs Aimez-vous Brahms? / Do you Like Brahms?*

*Literal translation of the title, but the title is left in French, in English translations.

Johannes Brahms

Detective Johannes*

*as in: J. L. Howardʻs
Johannes Cabal the Detective

The Singing Detective

The Great Mouse Detective

E. H. Huntʻs Jack Novak} series

"Archie Bunker"

(anti(?)-) hero of
long term TV sitcom All in the Family

Archie Leach *

*original name of Cary Grant

Archie & Mehetbel

Heinrichʻs So Long, Archie

The Long and Winding Road

Yatesʻs Revolutionary Road*

*Read this about 1962; admired it, but was still surprised to see it become a famous movie, and
a new edition decades later.

Revolutionary War

Revolutionary Books bookstore in Honolulu
and LT member name.

Gironellaʻs A Million Deaths / Un Millon de Muertos

Greeneʻs England Made me

England's green and pleasant land (and completely rubbish football/soccer team!!!!!)

Englandʻs idea of Richard*

*as in: D. Sewardʻs Richard III in Englandʻs
"Black Legend"

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Richard III

Gordon Daviotʻs* Richard of Bordeaux**

* = Josephine Tey

** = Richard II, of England

Bordeaux wine

Powys's divine wine*

*as in: Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T. F. Powys (in which
"Mr. Weston" is God, and his "Best" brand of wine is death.

Andy Pandy who lived in a picnic basket

head shop

"Can we Shop?"*

*failed(?) TV program projected by Joan Rivers

can of worms

How to eat fried worms

progress to Worms*

*as in: Rupp's Luther's Progress to the
Diet of Worms

dangerous idea*

*as in Dawkins's neo-Darwinian title, which
evoked (?) Brockman's
What is YOUR Dangerous Idea?

Millhauser's Dangerous Laughter

Bowen's Return to Laughter

Wright's Native Son

Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer

Shaara's Killer Angels

Angels in America*

*a play by Tony Kushner

Augustine's City of God

crescent moon

Gerry's Landing*

* a spot on the Charles River, Cambridge, MA. In local folklore, it was a landing place of the reputed pre-Columbus European "discoverers" of the Western Hemisphere, the Norsemen. It is named after early National politician Elbridge Gerry, after whom the
ploy of "Gerrymandering" is also named.

crash landing

stock market crash

foreign exchange

foreign policy

health and safety policy

safety first

First Baptist

Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad*

*26th, 27th and 28th of the "Major Prophets"
in Islam

Muhammad Ali Jinnah of Pakistan

Moores's Gasoline Alley*

*A once (and present?) comic strip; highly regarded, and said to be the only one in which the characters are the same age they would be in real life.

gasoline war

Corso's Gasoline

gasoline pump

Hamsun's Women at the Pump

Forster's Room with a View

point of reference

book maker

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Matthew McConaghey

Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Actor Matthew Perry

"Perry Mason"

stone mason

Jeff Stone*

*Hawai'i land use activist

Jeff Dunham

Mary Frances Dunham
author on Bangla deshi musicology in Epic

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mel Queen short-term New York Yankees
pitcher; later a pitching coach (?)

Queen of Hearts, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland

Wonderland Dog Track*

*In Revere, MA

hot dog

Red Hot Chili Pepper

Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Album

string band

string theory

string along

Along Came Polly

Polly wants a cracker

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

The Breakfast Club

full English breakast

English tea

tea for two, two for tea

Two and a half men

men without hats...music group "Safety Dance"

hats off

we're off to see the wizard

Wizards of the Coast

Color Guard

dog days

Wine is bottled poetry (Robert Louis Stevenson)

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou
(Edward FitzGerald)

railway line

Railway trestle

trestle bridge

Trestle table

ten times table

ten lords a-leaping

Time Lords*

*Doctor Who

Time Traveler

the time of one's life

life insurance

motor insurance

motor home

Home Depot

ammunition depot

storage depot

storage shed

storage unit

paper moon

"Paper Heart"

Happy Town

*I wonder whatever happened to that show...

birthday celebration

Celebration time

Once upon a time

The Time Traveller's Wife

The Wife of Bath's Tale

Bubble bath

personal bubble

Space Invaders.

Viking Invaders

Eric (the) Viking

red rose

Rose bud

Rose water

pink elephants

Pretty in Pink

Pink Floyd

Pink Panther

Pink carnations

chocolate milk

Easter bunny

Easter bonnet

Easter parade