Thirsty (weird news)

[Lardy Girl]

In Florida, which always brings us a worryingly large number of Anna's
News Clippings items, 62-year-old Carolyn Dukeshire has pleaded
guilty to the second-degree murder of her neighbour, 64-year-old
Martin Mazur. Dukeshire had approached Mazur outside the latter's home
and asked him for a can of Busch Light beer. When Mazur replied: 'I
have absolutely nothing for you', she shot him five times.
Dukeshire has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. She says she
will pay for the rest of her life for losing her composure.


Florida's Carolyn Dukeshire =
"I rashly refused a cool drink..."

Florida's Carolyn Dukeshire ~ says "A refilled drink or 'OUCH!'"

Other options (is either of these better?):
Florida's Carolyn Dukeshire =
Lady refuels: 'I drink or ... chaos!"
Fussy drink-leach: '... or I reload!'


LG
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[Eli the Bearded]

In alt.anagrams, Lardy Girl <ust...@asdf.fi> wrote:
> In Florida, which always brings us a worryingly large number of Anna's
> News Clippings items

See also "Florida Man":

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

> 62-year-old Carolyn Dukeshire has pleaded
> guilty to the second-degree murder of her neighbour, 64-year-old
> Martin Mazur. Dukeshire had approached Mazur outside the latter's home
> and asked him for a can of Busch Light beer. When Mazur replied: 'I
> have absolutely nothing for you', she shot him five times.
> Dukeshire has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. She says she
> will pay for the rest of her life for losing her composure.
>
>
> Florida's Carolyn Dukeshire =
> "I rashly refused a cool drink..."

But it wasn't Carolyn refusing...

Carolyn Dukeshire of Florida =
"Fires" lad for drink. Clue: YAHOO

Where "yahoo" is one of the original Jonathon Swift uncouth gits that
_Gulliver_ encounters while traveling.

Elijah
------
the website insists on using the ! to differentiate themselves

[Lardy Girl]

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In alt.anagrams, Lardy Girl <ust...@asdf.fi> wrote:
> > In Florida, which always brings us a worryingly large number of Anna's
> > News Clippings items

> See also "Florida Man":

> https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

Not bad for a Twitter page. Pretty scary for humanity.

"Florida man": Random Fail.

> > Florida's Carolyn Dukeshire =
> > "I rashly refused a cool drink..."

> But it wasn't Carolyn refusing...

I included some 'grams from Florida Woman's perspective, but this
wasn't among them. What's the best punctuation for indicating
'summary from beyond the grave'?

> Carolyn Dukeshire of Florida =
> "Fires" lad for drink. Clue: YAHOO

Nicely found. I like it.

> Where "yahoo" is one of the original Jonathon Swift uncouth gits that
> _Gulliver_ encounters while traveling.

A fine pedigree for the search engine / Web mail outfit / portal
thingy. Their second-choice name was probably 'Whoopee!'.
I'm not doing an ObAnag of 'Houyhnhnms'. Anyone want to tackle the
full title of 'A Modest Proposal'?

> the website insists on using the ! to differentiate themselves

I thought Yahoo! did that to drive me more insane, not to be
d!fferent.

[Jon Gearhart]

Lardy Girl wrote:
> A Modest Proposal=
Do me last, poor sap

Earth Jargon

[Horrid Stretchy Pus]

A Modest Proposal
=
Adopts 'poor' meals
Poor pasta models

C

[Pedt]

In message <hyA*Ob...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 19:27:31 on Tue,
12 Mar 2013, Lardy Girl <ust...@asdf.fi> wibbled

>Anyone want to tackle the
>full title of 'A Modest Proposal'?
>

"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being
a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to
the Publick"
=
Selling errant offspring each month to rich, reprobate gentlemen could
both promote upkeep and provide back better food for an inopportune
Irish Family.

--
Pedt

[Horrid Stretchy Pus]

A work of genius. #WANW
Up there with the famous to be or not to be soliloquy anagram if you
ask me.

Chris

[Jon Gearhart]

Never heard of it but now I feel as if I read it.Great work, Pedt!

[Pedt]

In message <Dtqdnfxck5_rddzM...@earthlink.com>, at 10:11:43
on Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jon Gearhart <earth...@earthlink.net> wibbled

Thanks gents.

Helps when you have a nice distribution of letters :)
--
Pedt

[Lardy Girl]

Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <Dtqdnfxck5_rddzM...@earthlink.com>, at 10:11:43
> on Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jon Gearhart <earth...@earthlink.net> wibbled
> >Horrid Stretchy Pus wrote:

> >> On Mar 14, 11:01 am, Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:

> >>> "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being
> >>> a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to
> >>> the Publick"
> >>> =
> >>> Selling errant offspring each month to rich, reprobate gentlemen could
> >>> both promote upkeep and provide back better food for an inopportune
> >>> Irish Family.

> >> A work of genius. #WANW

What he said.
I should suggest anagrams more often - in this case, outsourcing
(from Eastern Europe to the UK) has worked brilliantly.

> Helps when you have a nice distribution of letters :)

It indeed doesn't look too bad. Perhaps a bit vowel-heavy, but that
doesn't seem to have been an obstacle for you at all.

[Pedt]

In message <VBm*EW...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 16:38:35 on Tue,
16 Apr 2013, Lardy Girl <ust...@asdf.fi> wibbled

>Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message <Dtqdnfxck5_rddzM...@earthlink.com>, at 10:11:43
>> on Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jon Gearhart <earth...@earthlink.net> wibbled
>> >Horrid Stretchy Pus wrote:
>
>> >> On Mar 14, 11:01 am, Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >>> "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being
>> >>> a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to
>> >>> the Publick"
>> >>> =
>> >>> Selling errant offspring each month to rich, reprobate gentlemen could
>> >>> both promote upkeep and provide back better food for an inopportune
>> >>> Irish Family.
>
>> >> A work of genius. #WANW
>
>What he said.
> I should suggest anagrams more often - in this case, outsourcing
>(from Eastern Europe to the UK) has worked brilliantly.

You caught me on the right day :)

I was catching up on reading a.a when I spotted the suggestion and I had
time to have a go and, I was pleased that I could get something out of
it quickly. Haven't done a lot for ages as I was looking after mum until
she passed away just before Christmas and I've not had a lot of time
since either.

Last thing mum asked me was to make sure that her Sunday Express General
Knowledge Crossword answers had been posted off. Bless her. I miss the
Monday evening phone calls asking about obscure Spanish painters, the
name of whom first navigated the North West Passage successfully or a
missing word in a quotation she can't find in the huge book I bought her
etc. Miss her in lots of other ways of course but those Monday evening
calls tend to stick in your mind.

She did become very frail physically towards the end of last year but
she still had a mind that was razor sharp.

>
>
>> Helps when you have a nice distribution of letters :)
>
>It indeed doesn't look too bad. Perhaps a bit vowel-heavy, but that
>doesn't seem to have been an obstacle for you at all.

I tend to prefer a bit vowel heavy or you end up with something like
Phffft at the end which only matches a film title.

--
Pedt

[Lardy Girl]

Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:

> I was catching up on reading a.a when I spotted the suggestion and I had
> time to have a go and, I was pleased that I could get something out of
> it quickly. Haven't done a lot for ages as I was looking after mum until
> she passed away just before Christmas and I've not had a lot of time
> since either.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss, expressed quite poignantly. I'm
glad you were able to spend time with her near the end and that those
days also produced a smashing anagram.

> I tend to prefer a bit vowel heavy or you end up with something like
> Phffft at the end which only matches a film title.

You want 'Pfft' instead. :)
I tend to try sucking up consonants first, since it's so easy to be
left with a pile of 'em. Kind of surprised I don't end up with a
pile of vowels more often.


LG,
who will try anagramming the name of the crossword if she gets a chance

[Pedt]

In message <4bC*Pz...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, at 11:34:12 on Wed,
29 May 2013, Lardy Girl <ust...@asdf.fi> wibbled

>Pedt <"\"@ @\""@some.oddities-etc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I was catching up on reading a.a when I spotted the suggestion and I had
>> time to have a go and, I was pleased that I could get something out of
>> it quickly. Haven't done a lot for ages as I was looking after mum until
>> she passed away just before Christmas and I've not had a lot of time
>> since either.
>
>I'm sorry to hear about your loss, expressed quite poignantly.

Thank you.

She had a great send off. We managed to get the same ex-clergyman that
we had for dad's funeral who was really good - and a few people who had
not heard them before heard the stories about when someone wanted to buy
her for 3 camels including a white one and when, on her weekly walks on
The Wirral, she once almost got arrested by the Police for obstruction
on a lane with her zimmer ~ she accepted the lift then told the dibble
that as she was now half an hour early for her bus, he'd have to buy her
half of shandy. She told me later that she'd have refused the lift and
let herself get arrested but she had a salmon steak thawing in the
kitchen for her dinner.

>I'm glad you were able to spend time with her near the end

A few weeks before she went into Hospital mid December she fairly
suddenly become very frail. Still a very determined and stubborn elderly
lady who never lost her sharpness of mind or sense of humour though.
Still did all her banking in the local branch every other week even
though I had to help get her there (on and off the bus and across a road
where the pedestrian lights didn't give her enough time.

Being there most days then practically every day, I'm glad I had the
opportunity to spend a lot of time with her - even if it meant having to
sit through Coronation Street :)

Sorry all, I'm waffling.

>
>> I tend to prefer a bit vowel heavy or you end up with something like
>> Phffft at the end which only matches a film title.
>
>You want 'Pfft' instead. :)

Hmmm.

> I tend to try sucking up consonants first, since it's so easy to be
>left with a pile of 'em. Kind of surprised I don't end up with a
>pile of vowels more often.

With a long gram I tend to try and get rid of both consonants and vowels
that I've got a lot of, especially if they are awkward to use - the
k,j,x,z thing - then see what's left. I've imported my own word list to
Anagram Artist - the one of ~220,000 words I used for my ancient DOS
pattern matching program - which I think is more than occasionally
helpful.

>
>
>LG,
>who will try anagramming the name of the crossword if she gets a chance

Please do. The full title of the one mum did every week, even on
holiday, is "The Sunday Express General Knowledge £1000 Crossword". I
think we can ignore the £1000 in any anagrams - though she did win it
once, it pretty well paid the additional for four coach holidays to
Germany she considered going on but thought far too expensive for s

Don't worry about whether or not to post any funny rude anagrams found,
Sheila (mum) would be amused by them.

--
Pedt
Cryptic Clues Round 5, Number #3
If it sounds like you regret a sarcastic comment, plant it! (7)

[Horrid Stretchy Pus]

> Please do. The full title of the one mum did every week, even on
>

> holiday, is "The Sunday Express General Knowledge �1000 Crossword". I
>
> think we can ignore the �1000 in any anagrams - though she did win it

>
> once, it pretty well paid the additional for four coach holidays to
>
> Germany she considered going on but thought far too expensive for s
>
>
>
> Don't worry about whether or not to post any funny rude anagrams found,
>
> Sheila (mum) would be amused by them.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Pedt
>
> Cryptic Clues Round 5, Number #3
>
> If it sounds like you regret a sarcastic comment, plant it! (7)

Have been looking at this for a while. Some great possibilities, but here is the one I like best:

The Sunday Express General Knowledge Crossword
=
Exhorts clues, ponders and answers. Gorged weekly.

Sorry for your loss

Chris

[Horrid Stretchy Pus]

>      Cryptic Clues Round 5, Number #3
>      If it sounds like you regret a sarcastic comment, plant it! (7)

S

P

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P

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RHUBARB

Chris

[Pedt]

In message <eb685ece-8166-44d3...@googlegroups.com>, at
16:52:09 on Thu, 30 May 2013, Horrid Stretchy Pus
<chris....@lineone.net> wibbled

>
>> Please do. The full title of the one mum did every week, even on

>> holiday, is "The Sunday Express General Knowledge �1000 Crossword". I
>> think we can ignore the �1000 in any anagrams

>
>Have been looking at this for a while. Some great possibilities, but
>here is the one I like best:
>
>The Sunday Express General Knowledge Crossword
>=
>Exhorts clues, ponders and answers. Gorged weekly.
>
>Sorry for your loss

Thanks Chris. That's pretty neat and very apt.

--
Pedt