A Perfectly Reasonable Option? No, You Mangy Sonafabitch!
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| 100% | BEDCOVER | Basic Esprit De Corps Offers Virgins Eventual Repentance |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | BRICK | Building Requires Intricate Construction Knowledge |
Tony Moore |
| 100% | CANDLE | Cylindrical Artifact, Non Dripping, Light Emitting. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | COB (3) | Container, Or Basket |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | COLLECTIONS | Common Objects, Layout Lovingly Established, Changing Them Into Objects Now Significant. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | CURTAIN | Cloth Used Regularly Turns Atmosphere Into Nighttime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | DENTURES | Dentists Extract Natural Teeth Using Revenue Enhancement Schemes |
Rico Leffanta |
| 100% | DICE | Deals In Chance Events |
Sean Lamb Entertainment:Games |
| 100% | DOOR KNOCKER | Digitally Operated Object Reveals Knowledge Now Of Caller's Keylessness - Entry Required. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - who made this up just to use R@@@@ as his email address on the Acronym Submission Form |
| 100% | FAN | Forces Air Nearer. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | FAN (2) | Feeling Always Nice |
Jan Morgan |
| 90% | FIREPLACE | Fuelled Ignition Radiating Energy (from) Paper, Logs And Coal Efficiently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | FOUNTAIN PEN | Flows Out... Usually Nice, Though Also It Needs Protectors -- Easily Nasty. |
Jeff Anonymous. Fountain pens are nice -- I find that I can write better with one than with a ballpoint, though that's not saying much -- but if you put one in your shirt pocket, be sure that you are wearing a pocket protector if you like the shirt much or you don't want to be embarassed. |
| 100% | GARDEN LIGHTS | Generating A Remarkable Display Every Night - Lamps Illuminate Grower's Horticulural Trophy Specimens |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | GUM | Glue - Usually Mucilage |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| 100% | INKWELL | I'll Now Keep Writing, Employing Lampblack Liquid |
Tony |
| 80% | JUNK | Just Useless, Needless Knick-knacks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 80% | KEYS | Keep Everything of Yours Secure |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | LADDER | Lying Against Dormer Denotes Elopement? Rather! |
Patricia Rix People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LAMP (2) | Lost At Midnight? Press. |
Steve Keate |
| 100% | LAMP (3) | Light Atop Manmade Pole |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | LAVA LAMP | Like A Volcano, A Light Activates Moving Patterns |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | LAVA LAMP (2) | Lacking Any Volcanic Activity, Light Affords Many Possibilities |
Melanie Merswolke |
| 100% | LIGHT | Lamp Is Generating Heat Too! |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| 100% | LIGHT (2) | Lightbulb, If Glowing, Has This. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Physics |
| 100% | LITTERBOX | Like Infectious Toxic Tornado, Emanations Render Breathing Only Xperimental |
Patricia Rix |
| 100% | LOCK | Lacking Owner's Combination / Key |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | LOCKS | Locks/Lock! Open: Compatible Keys! Security! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | NAPKIN | Nicely Arranged Paper Keeps It Neat |
Daryl Thomas |
| 100% | NIB | Numerous Ink Blotches |
Tony |
| 100% | OIL | Oh, It Lubricates! |
Roger Williams |
| 80% | ORNAMENT | Ornate Relic Newly Acquired by Museum is Eventually National Treasure. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | OSSETT | Ornate Spare Secretes Extra Toilet Tissue |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Ossett is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A frilly spare-toilet-roll-cosy.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | PAPER (2) | Parchment Advances Produced Economical Replacement |
Tony Moore |
| 100% | PEN | Paper-Embellishing Nib |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL | Please Erase Non-Correct Illustrations/ Letters |
Angela Brett Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (2) | Prudish Euphemistic Name Concerns Its Lead |
Patricia Rix Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (3) | People Enjoy Nice Colours In 'Leads' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (4) | Printing Enabled. Notable Contribution Is Lead! |
Roger Williams Communication |
| 100% | PENCIL (5) | Plumbus's Excluded, Now Carbon's In Lieu |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PENCIL (4). Pencils have never, ever contained lead. Carbon in the form of graphite has been misnamed for ages. (See PEDANTRY for a correction.) Communication |
| 100% | PLIERS | Perhaps Lying In Elecrician's Rumpled Satchel. |
TMcCO'G who has noticed that Plumbers usually carry a sturdy toolbox, but Electricians often use an old leather carryall. |
| 100% | PLIERS (2) | Possibly Lost Items Easily Retrieved... Sometimes |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | PLUG | Push Lightly Until Grounded |
Matthew Oram |
| 100% | POT (7) | Piece Of Terracotta |
Jon Barker |
| 100% | POWER TOOLS | Plug On Wall - Electricity's Released To Operate On Lumber Stocks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Electronics |
| 100% | SAW | Split Apart Wood |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | SAW (3) | Seen Around Workshops |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SCISSORS | Snips Cardboard In Seconds - Slashing Others Requires Sharpening. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SHALE | Slipping Has A Lovely Ending |
Rico Leffanta |
| 93% | SMOKE DETECTOR | Safety Makes One Keen to Every Danger. Escape Tactics Essentially Challenge Thoughts Of Readiness |
Sean Lamb People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | SPOOL | Spindle Product's Outputted Onto Loop |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SPRINKLERS | Spritzing Precipitation Rains In Navigational Kinetics. Liquid Enriches Rotating Sections |
Jan Morgan -- watering system |
| 100% | STAIR (2) | Specific Tread And Its Riser |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | SUITCASE | Suitably Un Intesting Transport Capsule Aiding Stylish Escape |
Matthew Oram |
| 100% | SURE (2) | Spraying Underarms Removes Exudations |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to a brand of deodorant |
| 80% | TOTE | Two-handed, Open-Top, Envelops |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| 100% | TERRY | Towelling - Envelope Robe Round Yourself |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | TAMPAX (2) | These Aren't Men's Products Apparently - Xtraordinary! |
TMcCO'G |
| 86% | TAMPAX | Tampons Assist Menstruation, Particularly After X-rays |
Chris Kjelgaard |
| 89% | TABLE SAW | Tackle A Block Lengthwise, Enabling Someone (to) Attack Wood |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 89% | UMBRELLA | Used to Make Bucketing Rain Endurable... Lifts Ladies Also! |
Angela Brett (referring to Mary Poppins, of course.) |
| 100% | WASHER | When A Seal Has Expired, Replace! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | WICK | With Illumination Comes Knowledge |
Gavin Lambert (thinking lantern wick in an old library or something) Art & Literature |
| 100% | WICK (2) | What's Inside Candles; Kindling |
Gavin Lambert |