Word Wall

  1. Turning raw stones into sparkly jewelry is simply facet-making.
  2. u fans see referees snafu
  3. There’s no doubt about it. Alger did glare at that large regal lager!
  4. Havin’ an apostrophe’s no sign of atrophy. Not havin’ a trophy’s no sign of catastrophe.
  5. integrity + fluidity = continuity
    continuity + identity = validityvalidity + perpetuity = prosperity
  6. Our hours aren’t ours alone, are they?
  7. Ere lots of thoughts, reams of dreams (streams and streams)
  8. Sing of slings and arrows, but also of love, and tomorrows.
  9. a presumption of madness = a far-gone conclusion
  10. hokey-dinky (hokey + okey dokey + rinky dink)= a little corny, but not bad
  11. Where does truth lie? That’s quite a cunning question, and sly.
  12. Mostly it’s boiled down wisdom that sticks to ribs and helps in crunch time— things like the serenity prayer, ‘children learn what they live’, and ‘rightness rests on a three-legged stool—right action, right time, right reason’, Covey’s 7 Habits, Frankle’s existential motto, Robbins ‘State-Story-Strategy’, the gospels and the sermon on the mount, first Corinthians 13, and Philippians 4: 4-8
  13. It’s wise to widen wide while diggin’ for deep.
  14. Well-roundedness seems pointless until one stands back to see that it is the point!
  15. To quote Vernon Rylands Parton: “Scacetic Philosophy includes the attempt to blend different (more or less antagonistic) speculative systems about ‘scaci” into one unified metaphysic, a universal system, a logical integration… In this Alician tale my Scacetic Soup may taste a little acid and sour to an orthodox sweet tooth. Scacetic art does deal with the Roses, Orchids, and other lovely flowers in Queen Caissa’s gardens. More obvious, it also concerns this Queen’s spiny Cacti!”
  16. To be drawn into dead ends akin to painting oneself into a coroner!
  17. How ironic! I could never remember how to spell or pronounce ‘mnemonic’ until some mixed up men mimed an A- minus ‘Monica’.
  18. summery-summary = hot synop-sauce
  19. Guess Who this is—American Woman’s Come Undone ‘cause there’s No Sugar tonight.
  20. Each vice/virtue counterpart wears the mask of its opposite such that boldness masks timidity and gentleness masks courage.
    Who can discern, therefore, between gentleness and timidity? Boldness and courage? Wisdom and foolishness? Strength and weakness? The truth exists, but lurks and broods about, above and below the waters.
  21. Which is the greater peril? A) Taking life too seriously or B) Not taking life seriously enough?
    Which are the greater pearls? Wisdom or grace? Diligence or balance? Patience or urgency?
  22. Acacianally, we wood bark up the wrong tree, but knot too often.
  23. Teaching is E.G. when use of examples is primary.
  24. Time is a Tiger that can't be bought, caught, or taught but by the tale.
  25. When is an obvious skewer difficult to see?
    (When it's packed into a portmanteau-i.e. ob-skewer)
  26. A king is always asking-ought I-Bring it or have it brought? Buy it or have it bought? Catch it or have it caught? Seek it or have it sought? Teach it or have it taught? Think it or have it thought? Be active and do it myself? Be passive and have it done for me?
  27. Researcher held in his hand an abstract and read it. It was quite concrete!
    Philosopher held and had in his head the concept of 'concreteness'. It was rather abstract!
  28. O-U-I
    FH
    e
    e
    d
    Oui, yes, we, the teacher and the learner feed one another and heed one another. O(h), you and I, feed and heed one another.
  29. I'll be ill if always all alone. We'll be well if in a deep, cool, wet, thirst quenching community.
  30. We must choose either to lodge in our little abode or to wander about like a vagrant from place to place. We must choose 'Nomad' or 'Hut'. We must choose 'no matter what'.
  31. An unfancy feline feast and farewell = Cat chow/ciao
  32. Syrup-titious = sweetly sneaky
  33. A few whiffs at life philosophy I offer for free:
    1. Half of life is 'If you'. Half of life is 'Have to'.
    2. Fortune favors the free to.
    3. The future is forever fidgeting.
  34. Suppose all one does is pose. All one adds is adipose!
  35. Why couldn't the kid complain when whacked with a yardstick? It was deemed a 'measured' response.
  36. Oliver hardly finds it funny, Stanley, seeing you resting on your Laurels and Hardy laughs, when those laughs don't last, and aren't last!
  37. When drawing a blank and standing on the brink, take courage and faith to the bank. Feed your sole surviving fish in his happy little tank.
  38. Decayed ego's stuck on decades ago.
  39. To quote the Tao Te Ching:"True power seems weak. True purity seems tarnished. True steadfastness seems changeable. True clarity seems obscure. The greatest art seems unsophisticated. The greatest love seems indifferent. The greatest wisdom seems childish. Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you. There is no greater illusion than fear; no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe. In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is undone. The Master has no mind of his own. He works with the mind of the people. He is good to people who are good. He is also good to people who aren't good. This is true goodness. He trusts people who are trustworthy. He also trusts people who aren't trustworthy. This is true trust. Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. In the beginning was the Tao. All things issue from it; all things return to it. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace." (An intriguing book)
  40. Sometimes the forest;
    Sometimes the street;
    Sometimes the hammer;
    Sometimes the nail;
    Sometimes through gritted teeth, endure, and survive.
    Sometimes through a flashing smile, rejoice and thrive.
  41. Didn't Pinocchio hear his conscience speaking to him? No… All he heard were crickets!
  42. My green and tangerine tambourine man's towering over your head with one hand waving free! (Thus sang Beatle Bob Dylan and the Lemon Pipers)
  43. How should one describe a piquant but polite punster? (Pun-gent)
  44. Whether the boon or bane waxes or wanes, seeing disagreeability as disagreeable seems sane all the same. 'Cause I care more than one whit, lick, jot, tittle, or iota.
  45. Brush and scrub
    Bushes and shrubs
    And out come
    A rash of red radishes
    And scrubs
    Who blush and eat meekly
    Hubris, however,
    Eats meat, burns bluish, and
    Grows a Big Brain
  46. "Bob Rodriguez"
    Sugarman shook
    The tambourine;
    Tambourine man
    Shook the sugar down
  47. We see optics in politics may make it tick, but tick people off too.
  48. This soup has chicken and rice-like grains of pasta in it. Orzo they say!
  49. Each peach
    Perched atop
    A tree
    Precariously
    Hovering
    Precipitously
    On twigs
    Half in heaven...
  50. ESL-ers live off and on the languid edge of the language adage.
  51. Philosophy is at hand....
    Half the hand is a palm representing the whole, the right brain. Half the hand is fingers representing the particular, the left brain. The pinky is How and the Spirit. The index finger is Where and the Mind. The ring finger is What and the Heart. The thumb is When and the Body. The middle finger is Who and Why and the Soul.
  52. Indecision is straining at the ors and coming apart at the seems.
  53. How does a serpent share secrets? secretely!
  54. I slip-slept off-on futon and landed in-on a pig-pile of tofu, but I've lived-learned my lesson 'bout mess-mine missin
  55. No air-brushing or blotting out blemishes. Stick pigs; don't lipstick 'em.
  56. Just suppose
    Plenty and Lack
    Stood back to back
    Juxtaposed
    Took it in
    Overdosed
  57. Faith with a doubt? Without a doubt!
  58. What bridges the yawning chasm between boredom and fatigue? A yawn.
  59. For eggs ample, he has a hundred hens on his poultry farm.
  60. We live in a tenuous world;
    Held together by wee wires, by fine, fine filaments;
    A spider's silk of reasonableness, amidst
    Large swaths of illogicalness
  61. In evenings
    Owls bowl
    Below lobbies
    In bowels of buildings
    With elbows in
    Low lobs and jabs and
    Blows are thrown and
    Booming voices bellow and
    Neat pin triangles
    Are blown open
    When, once in a while,
    One pin, perhaps a ten or a seven, struggles
    To stay standing
    Our owl wishfully waits
    For it to go down
    Below lobbies
    In bowels of buildings
    With elbows in...
  62. mustango = I need to dance like a wild horse
  63. I saw Buzz with his new buzz saw leaving the other buzz saws in the sawdust.
  64. Lost in thought's
    Last in deed
    Must muster most
    Apologies
    Rather, master
    All your own
    Actions and reactions
  65. Be astute and a stud
    Not merely a dude and a dud
    Stay afloat in a flood
    Keep a flute afoot
    And food too
  66. Parched carpets
    Led up
    Spry
    Hwy
    Woes
  67. The donut was dinky. The dinghy was dingy. And the dingus defied description.
  68. Where did the money go?
    Where did it go?
    I know it's money-low vertigo,
    But where did it go?
    Up to Canada
    Maybe Toronto, Or in the middle of America
    Toledo, Ohio
    Will my dough rise before judgment day?
    Or will fortunes give way?
    Will it be given all away?
    Someday we'll be able to say
  69. Tangled in the tentacles of tentativeness
    And trippin' over trepidation
    Tenacity, simplicity, audacity
    May untie you; unite you
  70. Had I had a hat
    I would have worn it in the morning.
    Had I had a hat
    I would have worn it in the day.
    Had I had a hat
    I would have worn it in the evening.
    Had I had a hat
    I would have worn it well.
  71. The man minus the most muscle mass wins what?
    A trophy!
  72. Downtown Terry Brown
    Went about without his crown
    But without a sound and without a frown
    He found on the ground
    His missing noun
    Thus regaining renown
    For which he was bound
  73. You can't stand tag questions, can you?
  74. You can't build a beast that lacks bone structure.
    You can't scale the Catskills without a skeleton.
    A little rigor is de rigueur.
  75. The word becomes the world when the one 'l' of love is put in its midst.
  76. As I eat lunch I don't say "Munch", but I do!
  77. Said Sheik Sulaman: 'This dagger may stagger, but I do not stutter when I utter: "I want to buy Dubai."’
  78. Will you tan his hide? Yes, but not now, a little leather.
  79. I haven't a final opinion. It's in formation; therefore, I'm in for more information.
  80. Sharp needled syringe? Sure. I cringe.
  81. ... Why's he so keen on walking two by two, up a ramp, into a big boat? That's what I call ark-ward.
  82. A ridiculous rant... a "sosillyquy"
  83. A clean slide tackle is no mean feat!
  84. 'Voter data dances if candidate's favorite' is a duo-gram. Each letter appears exactly twice.
  85. Expecting more ran into expecting less. Zeal was stirred, but soon digressed.
  86. Inveterate idealist has inoperable optimism and is isolated and alone and so makes immediate allies of any and all, of aliens or foes, but has already made an implacable enemy of consonant reality.
  87. It's a fine line we've (weave) to find.
  88. A lumbering jack will suffer summary attack for slumbering back with numbness and lack of readiness to act accurate and fast.
  89. I advise thee (please pity me) to advise me pithily. OK and alright. End of alphabet it. i.e. wx yz!
  90. MORTAL TALE
    I, it, bit
    Obit
    So, on
    the morrow,
    marrow
  91. If a doubtful move is dubious, a doubtful piece adjustment is J'dubious!
  92. Mildly wild = lambunctious.
  93. What's in all dull gents? All indulgence.
  94. Bee-bearded beekeepers spoke in smoke of the hives they have. These bug lovers suspect colony collapse and thus inspect their insects daily.
  95. Life is hard... but we har-d-har-har (Laugh it off) but r. r. to r. (recoil to reality reflex) is no laughing matter.
  96. The corn-horn toots at two turning my nap into a mishap.
  97. Is that phlegm? No it's snot.
    Are you the king of Thailand? Yes, Siam.
    Is a twist of fate metallic? Yes, it's ironic.
  98. Ella llame su llama Guillermo, but it looks like a billy goat to me.
  99. Then, when, we understand why We're still standing, Still, We'll gain, something, well, that's valuable.
  100. Is this an echo chamber? It is, it is, it is.
  101. Down the hatch with the dregs of the day. Are you down with this? Or do you 'don the hatchet' and say, "Down with this, Boo, Hiss, Boo, Hiss"?
    I won't consent to downing the dregs of the day without protest. I'd be remiss, remiss!
  102. A notable chef was not able to serve the meal because he had no table.
  103. What's the long side of the largest aquatic African animal called?The Hippopotanoose
  104. What's a WHAM shower?
    A short one meant to wake you up before you go, go.
  105. What's the difference between winter and eternity?
    Winter's after fall. Eternity's after all.
  106. UNAPOSTROPHETICALLY' He said, "I will not!" as is his wont.
  107. As Bread is Badly Baked In an Open Oven...
    A Mouth Ajar Dissolves Resolve.
  108. Ere it rains
    Ominous omen
    Of same
    i.e. clouds
    darkly stained
  109. What sinks HMS Success?
    A Torpido!
  110. Sausage?
    Si Senor!
    Sin seeing scene....
    Factory Floor....
    Por favor!
  111. "The whole truth always includes a third part, which is the reconciliation. To make a really good apple pie you need very tart apples and extremely good honey, and the combination is irresistible." Dr. Iain McGilchrist
  112. What does a Siamese cat say when displeased?
    Mae-ow!
  113. Fun isn't frivolous
    Rigor isn't mirthless.
    Achieve more mentally
    And joyfully
    Simultaneously!
  114. The prison cells of comfort
    Have bars of foam,
    Cushiony and plush
  115. On a street with no name
    I met a horse with no mane!
    'cause the desert had turned to sea
    I remember his name-Seahorse you see!
  116. Did the class place lapse?
    Did the college prep place collapse at last?
    Alas, to a lad or lass, 'twas the sad last lap of a learning palace.
  117. Did I ride astride an undaunted donkey
    While an undaunted Don King rode astride an undaunted steed? Indeed!
  118. He shaved his head on a whim
    For this sudden thought occurred to him
    Bald'd be better
    But this thought came off the top of his head
    And out of thin (h)air
  119. Why'd Teri's toilet turn turquoise?
    No Comet!
  120. Perspective
    Tall & Old Tree Told
    Semi-centenarian man,
    "You're but a babe!"
  121. great ain't better
    great ain't good
    great is just great
    just great!
  122. Consider the cost of countless causes cluttering the collective conscience.
    Confusion, unless we choose one,
    Calculate....concentrate,
    From colon cancer to white collar crime,
    From drugs to divorce,
    Education to the environment to everyday economics
    Since the problems are multifaceted, so are their solutions.
  123. Sad said I, she ducked out of here.
    Sad, sad eye, she duct out a tear.
  124. It makes sense, but no:
    A tooth stick for tooth pick
    A light bubble for a light bulb
    Eatable for edible
  125. If an umpire can miss a call for the ump-teenth time, then why can't a referee miss a call for the ref-teenth time?
  126. ELEVEN
    wx yz,
    Abcde.
    win when
    yen zen
    ven blend
  127. If your only tool is a hammer, you'll see every problem as a protruding nail. If your only tool is fabric softener, you'll see every problem as a starched collar.
  128. Should I use the ladder or the footstool?
    Use the latter. (i.e. the footstool)
  129. Sin begins with a grin. Ends with chagrin.
  130. Why do we do what we do?
    If it's boring me it's boring you.
    Leaves a hole in us
    Called Nothing New