[thought for the day] monday evening

Mediocrity tends to a tolerance of everything but excellence.

[Could have been written by Fabian Tassano but in fact was written by Deogolwulf]

[phonetic dictionary] fourth offerings

Useful hat

Try your hand at the following phonetic dictionary meanings.


The first offerings were here.

The second offerings were here.

The third offerings were here.







The fourth offerings are here:

31 Gangrene...................IRA hitsquad

32 Grateful.....................Enough firewood

33 Gunwale....................Harpoon

34 Handicap...................Useful hat

35 Huguenot...................Large tangle

36 Ideal...........................You shuffle

37 Infantry.......................Seedling

38 Injury..........................Empanelled

39 Innuendo....................Italian suppository

40 Inquire........................Member of chorus

[special ant quiz] really very special

Collecting dew from the aphid

In each case, supply the required word which must include the letter group "ant":

1. Tennis term when players are equal and it gets boring [-age]

2. Mood when with a lady and hopefully state when falling o/b [b-]

3. Many males' equipment after 40 [d-]

4. Wrong [no clue this time]

5. My love life might be this [-asy]

Should you be requiring any more "ant" words, here are some. Answers are in white below - you need to highlight:

advantage, buoyant, dormant, errant, fantasy

[feministi] fisking the fiskers

Wonderful fisking, over at Kelly Mac's place, of a Feministi trying to fisk the anti-Feministi, e.g.

Feministi: Sadly one of the fundamental beliefs of bachelorism is that women are to blame for divorce. I disagree.

Kelly Mac: You can disagree all you want. Women instigate the majority of divorces. Numbers don’t lie.

Heaps more over there.

[timmy on the train] let's not laugh at others' misfortunes

Andrew Haines, First Great Western Chief Operating Officer, having a bit of a giggle

Regarding First Great Western and their accessibility from abroad with their super-duper new system, Tim Worstall opines:

Bozos.

Using their online system, you cannot book a ticket from outside the country.

Which knuckle dragging mouth breather designed that system then?

Well done Mr. Haines. You’re a credit to British industry.

F---wit. [slightly abridged as this is a family blog]

Welcome to Nu-Britain.

[lizard queen] who needed the presidency anyway

"I adore you, Barack - you've got beautiful eyes. I'd be a great running mate."

Mrs Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, and pollster Geoff Garin will take over co-ordinating her "strategic message team".

Strategic message? Have I missed something here?