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Old 14-March-2008, 05:03 PM
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Giggle: a search engine for jokes

Incline: what a pen makes

Kilogram: Phone an assassin

Legroom: French man getting married

Romantics: what people get up to in the Italian Capital

Xylophone: Wooden Phone

Ventricle: that line of damp from around the extractor fan
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Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
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Fulsome : I've had too much to eat
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good one Chrissy...

deodorant: remove a common insect's smell

dandelion: a fine feline
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Feasible : a charge for having a name like Sible !

father-in-law : a legal dad
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chrissy you are a hoot.....
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Glad you like Mahesh tee hee!

camphor : warm tent lining!

cancan : to repeat it twice that you are able to do it !
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phonies : a thing that ringies and you answer it (most of the time anyway)

package : an era after the iron age!
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cottage : age of a small childs bed.

cosmopolitan : outer space tanning service for parrots.

corrode : a vehicle you travel in.
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polymer: parrot overboard, mon ami!

monopoly: parrot's kissing disease

polychloride: Ms. Leachman's plastic car
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polyunsaturated : a very dry parrot.

poppy : a posh name for a young dog.

paddock : cushions for a harbor.
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expect : old wound from a bird.

delicate : the girl who serves you your cooked meats.
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Lymph - to walk with a lisp

Coffee - a person who is coughed upon

Abdicate - to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach
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tachograph : a chart hanging device.

tallboy : over sized youth.

tapeworm : a measuring device for invertebrates.
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Dialectic - a debate that makes you run to the bathroom.

Misogyny - a strong dislike for Japanese soup.
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JPEG : used for hanging pjamas on the washing line.

kaleidoscope : when you bump your telescope onto something!
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Moccasins -What-a the saint-a do to the ones, they in hell-a

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Pottery - Evoking memories of Harry Morgan

Prince of Wales - a loud baby
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Dopler effect - the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly

Flatulence - the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller
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abstain : usage of too much self-tanning lotion on the stomach.

absent : home delivery for new stomach muscles.

acronym : agile fairy.
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Firefly - what rockets do.

Spider-Man - Der jealous wife followed him.

Wikipedia - an encyclopedia of candlemaking.

Tunguska - a musical instrument made of tungsten.

Gastroenterology - the science of smuggling petrolium products into the country
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Callisto - a sign that your shoes don't fit

Ecliptic - e-mailed coupons

Chivalry - the art of putting the right toppings on a baked potato

Manuscript - a male scribe

Iron Age - a bad way to flatten your wrinkles
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