can you guess what it is?

back about noon EST today to check

Sometimes I guess in metered rhyme. But not this one.

I guess?

//SCR, my complete answers and md's rhebus example are on the end of the old thread//

the word's neither prose nor suppose. try some more. :)

not prose, suppose not

By any other name, it would still smell sweet.

though dead lilies be rank
and roses sweet
your guess did tank
so the game's not complete

well, do i at least get points for trying? maybe i'll get better. or not. *chuckle*

be gentle with me, good readers, i'm inept.

not prose, suppose, rose not

i'll be gone for a couple of hours. going to take piccies of fall foliage. :)

Is it what the artist asked the model to take off so that she could do this?

A couple guesses there.

nay nay, larxol. it's not clothes and not pose.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose not

Can it refer to sweets,
from cane, fruit, or beets?

nope, louminus, not fructose nor yet sucrose, lactose, dextrose or maltose.

in the US, none of these rhymes with 'those.' fructose is pronounced either frooktohs or frucktohs (soft 's' sound).

i see the British pronunciation *does* rhyme though. hah. crambo and learn. :)

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose not

Sometimes one has to challenge oneself with the higher forms of poesy.

There once was a man: perfected.
So he stood to get himself elected.
He no sooner was picked,
Than found himself 'nicked'.
So he wasn't the one selected!

giggle you're not the chosen one this time, jj. reach, grasp, heaven and all that.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose not

A kickshaw?

wow, jj. the closest i can come is actually a plural, not the word, but the closest guess i can make. not bibelots, is it?

i assume not, but i'll give you bibelots as a freebie. i never thought of bibelots as kickshaws. learned something else. :)

could you elaborate a bit?

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots not

Not happy with re-finding it from scratch. My word was actually quelquechose, but when I tried to work the search backwards (the way you would have to do it), I only got the French phrase 'quelque chose'. Sorry, my bad for not researching before I posted.

I was going to send you a photograph, but I had the shutter speed too quick and it is all dark?

Or of course, too long a shutter speed and it was all washed out and blown?

#16 *grin* i saw quelque chose but knew it couldn't be that. i think you got swept away by your poesy efforts.

anyway, not to be sorry. i learned a lot about kickshaws. i thought it just meant sweets or fancy bits for dessert or, as you might say, for afters.

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 2, 2009, 11:44pm.

well, if you just sandwich a correct exposure between the underexposed and overexposed shots, you could make a wonderful HDR image. but it wouldn't help you in this game.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose not

What, like these ones?

^not a guess^

Guess: Fatty?

yeah like those ones and this one taken today.

but alas, no, my word's not adipose.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose not

Nice!

I like to place some of my photos side by side so I can compare them?

i'm on my way to bed and the only thing i can think of is rows.

if that's not it, i'll give my brain cells to it tomorrow.

ttfn :)

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows not

No it's not just the side by side, it's side by side to compare.

G'nite.

I put my photos side by side to compare, too -- but I sometimes I accidently switch the order of a couple of them.

good morning.

if you do juxtapose
be sure not to transpose.
you could mix up your these
with your those.

nope. but ((HINT)) my word does have two syllables. :)

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose not

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 3, 2009, 10:42am.

Nice job on the verses, mirrordrum! Now, I must calm myself so that I can write some of my own.

i'm going to be away from the computer for a few hours. please freel fee to continue to guess in my absinthe.

SCR, take deep cleansing breaths. i know my extreme brilliance can cause a degree of anxiety in others not so profoundly gifted. as if

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But the brain a bit more silly.
Try again on twenty-seven,
There's a guess there, really!

yet so cleverly did you compose the guess that this bear of very little brain missed it entire. it's not the word, but i envy the way your mind works. *sigh*

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose, compose not

Head, shoulders, knees and phalanges of the foot, knees and phalanges of the foot,
Head, shoulders, knees and phalanges of the foot, knees and phalanges of the foot,
Eyes and ears and mouth and facial protuberance,
Head, shoulders, knees and phalanges of the foot, knees and phalanges of the foot!

ETA: Not two syllables, but fun anyway. :-)

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 3, 2009, 5:50pm.

i'd never heard that before. i think i'll try to do it very slowly as an exercise. it's all over youtube.

alas, it's neither toes nor nose as SCR knows but really, really fun! :D

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose,
compose, nose, toes, knows not

mirrordrum, did you request a hand?

Is it what our French friends drive?

Reached a temperature below 32 F ?

#33 louminous, i'm still puzzling unless you mean 'propose' as in ask for someone's hand. i'll keep on it.

#34 not Renault nor Peugeot nor any proper noun nor is it the French word for cars, voitures. it's an English word with French etymological roots.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose, compose, nose, toes, knows, propose, Renaults, Peugots, voitures, proper noun, non-English word not

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 3, 2009, 7:59pm.

Hint: if i've counted correctly about 1/3 of the incorrect guesses contain one syllable of the word of which i'm thinking.

see you tomorrow. :)

So many hints now, guesses are risky.
The chance of winning has grown.
But I'd rather keep you guessing
than remove you from your throne.

OF the 30 or so guesses tabulated in #36, I can see most of them "rhyming" with "those", much more than I was able to see the "nimbus" guesses rhyming with "nimbus."

if your only guess is 'depose' you're still safe.

are there other guesses than that? i've tried the 2nd and 3rd lines and drawn blanks.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose,
compose, nose, toes, knows, propose, Renaults, Peugots, voitures, proper noun, non-English word, depose not

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 4, 2009, 1:54pm.

#39 hey roland. i'm (we're?) pretty much going with internet rhyming sources of one kind and another. that helps with differences in pronunciation across the pond and within regions.

this is just a game so we don't have to be strict, just make it possible for people to guess accurately. for me, it's all about having fun playing with words and learning something in the process.

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 4, 2009, 1:55pm.

To mirrordrum (#41)

Thatʻs ok; no objection was being raised.

Has the guess in #35 ( a one-syllable word) been rejected?

oh, roland. i'm so sorry. i completely missed #35. one of the hints is that it's a 2-syllable word so, sorry to say, froze doesn't work. :(

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose,
compose, nose, toes, knows, propose, Renaults, Peugots, voitures, proper noun, non-English word, depose, froze not

Sometmes I goof when I'm tying.

When I am stressed, all I want to do is rest quietly on my Victorian fainting couch

Tell me, are you simply taking a position contrary to mine?

#44 could you possible mean typing rather than tying? if so, typos is a great guess but wrong. if it's tying, i'll have to study on that one.

praise be. yes, it's 'repose' and i shall be glad to send you some sal volatalie for your hanky and some nice lemon verbena sorbet. :)

and do you throw your arm back over your head, hanky in hand, and sigh dramatically a la gorey's cartoon character at the beginning of a classic bbc mystery?

congraters!

#46 au contraire, i'm sure i agree with you. i wouldn't just oppose you out of hand.

not prose, suppose, rose, clothes, pose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, chose, bibelots, quelquechose, overexpose, underexpose, expose, adipose, rows, juxtapose, transpose,
compose, nose, toes, knows, propose, Renaults, Peugots, voitures, proper noun, non-English word, depose, froze, typos, oppose not

so the winner, with 'repose' is flemmily and all the above are bygones.

thanks for the good game folks.

*edited for sense

Denne beskjeden har blitt redigert av forfatteren, nov 5, 2009, 2:11am.

Oh shucks. Good game folks. I missed most of it due to a computer meltdown, but I'm back. Although Sunday is going to be a big upgrade day.

Well played, pip pip, jolly hockey sticks don't yer know?

47: Yes, 44 was supposed to be "typing". Intential misdirecting typo, that. :-)

#51 smarty boots. ;)

I love the 'Edited to add' notation that some people use here, and I've done it myself, where a post says:

eta: fixed tyop

ps flemmily, come on down!

i sent flemmily a private comment letting her (?) know she's won and that we are eagerly anticipating her game.

sorry, I just jumped straight into the new game without saying anything here!

I will now go back to my lemon verbena sorbet and hanky waiving.