Christa Allan

Oxford Word Challenge
Answers: Hermans

1. Lena.
2. Winnie.
3. Fleur or Flora.
4. Mimi.
5. Rose.
6. Violet.
7. Nola.
8. Lulu.
9. Charity.
10. Anastasia.
11. Victor.
12. Frank.
13. Isadore.
14. Doug.
15. Neil.
16. Josh.
17. Seymour.
18. Adam.
19. Toby.
20. Roger.

Fiendishly Difficult Word Game from the Oxford Word Challenge
Hermans

‘Hermans’ are sentences that use a pun on a person’s name, modelled on the sentence: ‘She’s my woman,’ said Herman. Hermans can include more complicated examples like: ‘What comes after H?’ said I, Jay, Kay, Ella, and Emma.
Suggest appropriate female names for the speakers of the following [...]

Okay, you already know I’m fascinated by headlines. Note the absence of a space between head and lines; I’m not talking forehead wrinkles here.
Today, yet another screamer from MSN that 47% of British men would give up sex for six months in exhange for a 50-inch plasma television. Using the same question, only 33% of [...]

{TIME OUT: Here I am, minding my own blog, getting ready to get ready to get to my new post, and darn if MSN doesn’t sabotage the attempt again. Come on, who could pass up this headline:“Can a shiny lip gloss slim your hips?” I’m thinking, not unless it makes the food slide right [...]

Vote HERE for the worstest more baddest USA’s worst grammar.Louisiana didn’t make the list!  

I’m starting the happy story from long ago and faraway. What I’ve come to understand during these past years that I’ve allowed God to whisper and or shout in my ear is I don’t always “get it” until I’ve already “gotten it.” 
So many times those seemingly random events in our lives are all part of [...]

 Keith I. Marszalek / NOLA.
TOP PHOTO: Eliot Kamenitz/Times-Picayune
BOTTOM PHOTO: Keith I. Marszalek/NOLA.Com 

[NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE "HAPPY NEWS" STORY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING TO READ!]I check in with msn.com and nola.com in the mornings, mostly to scan headlines and bookmark pages to read when I’m creatively procrastinating grading and/or writing.
 Yesterday, I saw two headlines under the “Health” category on msn.com, and I resisted the urge to mention them [...]

I’m doing a whirlwind cleaning of the house. We’ve had it on the market since after Katrina, and at least, hmm, ten people have looked.
Naturally, when I still have Christmas leftovers on the dining room table (no, not the meal…all that stuff that needs to go back into the Christmas closet which is already bloated), [...]

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As a writer, I find this article from Newsweek quite afffirming: Happiness: Enough Already. “A classical Greek text, possibly written by Aristotle, asks, “Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholic?”
Wilson’s answer is that “the blues can be a catalyst for a special [...]

Clemson University just completed a study to be published in six months in the Journal of Food Safety. Their undergrad microbiologists examined the effects of………..are you ready………double dipping.                                                           [...]

Snips from www.msn.com [brackets mine]:
 

Harlow is the first child for the couple who plan to marry later in the year. [Nicole Ritchie]
According to L&S, some speculate that along with her partying, [pregnant] Jamie Lynne [Spears] may still smoke and drink. 
A source close to [Jennifer]Lopez said that the singer’s scheduled a Caesarean section, has packed her [...]

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