Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hemorrhoid Cream Puffs and Tanning Bed Wetters

Sometimes, in my private moments, I play little word games in my head to keep myself amused*. Here are the results of one of them. The rules should become obvious after you read a few of the entries on the list. Please feel free to add your own:
  • humble pie chart
  • agent orange juice
  • oedipus complex numbers
  • three-legged stool pigeon
  • fertile crescent wrench
  • molotov cocktail waitress
  • holland tunnel vision
  • friendly fire hydrant
  • strip club sandwich
  • healing miracle whip
  • henry james bond
  • banana split decision
  • french window dressing
  • unmitigated gallstones
  • potemkin village idiot
  • genghis khan do
  • cold cereal killer
  • mickey finn McCool
  • polka dot matrix
  • equatorial guinea pig
  • venetian blind ambition
  • midnight's children of the corn
  • dead weight watchers
  • donner party favors
  • cauliflower earwig
  • pork belly laugh
  • suckling pig latin
  • grizzly bear necessities
  • funeral home economics
  • sacher torte law
  • irish jig-saw puzzle
  • poison ivy league
  • cricket bat guano
  • ceiling fan mail
  • st elmo's fire and brimstone
  • lazy susan sarandon
  • merry andrew jackson
  • palme d'or knob
  • tasmanian devil-may-care
  • disgruntled employee benefits
  • swiss navy bean
  • static cling peach
  • mars bar graph
  • bowel motion detector
  • hammurabi code talkers
  • honey mustard gas
  • lunch counter terrorism
  • single-malt scotch terrier
  • southsea bubble wrap
  • celestial body search
  • episcopal see saw
  • eggs benedict arnold
  • trojan horse sense
  • combination lockjaw
  • styrofoam peanut gallery
  • emotional baggage carousel
  • sonnets from the portuguese man o'war
  • unrequited love handles
  • grand theft auto-da-fé
Here are some with a pseudo-scientific flavor:
  • square root vegetable
  • eigenvalue added tax
  • periodic table manners
  • twisted sister chromatid
  • möbius strip tease
  • brownian motion sickness
  • planck's constant complaining
  • schrödinger's cat's pajamas
  • newton's apple pie

Finally, here are a few where we stretch the rules a little bit:
  • caterpillar of salt
  • panama canal leakage
  • rum raisin d'être

* It's not playing the little games in my head that's the problem so much as not being able to stop.

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