Last 2 letters

[swampyankee]

Ohio has the best doughnuts on the Earth.

[LookingSkyward]

That may be, but where is the home of the best donut holes?

[swampyankee]

Estonia.

[DonM435]

I am impressed!

[mahesh]

Edward...Teller, I like doughnuts with no holes, and with jam.

[LookingSkyward]

Am I the only one who has no donut preferences? I love donuts! and Pie! Holes, jam, fillings, toppings...it's all good!

[swampyankee]

Oddly, I prefer my doughnuts to be the traditional nought-shape, glazed with honey.

[LookingSkyward]

Eye see! If I wind up with unexpected donuts, I'll hold out the honey glazed for you (but with the wife and kids, they don't last long around here). Not sure how good they'd be after shipping them cross country, either. heh - I didn't think I'd be able to come up with a way to end a sentance with 'they'd'.

[swampyankee]

Ydrad is claimed to be a word by the free dictionary. I'm not sure I believe them.

[DukePaul]

Embarrassing the ignorant alien can lead to interstellar war.

[swampyankee]

Aromatherapy doesn't work if you have sinus polyps.

[GalaxyGal]

Psychology uses aromatherapy quite effectively

[ABR.]

Lye makes for a horrible aphrodisiac.

[GalaxyGal]

Actually seeing the flower is so much nicer than just a picture of edelweiss.
(no, I'm not that mean and won't stop there.)

It was such a nice moment to actualize.

[LookingSkyward]

SS in my former life indicates submarine service

[DukePaul]

Celestial mechanics, good ones, are hard to find in the rural communities.

[GalaxyGal]

Escapades are fun, but oft regretted

[DukePaul]

Eden was fun except for the edicts and snakes.

[LookingSkyward]

Escaping from work for a moment.

[mahesh]

ntomologist...should have an 'e' in front, shouldn't it, ABR?

[cosmocrazy]

bring it on I say!

[LookingSkyward]

Ayup, it should have an 'e', and when they bring it on I'll stand by CosmoCrazy!

[chrissy]

zygote is a fertilized egg cell.

[LookingSkyward]

Llama's are great lawn mowers, I have two

[DukePaul]

Would the world be better off filled with the silly lawn eating quadrupeds? I say nay!

[chrissy]

Aye, is my vote.

[GalaxyGal]

Texarkana is known for its horned lizard

[LookingSkyward]

rd22 does not have a potty mouth

[swampyankee]

There is a certain elegance in finding words that start with difficult consonants.

[LookingSkyward]

Tsunami's may wipe out the paper cup and string communications network

[GalaxyGal]

RKO Pictures released many film classics including Citizen Kane and King Kong

[swampyankee]

Ngaio Marsh was a mystery writer from New Zealand.

[DukePaul]

Nd is the symbol for the element Neodymium which just happens to be used in the speakers facing me right now.

[LookingSkyward]

Ow! I think Neodymium is my astrological sign!

[swampyankee]

Gnocchi are incredibly tasty.

[chrissy]

Typing replies may cause some mix ups.

[GalaxyGal]

Pseudonyms are useful for preserving ananimity

[swampyankee]

Tying a necktie is still a useful skill for US males.

[LookingSkyward]

Escaping from neckties is one of the reasons I live and work in Washington!

[DukePaul]

Only freshly-skinned turtle sweaters adorned my neck.

[GalaxyGal]

CK Man fragrance for men is intoxicating when applied lightly, but when too much is worn, it can overwhelm

[swampyankee]

Lmnd is textish for lemonade. Or limeade. Or whtvr

[DukePaul]

VR can create anything you can think of except the money and funds it requires to keep it running.

[swampyankee]

Ng is a fairly common family name.

[mahesh]

Me Tarzan, She Jane, you Cheetah!

[cosmocrazy]

ah! that explains it then..:think:

[GalaxyGal]

Encased deep within each of us are marvels science may never understand




mahesh....."Cheetah" is "Tiger" Woods' new name

[cosmocrazy]

Encased deep within each of us are marvels science may never understand




mahesh....."Cheetah" is "Tiger" Woods' new name

:lol: I like the joke ;)

[DukePaul]

Keeping you entertained is very important to all of us at BAUT, cosmocrazy.

[LookingSkyward]

zygodactyl (that was a tough one, al the zy words I actually knew had been used already :)) - having the toes arranged two in front and two behind.

[swampyankee]

N'dali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndali,_Benin) is a city in the north of Benin.

[GalaxyGal]

Introspection takes courage. "The longest journey is the journey inwards."

Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

[swampyankee]

Dshang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dschang) is a city in Cameroon. Isn't Africa a great place to find words which start with interesting letter pairs?

[DukePaul]

RSVP refers to invitations I never get and the French phrase "Repondez s'il vous plait", which I will never in this lifetime use again.

[GalaxyGal]

Internet was Al Gore's most notable invention.

[swampyankee]

Only he never said that. Misquoting politicians is, however, fun and enjoyable.

[DukePaul]

Let it be known that Al Gore did not create the Internet instead he invented Aquanet hair spray for women. This is a common mistake.

[swampyankee]

Keanu Reeves was, however, "invented" by the Internet. "Keanu" is an acronym.

[GalaxyGal]

Ymir was a giant slain by Odin, according to Norse mythology.

[swampyankee]

Gyroscopes were first used in aircraft by Sperry.

[DukePaul]

Rye and scotch taste like rusty water to me.

[GalaxyGal]

Merlot, a good book and a roaring fire is so lovely

[ABR.]

Lysol has a lovely scent.

[DukePaul]

Nth root is a phrase I rarely use.

[LookingSkyward]

See, I like scotch, and lysol, but not so sure about nth roots. Do they taste like carrots?

[chrissy]

Tsetse flies cause trypanosomiasis, a sleeping sickness to us humans.

[GalaxyGal]

NSAIDs are used to treat mild to moderate pain, inflammation and fever - remarkably effective and flexible drugs.

[DukePaul]

GSDs are the best dogs in the world but they love to pester you especially during a 1st person shooter when your health bar is near zero and death is near.......I go out now Daddy....bump the keyboard...now!

[LookingSkyward]

Ow! my dogs (all 3) really like to joggle my aim in Ghost Recon.

[DukePaul]

One of my German Shepherds "helps" me with Borderlands whether I want it or not.

[LookingSkyward]

Otoh, sometimes my Lab makes a great shot with a rocket launcher - the other 2 dogs are not as sharp.

[GalaxyGal]

RPM's were found to be dangerous to a pet gerbil when combined with my younger brother and his Close 'n Play phonograph. Need I say more?

[DukePaul]

Revolving rodents rarely revive.

[cosmocrazy]

vermin populations thrive in slum areas.

[LookingSkyward]

As far as I know, there is no design or plan for large scale slum area rodent revolvers. Perhaps Trebuchet could assist...

[swampyankee]

The Jefferson Airplane was going to be named the Rodent Revolvers, but Grace Slick didn't like alliteration.

[GalaxyGal]

Only John, Paul, Ringo & George know if rodents were a part of The Beatles psychedelic rock album, Revolver. Allow me to suggest that there were none to befriend the very lonely Eleanor Rigby.

[chrissy]

By the way, swampyankee failed to start with the correct letters as they were : st and not th.

[DukePaul]

That is something we all knew but we were waiting for your thunderbolt to rein down on him.

[GalaxyGal]

Imperfection is the most interesting thing about a person.

[LookingSkyward]

On the gripping hand, I must be very interesting since all I have are imperfections :)

[DukePaul]

NS is the abbreviation for nanosecond which is kind of weird when you think about having to abbreviate something so short in time.

[GalaxyGal]

Meandering down the spine of America, is the mighty Mississippi

[LookingSkyward]

Pirates of the Mississippi, unite!

[DukePaul]

Telephones became obsolete today with the introduction of quantum smoke signals.

[LookingSkyward]

LSI - large scale integration - a bit of a dated acronym, but we used to uses whole forest fires for regional smoke signals.

[GalaxyGal]

LS 460 by Lexus would be nice to drive, but alas it's waaaaay out of my budget.

[DukePaul]

Ethyl alcohol and some cranberry juice please.

[chrissy]

Sending you some over now and a thunder bolt I have saved for you.

[DukePaul]

Oui mademoiselle.

[swampyankee]

Lemoncello, please.

[LookingSkyward]

Security! Something wierd with lemon jello in the last 2 letters game...

[GalaxyGal]

Mentioning lemoncello makes me think of a great recipe (http://baking.about.com/od/cakes/r/blubrrylmncello.htm) for Blueberry Limoncello Cake with a Limoncello Glaze.....yum!

[swampyankee]

Uma Thurman. There; I've said her name. Too bad I'll never get the date.

[mahesh]

Tenzing Norgay was a distinguished mountaineer.

[LookingSkyward]

Errors in interperting thread drift are due to the fact that threads are actually self-willed manifestations of the larger 'strings'.

[swampyankee]

GSO is the airport code for Greensboro Airport; it's in North Carolina.

[DukePaul]

Nasty narwhals never need nasal nebulizers nor nautical navigation.

[jokergirl]

On the matter of whales...
...Pie!

[swampyankee]

Ies (http://www.online-dictionary-free.com/words/ies-definition-119878.asp)is a word. Fancy that.

[LookingSkyward]

At issue is whether the non-nasty narwhals needed nasal nebulators. Or maybe it was pie. I'm never certain. I think I have Heisenberg syndrome... or maybe not.

[DukePaul]

Ottoman Empire descendants don't like to be called a footstool.

[GalaxyGal]

Olympic Salamander (http://www.elwhainfo.org/node/305) isn't competing in 2010 Winter Olympics

[swampyankee]

Csaba Csere (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/16/i-car-and-driver-i-editor-in-chief-csaba-csere-retiring/) used to write for Car & Driver magazine. He left, making many announcers very happy.

[LookingSkyward]

Py! Pizza! Get Mahesh!

[cosmocrazy]

shhh...! don't mention pizza around mahesh, you will start him off on one. :lol:

[swampyankee]

Neadertals shouldn't be created by cloning.

[GalaxyGal]

Nguyen (http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/nguyen.betty.html) is a weekend anchor on CNN.

[swampyankee]

Nnena Freelon (http://www.nnenna.com/)

[LookingSkyward]

.cs was for several years the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Czechoslovakia. However, the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia

[swampyankee]

.cs was for several years the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Czechoslovakia. However, the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Iapetus is one of the moons of Jupiter. But where did the ".cs." come from? Certainly not Nnena Frelon (http://www.nnenna.com/)!

[LookingSkyward]

On the whole, I think it may be time for a break for a ocuple hours :)
(sheesh! I can't even find the post that cs came from!)

[GalaxyGal]

RSS feeds are helpful, but didn't help my search.....perhaps "cs" came from Swampyankee's signature?

[swampyankee]

Really, that's a distinct possibility.

[LookingSkyward]

TYVM - thank you both very much for not assuming I'm an idiot! I'd like to think it came from Swamp's sig, but I was so scattered Friday at work that it may well have come from nowhere at all :)

[swampyankee]

Llama and Lama, as in the Dalai Lama, are suspiciously similar....

[DonM435]

Are you familiar with the following?


The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.*

*The author’s attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.
--Ogden Nash

:lol:

[LookingSkyward]

Should I mention that I have 2 llama's?

[mugaliens]

As sure as the daytime sky is blue!

[LookingSkyward]

Europa! (ummm, "I have found it"?... no, that's not right... I moon you!

[swampyankee]

Our posts are beginning to show a certain amount of desperation.

[GalaxyGal]

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- T.S. Elliot

[DukePaul]

"Go Speed Racer Go"
- Plato

[mahesh]

Gone With The Wind, is an excellent picture.

[cosmocrazy]

remember the programme "chips"? it just popped into my head earlier today.

[GalaxyGal]

Aye, I do! That is, if we're thinking of the same show - CHiPs starring Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox.

[swampyankee]

Oxygen tends to be very useful for aerobic organisms.

[GalaxyGal]

MS research funding and public awareness are some of the telethon benefits

[swampyankee]

Tsetse flies give birth to live young.

[swampyankee]

Ngaio Marsh was a great mystery novelist.

[brianok]

Stop knocking on my door.

[chrissy]

Or I will call the police!

[cosmocrazy]

centurion's of law enforcement.. wot wot!

[LookingSkyward]

Otters in the waters, joy unleashed!

[chrissy]

Edward Woodward was the equalizer.

[Sarawak]

Err on the side of caution.

[jokergirl]

On the other hand, fortune favours the bold.

;)

[Sarawak]

ld is a linker in a GNU system.

[chrissy]

Employing unusual tactics to confuse other members here.

[LookingSkyward]

Reveling in my confusion, unusual tactics cause me no panic.

[Sarawak]

ICE means "Inter City Express"

[brianok]

SS: infamous during WW2 in Germany; stood for Schutzstaffel

[DukePaul]

Elkhounds tend to smell after a long day of intensive elk hunting, elk retrieving, and elk food preparation.

[swampyankee]

One of the skills of the elkhound is preparing food for their prey.

[DukePaul]

Eyeliner application methods in Muslim history has been added to NASA's 2012 progressive space program.

[jlhredshift]

American manned space program is going nowhere.

[cosmocrazy]

rescue me from this nightmare.

[DukePaul]

Regimes regulate reality, reiterating regressive regulations regarding reinforcing reins. REJOICE!

[Sarawak]

Cemetaries are depressing places.

[DukePaul]

Eskimo pies are made from only the best free-range Eskimos fed only on blubber of virgin walrus.

[Sarawak]

Usury is fun.

[cosmocrazy]

undoubtedly true.

[Sarawak]

UE stands for Unión Europea.

[DukePaul]

Eagle Scouts were banned in San Francisco after refusing to pay the local merit badge tax on their uniforms.

[99gecko]

Ms Johnson taught a user course for MS excel via MSN chat since she was stricken with MS - Multiple sclerosis.

[Sarawak]

I see.

[LookingSkyward]

ee (preceeded by a dot) is the internet domain name extension of Estonia, recently liberalized

[Sarawak]

Edit that post.

[cosmocrazy]

Street wise, what makes you so?

[brianok]

Soya sauce goes great with Chinese food.

[Sarawak]

Odysseus took the long way home.

[megrfl]

Mensa is not on my résumé.

[Sarawak]

Mephistopheles is scary.

[megrfl]

Rye is good when served with humor.

[99gecko]

Ordinally in British English, the spelling is humour.

[chrissy]

Uranus was the first planet discovered with a telescope.

[Sarawak]

Perhaps the planet should be renamed Urrectum.

[megrfl]

Umbrellas have many uses.

[Sarawak]

Especially when it rains.

[megrfl]

NSAID an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.

[Sarawak]

DS is a Nintendo product.

[megrfl]

Ctenophore are biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb.

http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=ctenophore

[swampyankee]

Mbabane is the capital of Swaziland.

[chrissy]

NDS is a news distribution service for government and public sector.

[LookingSkyward]

orrery - a wierd kajigger that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in a heliocentric model.
Big ball in the middle.

[swampyankee]

Let me see...I don't think I'll end this sentence with the "Eddy Merckx," the name of a great cyclist.

[Sarawak]

Stay!

[99gecko]

Aye aye Captain, stay we shall.

[megrfl]

Llama's spit when provoked.

[chrissy]

Education is important to children.

[LookingSkyward]

Encounters with spitting llama's should be conducted in rain gear whenever possible.

[chrissy]

Let that be a lesson to everyone.

[jfribrg]

Let's listen to some jazz.

Next time, I will post quicker

[Sarawak]

Errors like this are bound to happen in a distributed database system in which everyone has concurrent access.

[chrissy]

SS Great Britain is one of Brunel's most important historic ships.

[megrfl]

Psst! Will you pass the mashed parsnips?

[cosmocrazy]

Psst, yeah where are they?

[swampyankee]

"Eye candy" has a rather different meaning for Hannibal Lector.

[chrissy]

Organs with a nice Chianti.

[99gecko]

Time to dine!

[chrissy]

Never listen to the lambs, make sure they are all quiet.

[megrfl]

Ethereal.

[chrissy]

Although I seem to spend a lot of time on here, I do actually get my own work done too.

[swampyankee]

Ootheca

[chrissy]

Can no-one write a sentence anymore?

[megrfl]

Can no-one write a sentence anymore?

Regarding the above quote, sometimes my brain stutters and that's all I can get out.

[Sarawak]

Utrecht is both a city and a province.

[megrfl]

Cell walls are pliable and mooshy.

[Sarawak]

Hyacinth is the name of a flower and a sitcom character.

[LookingSkyward]

Erie canal - not to be confused with anything in my ear

[cosmocrazy]

arrow of time, one directional?

[megrfl]

Alaska is the largest state in the United States.

[chrissy]

Escape to the country it is quieter.

[megrfl]

Erase your errors by scribbling over them.

[chrissy]

Embers can be hot.

[FarmMarsNow]

Otters, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys!

[chrissy]

Ystad, together with all of Scania, was transferred from Denmark to Sweden following the Treaty of Roskilde.

[swampyankee]

Denmark sold the Virgin Islands to the United States.

[megrfl]

Estimates are useful when trying to determine the best deal.

[swampyankee]

Aleatoric music is a chancy thing.

[chrissy]

N'gourma, also written Fada-Ngourma, is a city in eastern Burkina Faso, lying 219 kilometres (136 mi) east of Ouagadougou, in the Gourmantché area.

[megrfl]

Earth is my very favoritest place in all of space.

[chrissy]

Celestial is out of this world!

[swampyankee]

ld is the gnu linker language, and, yes, I am a nerd.

[chrissy]

Rd is a shortened term for road, you could have used an ending like nd or something....I was going to use Egyptian glyphs for an answer.

[megrfl]

Erm, I'm a wondering why peeps non't about this superlative thread.

[chrissy]

Adding an ending that can be used.

[swampyankee]

Edifying comments are Chrissy's forte.

[megrfl]

Tedious tasks bring despair.

[swampyankee]

"Irregardless" is NOT a word, so it should never be used.

[chrissy]

Educate then with a dictionary.

[swampyankee]

Rye bread, with lots of seeds, is the best.

[inflector]

Stop posting about food, I am starving.

[chrissy]

N'Giva is another name for Ondjiva, in Angola.

[swampyankee]

Only unobtainium stops most neutrinos.

[chrissy]

Osprey sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle.

[swampyankee]

"Legacy system" means that it's worked for a very long time.

[chrissy]

Mechanical engineering is a good course to take.

[FarmMarsNow]

Ketones. What are they exactly? Well, there is a lot that could be said about these our chemical friends, but let us just say that their value often goes unnoticed. In fact, lets change the topic of conversation.

[chrissy]

On a different note, I was stalked by a police helicopter this evening whist walking my sisters dog. :(

[FarmMarsNow]

Og, King of Bashan may have had a dog. Archeologists are uncertain about it and when asked are likely to reply "How should I know?" It is a good question! On a related tangent, I hope that on Chrissie's dogwalk she brought along a pooper scooper or plastic bag. They won't arrest you if you clean up the chip.

[Boogieblues]

Iphone's ''Jeopardy app'' is fun on a rainy day.

[chrissy]

Aye, a bag for the dogs waste is always used.

[99gecko]

Edward Scissorhands is a silly movie.

[chrissy]

Either that or you didn't understand the film.

[FarmMarsNow]

LMFAO, means laughing my fat buh-bumkin off. It is a term which actually does occur in some dictionaries, so please do not criticize.

[chrissy]

Zero tolerance is used for bad language.

[FarmMarsNow]

Guess that means I shouldn't be speaking English, but its all I know.

[FarmMarsNow]

Owing money is an unfortunate situation.

[Sarawak]

one two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven

[FarmMarsNow]

Energetically emphasizing excellence en every era.

[Berengar]

Rabbids are delicate with an aromatic garlic dip.

[LookingSkyward]

IP addresses are fine, but subnet masks look funny on the average face.

[Berengar]

Cemetaries are peaceful places, becaus the inhabitants are presenting a blazingly lack of vitality.

[chrissy]

Typing fast can cause errors, delaying a rapid response to posts, so caution must be taken.

[LookingSkyward]

typical zombies find no joy in my cranium

[cosmocrazy]

um de dum de dum :whistle: oh sos my mind was else where.

[Sarawak]

Reach for the sky.

[FarmMarsNow]

Kyphosis is a curving of the spine that causes a bowing of the back, which leads to a hunchback or slouching posture. It can make reaching for the sky difficult. Ok?

[Sarawak]

Okavango Delta is in Botswana.