Last 2 letters

[AmatureLadyAstronomer3]

Ordinary People was a dramatic film directed by Robert Redford and starred Donald Sutherland.

[Sarawak]

Oran is the setting of La Peste.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Test your smoke alarm weekly.

[Sarawak]

Lychees are tasty.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Typical knowledge of tropical fruits answer.

[Chuck]

erodable: something you could have rode electronically

[Eric Vaxxine]

Lying....the type that are considered harmless are referred to as white.

[Chuck]

Tekwar is William Shatner's finest piece of acting, showing his skill at playing the role of a writer.

[Sarawak]

Erratic behaviour is common.

[Chuck]

On November 16, 2012 it will be 25,000 days since the DDay invasion of Normandy.

[nosbig5]

Dynes drive me crazy, conversion is a pain.

[Chuck]

Induction drove me crazy. I didn't want to be drafted. Fortunately I drew a high draft lottery number.

[nosbig5]

Ergs are another one; try converting dyne-centimeters into ergs - what a pain!

[Chuck]

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

[Sarawak]

Ng is a Cantonese surname.

[nosbig5]

Meningitis is a Cantonese disease, although not exclusively.

[Sarawak]

Lyme disease was first noted in Connecticut.

[Chuck]

U Thant was secretary general of The United Nations from 1961 to 1971.

[Eric Vaxxine]

71 miles in the UK is the furthest one can be from the sea.

[Chuck]

Eaves droppers are often fired from their construction crews.

[Eric Vaxxine]

WS.....good luck everyone.

[Chuck]

Necco Sky Bars were one of my favorite candy bars when I was in high school.

[Sarawak]

Olympus formed itself after the gods defeated the titans in the Titan War, and soon the palace was inhabited by the gods.

[Chuck]

Ds is the chemical symbol for Darmstadtium, element #110.

[Donnie B.]

W. Shatner was good as Captain Kirk, but tends to ham it up a bit.

[Chuck]

It doesn't get any better than this.

[Eric Vaxxine]

I shall be wearing a beret to the party.

[Sarawak]

Tyres can go flat.

[Eric Vaxxine]

At midnight, I will be asleep.

[Chuck]

Epicenters are electronic picenters.

[Sarawak]

R. Smith is the lead singer, guitar player, and main songwriter for The Cure.

[Chuck]

"Remembrance of Things Passed" is Fran Tarkenton's autobiography.

[Sarawak]

Hyraxes come from Africa.

[Chuck]

Capetown is much more financially active in the comic book superhero universes.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Escarpment, geological term. I grew up in the Lowveld of South Africa. Nelspruit to be precise.

[Chuck]

Sevastopol is where cavalrymen with credit cards like to shop.

[Sarawak]

Opinions are like a part of the body that can't be mentioned at BAUT - everyone has one, and they usually stink.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Nk.......good luck everyone.

[Sarawak]

Never fear, Encyclo is here (http://www.encyclo.co.uk/words/nk).

[Chuck]

Red Bluff, California got its name when its first mayor won his job with four hearts showing and a diamond in the hole in a game of five card stud poker.

[Sarawak]

Error, this is not the untrue facts thread.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Addicted to food I am. I eat everyday, sometimes even when I'm not hungry.

[Sarawak]

R you sure?

[Chuck]

Red kryptonite kills the communist version of Superman.

[Sarawak]

A night follows a day, and precedes another day.

[Chuck]

A year follows the previous year, and precedes another year.

[Sarawak]

A real year can stand independently.

[Chuck]

Lying about your neighbor is banned in the ten commandments, but not lying about yourself. This is because the human race would go extinct if men couldn't lie about themselves to women.

[Sarawak]

Enemies are everywhere!

[Mellow]

Reach for the stars, yeah, good luck stretchy boy.

[Chuck]

O ye of little faith, were you expecting some boring fact about the oyster?

[Sarawak]

Ere you forget, an Oyster card may be used to travel the London tube.

[Chuck]

Because children tend to play my board games, I keep drawing the Oyster card while playing Risk.

[Sarawak]

Skiing is a sport one can enjoy in both summer and winter.

[Chuck]

Erie and Panama should link their canals and share the costs of maintenance.

[Sarawak]

Certainly the costs would be lower if the connection ran through the Suez canal.

[Chuck]

All new canals should connect to currently existing canals so you can get from one place to any other place by barge.

[Donnie B.]

Get to Mars by barge? What a concept!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ptolomy......is this a real word or did I just make it up?

[Chuck]

Upper Volta got its name when only the aristocrats had electric power.

[Eric Vaxxine]

'Erroneous'....is actually Alex Dmochowski on bass, credited on Frank Zappa's releases.

[Sarawak]

Essential services are sometimes not provided.

[Chuck]

Eddie Haskell was the most polite teenager in a television sitcom so far.

[Sarawak]

Ars gratia pecuniae.

[Chuck]

Aesop will be mistaken for a great historian after humans go extinct and other animals evolve to intelligence.

[Sarawak]

Celebes is also called Sulawesi.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Silence is golden

[Sarawak]

Endless silence can be monotonous.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Us musicians suffer with tinnitus, so silence is rare.

[Sarawak]

Requiems are very solemn.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Mnemonics....nice word, not sure what it means if I am honest.

[Sarawak]

Stay on top of the situation.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Only wish I could do.

[Chuck]

Don't drink and drive. Stay on the putting green.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Enviable driver.

[Noclevername]

Er, how big a word do you need?

[Sarawak]

Edification and elucidation are of a good size.

[Chuck]

Zero was actually invented by sportscasters needing to report soccer scores.

[Noclevername]

Especially at night.

[Sarawak]

H Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[Chuck]

As the World Turns was canceled in 2010.

[Sarawak]

1001 Arabian Nights is a common English translation of كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎.

[Donnie B.]

O for goodness' sake, how are we supposed to deal with that?

[Noclevername]

At least it wasn't in Greek.

[Sarawak]

O for goodness' sake, how are we supposed to deal with that?

You handled it beautifully. English is written left-to-right, and Arabic is written right-to-left, so the last English letters have an equal claim to being the "last two" as the last Arabic letters!


At least it wasn't in Greek.

Eking out a living here.

[Noclevername]

Regarding money, I'm just rolling in dough.

[Sarawak]

Ghosts are scary.

[Mellow]

Rye bread makes me float air biscuits.

[Chuck]

Tsinghua University used to be in Peking. Now it's in Beijing.

[Sarawak]

Ngultrums are used in Bhutan.

[Chuck]

'Andy' will probably become an overused name when household androids become available.

[Noclevername]

Let's not forget that they're already popular on smartphones, Chuck.

[Sarawak]

C K Dexter Haven is a character from Philadelphia Story.

[Noclevername]

Rye bread I prefer to be seedless.

[Sarawak]

SSSS is not something you want to see on your boarding pass in police states.

[Noclevername]

Especially those with lots of serpents.

[Sarawak]

Tsar Nicholas was the last tsar of Russia.

[Noclevername]

I ate Russian food once, specifically Borscht.

[Chuck]

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

[Sarawak]

O Little Town of Bethlehem

[Chuck]

Email occasionally contains unsolicited financial advice.

[Sarawak]

Celebrations are not something I feel like partaking in right now.

[Chuck]

Owed to a Grecian Urn is a poem about where people kept borrowed money in ancient times.

[Sarawak]

Especially if they were Greek.

[Noclevername]

EKG's can save your life.

[Sarawak]

Feel that heartbeat become regular!

[Noclevername]

Arrr, Matey!

[Sarawak]

Eye for an eye.

[Noclevername]

Yes, and aspirin for your heart.

[Chuck]

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

[Sarawak]

RTA may raise the bus fares.

[Noclevername]

Aye, you skipped one, Laddy.

[Sarawak]

Dynamic and real-time posting tends to cause that to happen.

[Noclevername]

Enchiladas are delicious!

[Sarawak]

Usually, I have them with margaritas.

[Noclevername]

Assuming that's correct, it sounds like fun.

[Sarawak]

Unless I have them for take away.

[Chuck]

A yak can weigh over ton.

[Sarawak]

One yak?

[Chuck]

Akron, Ohio is the former rubber capital of the world.

[Sarawak]

LDL stands for low-density lipoprotein.

[Chuck]

India and Indiana were supposed to be reunited shortly after the reunification of Germany, but Harrison Ford didn't want to rename his movies.

[Sarawak]

Especially that one where he thinks a "parsec" is a unit of time.

[Noclevername]

Me, I think it was the writer's fault.

[Chuck]

Lt. Sulu wouldn't make that mistake no matter who wrote it.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Italy ends in 'y', but common Italian words like spaghetti, Maserati, Ferrari, Da Vinci
(to name a few) end with an 'i'. I find it strange.

[Donnie B.]

Get over it, Eric!

[Eric Vaxxine]

I can but try to do that.

[Sarawak]

A terrorist has infiltrated BAUT.

[Chuck]

Utilizing dictionary.com's translator, I see that, in Italian, Italy is Italia and ends in A.

[Sarawak]

Namibia ends with "a" too!

[Noclevername]

Ooh, good call!

[Sarawak]

Llamas live in South America.

[Chuck]

Cake and ice cream are rarely served on Pluto due to the rarity of birthdays.

[Sarawak]

Ysame is a word that appears in the writings of Spenser, but in no other place that I have managed to locate.

[Chuck]

Tetherball was invented because kids kept stealing the volleyballs.

[Sarawak]

LSE was criticised for accepting donations from Gaddafi's son.

[Chuck]

Ontological means your reasoning sounds logical until your victim catches onto what you're doing.

[Sarawak]

Ng is a Cantonese name.

[Chuck]

Me is a name I call myself.

[Sarawak]

LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) - Linux From Scratch.

[Chuck]

"Chuck" is the best screen name except for chocolaty ones like Hershey and Bosco.

[Sarawak]

Coelacanth is better.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Eric is short and sweet.

[Sarawak]

Ethanol makes people behave strangely.

[Chuck]

Lyons was occupied by the Germans in 1942.

[Sarawak]

42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

[Chuck]

N.G. Hayek Watchmaking School is in Miami, Florida.

[Sarawak]

Daytona Beach is also.

[Donnie B.]

Southern California has its share of great beach communities, too.

[Chuck]

OO gauge model train tracks fit on microscope slides so collectors can show off their hobby.

[Sarawak]

BYOB

[Chuck]

O'Bi-Wan was an Irish Jedi.

[Sarawak]

Didn't the same actor also play Faisal of Mecca?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Can't be certain.

[Chuck]

Invention is the daughter of necessity.

[Sarawak]

Tyre is in Lebanon.

[Chuck]

Ontario is in California.

[Sarawak]

I always thought it was in Canada.

[Mellow]

Da da daaaaaaaaa!

[Sarawak]

Aardvarks live in Kyoto.

[Chuck]

Today is the last day of your life up 'til now.

[Sarawak]

Owls are (mostly) creatures of the night.

[Chuck]

HTTPS protocol means you're challenging hackers to break into your website.

[Sarawak]

Teach me how to do that.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Attend Chuck's next 'Electronically Deft' seminar.

[Sarawak]

Are you going to be there?

[Chuck]

Reykjavik got its name when its founder dozed off at his computer while trying to think of a good one.

[Sarawak]

Never would have found a better one than Reykjavik.

[Chuck]

IKEA finalized its product line when the company ran out of money before its workers finished making the furniture.

[Sarawak]

Revolution is coming to BAUT.

[Chuck]

U-turns in heavy traffic should be called J-turns.

[Sarawak]

NSFW is very definitely not safe for BAUT.

[Chuck]

Utah contains part of the Ute reservation.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Only 270 people attended the show.

[Sarawak]

Ownership is often disputed.

[Mellow]

Editors note, this thread can get tricky.

[Sarawak]

Kyphosis is a serious problem.

[Chuck]

Emden is yet another seaport that is also a coastal city. Coincidence or conspiracy?

[Sarawak]

Cyprus has some also.

[Chuck]

So does Portugal.

[Sarawak]

Algeria as well.

[Chuck]

Llano Quemado, New Mexico is neither a seaport nor on the coast.

[Sarawak]

Stockholm is near the water.

[Chuck]

Eric the Red probably lived near some water.

[Sarawak]

Erin the Viking was played by Tim Robbins.

[Chuck]

NS, Canada is being reclaimed by Scotland because France is getting QC.

[Sarawak]

QC stands for quantum cosmology.

[Chuck]

Gyroscopes are devices for watching Greek sandwiches.

[Sarawak]

Especially the Turkish version, doner kebab.

[Chuck]

Aberdeen Proving Ground was moved to Maryland because bagpipes were drowning out the artillery.

[Sarawak]

Ry is on the Gudenå.

[Chuck]

Nålbindning is a technology that produces clothing from yarn.

[Sarawak]

RN is a registered nurse.

[Chuck]

Senegal is as far west as you can get without falling off of Africa.

[Mellow]

Call me a cab please.

[Sarawak]

See that one over there?

[Chuck]

Regulations require the response, "OK, you're a cab" when someone says "Call me a cab."

[Sarawak]

About time, too.

[Chuck]

Oology is the study of bird breeding, Cheerios, and bicycle inner tubes.

[Mellow]

Espresso please Barrista!

[Sarawak]

Tapioca is produced in some of the same countries as coffee.

[Chuck]

E E 'Doc' Smith was an optometrist who turned to writing science fiction.

[Eric Vaxxine]

On Mars there is an icecap.

[Sarawak]

Apes are superior to humans.

[Chuck]

NSA agents Googling for "NSA" might get us some new Last 2 Letters participants.

[nosbig5]

ts eliot was neither an optometrist nor a writer of science fiction.

[Chuck]

On top of Old Smokey,
All covered with snow,
I lost my true lover,
For courting too slow.

[Donnie B.]

Ow! Losing a love is like losing a limb.

[Chuck]

MB games are now owned by Hasbro.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Roast Beef, roast potato's, yorkshire pudding...traditional english dinner.

[Chuck]

Eric the Red was the founder of the Scandinavian communist party.

[Donnie B.]

Tyson supplies most chicken to fast-food chains.

[Chuck]

NS and EW seem to have been left off my new compass.

[Sarawak]

SS isn't there either.

[Donnie B.]

Eradicator!!! ... Okay, you had to be a Kids In the Hall fan to get that.

[nosbig5]

Attempt to ASCERTAIN that one!

[Sarawak]

Never again!

[Chuck]

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man goes to movies by himself.

[Eric Vaxxine]

lfff...uhh, sorry...lflflaaasss....sorry, bit drunkled....drunked, druNK!
Lfast laugh is one mean....NO...er...
Lfast laugh is on ME !!!...yeah

Love this thread!

[Chuck]

A dekaliter is about the square root of 7 gallons.

[Sarawak]

NS is less than one percent of Canada by land area.

[Chuck]

Eaglets are young eagles, so applets must be young apples.

[Sarawak]

Estonians are similar to rockers.

[Chuck]

RSVP means Response Seems Very Polite.

[Sarawak]

T E Lawrence was known as Lawrence of Arabia.

[Chuck]

"I am not a crook."

[dahlstroem]

Oklahoma was a 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical comedy

[Chuck]

Dynasty was a boring soap opera that aired from 1981 to 1991.

[dahlstroem]

91, or ninety-one is the twenty-seventh distinct semiprime and the second of the form (7.q). The aliquot sum of 91 is 21 within the aliquot sequence (91,21,11,1,0) 91 being the fourth composite number in the 11-aliquot tree.

[Eric Vaxxine]

'Eeeeeek' is what women utter in comic books upon seeing a mouse.

[Noclevername]

Seen it happen in old sitcoms from the Fifties, but never in a comic.

[Sarawak]

I can't ever remember seeing it in a sitcom.

[Chuck]

O'Micron is a very small Irish unit of length that was later pirated by the Greeks needing names for the letters of their alphabet.

[Sarawak]

ET phone home.

[Chuck]

Mercury and Mars have approximately the same surface gravity.

[Sarawak]

Tyres go flat because of gravity.

[Inclusa]

Tyler runs out of temper due to work disasters.

[Sarawak]

RSA was developed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman independently of the classified work of Clifford Cocks.

[Eric Vaxxine]

K's, is a common spoken abbreviation relating to kilometers per hour.

[Inclusa]

Urge to fight aging, biological scientists rapidly develop ways to utilize stem cells.

[Sarawak]

LSD stands for Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, and it is possible to have a bad trip.

[Eric Vaxxine]

I prefer psilocybin.

[Sarawak]

Ingesting about 17 kg of the right type of mushroom would get a 60 kg person to the lethal dose.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Seriously research.

[Sarawak]

Check it out.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Utterly astonished

[Sarawak]

Edification and elucidation!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Only because you say so

[Sarawak]

So don't ingest that much.