Last 2 letters

[Eric Vaxxine]

Check the label for the recommended dose.

[Sarawak]

Second that.

[nosbig5]

At what hospital are you two being observed?

[Donnie B.]

Edivently hte meds ar not werking.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ng. Truly, it was my friends girlfriends surname. She was Chinese.

[Sarawak]

Seems she was Cantonese.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Seriously likely she was.

[Sarawak]

A similar name in Mandarin is "Wu".

[Eric Vaxxine]

'Wu' seem to know a lot about this.
(sorry..........)

[Sarawak]

Is that not good enough for the pun thread?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Admittedly........ha haaaaaaaaaa....yes.

[Sarawak]

Essentially.

[Mellow]

Lync, from Microsoft.

[Inclusa]

FT (Ford Taurus) was a notorious car known for major glitches.

[Sarawak]

Estonia is small.

[nosbig5]

Llamas do not thickly populate Estonia.

[Inclusa]

Iapetus, that moon of Saturn, is proven unsuitable as a space colony.

[Sarawak]

Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

[nosbig5]

Eminent Swedes cannot be tamed.

[Sarawak]

Edward abdicated to get married.

[nosbig5]

Educated young socialites can have that effect on the esteemed.

[Sarawak]

ED might have played a role eventually.

[Inclusa]

Lydia, an ancient kingdom, fell to the Persians in military terms.

[Sarawak]

MS is unpleasant.

[Inclusa]

NT is now largely obsolete.

[Chuck]

Tensor calculus was invented because ninesor calculus wasn't quite good enough.

[Sarawak]

Ghastly!

[dahlstroem]

Lying in bed with your eyes open may induce lucid dreaming.

[Sarawak]

Ngorongoro Crater has one of the densest lion populations in the world.

[dahlstroem]

LDAP is short for lightweight directory access protocol.

[Sarawak]

Olive oil is very Mediterranean.

[nosbig5]

And so is the artichoke.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Kettle and Spatula, my local pub.

[Sarawak]

Ubuntu is based on Gnome.

[snowcelt]

Me! Me! Me! It is my turn to Post.

[nosbig5]

Stop shouting, snowcelt.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ltd, term used by businesses.

[Donnie B.]

... especially by limited ones.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Essential requirement some insist.

[Sarawak]

Steady now.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ow......written English term denoting painfull experience.

[Inclusa]

Centuries ago, we thought muskets were cutting-edge technological products.

[Inclusa]

Tsunami isn't coming soon.

[Sarawak]

One just came through yesterday.

[Chuck]

A Youngstown, Ohio riot was put down by national guard troops in 1969.

[Sarawak]

69 runs from Greater Sudbury to Mactier.

[Inclusa]

Erroneously, they made haggis with hagfish instead of offal.

[Sarawak]

All Scots are dismayed.

[nosbig5]

Edicts ban the consumption of improperly made haggis.

[Chuck]

I see the light!

[nosbig5]

html is a dying language.

[Chuck]

Geologists have discovered samples of Hieroglyphics Tablet Markup Language that ancient Egyptians used on their websites.

[Eric Vaxxine]

ESPN never mentioned this.

[Donnie B.]

I swear I saw it on Slate.com.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Omitted to mention at what time you saw it.

[P Timmy]

Items of that nature are secretive for obvious reasons

[Chuck]

NSA, CIA, and FBI budgets are mostly spent spying on each other.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Errors by a human being are common.

[Inclusa]

Onerous efforts to sell unpopular products is the topic of Death of a Salesman.

[snowcelt]

A noble job a salesman is.

[Mellow]

Istanbul, where two continents meet!

[snowcelt]

Ethel Is my mother's name.

[dahlstroem]

"Me gusta" is spanish for "I like"

[Mellow]

Keke Rosberg's son Nico has just won the Chinese Grand prix, the first race won by the son of a living F1 racer!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Excellent result. Hill and Villeneuve did their best.

[Spoons]

Stupendously good drive by the young Rosberg!

[snowcelt]

RG: the best position to play in soccer, Rosberg's second favorite sport.

[Sarawak]

RTP is in North Carolina.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Nascar is not very popular in the united Kingdom.

[Chuck]

Omelets are a favorite of Buddhists in a hurry.

[Donnie B.]

Rye bread is tasty, but I don't care for the kind that contains caraway seeds.

[Sarawak]

DS was a portable game console produced by Nintendo.

[FarmMarsNow]

Don't know 'sauruses (Thesauruses) are ancient and may have predated the internet.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ethel was a tree growing off of Billy The Mountain's shoulder.

[Sarawak]

Dinosaurs are ancient and may have predated the internet.

Err, "dinosaurs" begins with "di", not "do".

[Eric Vaxxine]

Err, "dinosaurs" begins with "di", not "do".

and I obviously don't pay attention to detail....

[Sarawak]

I like that, but the last post doesn't fit the pattern at all!

[Donnie B.]

Llamas fit the pattern, if the pattern is Peruvian.

[Sarawak]

And it is!

[Donnie B.]

Is it really? Pre-columbian, or post?

[Sarawak]

Stately creatures like llamas can fit the pattern before and after.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Error on my behalf, the post about attention to detail.
I should have been seen clearly commenting, not adding to the thread.

[Sarawak]

A difference of style, perhaps.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Pssssst...wanna know my secret agenda?

[Sarawak]

Dangerous, is it?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Italy.....Monza to be precise, that is where it began.

[Sarawak]

And then where?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Republic of South Africa.

[Sarawak]

Capetown?

[FarmMarsNow]

WNIT is a sports alliance in USA and has little to do with Capetown. I fixed the dinosaur spelling error. I hope everyone one is a hippo now.

[Sarawak]

Owls are not!

[snowcelt]

Otter know that!

[Sarawak]

A true zoopark we have here.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Recently I have been forgetting to remember.

[Sarawak]

Eradicate those unpleasant memories!

[snowcelt]

Especially those memories that evoke!

[Sarawak]

Kensington is expensive.

[brianok]

Vegetables are tasty, but I prefer fruit.

[LookingSkyward]

Iterations continue, and the data resolves

[nosbig5]

Especially on a windy day

[LookingSkyward]

Aye, me lads, do the thingy with the jib

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ibanez guitars are quite popular.

[LookingSkyward]

Are they? being unfamiliar with guitars I've only heard of the Fender.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Errors are what humans make.

[LookingSkyward]

Kentucky - where the grass is blue

[brianok]

Ue people, a tribe from the Centre Province, Cameroon

[LookingSkyward]

Onward! to infinity... and like that.

[Chuck]

A tisket a tasket a red and yellow basket.

[LookingSkyward]

etched goblets, packed in the basket carefully

[Eric Vaxxine]

Lydd, it's a town in Kent county.

[LookingSkyward]

Tycho built a really cool observatory

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ryder Cup participants include a Tiger.

[LookingSkyward]

Eric Vaxxine

(:>)

[snowcelt]

Nearly missed that!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Attentive replies.

[LookingSkyward]

Espescially nice Mars rover

[Eric Vaxxine]

Erasers on pencils, great idea.

[snowcelt]

Easier said then done

[LookingSkyward]

never unserestimate the power of a pencil

[Eric Vaxxine]

I'll be intrigued to know how one measures pencil power.

[LookingSkyward]

erect the pencils into a tower, altitude is the measure of power

[Donnie B.]

Erase all the pencil's lead, measuring calories expended.

[Noclevername]

Educate the masses about the power of towers.

[LookingSkyward]

Ersatz (ok, I cheated) power towers do not broadcast

[Donnie B.]

Astilbes bloom well in full shade. (I saw what you did there, so I cheated right back even though I didn't really need to)

[Noclevername]

Too bad you didn't think of R'shumba, an African name.

[LookingSkyward]

Medaling in the Olympics - quite a feat

[Eric Vaxxine]

Athletes train for years, many go unnoticed.

[snowcelt]

Educated athletes have a fallback option.

[LookingSkyward]

onager, scorpoin and trebuchet should be added to olympic jousting - it's hard to ride while dodging pumpkins

[Sarawak]

NSA spooks have been reading my thoughts using spy satellites.

[snowcelt]

ESP would, of course, be the method of choice.

[LookingSkyward]

Cerebral fiber optic taps are also good

(Nice to see Coelacanth!)

[Eric Vaxxine]

Odd numbers are even more special.

[Sarawak]

All numbers have equal rights according to the United Nations High Commissioner of Algebra.

[LookingSkyward]

Radiation from the sun does not penetrate the deep blue sea

[Sarawak]

Eagles can't dive that far either.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Erstwhile answers proliferate.

[LookingSkyward]

Terror of shallow-diving eagles precludes swimming near the surface.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Certain people in my office annoy me.

[LookingSkyward]

Meadowloarks don't dive for fish, or work in Eric's office

[Eric Vaxxine]

Cease laughing everyone, Meadowloarks is a simple spelling error.

[LookingSkyward]

Or it may be a clever ruse to lure out the dictonary

[snowcelt]

Rye whiskey in excess will make correct spelling problematic.

[LookingSkyward]

Icarus discovered that Rye will melt wax

[Sarawak]

A xylotomist has a very exciting job.

[Chuck]

O blood type comes from the Irish.

[Sarawak]

Shouldn't it come from everyone?

[LookingSkyward]

Never assume that OH type blood is what it seems to be

[Sarawak]

Best not to assume anything.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Ng, a common Chinese surname.

[Sarawak]

Methinks it is a Cantonese surname.

[princysharma1990]

Men with Ng surname are Chinese.......

[Chuck]

Searching The Internet, I found that Sir (name) ________ is the first space on the form you fill out when applying for knighthood.

[Inclusa]

ODTAA was a well-known and popular novel.

[Sarawak]

Elastic collisions preserve kinetic energy.

[Chuck]

Gyroscopes are used to keep an eye on Greek sandwiches.

[Buttercup]

Eschewing Greek sandwiches (no offense Nick), I'll have a salad.

[Sarawak]

A double espresso for me.

[Inclusa]

Meditations can cure mental health issues.

[LookingSkyward]

Estimates of my sanity vary, but not by much

[Inclusa]

Cheap knives cannot be sharpened well.

[Chuck]

L.L.Bean sells Lima beans and Legumes.

[LookingSkyward]

Estimate of my creativity don't vary

[Buttercup]

Ryan's Hope is a soap opera I've never seen.

[Inclusa]

Encouragement isn't required for activists.

[Chuck]

t stands for time in physics equations.

[Eric Vaxxine]

NS means 'No Show' for a shift worker at my airport.

[LookingSkyward]

R-two D-two? pretty lame, but I couldn't resist.

[Sarawak]

Stardust

[Inclusa]

Standard tomorrow, exotic tonight!

[FarmMarsNow]

HTML5 is a bit like HTML.

[Sarawak]

ML was developed at Edinburgh.

[LookingSkyward]

ghosts, gouls and ghasts were also developed at Edinburgh

[Chuck]

Ghana is a country. I think it's somewhere in Africa.

[Donnie B.]

Can't you be more specific?

[Chuck]

Iceland is probably not in Africa.

[nosbig5]

Can you be sure it hasn't moved?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Education is what you remember when you have forgotton
all you were taught....it's said.

[Chuck]

I didn't get my PhD because you taught me that fact.

[Inclusa]

CT Scan only catches visible abnormalities; it fails to account for anything beyond that.

[Sarawak]

A trivial thing, it is.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Isando is the name of a place.

[Sarawak]

Celebes is now called Sulawesi.

[LookingSkyward]

Siamese are some pretty cats

[Sarawak]

"Tsar" means "Caesar".

[LookingSkyward]

Are you going to name your cat Ivan?

[Sarawak]

An der schönen blauen Donau

[Eric Vaxxine]

Autumn has arrived

[Sarawak]

Editors edit.

[Chuck]

It's so easy to fall in love.

[Sarawak]

Velocipedes are fun!

http://old.dlf.it/accordi/MuseoCampionissimi/velocipede.jpg

[Inclusa]

Universal human suffrage will be passed in 2013.

[Sarawak]

13 is prime.

[LookingSkyward]

Memories, like the corners of my mind sphere

[Sarawak]

Retro is the new antero.

[Chuck]

Roberto Clemente's major league baseball hits totaled exactly 3,000.

[Sarawak]

007 comes out today.

[Inclusa]

Aya Hitana is a known vocal artist in Nippon.

[LookingSkyward]

On Firefly, the best dialog was non-verbal

[Sarawak]

Alas!

[Chuck]

As You Like It was written in 1599.

[Sarawak]

99 years is a long, long time. Well, look at me I'll never be free.

[Chuck]

Eel Pie Island is not one of the stops on the culinary tour of Europe.

[Sarawak]

Peasants till the land.

[Buttercup]

ND is the abbreviation for North Dakota.

:p

[Chuck]

Taco Bell's Bell Beefer was their best sandwich.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Cheese is lovely when melted on toast.

[Chuck]

Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

[Sarawak]

H Thompson was a journalist.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Stuck for a reply I was, nice one Coelacanth.

[Sarawak]

Thank you!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Outstanding individual.

[Sarawak]

A legendary character.

[Chuck]

Eric the Read was one of the great Norse authors of The Middle Ages.

[Sarawak]

Estop me!

[Buttercup]

Merrily we roll along.

[Sarawak]

Ngau Tau Kok is in Kwun Tong.

[Buttercup]

Nguyen is a doctor's name I've sometimes encountered.

[Sarawak]

Nguyen is a doctor's name I've sometimes encountered.

(thought I couldn't think of something, didn't you??) :p

Edit that post to make it clear which line contains the last to letters I should respond to.

Ouch, how I am supposed to know which of these two lines to respond to?

[LookingSkyward]

Too much confusion for this guy

[Chuck]

"U", "You", and "Ewe" all sound alike.

[Sarawak]

keg party!

[Chuck]

Tylenol makes a great ice cream topping in case you get brain freeze.

[Sarawak]

Zebra crossings are all over the place here, but I have yet to see a zebra use one.

[Donnie B.]

Never? Not even once?

[Sarawak]

Centuries have passed since the last time a wild zebra roamed here. Maybe a captive one.

[LookingSkyward]

Never discount the possibility of invisible zebras

[Chuck]

A striped zebra looks like a horse to someone who's in a jail cell.

[Sarawak]

Llamas are a different story entirely!

[Buttercup]

Lyra is a northern hemisphere constellation.

[Sarawak]

On to the heart of the sunrise.

[Buttercup]

Sesame seeds are something I occasionally like on baked bread.

[Sarawak]

Advertisements are everywhere!

[Buttercup]

Reassurance is nice when one is anxious.

[Sarawak]

Useful.

[Buttercup]

Ulna is a part of the body.

[Sarawak]

Dynamite makes a loud noise.

[Buttercup]

Sensipar is a medication for ... I can't recall.

[Chuck]

Lloyd George Avenue is in Cardiff.

[Buttercup]

Ooooo, you're cruel.

Ffjord is something geographical. Unless I misspelled it?

[Chuck]

Italy was invaded by The Allies at Salerno and Anzio.

[Sarawak]

Io is the most geologically active object in the Solar System.

[Chuck]

Emil Zátopek broke three Olympic records in 1952.

[Buttercup]

52 of the 20th century is also the year Clive Barker was born.

[Sarawak]

RNA can be found in mitochondria.

[LookingSkyward]

Ian Anderson can really tootle the flute

[Eric Vaxxine]

Tesla...ever heard of him?

[Sarawak]

I might have.

[Chuck]

Verity Kindle is a time traveler in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog.