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Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Existing words with new meanings (ala Sorry I Haven't A Clue)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Encompassed: gored by a cartographer.
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
You mean like 'sick' and 'gay'?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Outskirts: Clothing for city centres
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
No, I'm confused =[
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
no, like made up new definitions :)
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
paedophile - a metal device for the grinding, smoothing and shaping of paedo's.

Like that?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
yes.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
good work, although that one would work better as:

paedophile - a metal device for the grinding and smoothing of kiddie fiddlers.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Faux Pas - You aren’t my real dad.
Posted by Brock, around 5th January 2006:
 
Countryside - the act of killing obnoxious people
Posted by Brock, around 5th January 2006:
 
Coffee - someone who has been coughed upon
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
nice
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Apple Juice - Orthodox Fruit Pickers
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Bluebell - Prince Charles' Cock
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Switch your Italics off, Alfie =]
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Alfie - someone who had been Alfed.
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Genocide - a sigle flat Geno face.
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Bible - Bell purchasing
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Promotes - Moats of a very high standard.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
:)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Podcast - to use an MP3 player for fishing
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Purchasing - The hunt for cats.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Fishing - The act of being a fish.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Prediction - Thinking about what youre going to say before saying it.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
nice
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Postscript - To spam publishers
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
Database - low-frequency data.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Database - depraved information
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Monitor - Jamaican tourguide
Posted by Grim..., around 5th January 2006:
 
hahaha
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Patio doors - love child of Diana and an Irish bloke.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
And one of my very favourite from ISIHAC - 'miniscule' - Liverpudlian nursery.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Emma's middle name is Louise. She could easily have been Lou Dawes. :)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
hahhaha warhead.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Manchester - Woman with tiny breasts.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Liverpool - Playing for transplants
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Edinbrugh - brassiere hat
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Aardvark - tough and beligerant mamal that feeds on termites.

Baluster - shiny ball

Abate - a posh bat.

Abash - a party.

Abess - one of the Elizabeths

Abduct - drainage tube in one's stomach.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Abracadabra - lady's magic bust support.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Acrobat - adjustable metal support for holding up small flying mamals.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Acrymony - payment made with bad grace.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Absorb - pot belly.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Absolution - Alka Seltzer
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Abstract - writing on one's stomact.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Dundee - slept with a comedian
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Any of your own that you haven't stolen from the A section of ISIHAC?
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
this one?

Acrobatic - involuntary audible spasm of respiratory organ of small flying mamal, held up by adjustable metal support.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
Actually, I don't know how many of these may be from ISIHAC; I'm making them up from my pocket dictionary right now. If they're not original, it's a coincidence.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
paedophile: pumice stone

(i wonder if anyone will get that one? soo? syl?)
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
tarnish - like a small mountain pool.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
teaching - ancient system of cosmology and philosophy based on looking into a hot tan coloured liquid, the interpretation of which may represent a change happening and which is at the heart of Chinese cultural beliefs.

I don't think they ever had that on ISIHAC.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
Thing for filing the hard skin off your feet Salty?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
"If they're not original, it's a coincidence."

Good work then :) I just assumed you'd nicked them cos they were all A
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
paedophile: pumice stone

(i wonder if anyone will get that one? soo? syl?)


Yeah, I get it; stone for rubbing the rough skin off the soles of your feet.


OOoooops, didn't read alfie's reply.

Good one, anyway.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
And now, for Terry Pratchett fans.....

took - exclamation by Yorkshire Orang Utan.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
he was shooting for A+
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
tarragon - goodbye, I've already left.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
tattered - untidy faeces
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
fantasia - soft drink from a large continent in the east.
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
farad - a bilboard a long way away.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
err, that was re alfie's "A" post

sorry: getting YOOJ electromagnetic interference on the network this afternoon. not sure why. but everything will time out just trying to reach the router upstairs then suddenly boom we're off again.
for a minute or two.

i REALLY wonder what this is doing to my internals...
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
billboard - tired of opening mail
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
opening - expression of surprise at landing in south-west thailand
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
thailand - country whose industry is primarily the production of neckwear.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
painting - bell in hospital wards used to summon nurses in emergency
Posted by WarHead, around 5th January 2006:
 
oooh, that's an added twist, i.e. having to make a new definition from one of the words of the previous poster (postee?)

For one thing, it'll stop me posting so many.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
primarily - cheerful little old aunts
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
network - fishing
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
network - the act of being a fish
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
being - sound made by striking a hive gently with a small mallet
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
hive - forgotten what i was going to say, sorry
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
mallet - obsolete: now replaced by: "ebayit"
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
villain - to complete a form
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
RSS - Japanese judgement
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
station - command not to relax
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
posting - australian slang: attack by red back spider under dunny seat
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
cattle - american kettle
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
tattered - cheap shit
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th January 2006:
 
^-- variation/moulding courtesy of WH's inspiration
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
 
inspiration - number of hotels per chinese person
Posted by WarHead, around 6th January 2006:
 
kangaroo - metal mystic
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
 
mystic - dominatrix
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
 
"courtesy" of brock, and re-located here per wh's re-direction

anally violate - purple arse
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
 
chimera - foreign tea with coriander

inhaler - Oates' last raincoat

fodor - bats in the attic, have I?
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around 6th January 2006:
 
luxedo forty seven