Elizabeth's Landing Community Association

Achoo!

Come on, I tried sneezing with my eyes open and was able to. No wonder the world is the way it is!

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Pow!

Peanuts are not an ingredient of dynamite! Peanuts are however used in the manufacture of dynamite.

Peanuts to peanut oil, peanut oil to glycerol, glycerol to nitroglycerin, nitroglycerin to dynamite.

There are no peanuts in the end product dynamite, just in it's manufacture!

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Rhyme Time

Now for the rhymes...

Over ten times a [month]
I counted past a millionth or billionth or even trillionth!

When I tried to think which [month]
It had to be the sixth or seventh!

I was very hungry and paid my [silver]
Gold I'd none, and settled for chilver- (See Note 1)
If only I'd had even just quicksilver- (yes it rhymes and it is
a different word with a differnent meaning)

And yes upon the mighty [orange],
With microscope I did observe a single sporange!(See Note 2)

(1) (chilver - a ewe lamb)
(chilver. A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb.
OE. cilfer-, cilfor-lomb =ewelamb. Found in OE, and still common in
southern dialects, though not evidenced in the intervening period.
c1000 ?†lfric Lev. v. 6
Bringe an cilfor lamb [offerat agnam].
1815 European Mag. LXVIII. 337
I?’ll sell you a lamb that is called a Chilver [note or ewe lamb].
1883 in Standard, 21 Apr. 5/8
The chilver (or breeding lamb) might be protected from the butcher?’s
knife for a year or two.
>From Oxford English Dictionary

(2) (sporange - a sac in which spores are produced; sporangium)

I'll just give you the link for purple:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CURPLE



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That 4 word dous thing...

Only four words in the english language that end in dous... Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.

Hummm.... I guess you never been in a jeopradous situation during blizzardous conditions have you?

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