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speedymama · 21/08/2006 12:32

I thought some of you might enjoy this and if you have anymore delights like these, please share!

Scintillate, scintillate minute asteroid.
Twinkle, twinkle little star.

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
Birds of a feather flock together.

Surveillance should precede an upwardly mobile transition
Look before you leap.

It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lactose fluid.
Don't cry over spilled milk.

It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative manoeuvre.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Neophyte's serendipity.
Beginner's luck.

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
Dead men don't talk.

Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
All that glitters is not gold.

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques dilapidates the potable concoction produced by steeping comestibles.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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LadyMaloryTowers · 21/08/2006 12:35

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Molesworth · 21/08/2006 12:38

ha! My mum and I used to do this when we didn't want the children to understand us, e.g.

Americo-Caledonian Rapid Comestibles = McDonalds

etc etc

speedymama · 21/08/2006 13:02

It is the kind of fun thing I will do when my boys are much older

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rustybear · 21/08/2006 17:04

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

Blandmum · 21/08/2006 17:05

dh always says 'I have partaken of an ample sufficiency' instead of 'I'm full'

speedymama · 21/08/2006 19:58

Rustybear, I will use that one when some guy in my office drools over some bimbo Z list celebrity wannabe with fake boobs and fake hair

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Californifrau · 21/08/2006 20:48

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nikkie · 21/08/2006 21:43

Lol never thought of Robert the Construction Worker!

rustybear · 21/08/2006 22:08

Desist from enumerating your fowls prior to their emergence from the prenatal ovoid structure.

kiskidee · 21/08/2006 22:18

shall the ultimate homosapien extinguish the illumination?

MrsSchadenfreude · 21/08/2006 22:25

Speedy, no, they got it wrong. The whole verse is

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous (sp?)

My science teacher made us recite it if we forgot our hankie.

EmmyLou · 21/08/2006 22:37

A friend of mine taught me a game along these lines paraphrasing lines from songs - the idea being you have to guess which song it is. It's called Swiss Cottage and enlivened many long car journeys in my travelling youth!

Au revoir, au revoir single female United States pastry...

rustybear · 21/08/2006 22:41

The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees F.

speedymama · 22/08/2006 08:29

Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders john a hebephrenic fellow.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no diminutive glaucous saprophytic plants.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The person with the ultimate cachinnation possesses, thereby, the optimal cachinnation.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure but appellations will eternally be benign.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.

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