Iʻm thinking of a word that rhymes with "incur"

I don;ʻt know how to make links, but

Iʻm trying the "post a New Topic" function:

Iʻm thinking of a word that rhymes with "incur".

Don't wear this or PETA will throw paint on you. (Although they hardly ever throw paint on big tattooed bikies in leather jackets!)

On 2:

As Jack Benny once* said, "Iʻm thinking; Iʻm THINKING!"

*or was it 101 times?

Oh, don't look at me, I'm way to shy and retiring.

"NOT" list: demure

On 2: "Dont' wear this . . ."

"wearing" the Crambo! Word is possible (accidentally) but not probable. I still don't
know what the guess is.

Jeeves, please get the car and drive me into town.

My bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom.

On 7:

THis is where I miss the old-fashioned "Thesaurus"
where you could look up
associated words,
e.g. a word "something like" "perfume", but not really a synonym of it. The new ones are little more than dictionaries of
synonyms.

NOT List: demure

Re #7, it'll come to you by Christmas time.

Thanks, Jim

NOT List: demure, myrrh

Since Roland's a classical guy,
"It follows" this word's worth a try.
This Latin deponent
And phrasal component
Might hint that a topic's awry.

NOT List: demure, myrrh, non* sequitur

*"sequitur": should this be alphabetized under S or N? Itʻs probably not English, except as part
of the phrase (see "phrasal component" (11) ) "non sequitur", so Iʻm adding it as
a whole phrase/

I collect "non sequiturs", b t w, so if you know any "good" ones, please pass them along.

#6?

NOT List: chauffeur (6, 13), demure, myrrh, non sequitur

Let me give you this (little booklet) explaining hot yoga. I'm sure you'll love it, everyone does.

A BROCHURE
Is no lure. (usually)

NOT List: brochure, chauffeur, demure, myrrh, non sequitur

Test of message numbers!

Edit: Hmmm that's curious.

On 17:
? ?

Since I canʻt give you what 17 is,

Iʻll give a hint: the Crambo! Word

does NOT end in -er.

//No, don't worry about #17, Roland. It really was a test. I could swear that I'd posted a guess, but it seems to have gone missing.//

"(17) really was a test. . ."

I thought it might be. What were the test results?
--that you never know what the number will
be by the time of the next post?

//No, I would bet everything (every book) that I own that I already posted a guess along the lines of the one below. Yet is isn't there. Weird.//

Tattoo was my mother;
You have to say who.
My coat is silky,
That was guess #2.

Should I say that Guess 2 = Guess 21?. I still donʻt know them (or it).

NOT List: brochure, chauffeur, demure, myrrh, non sequitur

Would you care for a spot of creme de menthe, perhaps on your ice cream?

NOT List: brochure, chauffeur, demure, liqueur,
myrrh, non sequitur

This game is going by so quickly that I can't see it clearly.

Not by very much
(phonetically) do you err;
but semantically you touch
Not at all closely with "blur".

NOT List: blur, brochure, chauffeur, demure, liqueur,
myrrh, non sequitur

Could it be that Crambo is the ideal place for a risky businessman to make a big splash?

Crambo! could be the ideal place for a risky businessman to make a big splash, for all I know. All that came to mind
was "Splash>whirr" -- not really very close; and the non-existent "splur" came to mind. (Itʻs realy "splurGE".)

The guess involved the businesman who takes risks.

I'll risk saying that 27 is "entrepreneur" -- some kind
of " -eur", anyway. I'm not a capitalist,* but I
had thought that the "Entrpren-" kind
was more respectable than the mere risk-takeur.
The Crambo! Word. b t w, cannot end in -er, (hint in 18)
AND
does not necessarily end in - eUr.

Not List: blur, brochure, chauffeur. demure, entrepreneur. liqueur.
myrrh, non sequitur

*In fact, the Crambo!word (though not with
it's common-noun meaning, is also the title of
a book by a very anti-capitalist novelist.

A.A. Milne, but not Pooh, wll help you with both 2 and 12.

Is Crambo a dog of a word?

I wonder if Hercules played Crambo as one of his famous dozen efforts.

On 32:

Not a dog-owner,*
But I donʻt allow a canine slur;
Hence I must moan --er
--Complain--:the c-word
("cur") is in this round taboo;
And NOT "Crambo!" What else is new?

*Not for the past few decades anyway.

NOT List: blur, brochure, chauffeur, cur,
demure, entrepreneur labor*, liqueur.
myrrh, non sequitur

*The hints about "-er" and "-eur" were not
intended to lead you in the direction of
the more doubtfully-rhyming "-or". I might as
well admit that it doesnʻt end in "-or".

If I guess Crambo's word, will I lock in fame as a Crambologist?

". . .will I lock in fame as a Crambologist?"

I hesitate to put "honor" on the List
Of "NOTS", after the gist
Of my note in 35 was that, whatever
Else, itʻs not an "-or" word. Never
Sure about these things; should I keep
Trying to guess the guess, or let it sleep?

NOT List: brochure, blur, chauffeur, cur,
demure, entrepreneur, Eyore, honor, labor,
liqueur, myrrh, non sequitur

To disagree or object?

On 11-12:
Milne didnʻt help on this one, but would what is
A wild Guess of the Guess, but is
Now Word 7 of the "NOT"
Help? Or have I not got
The Guess in 11 right?
{Negotiate, donʻt fight!)

NOT List: blur, brochure, chauffeur, cur, demure,
entrepreneur, Eyore, honor, labor, myrrh, non sequitur

Perhaps I'm having trouble with the word because I'm not a professional Crambologist, I just do it as a sideline.

In #36, think of "lock" rather than "fame".

NOT list: blur, brochure, chauffeur cur,
demure, entrepreneur, Eyore, honor, labor,
myrrh, non sequitur, serrure*

*Serrure: Not sure if it's only French,
or French & English, but I inserted it
in response to 36>41

>39 rolandperkins: There are no characters from Milne's Pooh stories involved. This character is the subject, and in the title, of one of his poems. The guesses are the first two end rhymes. Clue: "Pinkle"

Re: # 36, 41, 42: No French, just good old English, although you got warm with"serrure".

On: 40*

NOT Lit (rev.)
AMATEUR*, blur, brochure, chauffeur, cur, demure
entrepreneur, Eyore, honor, labor, myrrh, non sequiture, serrure

Could Crambo be an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns?

"Sinecure" comes from Latin
And linguisticallyʻs my only exper -
-ience with it; Iʻve sat in
(though not in the past year)
Many an office, and found that "Cum" (Engl.: "con-")
"Cura" better describes whatʻs laid on
Me, job-wise (that being Romeʻs
Way of saying "anxiety".) Homeʻs
Better than work, it would seem, after all!
Even if home-emolument be small.

NOT List: amateur, blur, brochure, chauffeur, cur, demure,
entrepreneur, Eyore, honor, labor, lure, myrrh,

non sequitur, serrure, sinecure

Psst! Here's twenty bucks if you'll let me win?

On 48:
Although Iʻm not sure,
That could be a "lure".

Not List (rev.) SEE: above (47?)

//It could be; they're of a similar age (1350-1400), and similar Middle English / Middle or Anglo French descent. Mine is more 'sweetness' than 'bait' though.//

I agree with you, in fact we all do.

NOT List (rev.)

amateur, blur, brochure, Chaucer,* chauffeur, concur,#
cur, demure, entrepreneur, Eeyore, honor, labor
myrrh, non sequitur, serrure, sinecure

*Chaucer: kind of a wild guess about 50; I donʻt really know
what the "It" of "It could be. . ." (50) refers to.

#concur: the Guess for 51.

//The 'It' in #50 refers to the answer in #49 to the guess at #48.//

//#50 was not a guess, nor is this. The double solidus indicates commentary.//

On 50, 53

Thanks Jim.. Iʻm taking out "Chaucer" and ʻlure", and putting in ʻallure". Or, on things that were not really guessed, should I leave them on the List, anyway?

NOT List: allure, amateur, blur, brochure, chauffeur, concur,
cur, demure, entrepreneur, Eeyore, honor, labor,
myrrh, non sequitur, serrure, sinecure

This noun, from the Greek for "dog's tail,"
Denotes something that guides without fail.
Ursa Minor's old name
(And Polaris) became
This trisyllable; follow the trail.

NOT List (rev.)

allure, amateur, blur, brochure, chauffeur, concur, cur, cynosure*, demure, entrepreneur, Eeyore,, honor, labor, myrrh, non sequitur, serrure, sinecure

*cynosure: inserted as the Guess in 55.

Not Aaron, nor Albert, nor any of those stars,
Nor how the Northumbrian pronounces his Rs,
Not even the god whom the Norsemen proclaimed,
But a bristly seed--'neath your saddle it's aimed.

Never heard it called a "seed" before,
But BURR is the Crambo! Word, so youʻre
Right, Jim, (and, so long* was this stint
Getting, I was just thinking of a super-hint
To the effect that itʻs mono-syll-
-abic. Take over, if you will.

b t w, I still donʻt know what the
". . .or PETA will throw paint on you"
Gues (2) was.

*The ultra-literary hint in #30 was a reference to a historical
novel by the late Gore Vidal.

#2 was 'fur', 21 was 'purr' (with a reprise of 'fur'). Both found in AA Milne's poem "Pinkle Purr", which starts...

Tattoo was the mother of Pinkle Purr,
A little black nothing of feet and fur;
And by and by, when his eyes came through,
He saw his mother, the big Tattoo.
And all that he learned he learned from her,
"I'll ask my mother," says Pinkle Purr.

#48 was 'douceur'.

Good game!

Thanks for explaining 2, 21, and 48; and for "Good game!" !

Good game indeed, Roland. New game here.