Add a Word, Drop a Word #16

Last 3 entries:

snow cream

Mister Snow

Mr. Majestic

My addition:

Majestic mountains

Mountain Bike

Braceʻs Light on a Mountain*

*Knew author. A wish List item

bug light

Faulknerʻs Light in August

Jade Moon former great TV reporter and anchor on the Honolulu CBS affiliate; columnist

Funkeʻs Dragon Rider

Pale rider

for the non-Jewish or the non-Sassenach

Ooops wrong thread.

non-such

Dick Such Washington Senators pitcher

Dick Russell Georgia senator; a DC govt. buiklding is named after him

Jack Russell terrier

fox terrier

Boston University Terrier*

*"Terriers" is the "mascot" of B.U. athletic teams.

Boston Pops

Allieʻs One Night in Boston

Boston Bulls*

*World Football League Team, 1970s, that was organized and even hired an old Patriots player as coach, but never
got started into a league schedule (the League lasted, I think, two years).

Raganoʻs Mob Lawyer

"Boss" William Marcy Tweed

tweed overcoat

Gogolʻs The Overcoat

Alexieʻs Ten Little Indians

Ten pins

ten green bottles standing on a wall

In good standing

(A Few) Good Men

straw men

martian men

Bradburyʻs The Martian Way

All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos*

*To go from the garrulous to the sublime (?),
Friedrich Nietzsche also used this, or a similar, title.

the human stain

Du Nouyʻs Human Destiny

Destiny's child

Herseyʻs The Child Buyer

fashion buyer

Barthesʻs Fashion System

economic system

Simonʻs Our Solar System

Solar flares

Nortonʻs Solar Queen Series

Queen Victoria

L. Housmanʻs Victoria Regina

Regina Skeptor

Mortimerʻs Regina versus Rumpole

Victoria Holt

Victoria Beckham

Plaidyʻs Victoria Victorious

Victoria Station

Kings Cross Station

cross town bus

the Knight Bus

the Knights templar

fishwife

fish taco

fish sauce

tartar sauce

apple sauce

apple crumble

Fiona Mac Leod*

*pseudonym of Scottish author William Sharp

MacLeod tartan

Ken MacLeod novelist

Ken Kesey

Ken OʻDonnell Chief of Staff, Kennedy
Administration

Chris O'Donnell

Chris Rea

hand craft

craft sale

Mr. Craft

--Savvy

Mr. Potato Head

+Ed Head +*

*recently deceased pitcher of a no-hitter in 1946: mentioned in honor of the Tigersʻ Galarraga, who missed a perfect game by an admitted bad call.

fire wood

"Smokey Joe" Wood
greatest (?) (except possibly Babe Ruth) left hander ever to pitch for Boston Red Sox whose park (1912 -- Present) is a nightmare for left handers.

Oliver Wood

Hillʻs Wood Beyond

beyond compare

Hallʻs Beyond Culture

germ culture

culture shock

shock wave

cosmic wave

cosmic rays

Hav-a-Tampa

Hava Nagila*

*("Hereʻs 5 cents" is NOT a correct translaiton
of this song title.)

Robert Nagila

Robert Alphonso Taft} (R, O.)

Harris Poll

(Louis) Bean "Poll"*

Louis Bean was one of the v ery few pundits who predicted that Harry S Truman} would defeat
Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. His system, though nicknamed "the Bean Poll", was not actually based on polling.

bean pot

runner bean

distance vision

George of the jungle

jungle juice

Sinclairʻs The Jungle

city jungle*

*as in Brechtʻs In the Jungle of Cities

City of Angels

Blakeʻs "Los" *

*character in William Blakeʻs long poems

Blake Carrington

Carrington starring Emma Thompson

Thompson's Water Seal

Chancellorsʻ seals: (taken away from Cardinal Wolsey and given to Thomas More in
A Man for All Seasons

Seasons of the Witch

Samhain

autumn

Halloweʻen, All Saints, All Souls, Thanksgiving

I think we have lost the thread -- this is add/drop, not word association. So, going back to #130:

Seasons of Love

my bad

love potion

Segal's Love Story

"talking story"*

* = a common phrase in Hawai'i Creole (aka "Pidgin"); it = "talking" in Standard English

Talking Heads

Uptown girls

girls' dorm

Caineʻs Dead Girlsʻ Dance

bad girls

bad boys bad boys!

"my bad!" *

*trendy expression discussed (some are
"discussed-ed" with it) in another thread.

My Girl

Western Girl*

*as in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West / La
Fanciulla del West

spaghetti western

Best Western

Western Civilization

Modern civilization

Modern Cars

Scarry's Cars and Trucks

used cars

used books

"cooking" the Books

book sale

Arthur Sale*

*bookseller of the 1960s

Sale of the Century

Fourteenth Century*

*As in Tuchmanʻs A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous
14th Century

Fourteenth Amendment

amendment casebook*

*as in The First Amendment; a Reader (in the American Casebook Series) by John H. Garvey

Unamunoʻs# "Victor" *

*supporting role in Unamunoʻs
great novel Niebla / Mist

#On my Favorite Authors list

Hugo Award

Hurricane Hugo (I got to know him all too well)

Linda Chavez

Linda Howard

fat cat

Olds's Gold Cell

Jakes's California Gold

Reported dreaminʻ *

*as in Snoeʻs Tell me Iʻm Dreaminʻ

reported attack

Big Mac attack

The "Big Danʻs" Case

case study

case law

Trivia-avoiding Law*

*As in the medieval maxim "The Law does not care about Trivia" / "Lex de minimis
non curat".

de minimis non curat lex

(assuming that 189 is an entry, not a correction
of the quote in 188):

Bellʻs "Lex Trent" *

*As in: Lex Trent versus the Gods
by Alex Bell

Lex Luthor

Travis Barker

carnival barker

"With" a carnival*

*As in Goldʻs The Man who was not with it

"Seymour Glass" *

*Classic J. P. Salinger character

glass houses

Through a Glass Darkly

City of Glass

Garnerʻs Fat City

Mouse on the Moon by Leonard Wibberley

The Moon's A Balloon

balloon animals

party animals

garden gnomes

Boston Garden

Boston Celtics

Boston Patriots*

*original name of the franchise that is now the
New England Patriots

Carolyn Chuteʻs "Beans" *

*as in: The Beans of Egypt, Maine
by Carolyn Chute

Delinskyʻs Twelve Across

Rubinʻs Angry Book

"Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry"

angry birds

Hitchcockʻs The Birds

bird identification

Don Money

money makes the world go round

merry gentlemen*

*As in the carol "God rest you merry gentlemen".

Loosʻs But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

gentlemen's club

Canadian wilderness

The Wilderness Road

The Road to Armageddon

Collinsʻs Road to Perdition

Catherʻs Professorʻs House

Sellersʻs The Party

Gunnʻs Boss Cupid

"Cupid's Chokehold"

non-McDonaldʻs Cupid*

*as in: Dadeyʻs Cupid Doesnʻt Flip Hamburgers

"Stupid Cupid"

careless Cupid*

*as in The Case of the Careless Cupid
by Erle Stanley Gardner

the headless horseman*

*as in Irvingʻs Legend of Sleepy Hollow

coming thru the rye

Whiskey Rebellion

whiskey voice

Voice of America

God Bless America!

Hellerʻs God Knows

shadow box

Edgar Box*

*pseudonym used by Gore Vidal for
mystery novels.

Higginsʻs "Edgar"*

* The title character of A Year or so with Edgar
by the great George V. Higgins -- (but not one of his great novels).

Mary Higgins Clark

Jack Frost

Nixon resignation

David Nixon

"Ambassador Duke"*

*an agiing right-wing More-or-less Hipppie, character
in Doonesbury, 1980s (and after?)

Ramada Hotel

*I stayed there in Shanghai :)*

Hotel California

California Dreaming

day care

Bear Trio*

*as in "Goldlocks and the
Three Bears"

DuMaurierʻs Jamaica Inn

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

"Holiday for Strings"

A. Baxʻs Third String Quartet

quartet easel

easel as destination*

*as in: Sturgeonʻs To Here and the Easel

Heinleinʻs Destination Moon
*

*The title has been used also by Herge
author of Tintin and by dozens of others.

moon goddess

sky without moon*

*as in: Steinbeckʻs The Moon is Down

"Sky Masterson" *

*character in Guys and Dolls

Chief of Sinners*

*as in: Bunyanʻs Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Saints and sinners

"Isaac of York" *

*a heroineʻs father in Scottʻs
Ivanhoe

Asimovʻs Yours, Isaac Asimov

Isaac Newton

Robert Newton actor

Lee Marvin

Marvin "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry
old time baseball player

Marvin (the) Martian

Bradburyʻs* Martian Way

*Doesnʻt affect the play, but "Search" says itʻs
Asimovʻs, not Bradburyʻs.

the Way and its power*

*as in Lao Tzuʻs The book of the way and its Power / Tao Teh Ching

power monger

power dressing (I don't actually understand what this is, so presumably I don't do it!)

I used to do it, but gave it up :)

salad dressing

Ramalottiʻs Salad Days

Day (&) Night

Jack Jonesʻs Come, Night, End, Day

World's fair

Costasʻs Fair Ball

Masquerade Ball

Boutonʻs Ball Four

Boutonʻs Ball Four

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Mr.Fox

fantastic Victoriana*

*as in: The Encyclopedia of Fantastic
Victoriana

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

Bon Voyage

Zimmer Bradleyʻs Endless Voyage

Agatha Christie's Endless Night

Algrenʻs "Endless Belt"*

The "low goal" manufacturer in Nelson ALgrenʻs Chicago novels.

Bretnorʻs Orionʻs Sword

Orion Telescopes

Leeuwenhoekʻs* and Galileoʻs telescopes

*or maybe Leeuwenhoekʻs were microscopes.

Presidentʻs daughter*

*as in Mariah Stewartʻs The Presidentʻs Daughter; a novel of Suspense

Venice Beach

Venice, Florida

Florida oranges

Flemish "oranges" *

* as in: H. Millerʻs Big Sur and the Oranges of
Hieronymus Bosch

Sabatiniʻs Captain Blood

Captain James T Kirk

"Essential" Kirk*

* as in: The essential Russell Kirk:
Selected Essays

Musilʻs Five Women

Clare Boothe's The Women

water drawing women*

*as in: Hamsunʻs The Women at the Pump

Woolfʻs Room of Oneʻs Own

Virginia Plain

art dealer

art forgery

forgery with lies*

*as in: Waltonʻs Fake: Forgery, Lies , and e-Bay

Lie (to) Me

Continued on a new thread.