THE GENERAL CATEGORY

1st (eq) - View with:
Is Trump the worst president in American history? =
Yes, he is! Cretin; stupid man with important errors!

1st (eq) - Adie Pena with:
Military man =
I'm a Lt. in Army.

3rd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Accountability? =
Cynical about it.

Tom Myers with:
Bait the Trap =
That bear pit.

Rik with:
"I'm not a crook" =
Mock oration

Julian Lofts with:
I shun the greyest cold in ~
the English countryside.

Rosie Perera with:
The periodontist's office ~
codifies profits on teeth.

Ellie Dent with:
England's countryside =
Grayness not included!

Rik with:
Greatest men =
Genes matter!

Rik with:
Note sum: nine =
ten minus one.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Deny a mate's last wish... =
That way madness lies.

Tom Myers with:
The no-win scenario =
There now in casino

Ellie Dent with:
An inky sight ~
in a night sky!

Jesse Frankovich with:
Not all mathematics puns are silly =
(A small parenthetical: It's only sum.)

Dharam Khalsa with:
Italian cuisine =
I nail it in sauce!

Tony Crafter with:
And what begins ~
ends with a bang.

Jesse Frankovich with:
A man in his grave: we ~
never saw him again.

Meyran Kraus with:
The traditional funeral ceremony =
Mourn a certain end to earthly life.

Tom Myers with:
Family fortune =
Futile for many.

View with:
Strong antidepressants =
Grant end to stress pains!

Tony Crafter with:
Diced meat =
Decimated.

John Ramos with:
Teens bury an ~
Easter Bunny.


THE ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY

1st - Zoran with:
La persistencia de la memoria =
I am Dali's real masterpiece, no?

2nd - David Bourke with:
The U.S. actor Verne Troyer =
Note: Very short creature.

3rd - Rik with:
Avengers: Infinity War =
Five-star winning year?

Adie Pena with:
The Story of Samson and Delilah =
Death's end to loss of manly hair.

Rik with:
The Renaissance painter Michelangelo =
He oils an enchanting, real masterpiece.

Dharam Khalsa with:
The new television baking show "Nailed It" =
Not a bit like what we (English) envisioned!

Rosie Perera with:
The most famous painting in the world? =
The Mona Lisa! (Find out pigments' worth!)

View with:
'We Are The Champions ' =
A hit. Chase power, men!

View with:
'Fifty Shades of Grey', an erotic novel =
Yes, a story of different, aching love

Tony Crafter with:
"Dawn"'s hit: 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree' =
A tie? I'd also entwined the whole bloody arbor trunk!

Jesse Frankovich with:
Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" =
"Outstanding film!" ravin' reviewers say.

Ellie Dent with:
The new 'Avengers: Infinity War' =
Fans' review: 'Why, entertaining!'

Meyran Kraus with:
The action movie 'Avengers: Infinity War' =
I want to give manic fans every hero in it!

Julian Lofts with:
Musician Ted Nugent =
A gun nut - it's endemic!


THE TOPICAL CATEGORY

1st - Adie Pena with:
The sexual predator Cosby =
Yes, Doctor Huxtable rapes.

2nd - Jesse Frankovich with:
"I'm Edward Scott Pruitt," ~
stated corrupt dimwit.

3rd - Tony Crafter with:
North Korea's Kim Jong-un has met President Moon Jae-in =
Top men join in handshake to its major 'no nukes' merger

Rosie Perera with:
The Christian celebrating Easter =
Creating that "He is risen!" bracelet.

Dharam Khalsa with:
President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen =
"Help! Can he compensate or interrupt Stormy Daniels?"

Julian Lofts with:
The Humboldt Broncos team has a ~
bad bus crash. Oh, lament them too.

Dharam Khalsa with:
Senate joint hearing of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg =
Facebook king (until then) realizes major regret.

Dharam Khalsa with:
To run around like the chicken with its head cut off =
Huh? Think of the nature of DT: a 'cluckwise' direction!

Julian Lofts with:
The US President is ‘morally unfit’ =
So Trump’s a hustler, indefinitely.

Ellie Dent with:
Another son for William and Kate =
Onlooker saw third infant: a male!

Rosie Perera with:
De-escalating a potentially dangerous situation =
Police train to get nude assailant to lay aside gun.

Julian Lofts with:
Slang Terms or Abbreviation:
1. Incel
2. Chad
3. Stacy
=

1. Can’t score (celibate/virgin)
2. SOB (man)
3. Trash (lady)

Dharam Khalsa with:
Royal baby named Prince Louis Arthur Charles =
A third minor, as you can all surely hear per BBC.

View with:
The birth of Prince Louis =
Hopeful Brits' heir in cot.

Ellie Dent with:
The new Royal Male is born =
All now eye mother's bairn.

Christopher Sturdy with:
Home Secretary Amber Rudd's resignation =
I note shrug as Mrs. May reordered cabinet


THE PEOPLES NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Jesse Frankovich with:
Catherine E. Middleton =
A need to emit children.

2nd - Adie Pena with:
Luciano Pavarotti =
Vocal aria? Put it on.

3rd - Rik with:
Attorney Michael Cohen =
Her money? I conceal that.

Julian Lofts with:
Nasim Aghdam =
A madman. Sigh!

View with:
Omri Casspi =
O, crap, I miss!

David Bourke with:
The late footballer Raymond Colin Wilkins =
Totally brilliant demon for Chelsea, I know!

Rosie Perera with:
EPA chief Scott Pruitt =
Pathetic! Put "eco" first!

Brian Taylor with:
Buck Showalter =
Suck Blowheart.

Rosie Perera with:
Attorney Michael Cohen =
O arch enemy, not ethical.

Rik with:
American President Donald Trump =
Unprimed, inept toddler ran a scam.

Meyran Kraus with:
Duchess Catherine E. Middleton =
Ma issued Decent Child No. Three!

Ellie Dent with:
William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge =
I'm married. A kid? Plural! How tough public life is.

Tony Crafter with:
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge ~
is a seriously French name (big sigh...) Poor child.

Josiah Winslow with:
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge =
Sense I could possibly reign from a high chair.

Meyran Kraus with:
Comedian William Henry Cosby Junior =
I'm a sour lech; now I cry on my bed in jail.

Brian Taylor with:
Professor Jordan B Peterson =
Prose-pedant job for snorers.

FatPhil with:
Joy-Ann Reid =
Enjoy nadir

Tom Myers with:
Prince Philip =
Cripple (in hip).

David Bourke with:
The Home Secretary Amber Rudd =
Shut border, deter race mayhem!

Dharam Khalsa with:
Attorney-at-Law Michael Cohen =
May lie on contract. What a heel!

Julian Lofts with:
Miss Andrea Erminia Constand ~
is a man, I contend, sans admirer.


THE OTHER NAMES CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
The USA travel website company Trip Advisor =
Writes about, and maps, every crap hotel visit.

2nd - View with:
Dia de Muertos =
Our dead's time.

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
The US Environmental Protection Agency =
No one even in charge... namely Scott Pruitt.

Rosie Perera with:
Persons are saved at ~
Passover and Easter.

David Bourke with:
The National Obesity Forum =
Too fat? Slim! Be a thinner you!

Adie Pena with:
The Los Angeles Freeway in California, ~
i.e., always a long line of fine cars there!

Dharam Khalsa with:
Cambridge Analytica =
Aim: Cycling bare data.

Dharam Khalsa with:
The Presidential Physical Fitness Award =
The pleased winner displays his artifact.

Rosie Perera with:
Try and return opioids in black package at ~
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

Rosie Perera with:
The Korean Peninsula =
Speak, then real union.

Meyran Kraus with:
The most renowned Italian site =
This one mad tilt seen in a tower.

Meyran Kraus with:
The US military installation Area Fifty One =
I stare at this tiny alien or fly in a metal UFO.


THE MEDIUM LENGTH CATEGORY

1st - Ellie Dent with:
This Tortoise family goes to a cafe and orders various icecreams.
Pa: 'Why, now it's raining! Ted, son, go fetch the golf umbrella.'
~
Hours later, still no sign of Ted.
Ma: 'Gee, awful shame. Carry on: first, eat his ice cream.'
Voice by door gasps: 'Fine. Do that. I won't go!'

2nd - Meyran Kraus with:

The three different goddesses who made the worst decision on earth by marrying Donald John Trump:

1. Ivana
2. Marla
3. Melania

=

Main reason he divorced them:

1. Was forty-something;
2. Preferred a new man (her bodyguard);
3. Does not mind at all that he's in jail.


3rd - Adie Pena with:
Attorney Michael Cohen's three clients:
1. Donald Trump
2. Elliott Broidy
3. Sean Hannity
=
All here had an illicit lay:
1. The bitter U.S. President
2. Tycoon/RNC money man
3. Noted host.

Tony Crafter with:
Donald Trump: "Get ready Russia, missiles will be headed to Syria." =
Military-show message addressed to Putin by US leader: "I'll raid."

Dharam Khalsa with:
This man asked the old saint, "Sir, what would the definition of anger be?" The saint made a wonderful point
~
and howled. "I define it as a debilitating punishment that we hand down to our-self, for another's mistake!"

View with:
North and South Korea reportedly set to announce an official end to war =
Offered end or concord on Korean peninsula without any threat? O, at last!

Adie Pena with:
The Films of Bruce Lee
1. Marlowe
2. The Big Boss
3. Fist of Fury
4. Way of the Dragon
5. Enter the Dragon
6. The Real Bruce Lee
=
1. Death of Wong
2. First brawl here
3. Hostile rebels
4. One cafe free of trouble
5. Last huge fight by me
6. Re: Documentary

Rosie Perera with:
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula=
Moon Jae-in and fat pariah Kim turn up on an historic conference day, plan to reunite peoples.

Christopher Sturdy with:
The use of internationally banned chemical weapons in Douma, Syria
=
'The new and reasonable act of my nice ally' (The opinion in Duma, Russia)


THE ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE CATEGORY

1st - Tony Crafter with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=

Ode - 'Oily fathead'
How can I scoff at oily Trum*
If I've no letter *?
Say he is a sly, fat lum*
Without a letter *?
*erha*s we can *retend
I have many *s in stock?
Or is this how my anagram ends?
Not with a bang but a *o*!

2nd (eq) - Dharam Khalsa with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
Hey, NRA hotheads and fanatic fools,
Who may want to arm teachers in our schools,
It's offensive to me;
Why don't they agree
With safe automatic gun laws and rules?

2nd (eq) - Meyran Kraus with:

"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)

=

How can boycotting automatic firearms lower deaths anyway?!

Maybe in Norway...
Oh, and in the UK.
Oh, and Australians do that!

Alright, this is effective lots of times. The US merely won't save a life. :(


Ellie Dent with:

"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
OK, hey, their flamboyant, Wild West movies authenticate this: many US yarns with Clint Eastwood, among others.
However be afraid, our nation's not safe: a military guy, all, can face death if shot.

Adie Pena with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
While guns have killed many, the American diet is as lethal. Monitor eating habits; watch everyone's worthy ways, too. I can inhibit youth from saturated fats. Stay clear of a fast food menu NOW!

Rosie Perera with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
What can these guys say about the US?
i) Trayvon Martin
ii) Michael Brown
iii) Alton Sterling
iv) Tamir Rice
(Also a few Sandy Hook youth.)

They were shot, a fatal flaw of the Second Amendment. So daft!

Josiah Winslow with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
"Hillary Clinton is a threat to families with a gun. I say that if she ever sets an official to a court, no way to thwart it.
But maybe if a Second Amendment guy removes her easy...ah, who knows?"
(Donald)

Dharam Khalsa with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
What if arms had to be licensed like my auto?

* Thrifty: You can have what you can afford.
* Safe: We'd want to have mass training at high schools.
* Timely: Manual is obsolete.
* Interstate tie-in: No worry!

Dharam Khalsa with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
USA history moment:

*Colonial Revolutionary War (by the way, Lafayette fought)
*American Indian Wars (chief shakes head)
*Civil War of the States, with too many feuds and battles to mention (sigh).

Julian Lofts with:
Americans have a warrior’s mentality, most of them. That’s how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking
Isabel Allende
=
Ah, yet I vow homilies are hooey! Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a fiasco anyway. First Nations struck, outmanoeuvered him, decimating whole army in an offhand way.

Rosie Perera with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
Some of the battles of the United States:

* Civil War
* World Wars I & II
* Korean War
* Vietnam
* Gulf War

Ah, is that mythic nation any safer today because of its guns 'n enmity? Holy moly, no! A hot headache!

Jesse Frankovich with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende) =

The Second Amendment says: "With an efficacious militia being mandatory for your security, it follows that the right to have the arms to unload shall in no way whatsoever be taken away." As if!

Jesse Frankovich with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende) =

Anagrammers have an eccentric and foolheaded mentality. Okay, most of them, anyhow, I'd fear. That's how this unusual website was built. Toying with an array of letters is one foolish activity!

Dharam Khalsa with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
A sheriff's solution (in chat): "What if we let mad codgers live on our national border, in motor homes, with their shotguns? They buy ammo anyway. It's a fact they'll even stay awake. A fantastic idea!"

Inevitability?
Marketability!

Christopher Sturdy with:
"Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking." (Isabel Allende)
=
Action movies one watches are a sham.
If I shot away at twenty guys, neither I nor they can shrug it off - the attack would haunt a man forever
Life seldom imitates art as badly. 'Sin-bin' Hollywood!


THE LONG CATEGORY


1st - Tony Crafter with:
A young girl, Vanessa, started work in the village pharmacy. She was fine carrying out most of the staff duties but was very shy about having to sell condoms to the public.

The owner was going on holiday for a couple of days and asked her if she would be willing to run the shop on her own. Vanessa felt she had to confide in him her worries about selling the contraceptives.

"Don't be embarrassed," he said. "My regular customers never actually ask for condoms. They'll only ask you for either a 300 - small, a 310 - medium, or a 320 - large. The word condom won't even be used.

The first day everything was fine, but on the second day a large, swarthy man came in, put out his hand and said "350".

This threw Vanessa into total panic, so she anxiously phoned the owner and explained her predicament.

"Right, Vanessa; go back in and check if he has a yellow bucket dangling between his legs," the boss told her.

Vanessa quietly peeped through the door and saw the yellow bucket hanging between the man's legs.

"Yes!" she said "There is one hanging there!"

The boss said "Right, go back in and give him £3.50. He's the window cleaner!"

=

Hugo and Gwen are flying on vacation to Australia to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

Suddenly, the Captain's voice comes over the PA system: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm afraid I've some bad news. Our engines have stopped functioning, which means we'll have to try an emergency landing.

"I see an uncharted island below me; we should be able to circle and land on the beach, but chances are we may never be rescued and will have to stay on the island for the rest of our lives!"

Thanks to the skill of the crew, the plane lands safely on the beach.

A while later, Hugo turns to his wife and says, "Did you happen to pay our £350 Visa Card bill this month?"

"Oh no, I forgot!" she gasps.

Hugo, still shaken up from the crash landing, then asks, "Did you pay the £325 we owe to Mastercard?"

"Oh, no!" she sobs, "I’m sorry. Somehow, I forgot to send the cheque."

"One last thing Gwen: Did you remember to pay our £13,000 tax bill?" he asks anxiously.

"Oh, heck! Forgive me," begs Gwen. "I didn’t do that either."

Hugo grabs her and gives her the biggest kiss in 30 years. Gwen draws back and asks, "What was that for?"

"Honey," answers Hugo: "They’ll find us!"

2nd - Dharam Khalsa with:
Top Ten Visual Masterpieces (courtesy of various art critics):

1. Mona Lisa
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring
3. The Birth of Venus
4. The Starry Night
5. Arrangement in Grey and Black
6. The Kiss
7. The Arnolfini Portrait
8. The Garden of Earthly Delights
9. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
10. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
=
Artistry:

1. Da Vinci - Innate flirting
2. Vermeer - Retain that turn in headgear
3. Botticelli - Goddess in a seashell
4. Van Gogh - Horror of nightfall in asylum
5. Whistler - Mother
6. Klimt - Tenderness
7. Van Eyck - Proposal and oath
8. Bosch - Degenerate afterlife
9. Seurat - Jaunty gathering
10. Picasso - An array of ladies? No, prostitutes!

3rd - Julian Lofts with:
Various Famous People Who Were Named Either Louis or Lou

1. TOMLINSON
2. ARMSTRONG
3. GEHRIG
4. LORD MOUNTBATTEN
5. VUITTON
6. LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH OF FRANCE (also known as LE GRAND)
7. LOUIS XVI
8. BRAILLE
9. PASTEUR
10. B. MAYER
11. DONALDSON
12. LOUIS C.K.
13. DE BERNIERES
14. CAPTAIN ZAMPERINI
15. FARRAKHAN Sr. (he was born WALCOTT)
16. REED
=
Work/Career
1. A musician
2. One renowned trumpeter
3. First baseman
4. Earl of Burma
5. Fashion
6. Sun King
7. Last King
8. To help our blind see
9. Laboratory biologist
10. Film producer
11. Alto saxophonist
12. Shrewd humor
13. Novelist, raconteur
14. An athlete, POW, hero
15. Zealous Nation of Islam leader
16. Was in Velvet Underground.

Adie Pena with:
Top Ten Ice Cream Flavors
1. Cookies N' Cream
2. Chocolate
3. Mint Chocolate Chip
4. Vanilla
5. Cookie Dough
6. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
7. Strawberry
8. Rocky Road
9. Mint
10. Coffee
=
What A Favorite Ice Cream Flavor Says About You
1. The Chef
2. Cool Pop
3. Kinkier
4. The Moron
5. No Good; Crooked
6. English
7. Comedic; Comical
8. Crackpot
9. The Eccentric
10. Alcoholic.

Julian Lofts with:
"I rode my heart out for the Postal cycling team, and was always especially proud to wear the red, white and blue eagle on my chest when competing in the Tour de France. Those memories are very real and mean a lot to me.
I'm looking forward to devoting myself to the many great things in my life - my five kids, my wife, my podcast, several exciting writing and film projects, my work as a cancer survivor, and my passion for sports and competition."
Lance Armstrong
=
“I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs (except for my Erythropoietin, my Human Growth Hormone and my blood doping). Yes, I am a demigod, an inveterate liar, a nasty cocksucker, a recidivist and won lots of endorsements illegally. I cheat, defy. My wry motto: a leopard will never transform its spots. Testicular cancer was joy compared to my fate now. It affects me. Stop me from going down the gurgler.”

Julian Lofts with:
A Depraved Danish Murder Mystery At Sea
1. Peter Madsen
2. Kim Wall
3. Nautilus
4. Betina Hald Engmark
5. Jakob Buch-Jensen
6. Anette Burkoe
=
1. A nutty and rampant killer
2. Journalist. Shame, the knave dismembered naked babe
3. Submarine sank
4. A lawyer
5. Prosecuted
6. The judge


Ellie Dent with:
THE BRONZE STATUES

A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it costs.
'Why, just twelve dollars for the rat, sir,' says the shop owner, 'and a thousand dollars more for the story behind it.'
'Okay, you can keep the story, old man,' he replies, 'but I'll take the rat.'
The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in
front of the store, two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously looking over his
shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer drain, yet more rats come out and follow him.
By the time he has walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are at his heels, and people are beginning to point and shout at him. He walks faster, and is soon breaking into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from the sewers, the basements, the vacant lots and the abandoned cars.
~
Rats by the thousands are at his heels - EEEK!- and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill, he panics
and starts to sprint, and run full tilt.
Irrespective of how fast he runs, the darned rat multitudes keep up, the rats squealing hideously, and now increased,
not just thousands but millions, a trillion of rats, so that by the time he comes toward the water's edge a trail of rats a dozen blocks long is behind him. Making a reckless leap, he jumps up to climb onto a lamp post, and grasps it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can throw. He clings desperately in terror to the lamp post for balance, and watches in amazement as the seething, uncontrolled tide of rats surges over the breakwater into severe cold depths. He's OK, safe and sound at last, as the evil rats drown. His torment ends. He is free.
The stressed tourist then makes his way back to revisit the little antique shop.
Inside, the owner asks: 'You've come back, Sir. You're obviously keen to corroborate part of the story?'
'No,' answers the tourist, 'I was kinda wondering, do you have a bronze lawyer?'

Meyran Kraus with:

[Here's an excerpt about the Iran deal from an actual speech by Donald Trump:]

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought?"

=

[And just so you'd know what a student he truly was, here's an excerpt from his answer regarding the causes of WWI in a history exam:]

"The causes of World War One - OK, my father is 53 and loves mentioning that war if I want another car or a party and he tries to give me a lecture about 'the true value of a dollar' [SNORE!], then points out that people were very poor back then - but OK, maybe they did have some advantages in the past, like very few building codes and pollution regulations - you know, that's an advantage according to my father, who told me these rules are too petty now here in America and cost us lots of money - but I mean, sure, the entire world had to go to a world war, that we won, since we had better guns and terrific airplanes no one else will never ever have - but yes, people had to learn this the hard way, like in golf when you beat up your caddy a bit if he's caught trying to move your ball - I mean, how is that 'bullying' exactly, and why would that give anyone the right to revoke my membership???"

F

Appalling. You clearly haven't read the material. Please see me after class.




THE SPECIAL CATEGORY

1st - Meyran Kraus with:
Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 163

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
But wherefore do not you a mightier way
To sharply jinx a dozen squealing geese?
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May;
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white,
Leaving thee living in posterity
To change your day of youth to sullied night?
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
When I behold the violet past prime
Makes me declare I shall reform your nose -
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time;
Still sane, her northern ferrets never cry -
It's highly clear the end was likely nigh.

=

The Hawaiian Holiday of Easter

The aloe ferns grow high when Winter dies
In icy Honolulu everywhere;
Till nearly April 31st, they'd rise
On tropic moors so stuffed with Tundra bears.
Near houses decked with wreaths, the Solstice singers
Sing each of Oprah's festive tunes with glee,
Then read Neruda's book of springtime zingers
And eat that Nordic treat of buns with ghee.
Hear every kid's exploding Easter egg,
Then idly waste this Tuesday holiday;
Enjoy the emu's 6th flight - but I beg:
Please, have no fear of liquid Summer rays;
Once every tomtit growls, I know too well
No ray would melt our Terra's metal shell.

2nd - Adie Pena with:
TO MY BROTHER
by Siegfried Sassoon

Give me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.
Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell’d head
And through your victory I shall win the light.
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HELLO TO THE BIG WINNER
by Everybody at the Forum

Formalities aside, oh, you are the best!
Often I think they'll overshadow you.
Many anagrammatists and the whole rest,
Dark grey clouds weigh heavier, highly blue.
Starry-eyed audience, I should here confess:
Mona and her fogged smile lost their worth.
A crumbling ego with noms made useless;
Amiss in the end, I hold fifth or fourth!


THE RUDE CATEGORY


1st - Christopher Sturdy with:
Tell me what you are thinking about right now. =

How unlikely I am to get a turn to bang with her...

2nd - Julian Lofts with:
Those tall Miami cheerleaders =
He admires all their cameltoes.

3rd - Jesse Frankovich with:
Afternoon delight =
Often do a girl then.

Adie Pena with:
The rich man, the porn star and the Playboy bunny =
Ha! They both had plenty Trump boners in a cranny!

Julian Lofts with:
Catherine Windsor gives birth to another male royal =
Her vagina is rather incredibly loose. Oh, won’t matter.

Meyran Kraus with:
Splashing toilet water =
It'll get an ass or hip wet.


Tony Crafter with:
Screws all night =
Wrestling clash!

The Anagrammy Awards