Unclerave’s Weblog

TEROTT = TOTTER, PHARME = HAMPER, BLUFEM = FUMBLE, QULLAS = SQUALL, DORRIT = TORRID, GABNIK = BAKING   —   Giving us:  TTHERMESUOIAG

Visual Description:  Collision tech telling the customer the damages.

Clue/Question:  What the driver got at the body shop.

Answer:  A “ROUGH“ ESTIMATE

“I am a marvelous housekeeper.  Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.”   —   Zsa Zsa Gabor 

VARFO = FAVOR, SACEE = CEASE, JORNAG = JARGON, VILDER = DRIVEL   —   Giving us:  ORESRGODVE

Visual Description:  A couple (being served) observing a tennis match, saying:  An ace!  He wins.

Clue/Question:  The waiter won the tennis match because he was a . . .

Answer:  GOOD “SERVER“

Congrats to Venus!  Consolences (not a real word, but losing is a little like dying) to Serena (Your Uncle still loves ya, baby!)

“Regarding the Vice President:  All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the President?’“   —   Will Rogers

(Anyone who is SERIOUSLY considering John McCain for President better REALLY like his choice for Veep.  John turns 72 on August the 29th.  Almost 2 1/2 years older than when Ronald Reagan first took the oath of office.)   YUR

LOFEN = FELON, KEREC = CREEK, FERREP = PREFER, NAUVEE = AVENUE   —   Giving us:  LREPFAU

Visual Description:  A neighborly (neighbourly - for our Brit buddies) dispute over a fireworks display.

Clue/Question:  What the feuding neighbors had on the Fourth of July?

Answer:  A “FLARE“ UP

(This one was a real gift.)  YUR

“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”   —   Frank Dane

I thought this was Karl Rove’s philosophy.  ;~)   YUR

NOBAT = BATON, GOFOR = FORGO, BUHLEM = HUMBLE, DARCOW = COWARD   —   Giving us:  TOOULCD

Visual Description:  Unconscious postal worker on woman’s frozen doorstep.

Clue/Question:  When the icicle fell on the mailman’s head, he was . . .

Answer:  OUT “COLD“

LUKKS = SKULK, RUPOC = CROUP, HOMIDS = MODISH, GANTOU = NOUGAT   —   Giving us:  SLRUPMOSUGA

Visual Description:  Lights, cameras and admirers gazing upon the top prize feline.

Clue/Question:  What the cat show winner turned into.

Answer:  A GLAMOUR “PUSS“

“When I went to school, I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”   —   George Burns

(100 years was NOT long enough!)   YUR

“The opposite of talking isn’t listening.  The opposite of talking is waiting.”   —   Fran Lebowitz

(A little tongue-in-cheek, a little truth.)   YUR