A Punster Reworks Old Names - You May Smile
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| ANTELOPE | Animal Naturally Travels Ecosystem Loping Over Pastures, Endurance |
Jan Morgan -- beautiful animal also called a speed goat |
| APE | "Ancestral Primate" -- Evolutionists |
Angela Brett |
| APE (2) | Are People Evolved? |
Angela Brett (many people object to the theory of evolution simply because they don't like the thought of being related to apes.) |
| APE (3) | Actually Practically Extinct. |
Roger Williams |
| AYE AYE | Are You Even Aware You're Endangered? |
Angela Brett, referring to the rare species of lemur. |
| BAA | Bleating, Audible Announcement |
Dustan Dowsing Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| BAA (2) | Bleat Among Animals |
Jan Morgan Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| BEARS | Big Endearing Animals, Rough & Shaggy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BEAVER | Barrier Erecting And Very Energetic Rodent |
Patricia Rix |
| BESTIALITY | Being Enslaved Sexually To Indecent Animal 'Loving' Is Totally Yucky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| BEWARE OF DOG | Believe Exhortations! Woofs And Roars Echo Over Fence. Don't Open Gate! |
Roger Williams |
| BLACK CAT | Brings Luck (Alternately Calamity) Keep Crossing A Trail |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| BLACK SHEEP | Blackguard Lamb Actually Caught Knitting Sweaters Heartlessly Earning Extra Profit |
Rico Leffanta |
| BOVINE | Beasts Obscuring View In Nature's Environment |
Tony McCoy O'Greenspace |
| BROCK | Badger's Rare (Or Cant?) Knickname |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Brock is a rare word for a badger in England (I'm not really sure if it qualifies as a 'cant' term but the lettering was inviting) |
| BUNNIES | Breeding Unstoppably - Not Neatly In Exact Seasons. |
Angela Brett |
| CAT | Cute And Tame |
Angela Brett, while designing the icon for the 'Export Acronym' button. |
| CAT (2) | Conceited And Temperamental |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CAT (4) | Creatures Are Terrific! |
Patricia Rix |
| CAT (5) | Cuddly And Treasurable |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CAT (6) | Cute At Times |
Gavin Lambert - My cat can look quite cute sometimes -- when she feels like it :) |
| CAT (7) | Cuddly Adult/Adorable Tabby |
Jan Morgan |
| CAT (8) | Canines Attack These |
Kenny Roy |
| CAT SCAN | Canine Attempt To Sniff & Calculate Adversary's Nearness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CLARUS | Computer Launched Animal Rendering Useful Service |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when I suggested that KEYBOARD could fly to earth on CLARUS the DogCow, and he wondered how CLARUS could fly. Computers:Macintosh & Newton MacGirl & KeyBoard:Other Characters |
| COB | Chestnut Or Bay? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| COCKATIEL | Captured Ones Can Keenly Attempt To Imitate English Language |
Angela Brett |
| COUGAR | Cat Of Unusual Grace And Rapacity |
Tony McCougar O'Grady |
| COW | Cuddly Over - Weight |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| COWS | Creators Of White Stuff |
Angela Brett, who saw lots of cows on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. |
| COWS (2) | Common On Wanganui Soil |
Angela Brett |
| COWS (3) | Creators Of Wholemilk Sustenance |
Angela Brett |
| COWS (4) | Calcium - Osteoporosis Withstanding Substance |
Angela Brett |
| COWS (5) | Coloured Often With Splotches |
Angela Brett |
| COWS (6) | Cohabitate Often With Sheep |
Angela Brett |
| CUBS | Cute Ursine Babies, Sometimes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DACE | Did A Carp Evolve? |
Angela Brett, in a 2a.m. attempt at the first D acronym. |
| DACHSHUND | Dogs And Cats Have Sometimes Had Unusually Nice Dealings |
Angela Brett |
| DEER | Doe's Experience Ever Replayed |
Angela Brett, referring to Bambi Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| DEER (2) | Dawn/Dusk Eats, Evironmental Ritual |
Jan Morgan |
| DOE | Deer - Oestrogen-Enhanced. |
Angela Brett |
| DOG | Dull Organism. Growls. |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett |
| DOG (2) | Disgusting Odour - Gross! |
Steve Keate & Angela Brett |
| DOG (3) | Dependable, Obedient Guardian |
Angela Brett |
| DOG (4) | Drools On Groin |
Steve Keate |
| DOG (5) | Defecates On Garden |
Steve Keate |
| DOG (6) | Disgusting Old Growler |
Roger Williams |
| DOG (7) | Digital Office Guard |
cheater200227 -- got the idea when I found the description of a mechanical dog on the internet Science:Electronics |
| DOGGY | Doberman's Obviously Gonna Get You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DOGS | Definitely Odorous Greedy Sods |
Mary Carr |
| DUMB ASS | Donkey's Unusually Mute - Brays Are Strangely Silent. |
Angela Brett |
| DUMB ASS (2) | Doesn't Use Mouth/Mind, But Always Saying Something! |
Angela Brett (with Mouth, this describes expressive donkey body-language... with Mind, a thoughtless human.) People & Relationships:Insults |
| DZIGGETAI | Deceives Zoologists, Is Generally Graded 'Equus', Though Ass Indubitably |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DZO | Domestic Zoological Oddity |
Angela Brett |
| DZOMOS | Domestic Zoological Oddity - Milk Offers Sustenance |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an extension of Angela's DZO. |
| DZOS | Does Zigzags Over Slopes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ELEPHANT | Extremely Large, Extremely Ponderous, Has A Nice Trunk |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| ELK | Emerges Large Kin |
Jan Morgan -- a kin to DEER |
| FAWN | Frisky Almost Weaned Native |
Rico Leffanta |
| FEMALE DOG | From Every Mammy Alsation's Litter, Extract & Develop One Guidedog |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FERRET | Furry Entity Rootles Rabbits & Eats Them |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| FISH | Fins In Saline Habitat |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GIRAFFE | Gigantic, If Ridiculous, Animal Feeds From Elevation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GOAT | Gnaws On Any Thing! |
Angela Brett |
| GOAT (2) | Gamboling Over A Tor |
Patricia Rix |
| GRIZZLY BEAR | Giant Runs In Zig Zags, Leaving Your Body Eaten And Rotting |
Patricia Rix |
| GROUNDHOG | Gluttonous Rodent Opens Underground Nest, Digs His Own Grave |
Patricia Rix |
| GUARD DOG | Get Up And Run... Dogs Don't Only Growl! |
Roger Williams |
| HEDGEHOG | He'll Eat Disgusting Garden Entities, Helping Out Gardeners |
TMcCO'G |
| HELP ME FIND THE CAT | Hopefully Every Lost Pet May Eventually Find Its Next Dinner (The Human's Emotions Clearly Aren't Topmost!) |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for that phrase on the website. |
| HORSE | Humans Often Race Speedy Equines. |
Angela Brett. (Tony replied 'I've never raced a horse in my life! I'm (just about) smart enough to know it would win ;-)') |
| HORSE (2) | Here's One! Relentlessly Sheep Elsewhere. |
Angela Brett, who saw a lot of sheep but very few horses on her way from Auckland to Palmerston North. |
| HORSE (3) | Harry Only Rides Sally East |
Uniasus Transport |
| HORSE (4) | Her Owner's Really Supreme Equestrienne |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HORSE (5) | His Owner Races Steeplechasers Excellently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HORSES | Humans' Overiding/Overall Resource Speed Earthshakin' Steeds! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Transport |
| HUMAN (2) | Hands Used Mainly Affecting Neighbourhood |
Gavin Lambert - After all, our hands are our primary means of manipulating our environment. People & Relationships |
| I LOVE MY CATS | Intelligent-Looking Only Very Exceptionally -- Mostly Yowling, Careening Around Tired Sleepers |
Patricia Rix |
| KITTEN (2) | Keepsake Ignores Totally Till Effectively Nestling |
Jan Morgan |
| KITTEN (3) | Keepsake Impacts Total Territory Effectively Neutral |
Jan Morgan |
| KITTY | Kittens Intend To Tempt You |
Patricia Rix |
| LAMB | Little Animal Might Baa |
Angela Brett, who saw lots of lambs on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. |
| LAMB (2) | Little And Moving Blissfully |
Niki Widdowson |
| LAMBS | Littlies Adore Most Baby Sheep |
Angela Brett |
| LEMMING | Little, Excitable Mammal Masses In Numberless Groupings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LION | 'Lunchtime' Is Often Nighttime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| LION (2) | Lair Is On Ngorongoro |
Patricia Rix |
| MAMMAL | Mother Animal Makes Milk And Lactates |
Angela Brett |
| MANDARIN | Many Admit Nibbling Duck And Roasting Is Nice |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| MANDARIN (2) | Many A Nice Duck Appears Rooted In Nostalgia |
Patricia Rix (we had Mandarin ducks on the farm when I was a kid) |
| MONKEY | Mankind's Other Near Kin Entertain You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MOOSE | Moose Often Occupy Swamps, Eating |
Patricia Rix |
| MOOSE (2) | Mostly Oversized, Obviously Slow Eater |
Jan Morgan |
| NOAH | Negotiated Original "Animal House" |
Roger Williams Names:First names:Male Religion |
| PANDA | Particular About Native Diet, Apparently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PANTHER | Prowls Around Nature Trails, Heartily Enjoying Raccoons |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PIG | Pork Is Good! |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| PORCUPINE | Prickly Old Rascal Climbs Up Pines, Is Noisy Eater |
Patricia Rix |
| PRIDE (5) | Predators Relish In Devouring Elands |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PUMA ATTACKS ZEBRA | Pertinent Unto Mainland America, Apparently This Terrible Animal Can Kill Skilful Zoological Entity Based Round Africa |
Tony the Tiger, after somebody on the forums said 'puny puma pit their skills against zebras.' |
| PUPPIES | People Usually Prefer Pets If Extra Small |
Angela Brett |
| PUSS | Pretty, Unusual, Silky, Sleeping |
Patricia Rix |
| PUSSY CAT | Purring Under Suzy's Sweet Yellow Cardie - Absolute Tranquility |
Mary Carr |
| QUAGGA | Quippers Usually Are Going, 'Great Ass!' |
Angela Brett |
| QUAGGA (2) | Quite Unusual Animal Genetically Gone Away |
Patricia Rix |
| RABBIT | Randy As Bejaysus, Big Incisor Teeth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| RED FOX | Russet Earth Denizen Finds Offal Xcellent |
Patricia Rix |
| REINDEER | Rudolph's Exceptional In Nasal Department - Easily Enabling Routefinding |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| RHINOS | Rhino Horn Is Not Orgasmically Stimulating |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| SALAMANDER | Sever A Limb, And Miraculously A Near-Duplicate Emerges. Radical! |
Angela Brett |
| SCORRIER | Snuffling Canine - Often Revolting - Rootles In Embarrassing Regions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Scorrier is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'A small hunting dog trained to snuffle amongst your private parts.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| SHARK | Swimming Hazard - A Real Killer |
TMcCO'G |
| SHEEP | Sexually Harassed - Evidently Entertaining People. |
Angela Brett, who saw lots and lots of sheep on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. |
| SHEEP (2) | Stupid, Helpless, Edible. Eat Pasture. |
Angela Brett |
| SHEEP (3) | Shearers Help Extract Everyday Product |
Angela Brett |
| SHEEP (4) | Sexually Harassed, Evidently Enthralling Perverts |
An anonymous alteration of Angela's SHEEP |
| SHREW | She Hurls Retribution Entirely Willingly |
Word Nerd People & Relationships:Insults |
| SLOTH | Slow, Lumbering, Otiose Tree Hanger |
Sean Lamb |
| SQUIRREL | Small Quiet Unique Interesting Rodent Really Enjoys Land |
Jan Morgan |
| STUD | Stable's The Usual Dwelling |
Angela Brett, after passing a stud farm during a bus trip. |
| TIGERS | They Inhabit Grasslands Eating Reckless Stragglers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| THE DOG HATES THE CAT | They Have Enmities Developed Over Generations, Huge Antipathies That Exceed Specification - They Have Eternally Chased And Tumbled |
TMcCO'G |
| TABBY | They Are Banded, Braceleted Yowlers |
Patricia Rix |
| UAKARI | Ululating Anthropoid - Keep Away, Remain Isolated |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? | We Had Our Labradors Especially Tethered... Then How Ever Did One Get Scent Of Unsuitable Territory? |
Angela Brett (Scent Of could be replaced with Sent Off without changing the meaning much.) |
| WOMBAT | Warm Omnivorous Miniature Bear Australians Treasure |
Rico Leffanta |
| TROGLODYTE | The Result Of Generations Living Or Dying, Yearning To Evolve |
Angela Brett |
| TROGLODYTE (2) | This Reeking Old Geezer Lived On Dinosaurs Yet Triumphantly Evolved |
Patricia Rix |
| TROGLODYTE (3) | This Reeking Old Geezer Lived On Dinosaurs Yesterday: Tomorrow's Epicurean |
George Rix, as a modification of Patricia's TROGLODYTE (2) |
| TUNA | Their Unknown Numbers Abate |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| TUNA (2) | The Undiscriminating Netting Abandoned |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| TUNAS | They're Usually Nice Accompanying Salad |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| TURTLE | They Unerringly Return To Lay Eggs |
TMcCO'G referring to how the females of many breeds of turtle return to the beach where they hatched out, to lay their eggs. After many years of wandering all over the ocean this indicates an uncanny sense of direction. |