Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
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| ANUBIS | Ancient Netherworld-Underworld Being Is Supreme |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| BODIES | 'Bravery' Of Dead Is Euphemism: Stupidity! |
Angela Brett |
| CARRION | Carcasses Are Ripe & Rotting; It's One Nightmare! |
Roger Williams Science:Biology |
| CATACOMB | Can Any Tomb Accept Concubines Of Men Buried? |
Rico Leffanta Places |
| COFFIN | Contains Obsolete Fellow's Finite Ingredients Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DEAD | Didn't Earlier Admit Defeat |
Angela Brett |
| DEAD (2) | Drank Ethanol And Drove |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| DEAD (3) | Defunct Entity, Already Departed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DEAD (4) | Doesn't Exhale Anymore - Deceased |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| DEATH | Decaying Elderly Advances To Heaven. |
Angela Brett |
| DEATH (2) | Devout Expect Afterlife - Tentatively Heaven. |
Angela Brett |
| DEATH (3) | Dealt Everyone, According To Hoyle. |
Rico Leffanta, who explained to a puzzled Angela that E. Hoyle (1672-1769) wrote THE rule book for card games, hence the international expression "according to Hoyle". |
| DEATH (4) | Delights End At This Hour. |
Timothy Chambers |
| DEATH (5) | Don't Ever Assume Tomorrow'll Happen |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Advice |
| DEATH (6) | Discerned Eternally, Assuming There's Heaven/Hell |
Angela Brett -- If we simply cease to exist upon death, then we are alive for the entire time we're aware of anything at all, which (from the individual's perspective) is equivalent to living forever. If we each have an eternal 'afterlife' in which we know we're dead, then we are only alive for an insignificantly finite amount of time and dead ever after. Thus the 'eternal life' promised by Heaven is more an eternal death. I doubt many would disagree that Hell is also an eternal death. |
| DECOMPOSE | Death Ends Complex Organic Molecular Processes - O Sweet Eternity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after reading COMPOSE |
| DEGRADE | Dead Entities Gently Rot And Decay Eventually |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Environment |
| DREADS | Daring Reality Envelops Annihilates Death! Saviour! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. People & Relationships:Emotions |
| ENDING | Every Near-Death Indicates New Genesis |
Angela Brett |
| FATAL | Forwards Abruptly To After-Life |
Angela Brett |
| FUNERAL | Family Uncovers Necropolitan Expenses Reducing All Legacies |
Rico Leffanta and Angela Brett |
| GHOST | Ghoul Heckling Our Sleep Time |
Rico Leffanta |
| GHOST (2) | Grief Has One Seeing Things |
Angela Brett |
| GHOULS | Give Hundreds Of Undead Life, Symbolically |
Angela Brett |
| GRAVE | Grievers Remember A Vanished Embodyment |
Angela Brett Places |
| GRAVES | God Requests A Visit, Eternal Souls. |
Angela Brett Places |
| GRIEVOUS | Grave Robber Is Extolling Virtues Of Using Shovel |
Angela Brett (grave robbing is rather a grievous thing to do.) |
| GYTRASH | Ghost You Think Real, Apparition Seemingly 'Here' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| HOMICIDE | Horror Of Murder Is Captured In Deceased's Expression |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| HOSPITAL (2) | Hearses Offer Some Patients Into The After-Life |
Angela Brett Places:Buildings |
| INFANTICIDE | It's Not Fair, And Not Tolerated - Innocent Child Isn't Deserving Evisceration |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| LIFELESS | Lying In Floppy Entropy - Lived, Expired, Sleeping Soullessly |
Angela Brett |
| LOVE DEATH | Lots Of Violence, Explicitly Dramatised, Enhances A Television Horror |
Angela Brett, when someone searched for 'LOVE DEATH' on the Acronyms website. Entertainment:TV shows |
| MORTAL REMAINS | Molecules Obviously Rot, Then After-Life Results. Eternity Means An Infinity Never Stops |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MUMMY | Made Using Medical Materials - Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MURDER | Motive Usually Revenge, Dealt Excessively Ruthlessly. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| SLEEP (6) | Sin Lovers Eventually Eliminate Possible! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Death. |
| SPECTRE | Soul's Presence Ex-Corpus, Theoretically Residual Energy. |
Angela Brett |
| SPIRIT | Somehow Perhaps I'll Remain, In Thought. |
Angela Brett |
| SPIRIT (2) | Soul's Passage Interrupted, Remains In Torment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| STICKY END | Saying That I Could Kill You Evoked Nasty Death |
Angela Brett -- don't threaten people, they might be armed with glue guns or worse. People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| SUICIDE | So Unhappy I Could Invent Deadly Exit |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Emotions |
| SUICIDE (2) | Shameful, Usually - Intentional Cessation Initiates Disgraceful Exequy. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| SUICIDE (3) | Surely Unnoticed, I Cry In Despair Everyday |
Apronymous Anonymous People & Relationships:Emotions |
| TANGI | Tears Are Not Good Indications |
Angela Brett (Tangi is the Maori word for cry, and also for a funeral) People & Relationships:Emotions Science:Linguistics:Maori Words |