1 | Ellie | 47 | Archaeologists = Goal is to search. |
2 | dupe | 41 | Islamic fundamentalism = Damn fanatic Muslim lies. |
2 | Mey Kraus | 41 | The medical profession = Help to confirm disease. |
4 | Rick | 30 | Anger is worst when ~ the answer is wrong. |
5 | Larry Brash | 21 | Middle management = Madman led meeting. |
6 | Deano | 18 | The swim ~ wets him. |
6 | View | 18 | To cast pearls before swine = Can refer to possible waste. |
8 | Rosie Perera | 17 | The mousetraps = Use to harm pest. |
9 | aussie battler | 14 | Slobbering = Longer bibs? |
10 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Sanitation engineer = No great Einsteinian! |
11 | Rik | 12 | Abstain from alcohol? = Abnormal, foolish act. |
12 | Don Rogers | 11 | Blatherskite = This beer talk. |
12 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 11 | Oh, death warms us up to ~ the posthumous award. |
14 | Adrian Hickford | 10 | Theological Departments = I learn that God's complete. |
15 | David Bourke | 7 | Full intercourse = Fuller countries. |
15 | Toby Gottfried | 7 | An apple a day keeps the doctor away = Cake won't help. Dread soy ? Eat papaya! |
17 | Paul Klenk | 5 | Chocolate fudge = Gut-ache of 'dolce' |
18 | mod | 4 | The connoisseur = Nine-course host. |
19 | Richard Brodie | 3 | Being right on the money = Get there by homing in on. |
Total points: | 330 | from 56 votes (DFE factor: 0.339) |
1 | Ellie | 49 | The James Bond movies starring Sean Connery = His command's greatest: I never enjoy Brosnan. |
2 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 46 | All Things Bright and Beautiful = Lift a bible, laugh and sing truth. |
3 | Toby Gottfried | 36 | The Folies Bergere, Paris = See if girl bares top here. |
4 | David Bourke | 28 | The singer Madonna Ciccone = Accident on menacing horse. |
5 | Scott Gardner | 27 | The late comedian Johnny William Carson = Millions watch and enjoy me in a chat role. |
6 | Rosie Perera | 26 | Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera "La Traviata" = Overture, arias, divas...(gap of time)...applause. |
7 | Mey Kraus | 23 | Mastermind Show = Mensa wordsmith. |
8 | Larry Brash | 22 | The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music = Tune is the love which Maria should stifle. |
9 | Rick | 20 | The Author Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" ~ advanced doubt on the Christian "whore". |
10 | aussie battler | 18 | 'The Odd Couple' ~ hope to cuddle? |
11 | Don Rogers | 16 | Lord Laurence Olivier = Voice in old ruler "Lear". |
12 | Tony Crafter | 8 | Chopin Etudes = Pseudo-ethnic. |
13 | Paul Klenk | 5 | Four Brothers = Robust, for her. |
13 | Rik | 5 | Nat King Cole ‡ Lacking note. |
15 | View | 3 | Singer Billy Ocean = Really sonic being. |
Total points: | 332 | from 57 votes (DFE factor: 0.263) |
1 | Deano | 66 | Threat to Iraq leaders? = The Al-Qaeda terrorist. |
2 | palusch | 50 | New Orleans evacuation = A violent ocean as we run. |
3 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 41 | Gates may file for iPod patent cash = Microsoft shafted Apple yet again. |
4 | Larry Brash | 39 | Israeli settlers forced out of Gaza = Tears... religious zealots carted off. |
5 | Richard Grantham | 34 | The Israeli settlement = Let's eliminate the rest. |
6 | Rick | 23 | The NASA space shuttle Discovery ~ evades catastrophe in such style. |
7 | View | 18 | Security = Sure city. |
8 | Tony Crafter | 14 | Let us halt Iran's nuclear ambition now! = i.e: Bush mounts international war-call. |
9 | Mey Kraus | 13 | The Settlement Evacuations = "Time to leave that scene, nuts!" |
10 | Richard Brodie | 10 | Katrina may be strongest hurricane ever... = Rank's four: mightily savage, but a se... |
11 | David Bourke | 9 | The late Robin Cook = Cheerio, total knob! |
12 | Rosie Perera | 7 | Various rivers churn ~ hurricane survivors. |
Total points: | 324 | from 56 votes (DFE factor: 0.214) |
1 | Rik | 51 | Leonardo da Vinci = Dead icon - no rival. |
2 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 48 | Madonna Louise Ritchie = "I can mount a horse", I lied. |
3 | Toby Gottfried | 41 | Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery = Brits forge army and handle Rommel. |
4 | Adrian Hickford | 28 | Activist, Geldof ‡ Gifted vocalist. |
5 | View | 26 | Painter Michelangelo Buonarroti = Heart into marble or upon a ceiling. |
5 | Rick | 26 | The famous Swedish astronomer Anders Ce... ~ "Rumor is masses won't use Fahrenheit'... |
7 | Scott Gardner | 24 | Actress Shirley Temple = Smallest cheery sprite. |
8 | Tony Crafter | 18 | The late Princess Margaret = A rather angelic temptress. |
8 | Mey Kraus | 18 | Oscar-Claude Monet = Conclude: a maestro. |
10 | Larry Brash | 14 | Leonard Norman Cohen = Normal? He can drone on. |
11 | Ellie | 12 | The Nobelist Pablo Neruda = Poet, not reliable husband. |
12 | Rosie Perera | 10 | Queen Noor al-Hussein = No one's her equal in U.S. |
13 | Don Rogers | 9 | Architect Maya Lin = My art can elicit "Ah!" |
14 | David A Green | 7 | The biologist Alfred Charles Kinsey = One is skilled at bog-filthy research. |
15 | David Bourke | 5 | Abdullah, the King of Saudi Arabia = Khalif? A dubious Taliban raghead. |
Total points: | 337 | from 57 votes (DFE factor: 0.263) |
1 | Larry Brash | 54 | Microsoft Developer = Deliverer of compost. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 51 | Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire = When in England, base your visit there. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Rick | 37 | Clears land mines... Oh-oh! Forgot one! = The Congressional Medal of Honor. |
4 | Rik | 30 | The magnificent pyramids = Time finds Egyptian charm. |
5 | Don Rogers | 27 | The Masonic Lodge = Some old teaching. |
5 | palusch | 27 | Pearson International Airport = Parisian plane, Ontario torrent. |
5 | Rosie Perera | 27 | A Moog synthesizer = Megahertz. So noisy! |
8 | Toby Gottfried | 16 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina ~ warns on nicotine's harm to all. |
8 | Mey Kraus | 16 | Wiltshire's Stonehenge and Avebury = Saw heavy boulders nesting in there. |
10 | aussie battler | 13 | Cairngorm = Minor crag. |
11 | View | 12 | Michelangelo Buonarroti's 'The Pieta' = Ah, that religious one! Top, nice marble! |
12 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 11 | Amanita phalloides = I am also plain death. |
13 | David Bourke | 6 | Siemens AG = In message. |
Total points: | 327 | from 56 votes (DFE factor: 0.232) |
1 | Mey Kraus | 77 | "If a man be gracious and courteous to ... = And if a man tries to rationalize forc... |
2 | Tony Crafter | 44 | A Society couple are making love: "Dar... = GIGOLO: "Ooh-la-la, my love; you look ... |
3 | Larry Brash | 42 | The members of Queen: Freddie Mercury, ... = A band formerly fronted by a hormone-... |
4 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 32 | Three blokes met up to write anagrams in... = One fellow muttered 'Basra...Arabs. The... |
5 | Rick | 29 | George W. Bush, the President of the Un... = Pigheaded, obstinate, he recites stuff... |
6 | Toby Gottfried | 27 | How many anagrammatists does it take to... = Two. TG makes the anagram, and ... |
7 | Rosie Perera | 9 | Dvorak's Symphony Number Nine in E mino... = BSO perform renowned masterwork on vin... |
7 | David Bourke | 9 | The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir... = Copper writes, in ire: "Maim Arabic cr... |
9 | Rik | 6 | Truly Neat Line of Fire: Hatred vested o... = I cry in relief, for the threatened key... |
Total points: | 275 | from 48 votes (DFE factor: 0.188) |
1 | Ellie | 64 | A MEDITATION FOR DE-STRESSING Picture... = You can easily make out the face of t... |
2 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 45 | These five people won the right to ente... = the 'Golden Ticket' group; very avera... |
3 | Tony Crafter | 35 | Lady Legge-Bourke took more than the nor... = Sir Stuart Haynes-Fyffe, the Lord of t... |
4 | Mey Kraus | 34 | Spring is here, ah-spah-ring is here, ... = April 2 'PIGEON PREYING' PRACTICE P... |
5 | Larry Brash | 28 | Presenter: "A small-time operator who f... = Presenter: "Many of these remarkable ... |
Total points: | 206 | from 38 votes (DFE factor: 0.132) |
1 | Richard Brodie | 38 | A poem by Lord Byron. |
2 | Mey Kraus | 33 | Charles Lamb's poem about a baby's death. |
3 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 32 | A beauty from The Sound of Music. |
4 | Mike Keith | 29 | Edna St. Vincent Millay's famous poem on Euclid is anagrammed into some thoughts on Euclid's proof. |
5 | Gregory Betts | 22 | From a book of poetry, where all of the poems are perfect anagrams of each other, without any comput... |
6 | David Bourke | 21 | 'Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans' - Noel Coward. |
7 | Tony Crafter | 18 | Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl. |
Total points: | 193 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.200) |
1 | Rick | 55 | Visit the bathroom = Shit, bathe or vomit. |
2 | David Bourke | 39 | Giant testicles ~ testing elastic. |
3 | Rik | 26 | Pension = No penis. |
4 | Larry Brash | 24 | A betrothed couple = Bed her to copulate. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 22 | A brothel's a ~ harlot-base. |
5 | Mey Kraus | 22 | Naked S&M Play = Spank me, lady! |
7 | Zoran | 21 | The bondage girls = Gag the blonde, sir! |
8 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 19 | An erotic novel = Erection on lav. |
9 | aussie battler | 11 | Sensuality ‡ use any slit. |
9 | Don Rogers | 11 | Bondage and discipline = Insane bodice-paddling. |
11 | Toby Gottfried | 6 | The State of Wisconsin = Cow shit tastes fine?...No. |
Total points: | 256 | from 45 votes (DFE factor: 0.244) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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