New game: Same but different. Over-verbose song titles.

Started by Gyppo, March 28, 2025, 03:45:27 PM

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Gyppo

Often in life the words can mean the same, but one version simply doesn't work.  Except perhaps in the convoluted mind of a writer.  So here's chance to use words which you would normally reject in your own writing.

Two examples to kick it off.

1)  She'll be circumnavigating the highly elevated geological protrusion when she arrives.

She'll be comin' round the mountain...

2)  I am strongly dis-enamoured of the day immediately following Sunday.

I don't like Mondays.

Over to you, fellow word lovers.

Gyppo



Jo Bannister

Resist any inclination to perambulate upon the sward.

Do not walk on the grass.

Spell Chick

A full bodied caffeine drink, a drink made from Camellia Sinensis leaves, or the creature offering the choice.


Coffee, tea, or me.
Imperfect Reason My thoughts, such as they are.

Jo Bannister

The discoverer of a long-period comet, and a water closet?  Most certainly!

"Halleluja"

Spell Chick

Believing in a diffused other worldly influence on the everyday occurrences

Superstition
Imperfect Reason My thoughts, such as they are.

Jo Bannister

Horse-drawn personal transport surmounted by an unsecured free-moving decoration.

"The surrey with the fringe on top"

Spell Chick

Western contiguous state has visions during the night while sound asleep


California Dreamin'
Imperfect Reason My thoughts, such as they are.

Jo Bannister

Draw a straight line, oh lady with the funny hat on the back of coins!

Rule Britannia

Gyppo

A noticeably more pastel shade of an already tepid hue.

A whiter shade of pale.

CCoburn

Dawn danced from the dimly lit in anticipating of days' end.

Tuesday Afternoon

Spell Chick

Imperfect Reason My thoughts, such as they are.

Gyppo

A location above and beyond the transient multi-prismic optical effect caused by the diffraction of light through multiple fine moisture droplets.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Jo Bannister

Name the price of the domestic canid visible through the framed transparent non-crystaline solid material.

How much is that doggie in the window?

Spell Chick

Imperfect Reason My thoughts, such as they are.