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Whinge: To complain, incessantly. Can also be used as a noun, as in, she’s such a whinger...
...Play: The READER asks each WRITER to call out a word—an adjective or a noun or an overused journalistic cliché or whatever the space calls for—and uses them to fill in the blank places in the story. The result is an FM Mad Libs game...
Harvard is known for its _________ (adjective) museums, _________ (adjective) professors and its red brick _________ (plural noun). It’s not the first place in the world you would expect to find a world-class collection of second-class postage. But, like it often is, Harvard is full of _________ (synonym for surprises...
...started off thinking that stamps were just for _________ (verb ending in “ing”) _________ (plural noun),” Nichols enthuses, “but then I saw this old stamp collection when I was surfing _________ (major online auction beginning in “e-”) one day and I had always wanted a hobby, so I bought it and _________ ! (exclamation) I was a stamp collector,” says Nichols as he segued to a thoughtful pause and cast his gaze through the window at the dying rays of a _________ (sunset color) sunset...
...unforgettable lovers in James Cameron’s Oscar Award (R) winning epic, _________ “(name of a James Cameron Oscar Award-Winning epic), this romance between a man and his stamps was not meant to be. “You guys really missed the _________ (noun mode of transportation) on this one,” confesses Nichols, “I lost my collection last year when I was moving out of DeWolfe summer housing.” This _________ (totally excessive sympathetic adjective), life-altering loss of hobby hasn’t slowed down this _________ (concentration with poor advising...