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Absence makes the heart grow...

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1Jim53
Nov 23, 2015, 10:02 am

I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with fonder. Hoping that some of the players who have been absent will seize the opportunity to play!

2Jenni_Canuck
Nov 23, 2015, 11:50 am

Whenever Brain posed this question, Pinky's response always started with "I think so, Brain, but ..."

3Jim53
Nov 23, 2015, 1:50 pm

Hi Jenni! Afraid I'm not pondering what you're pondering.

Not ponder,

4Jenni_Canuck
Nov 23, 2015, 2:54 pm

Hi Jim! Is Crambo's word what Neil Young did so much of on Everybody's Rockin'?

5rosalita
Nov 23, 2015, 3:12 pm

Gee whiz, let's see if I remember how to do this ...

Is Crambo's word a good thing to yell after the thief who makes off with your worldly possessions?

6Jim53
Nov 23, 2015, 3:58 pm

>4 Jenni_Canuck: That's one I had somehow missed. Never a huge Neil fan. I took a look at a writeup and it sounded entertaining, although some people appear to hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. All of which is a roundabout way of saying that nothing is coming to mind. I'll keep pondering, but feel free to guess again. (It wasn't "pander", was it? Crambo's word is a better rhyme than that.)

>5 rosalita: "Hey! stop, mother..." oh wait, that doesn't rhyme. The closest I can come is "Return my plunder!" but that's just a bit unimpressive, and it isn't a good enough rhyme. Or are you calling him a bounder?

If either of you can come up with a hint or clarification, that would be welcome, but I'll keep cogitating anyway.

7rolandperkins
Nov 23, 2015, 7:05 pm

Mika Waltari penned novels on
The Roman, The Egyptian,
The Etruscan,
and "The __ __ __ __ __ __ e r"

8rosalita
Nov 23, 2015, 7:58 pm

>6 Jim53: The phrase you might yell is "Stop, you ---------!" Though I wouldn't raise my eyebrows should you choose your alternate form of address, certainly. The word I have in mind is most often seen in its verb form, as an action usually perpetrated by a firm's chief accountant with a first-class airline ticket to the Cayman Islands.

I'll put it here under spoiler tags, so you can decide just how much brainpower you want to expend on a word that clearly is not Crambo's word (this time, anyway; I may file it away for another day):
absconder

9Jim53
Nov 24, 2015, 8:33 am

>7 rolandperkins: Interesting. I wonder how Dion made it into her catalog.

>8 rosalita: Let's see, trying to recall my long-ago accounting class... aha! (checking the "spoilered" word) yes! Great guess but no soap.

Still pondering Neil in his Carl Perkins outfit. How come I didn't date the girls who always wanna, wanna, wanna?

Not ponder, wander, absconder,

10rosalita
Nov 24, 2015, 10:15 am

Is Crambo's word an apt description for how Barbie looks after a trip to the beauty salon?

11Jim53
Nov 24, 2015, 10:40 am

Reminds me of Dolly Parton's response when she was asked about dumb blonde jokes: "I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde."

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder

12rosalita
Modificato: Nov 24, 2015, 10:45 am

>11 Jim53: Ha! Dolly Parton is a hoot. Love her. One of my other favorite sayings of hers was "It takes a lot of money to look this trashy."

13Jenni_Canuck
Nov 24, 2015, 11:04 am

>6 Jim53: and >9 Jim53: Neither pander nor wanna, it was my fave song from the album. Another clue: Robin's nickname.

14Jim53
Nov 24, 2015, 12:34 pm

>13 Jenni_Canuck: ah, ok. I wonder if Neil was Wonderin' about Robin?

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder

15Jenni_Canuck
Nov 24, 2015, 1:17 pm

Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there

16rolandperkins
Nov 24, 2015, 1:25 pm

Is it "to walk casually, or even lackadaisically" ?

17Jim53
Nov 24, 2015, 2:19 pm

>15 Jenni_Canuck: The Canucks are coming...

>16 rolandperkins: is this a different word from #7?

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder, yonder

18rolandperkins
Modificato: Nov 24, 2015, 6:45 pm

". . .is this a different word
from #7 (wander)? (16>17)

Yes, another 2-syllable with
a medial -t- instead of a -d- .

19Jim53
Nov 24, 2015, 9:05 pm

Ah, ok, good one. But not Crambo's word.

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder, yonder, saunter

20Jenni_Canuck
Nov 25, 2015, 2:47 pm

This morning when the first alarm alarmed, I rolled over, shut it off, and went back to sleep. When the second alarm alarmed, I rolled over, shut it off, and turned on the radio. I wasn’t really listening but there was enough noise to keep me from falling back to sleep. By the time the third alarm alarmed, I was almost ready to get up when I got this awful cramp in my foot in the area of my lateral arch. A couple of weeks back, I suffered a fracture in the meta-diaphyseal junction of the fifth metatarsal and I wondered aloud about whether the current cramp had anything to do with the older injury. Did you know that, while these medial and lateral arches may be readily demonstrated as the component antero-posterior arches of the foot, yet the fundamental longitudinal arch is contributed to by both, and consists of the calcaneus, cuboid, third cuneiform, and third metatarsal: all the other bones of the foot may be removed without destroying this arch? Speaking of arches, have you noticed that the wooden bridge down by the old swimming hole seems to be falling down. I think maybe my arches may have fallen…and I can't get up, I just want to stay here in my nice warm bed and do something about the pile of books on the floor, if only someone would bring me some coffee...

21Jim53
Nov 25, 2015, 8:20 pm

>20 Jenni_Canuck: All I can do is laugh... this is one of the all-time great Crambo clues. It looks as if you might be hinting at several guesses but I can't untangle your morning. I haven't found anything related to all the foot terms; it sounds as if you began your morning as a non-responder, but by the end you were looking for a responder to your LifeAlert, which of course is a type of transponder, and perhaps the bridge is a trans-pond-er? I think I'll need some help to decipher this one.

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder, yonder, saunter, responder, transponder.

22rolandperkins
Nov 26, 2015, 12:44 am

Thereʻs a verb "to __ __ __ __ __", so I
wonder if thereʻs a noun from it:

__ __ __ __ __ __ __? The verb means "to
flourish proudly".

23Jenni_Canuck
Nov 26, 2015, 10:58 am

>21 Jim53: Kudos for your brilliant analysis! I think you probably put more thought into my rambling than I did. In reality though, this is a case where the whole is greater (?) than the sum of its parts, none of which were meant as individual hints. An old word which my grandmother used frequently when talking to me as I was well-known to be dawdler.

24Jim53
Nov 26, 2015, 7:39 pm

>22 rolandperkins: Is your verb vaunt? no dice.

>23 Jenni_Canuck: Dilly-dally doesn't rhyme, and flaneur doesn't quite. Were you a plodder?

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder, yonder, saunter, vaunter, plodder

Happy Thanksgiving to the yanks--and a late one for you, Jenni!

25rolandperkins
Nov 26, 2015, 7:47 pm

"....is your verb vaunt... (22>24)

Yes. (Vaunt>VauntER)

26Jenni_Canuck
Nov 27, 2015, 9:56 am

>24 Jim53: I'm pretty sure now that my guess in 20/23 isn't Crambo's word so I'll move on :-)

New guess: While surfing the net, I stumbled upon a useful website with instructions for cleaning your money that did not include beating it on rocks at the riverside.

27Jim53
Nov 27, 2015, 1:39 pm

>26 Jenni_Canuck: OK, but I'm curious about the word.

I hadn't thought about using Crambo/LT for that purpose... It might combine well with Rosalita's trip to the Caymans.

Not ponder, wander, absconder, blonder, wonder, yonder, saunter, vaunter, plodder, launder

28Jenni_Canuck
Nov 27, 2015, 3:15 pm

>27 Jim53:
maun·der (môn′dər, män′-, mawn-der)
verb (used without object)
1. to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
2. to move, go, or act in an aimless, confused manner: He maundered through life without a single ambition.

29rosalita
Nov 27, 2015, 8:05 pm

>27 Jim53: We are a larcenous bunch, aren't we, Jim? You wouldn't think it to look at us, all bookish and all.

>28 Jenni_Canuck: Ooh, that's a good word, Jenni!

There are so many possibilities for Crambo's word. I would hate to waste a guess on the wrong one, you know what I mean?

30rolandperkins
Nov 27, 2015, 11:31 pm

Would a huge South American bird be
allowed to get in on it?

31Jim53
Nov 28, 2015, 9:05 am

>28 Jenni_Canuck: Thanks, Jenni! Don't recall having seen that one.

>30 rolandperkins: Sorry, Roland, no condors in this club.

but...

>29 rosalita: Yes, I know what you mean, because Crambo's word is indeed squander! Well done, Rosie, and you're up next.

32rosalita
Nov 28, 2015, 9:46 pm

Oh, no! :-D

OK, let me put on my thinking hat and find a word for Crambo.

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