Speed caution sign with a 5 circled in red, followed by “EXTREMELY SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING.”
♫ 12 drummers drumming
♫ 11 pipers piping
♫ 10 lords a-leaping
♫ 9 ladies dancing
♫ 8 maids a-milking
♫ 7 swans a-swimming
♫ 6 geese a-laying
♫
@dontattempt.bsky.social
Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com
Speed caution sign with a 5 circled in red, followed by “EXTREMELY SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING.”
♫ 12 drummers drumming
♫ 11 pipers piping
♫ 10 lords a-leaping
♫ 9 ladies dancing
♫ 8 maids a-milking
♫ 7 swans a-swimming
♫ 6 geese a-laying
♫
Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
18.07.2025 19:24 — 👍 524 🔁 125 💬 8 📌 10Please join my campaign to change the past tense of “sneeze” to “snoze”.
11.12.2025 14:52 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1Ducks in a row? Check
Cats in a herd? Still on it
*Pronounces alpha male like tamale
10.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 119 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 0I'm from a little town called Bethlehem, you've probably never harked of it
07.12.2025 22:40 — 👍 381 🔁 52 💬 21 📌 0ME [arriving for my eye exam]: is this the right place
GUY BEHIND THE DELI COUNTER: no
Any non-standard item you use INSTEAD of a toothpick to dig out leftover food is called DENTAL FLOTSAM
11.12.2025 01:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heard a fabulous malaprop this week: The Shrine Of Resemblance
(beware of imitations)
Just wanted to say good evening to all the steamroller drivers out there.
09.12.2025 19:45 — 👍 50 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 2Long story short, once upon the end
02.12.2025 15:25 — 👍 182 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 1My Spotify Listening Age is 765
When you're super into lute solos
10.12.2025 16:52 — 👍 195 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 0It's almost Christmas people. For the love of God, let's put a pause on reaching out, touching base, circling back, drilling down and deep diving
09.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 9 📌 2People who use the wrong word have my full symphony
09.12.2025 19:14 — 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0🏆
08.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow.
Citizen Kandy Kane - 👏
Yule-ify a film title
The Bourne Nativity
Nightmare on Elf Street
Das Santa Boot
Frosty/Nixon
Pulpit Fiction
Buy Hard
Hoho Rabbit
Reindeer Hunter
Life of Mince Pie
He’s Just Not That Into Yule
Silent Night of the Living Dead
All my BlueSky blather is in the cloud. Thanks @matterofstats.bsky.social
08.12.2025 01:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Wow. Thanks Tony. What a cool toy
08.12.2025 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the word "mon·o·syl·lab·ic" has betrayed us
06.12.2025 22:11 — 👍 262 🔁 71 💬 13 📌 1A person sits in a subway car, dressed as a Christmas tree.
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
07.12.2025 14:46 — 👍 2232 🔁 507 💬 69 📌 37My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
SHIT - you can lose it, know it, stir it, cut it, shovel it, shoot it, be in it, have it for brains, get it together, not give it, be full of it. Because it happens
20.03.2024 20:21 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
17.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 3409 🔁 616 💬 58 📌 19Breaking: Jeffrey Archer awarded FIFA Prize For Literature
06.12.2025 19:47 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0“The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
- Albert Einstein
We are phasing out the terms “extant” and “extinct” from our exhibits and will now refer to species as either “Darwinners" or “Darlosers.”
15.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 813 🔁 161 💬 12 📌 6Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
02.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 7412 🔁 517 💬 323 📌 72Show me a stranger painting I dare you. This is Susan’s unique ABC treasure found adrift on eBay
04.12.2025 08:03 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0