[QUOTE=twickster]
Where’d everybody go?
Striper
Cotton
Ass
Bar
Hard
[/QUOTE]
Candy!
I’ll be back in a sec to post a new challenge. (I was beginning to fear the game was dying.)
[QUOTE=twickster]
Where’d everybody go?
Striper
Cotton
Ass
Bar
Hard
[/QUOTE]
By the way, I love the expression “candy ass”, although as a candy ass myself, I’m reluctant to use it in casual conversation.
Here’s my challenge:
ball
fingers
sugar
retort
Butter?
[QUOTE=twickster]
Butter?
[/QUOTE]
Not what I had in mind…
Yeah but … [/retort] 
[QUOTE=twickster]
Yeah but … [/retort]
[/QUOTE]
You might be on the verge of convincing me that there are two solutions. How does “sugar” work with butter?
[QUOTE=Bayard]
You might be on the verge of convincing me that there are two solutions. How does “sugar” work with butter?
[/QUOTE]
You cream the two together as the first step in baking cookies.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
…cut?
[/QUOTE]
Correct!
You know, I liked this idea of this game when I thought it up because a dictionary and thesaurus will only go so far to help. I may have been too clever for my own good.
Butter works for two of them, three if you shoehorn Twicks’ association in there. Retort, however, not so much. I love it as a phrase though.
“What kind of a buttery retort was that?”
I’ll add another one.
- Pay
- Chicken
- Jump
- Water
- Stem
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
Butter works for two of them, three if you shoehorn Twicks’ association in there. Retort, however, not so much. I love it as a phrase though.
[/QUOTE]
Oh c’mon – one who says “but” is a “butter”!
I’m afraid I can’t accept twickster’s answer. Also, I’m just really happy that I came up with one that wasn’t immediately answered. So, I’m just gonna put it down again:
ball
fingers
sugar
retort
A hint: the first three are associates (like “butter fingers”, but not so close); the last is actually a synonym of sorts.
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
I’ll add another one.
- Pay
- Chicken
- Jump
- Water
- Stem
[/QUOTE]
While I’m doing battle with this one, let me add one more:
scandal
smoke
straight
rope
This one is probably truer to the original rules – the solution word (or a close derivative) can be used in a common phrase with each of the above.
[QUOTE=Bayard]
While I’m doing battle with this one, let me add one more:
scandal
smoke
straight
rope
This one is probably truer to the original rules – the solution word (or a close derivative) can be used in a common phrase with each of the above.
[/QUOTE]
Dope?
[QUOTE=twickster]
Dope?
[/QUOTE]
Yes! Doping scandal, smoking dope, the Straight Dope, and Rope-a-Dope.
Art
Law
Bearing
Court
Poet
[QUOTE=pravnik]
Art
Law
Bearing
Court
Poet
[/QUOTE]
Gah! I keep thinking “marshal” but I can’t make it work with “bearing.”
I’m still working on Bayard’s, too.
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
I’m still working on Bayard’s, too.
[/QUOTE]
I’m not getting very far with your last one either. In case I don’t get back to the Dope this weekend (lots o’ studying to do), I’ll spoiler the answer:
It’s “snap”, as in “snap the ball”, “snap your fingers”, “sugar snap peas”, and the annoying “ooh…snap!” to signify a great retort.
[QUOTE=pravnik]
Art
Law
Bearing
Court
Poet
[/QUOTE]
I have an association for “letter(s)” for each of these, but I may be reaching.
OK, I’m not the only one reaching :dubious: 
I’m-a thinkin’ maybe… jerk?
[QUOTE=Nametag]
I’m-a thinkin’ maybe… jerk?
[/QUOTE]
Nope. I’ll spoiler this one, too.
Spring. (Spring for lunch, spring chicken, spring up, freshwater spring, springs from (originates))
I’ll come up with another a bit later. (Anyone else is free to, as well. :))