Tuesday 15 May 2018

FUN with IMPEACHMENT

WORDPLAY post #116

CREATIVE WORDPLAY involving anagrams and Scrambletown maps, and reviews of online poetry and song-lyrics
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PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2018. Wordplay item #1 was updated from earlier posts in 2017. To start, you might want to review the blog "Disloyal States". 
  
1. Constituent Words

How many words of 4 letters or more can be made from the letters of ... 

         MENDACIOUS  ???

              EMOLUMENTS  ???

See the surprising lists of answers at the bottom of this blogpost.



2. Scrambletown Maps:
TOWNS SUPPORTING 
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T 

Examples can be found in the earlier blog "Disloyal States".



The following maps show most of the possible entries for the Atlantic states:

















3. Limericks About IMPEACHMENT


A: LIMERICKS POSTED ONLINE:      OEDILF.com 
Once you've entered the site, find the verse you want by scrolling down a bit and entering the WORD USED (e.g. 'impeachment'), or the LIMERICK APPROVED (e.g. '35900'). 

#35900 (2008) mephistopheles, re Nixon "Though the highest position was reached"
#24291 (2006) Mad Kane, re Bush/Cheney "I am blissful, contented, and happy"
#26587 (2007) Mad Kane, re Bush/Cheney "I beseech you, dear Congress, impeach"
#39409 (2007) SheilaB, re Nixon "The cover-up, massive, not teeny,"
#60860 (2010) skipjordan, re Bill Clinton "A president's intern got press"
#70913 (2011) Len Farano, re Bill Clinton "An aide took her duties too far"
#76018 (2012) MikeAq, re Bill Clinton "For Bill Clinton, Lewinski went dotty"
#98319 (2017) Giorgio Coniglio, re Donald Trump "Half the populace sadly keeps coping"
#99429 (2017) Len Farano, re Donald Trump "Much advice, but he's clearly unreachable"


4. Parody Song-Lyrics About IMPEACHMENT
(this section is a Work-In-Progress: Please check periodically for updates)

A: PARODY SONG-LYRICS POSTED ONLINE      AmIRight.com


"Bob Dylan vs Donald Trump" (2017) Michael Pacholek re Donald Trump
 [to the tune of "The Times They Are a-Changin' "]

"Bob Mueller's Song" (2017) Barry J. Mitchell re Donald Trump 
[to the tune of "King Herod's Song"]

"Impeachment Seems To Be The Hardest Word" (2018) Phil Alexander re Donald Trump 
[to the tune of "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word"]




Answers to puzzle #1




  Over 170 words. And that's no lie!







Continue the fun at 'MORE FUN WITH IMPEACHMENT'.



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