Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague

Subject: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 May 05 - 07:00 PM

Thought it might be funnery
To build a guitar of punnery...

(all answers are guitar parts or materials)


1. Who'd marry Joe Kennedy?

2. Kamantha, Kusan and Kteve's favorite water sport

3. First person pronoun possessing a growth hormone (street slang for the growth hormone)

4. Either a sport involving the throwing of cats, or how you might charge a participant in that sport

5. If it really grew this way, barbers would need tougher scissors

6. Perfect tonewood for a Lent guitar

7. Luthier: "Well, I'll provide the upper and lower bouts, the neck, tuners, basically everything, but if you're a physician, you'll have to provide this for thyself."

8. Mary had a little lamb
Tied it to a heater,
Every time it turned around
It burned it's little ______

9. One who does not have

10. Headlines might read thus if the junior Hoosier Senator were to send his son to Notre Dame (or move to North Dakota, for that matter)

11. Closer than I'd like

12. Caroline Sydenstricker

13. Silas Karl Moore

14. Difference between a guitar and a horse-riding cowboy? On the guitar these two are about 25 inches apart. But the horse-riding cowboy? ….the thickness of a pair of jeans.

15. Tie up Mr. Serling

16. Tonewood to dance around in the Spring

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 May 05 - 07:15 PM

1. Rose would. (wood)

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 May 05 - 07:16 PM

2. keying (and I don't even know guitars)

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 May 05 - 07:22 PM

10. Good-bye!!!!!!! ;-)

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 May 05 - 07:45 PM

7) Heel (Heal)
11) Tuner (Too Near)
12) Mother of Pearl (S. Buck)
14) Saddle(s) and Nut(s)
15) Truss Rod
16) Maple (May Pole)

...and here's a couple more

17. Pre-Anglo-Saxon watchman

18. How to steady a shakey painter's perch

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 May 05 - 08:18 PM

17 -- brit guard? pickguard?

18 -- ladder bracing

(very game guesses for a non-guitar geek, Mary!)

So far:

1) Rosewood
7) Heel (Heal)
11) Tuner (Too Near)
12) Mother of Pearl (S. Buck)
14) Saddle(s) and Nut(s)
15) Truss Rod
16) Maple (May Pole)

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 10 May 05 - 02:30 PM

I still like my #10. Good Bayh, Good-bye, and Good buy. But that's a tough one. Maybe someone else can do something with Bayh, fighting Irish, possibly Birch (grandpa), South Bend...

Subject: RE: Ivoroid 'M Like Th'plague
From: John Hardly
Date: 10 May 05 - 03:12 PM

#10 is the most unlikely of the whole bunch (i prolly shouldn't have included it!) -- you're actually on the right track. I imagined (fertile mind that I have) a headline of "Bayh ND-ing" or binding. When you add "Evan" into the mix you could even stretch it to "Evan Bayh ND-ing" or, "ebony binding".

I will accept my punishment, however harsh.