Quintessentially Quilly

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1. I think I have a guess. I’ve either gotten it or am going to embarrass myself by being so far off.

   Thanks, in any case, for the challenge.

   1. Raven — you won! Not with your favorite answer, but you won.

2. As it’s after 3 a.m. on the EST, I’ve (miraculously) sent you a guess.

   1. Karen – -thanks for the phrase. I asked for a compound noun. However, I am just happy to hear from you again. I hope you had a good holiday season.

3. Haven’t read any of those… thinking hard ! 8)

   1. Mar — think faster!

4. Hmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmm and hmmmmmmm once more – another brain bender Quilly 🙂 Nothing like a bit of mental gymnastics to start the New Year! Guess sent….

   1. Alastair — Being the first puzzle of the year, I guess I should have picked a harder one.

5. I made a guess on this first Punny Monday of 2011. I hope to stay on top of this neat game.

   1. Granny Annie — thanks for playing. Remember a pun is a play on words. As Thom says, on has to think “abstract”.

6. No idea and I bet I won’t find answers in those books, either.

   1. Doug — you might be clueless, but you’re still correct!

7. Argh — late because I was going by the 8:00 time slot originally on your sidebar. I didn’t realize the times always started at midnight and worked up or back — I thought they rotated all the way around and thought 8 a.m. was a nice change. 🙂

   But at any rate I’ve sent in what seems like a feasible guess, but I usually still ponder it in the back of my mind til I see the answer because one just never knows for sure until then!

   Happy Monday.

   1. I am sorry, Barbara. I have no idea where that time slot came from! I tried daytime posting but only got a couple of answers, so now I stay on either side of midnight. On months that have 5 weeks we can get as early as 8 p.m.

8. I sat right down and checked first thing today (but of course, I am not first in line) *AND* I think I might have gotten it. If so, my brain is either highly engaged or this one is really easy. 😀

   1. Well, Karen, you got the right answer. as to whether the game was too easy or too hard, I can’t say. As you can see by looking at the answers, there was a pretty good balance this time around.

9. Haven’t got a clue, and I’m not even going to hazard a guess.

   1. Bill — by all means, play it safe.

10. I’m gonna TRY not to over think this one… sending A guess.

    1. Melli — you didn’t over think this one. You came in right in the middle!

11. .
    I think we need a hint. Could you tell us
    if it is a one-word or two-word compound noun, please?
    ..

    1. Jim — I don’t think a hint would have helped you. You took off way too fast on the wrong track.

12. Hmm. The only thing I can come up with just doesn’t seem like it would be right, but I’ll send it in anyway. My brain is apparently still on holiday mode!

    1. Linda — Amoeba refused to stand on the books. And you’re brain was “just right”. You were trying to over-think things!

13. I’m going to take a wild guess this week. Shocker, I know. I have always wanted to participate in your Punny Monday, but my brain just can’t “get it together”. You are so creative in coming up with these.

    1. Church Lady — and you made the winner’s list! (Trust me, I know these are a lot easier to conceive than to figure out!)

14. I got nuthin. 🙁

    1. Pat — thanks for trying! I am happy to have you play. Better luck next week!

15. I see books! 🙂
    Not a clue….

    1. Carletta — you see books standing on end. Books. Standing. On. Wait! Bookstand! I got it! I got it!

       No?

16. I hope I did not just embarrass myself, but I guess you are the only who will actually see my answer. One of my “goals” not “resolutions” this year is to get more involved, make new blogger friends & to participate on peoples blogs so here goes. Let me preface my answer with “I do not have a clue.” Now that have that out in the open on the blackboard so to speak I will now overreach and attempt to answer without browbeating myself or undercutting the answers. I cannot use witchcraft and I am lovesick . I hope I have now sufficintly confused, mislead or otherwise highlighted other bookworms with my comment. I certainly have confused myself with my grasshopper attempt.

    Fun so far.

    1. Melissa — half the fun of this game is embarrassing yourself. Usually the silliest answers are the crowd favorites. Honest. Welcome to Punny Monday. We are all happy to meet you!

17. I think, that if I submit a guess to this one I’ll only embarass myself LOL

    1. Susan — so, that’s new how?

18. What the hell is a compound noun?

    1. Thom — check Mar’s link below. A compound word is “two words put together to form one”. A compound noun is two words put together to form one, and that one happens to be a noun.

19. http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/nouncompound.htm
    that’s for our dear Thom 🙂

    1. Thanks, Mar. I love Thom dearly, but when it comes to grammar, I think he’s a hopeless cause.

20. .
    Congrats to Raven !!! 🙂 She wins just about every other time.

    1. Jim — Raven understands abstract thinking.

21. I kept thinking romantic interlude but knew that was wrong. Pfft. If I don’t get them right away, I really don’t get them!

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