Word of the day

[jandals]

Since the pictures are down for a day or two , I wondered if we could throw a word or two around .
Do you know any interesting words? Are you a cryptic crossword enthusiast who nutted out really clever clues to an ordinary word?
I guess I better give you a word to get started with and it is appropriate because I am a little bit cheeky ( but not well proportioned )
   CALLIPYGOUS   

[Paddy Tobin]

As you waddle along, I will view you from behind and make that judgement on your assets.

Think of a nine lettered word where you can remove the letters one at a time giving you a new word each time, right down to the single letter left at the end.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

The only crossword clue that sticks in my mind is: "overworked postman".

[Hans J]

"polymorph pervers"

  Hans

[Maggi Young]

Since the pictures are down for a day or two , I wondered if we could throw a word or two around .
Do you know any interesting words? Are you a cryptic crossword enthusiast who nutted out really clever clues to an ordinary word?
I guess I better give you a word to get started with and it is appropriate because I am a little bit cheeky ( but not well proportioned )
   CALLIPYGOUS   

Oh, callipygous !?  I thought you said Galapagos  and I was quite thrown  for a minute, although since another name for those islands is the Archipiélago de Colón, there might have been some  connection.......

[Alan F]

As you waddle along, I will view you from behind and make that judgement on your assets.

Think of a nine lettered word where you can remove the letters one at a time giving you a new word each time, right down to the single letter left at the end.

Paddy

STARTLING - comes from playing with words as a printer for 25 years!

[Alan F]

Read through once - no cheating - how many F's:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

[maggiepie]

6 or 7 if you count the one not in the paragraph?

[Paddy Tobin]

On the ball, Alan F. Just the word:

STARTLING
STARLING
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I

There you go!

Paddy

[Alan F]

6 or 7 if you count the one not in the paragraph?

How many was it before you made the edit? 

[maggiepie]

I had 6, then wondered if your first F's was supposed to count.

 

Well done, Paddy!!

[mark smyth]

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

I got 4 first time

[Maggi Young]

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

.... if you read it out using the rather dodgy diction that pertains these days.... you'd get 7 the first time..... " wif"   

[Paddy Tobin]

Blasted "XX"s. I read it five or six times and didn't notice them. I won't give it away just in case someone is still reading through it.

Paddy

[jandals]

Well done Anthony   and Hans   for coming up with clues . Hans receives  an extra smiley face for using alliteration .
Paddy - Thanks for keeping my wife amused with your word puzzle   and an extra   for getting ass into the sentence .

Maggi , Maggi , Maggi .... what am I going to do with you !!! Galapagos   ... Mr Stevejandals  I fear that you are showing early signs of TDS . I will talk to Ian quietly and we may be able to get you an appointment at a Tangential Digression Syndrome clinic near you

Yet another Fiordland story
Fiordland story 384 :- The company wanted to issue us with baseball-style caps that recognised part of our work as avalanche rescuers . The big announcement was made at the work meeting that the caps would be arriving soon, proudly displaying that we were from the Fiordland Avalanche Rescue Team . One of the aforementined team immediately fell to the floor in hysterics . " Whats wrong with you " they asked me .

Any other interesting acronyms out there ?

PS Mandy came up with    Seeing your nice behind, he calls you pig - confused? (11)