The Deeper Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams [47]
impersonation of: Trantlemore, Seattle
inedible things on: Amlwch
non-arrival of: Amersham
royal: Didcot
tickets: Nantucket
trash cans
early warning: Tananarive
nasty bits at the bottom of: Eads
nocturnal behavior of lids of: Balzan
trees
Nigerian: Masberry
stumps of: Baldock
tripping over carpet: Thurnby
trousers
elderly: Broats
inflatable: Huby
roguish: Minchinhampton
soaking: Esher
stained: Botley, Piddletrenthide
too long: Malibu
wooden: Goosecruives
wrong pair of: Duggleby
trouts, fierce old: Baughurst
trucks, street-cleaning: Vancouver
trunks, swimming: Lubcroy
truth, palpable: Hoff
tubs, impenetrable: Polloch
tummies
nasty feelings in pits of: Ely
pregnant: Stowting
sounds that emanate from: Tumby
turds
(dog) comely, well-proportioned: Joliette
(dog) small, but still nasty: Bromsgrove
thick as your wrist: Laxobigging
turn-ups, fertile: Huttoft
twats, annoying: Thrumster
tweezers, difficulty with: Hadweenzic
twerps, bicycle-oriented: Wormelow Tump
twitching, uncontrollable: West Wittering
U
umbrella stands: Clackmannan
umbrellas
absent when needed: Sotterley, Plenmeller
in drinks, stupid little: Limassol
things that aren’t: Dunolly
underblankets, lumpy: Tolob
underclothes, bestrewn: Adlestrop
underpant, half an: Scrabby
underpants
floorbound: Slobozia
incomplete: Scrabby
undressing
alarm while watching other people: Wartnaby
watching other people: Beaulieu Hill
urges, violent: Kent
urinals, humiliation at: Percyhorner
uselessness
of acronyms you can never remember: Cafu
of bits of the anatomy: Brecon, Clun
of business lunches: Jeffers
of dried-up pens: Kilvaxter
of epaulettes: Trossachs
of keys: Burton Coggles
of light switches: Ockle
of raincoats: Plenmeller
of six ballpoint pens: Ipplepen
of telephones: Ipswich
of three-color ballpoint pens: Ospringe
of toasters: Burnt Yates, Throcking, Throckmorton, Yate
of trying to attract a bartender’s attention: Epping
usherettes: Blean
V
vampire attacks: Spittal of Glenshee
vegetables
abused by Victorians: Cong
colored bits of: Poffley End
display of: Halifax
veneer, chipboard: Mapledurham
vicars
entertainment of: Bude
inclinations of: Lyminster
opinions of: Dean Funes
virgins, absence of at weddings: Shirmers
W
wads, misshapen, squashy: Pudsey
waggling, theatrical: Llanelli
waiters
blind: Epping
blue-blooded: Zlatibor
dozy: Aynho
with better memories than you: Kenilworth
wallets: Whasset
walls
covered in snitters: Snitterfield
held on by little brass latches: Tewel
inexpertly papered: Lupridge
insufficiently thick: Boinka
kitchen, daubed: Smearisary
people who drive you up: Chaling
run into: Drumsna
satisfying: Skellow
wally, a: Clovis
wartlike objects: Kirby Misperton
washing dishes
failure to finish properly: Abinger, Radlett
liquid in tea: Salween
nasty bits in: Scullet, Hadzor
wasps
confusion about the color of: Wasp Green
picnics ruined by: Swaffham Bulbeck
waves
token: Sturry
unnecessary: Largoward
up trouser: Malibu
way up, teeth put back in the wrong: Gipping
weddings
friends of bride at: Shirmers
mess caused by: Pathstruie
weddings, smoothies at: Shirmers
wee
small hours of the night, things that go “ahem” in the: Taroom
small hours of the night, things that go bang in the: Balzan
small hours of the night, things that gurgle in the: Bonkle
wee-wee
broad jets of: Spuzzum
humorous, artificial: Barstibley
inopportune moment to have to have a: Humby
strategies for having a: Lower Peover
week, day of, deliberate ignorance of: Abligo
Welsh rarebit, growths on: Eriboll
whitebait, pieces of chewed, flying: Satterthwaite
willies, insufficiently waggled: Piddletrenthide, Botley
Wind, Gone With the: Epworth
windbreakers: Screeb
wing
left: Quedgeley
right: Firebag
wipers, windshield: Memphis
Woolf, Virginia: York
words
deceptive: Nossob
Eskimo: Anantnag
hatefulness of certain: Quoyness
Indonesian, relaxed: Toodyay
people who bang on about: Ainderby Quernhow
workman
cleavage in bottom of: Ravenna
fraudulent: Podebrady