Fun With Words! (8)


Smiley: Welcome to Smiley's Fun With Words! I'm Smiley The Raccoon, the only host of this radio show, except when I'm not.


Squiggle: Hi! I'm Smiley's co-host Squiggle von Ferret!


Smiley: Today we will be doing a segment called Fun With Words!


Squiggle: Not that we do anything else, but we just want you to know that we're doing it!


Smiley: Hurray!


Squiggle: The first set of words is perishable, martial, cringe, immobile, and minimum.


Smiley: The boy told us about a perishable martial art that has minimum effects such as becoming immobile, or cringing at the sight of goats.


Squiggle: The boy told us about an unstable warlike art that has minimal effects such as becoming frozen, or submissive at the sight of goats.


Smiley: Why would someone become submissive at the sight of goats?


Squiggle: I don't know, Smiley.


Smiley: Then why did you say it?


Squiggle: I don't know, I had a random impulse!


Smiley: You should see a doctor about that. I once had random impulses and people couldn't stand to be around me.


Squiggle: What a shocker.


Smiley: I know. The strange thing is, people still don't enjoy my presence.


Squiggle: Imagine that.


Smiley: I wasn't imagining, people do avoid me.


Squiggle: Let's move on. Next set of words are affluence, onset, nimble, arrears, and taut.


Smiley: Most people in society are nimble and taut about the onset of arrears, but people with great affluence don't worry about that kind of stuff.


Squiggle: Most people in society are alert and tense about the start of debit, but people with great wealth don't worry about that kind of stuff.


Smiley: I'm rejected by society.


Squiggle: Of course you are. Next set of words are crotchety, impassable, jovial, partition, and sinister.


Smiley: The sinister and crotchety man put up an impassable partition to keep the jovial boy out of his yard.


Squiggle: The evil and cranky man put up an impenetrable barrier to keep the gleeful boy out of his yard.


Smiley: That's so sad.


Squiggle: What?


Smiley: That's. So. Sad.


Squiggle: I heard what you said, but why is it sad?


Smiley: Because, all the boy wanted to do is spread happiness to the grumpy old man.


Squiggle: Okay...... Last set of words are retrieve, manacle, innovation, format, and cascade.


Smiley: The manacle's format was a new innovation to the department that was retrieved from a cascade of water.


Squiggle: The shackle's pattern was a new addition to the department that was retrieved from a chute of water.


Smiley: Are we done yet?


Squiggle: Yes, Smiley. Bye!


Smiley: Remember to wash behind your ears!


Squiggle: I thought you said that last time......


Smiley: Don't be silly, I said 'Lather, rinse and repeat!"