Hobb
Picture: Patient coming out of Dr. Hobb's office. The patient's wife questions him about the visit:
Wife: What did Dr. Hobb say?
Patient: I'm not sure.
Wife: Well, did he say it was curable?
Patient: I think so, but maybe not. He was pretty vague.
Wife: What's that prescription for?
Patient: I have no idea. He told me, but I didn't understand.
Wife: Is this Hobb's Cure? Send your patient home in a fog?
Patient: It might be. How will I tell?
Obscure
(sounds like: Hobb's Cure)
Picture: Hard-boiled eggs worshipping a salt shaker. As they glorify the salt, it is raised into the air, elevated by their praise.
Exalt
Sounds like: eggs salt
Picture: A scientist is studying the daily routines of a bumble bee, keeping careful records of what the bee does and when. Like all bees, this one is energetic and hard-working, but also like the other bees, this one enjoys a good practical joke. Every day at one o' clock in the afternoon, the bee lies down on a tiny toy couch in the scientist's office and pretends to watch All My Children. The scientist, of course, is surprised by the bee's behavior and notes it each day in his journal: "Every day at one, the bee lies down on the couch and watches television. Where is the industrious busy bee we've all heard about?"
Belie
Looks like: bee lie
Picture: Hobb has just dropped some candy wrappers on the ground. When he rounds the corner he sees a police officer walking toward him. Hobb is afraid he'll get a ticket for littering, so he runs back around and eats the wrappers! By the time the police officer arrives, the litter as been __________.
Looks like: Hobb litter ate
Picture: A giant egg working as a toll collector. The driver must praise the egg before he's permitted to pass through the gate.
Extol
Sounds like: eggs toll
Picture: A pot standing on a desk, proclaiming to be in complete power.
Looks like: desk pot
Picture: Hobb playing basketball with some of his friends. Hobb insists the score is 10-8, even when assured by the opponents and his own teammates that the score is 12-6. "Look," says Hobb, "I don't care that you all think it's 12-6, or that we have spectators who agree with you, or that we have the game on videotape and that it shows the score to be 12-6. I still say the score is 10-8. Why should I change my mind?"
Obstinate
Sounds like: Hobbs ten-eight
Picture: Someone has painted obscene graffiti on a gate. The eggs who live next-door are horrified, and immediately repaint the gate to return it to its pure condition
Expurgate
Sounds like: eggs pure gate
Picture: Mel is an opera singer. His voice is so smooth, so sweet, that it makes the trees shiver and lose their leaves.
Mellifluous
Sounds like: Mel leaf loose
Picture: Hobb, as a young boy, has written "2+2=97"
Royal cant do this because he know thse andsower
Obtuse
Sounds like: Hobb's twos
Picture: Kate works on a chicken farm. One day, Kate is loading eggs onto the back of a truck when the driver is attacked by a crazed chicken. Startled, the driver puts the truck into gear and takes off, bouncing at high speed down the dirt road into town. Meanwhile, Kate has fallen headfirst into the back of the truck and has been knocked unconscious, buried beneath boxes of eggs, which have toppled onto her. Arriving at his destination, the driver runs onto the back of the eggs truck, discovers Kate, and frees her from her trap.
Extricate
Sounds like: eggs truck kate
Picture: A company, called "Kahn's Ice," that sells and delivers blocks of ice. The slogan on their truck is "Cold."
Concise
Sounds like: Kahn's Ice
Picture: Hobb driving a very large, brand new car (with a V-8 engine) past his old horse and buggy (see OBSOLETE). Hobb tells the horse that he doesn't need him anymore.
Obviate
Sounds like: Hobb V-8
Picture: A woman is fishing from a rowboat, using hard-boiled eggs as bait. Nearby, in another boat, is her doctor. He's worried about her cholesterol level, which is already too high. "She's eating fish. And to make matters worse, she's using eggs as her bait. She's going to __________ her condition."
Exacerbate
Sounds like: eggs as her bait
Picture: Stymie (the little boy) playing golf against a professional golfer. Both players have reached the green, and as his opponent is about to putt, Stymie jumps up and runs onto the green between the hole and the other player. "I'm going to block his shot," he says.
Stymie
Sounds exactly like: Stymie (remember the character on "The Little Rascals"?)