OLD LUNCH COUNTER LINGO
BEfORE & AFTER
I LOVE A MYSTERY
HERE'S 2 "U"
SHOW ME THE MONKEY
THE THINGS YOU SAY!
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If a server yells, "put out the lights & cry", someone's ordered liver & these
onions
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Bonus work in school that nets you a piece of plastic from Visa
extra credit card
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This detective was 18 when she began her career in "The Secret of the Old Clock",
Nancy Drew
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This grandfather clock part moves to & fro by the action of gravity & acquired momentum
pendulum
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Eagles & leopards are known to hunt DeBrazza's monkeys but intrusion by these primates is their biggest threat
humans
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Profound utterances are called these marine gems "of wisdom"
pearls
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"Hold the hail" means you'll get a soft drink without this
ice
200
A vodka & tomato juice drink turns into a Texas-based cosmetics giant
Bloody Mary Kay
200
In this Dashiell Hammett novel, Effie Perine describes her boss' client by saying, "She's a knockout"
The Maltese Falcon
200
In German, the plural of "mother" gets this diacritical mark
umlaut
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Old-world monkeys, like our friend the patas, don't have prehensile these, many new-world monkeys do
tails
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Lettish & Turkish are languages; this -ish is a synonym for nonsense
gibberish
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"Bossy in a bowl" is this hearty dish containing chunks of meat & vegetables
beef stew
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"Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator
Soft Cell phone
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This Agatha Christie spinster first appeared in print in the 1926 short story "The Tuesday Night Club"
Miss Marple
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This language of the Incas is still spoken in Peru & Ecuador
Quechua
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The Hanuman langur is named for a monkey god of this religion
Hinduism
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"Speak" this "to power", meaning tell the mighty what they don't want to hear, was coined in a 1955 Quaker pamphlet
truth
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Oh, look, Little Johnny is chowing down on a "bow wow with red lead", this favorite
a hot dog with ketchup
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Any carbonated beverage that's "all around the mulberry bush"
soda Pop Goes the Weasel
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Inspector Kurt Wallander solves mysteries in this country, homeland of his creator Henning Mankell
Sweden
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To build up or gather, like snow
accumulate
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Saki monkeys are diurnal, which means this is when they like to get things done
during the daytime
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It's specifically defined as "claiming for oneself the attributes... of God"
blasphemy
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Order a "crowd" & you'll get this many of whatever you ordered
three
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This leader of the Autobots' factors are itself & one
Optimus Prime number
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This John D. MacDonald shamus living in the Fort Lauderdale Marina considers himself to be a "salvage consultant"
Travis McGee
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The name of this branch of math comes from the Latin for "small stone"
calculus
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It's the 5-letter name of the monkey seen here. What a tool!
a drill
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This word for fast, witty exchanges is from the French for "depart again"
repartée