Comments on: Oink, Oink (BB239)

By: DA

DA — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:51:38 +0000

There’s a cautionary tale within STRADBROKE, one we’d be wise to heed in these days of fraught finances. After the fiddle comes bankruptcy…all your dreams up in smoke.

Stradbroke must be the Aussie equivalent of St Moritz and Pall Mall.

By: marmaloid

marmaloid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:24:30 +0000

oh, i get it now…

never heard of stradbroke though, not in a non-geographical sense anyway

By: marmaloid

marmaloid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:04:59 +0000

I thought the answer really was trash/ashtray, and it was a bad taste joke, until i looked it up and found out that billie holiday wasn’t cremated

By: DA

DA — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:57:01 +0000

Maybe you could holiday in Stradbroke? Good pickup.

By: Mauve

Mauve — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:05:55 +0000

If my wife found me using one of these it would be the end of my holiday so I’ll offer

trash/ashtray

By: Mr X

Mr X — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:07:15 +0000

XXX WARNING – SPOILER ALERT XXX

Not so much a spoiler, as a straight out attempt at the answers:

Joe/OJ
wonder/underway
sass/assay
stout/outstay
wrecks/X-ray
??? root/outre (probably not the intended answer but it’s not a bad description of Billie Holiday’s demise) ???
lout/outlay
wear/airway
sun/unsay