Making Light:  A spelling demonology ::: March 21, 2007, 08:08 AM

Eleanor(202)  A restorator runs a restorant, where one goes to restore
one's strength, since the food has restorative properties.  Or, to
follow the etymology a bit more slavishly, `...since food has the
property of restoring one's well-being.'  As purportedly did the
original tonics and potions known as restaurants.

(223)  I'd pay good money for the collected Nielsen Hayden
lightbulbiana.  All the wheat and none of the chaff.  As opposed
to that kneebiter Carson Wyler.

(227)  ajay, re your father's menhir.  Where is that from?  Sounds
like something Joe Orton would say.  Very good, at any rate.  Such
a manhly weapon, though prone to ithyphallicity (which I would have
misspelled with an i had I not looked it up).

(165/217)  Yes, sapphire.  Shades of phenolphthalein!  (he said, proud
and amazed to have guessed that one right before checking.)