Professor Plum in the bedroom with _____

[muckefuck]

Okay, unlike the last fill-in-the-blank, this is just a straightforward elicitation to gain insight into a grammatical question which popped up on linquaphiles. (Obviously I can't tell you what the question was before you answer without prejudicing the results, so be patient.) All I want is the first thing that pops into your head.

"He was squatting down on his _____ cutting out paper hearts with _____."

Comments

[mlr.livejournal.com]

haunches, a knife

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

haunches, some scissors..?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

There are no correct or incorrect answers here, only more and less interesting ones.

[areia.livejournal.com]

haunches, a pair of scissors

[stephe.livejournal.com]

"He was squatting down on his bedroom floor cutting out paper hearts with care."

[nattybumppo.livejournal.com]

toilet, scissors

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Awww!

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

tod (own), desperation

[porysski.livejournal.com]

haunches, a mat knife

[pne.livejournal.com]

on his haunches, cutting out paper hearts with scissors.

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

Ah, well if we're going for interest I'll plump for "day off" and "Adolf Eichmann". Now that's a novel-opener for you.

a rope

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

his haunches (I also thought heels)
scissors

[peredur-glyn.livejournal.com]

He was squatting down on his haunches, cutting out paper hearts with scissors.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

1. knees
2. sorrow

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

knees, scissors

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

stoop, chainsaw

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

haunches, scissors

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

knees; scissors.

(And I think you mean linguaphiles.)

[donncha22.livejournal.com]

on his hunkers
with scissors

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

haunches, scissors

[keyne.livejournal.com]

How the heck do you squat on your knees? You have to demonstrate for me :-)

(I thought "haunches" and "mat" pretty much simultaneously, and "scissors" for blank B.)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make much sense, but then again, the exercise wasn't "fill in the first thing that comes into your head that you can justify to a third party afterwards." :-P

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

He was squatting down on his haunches cutting out paper hearts with scissors.

(I am reading the flist backwards so have not seen linguaphiles referent yet.)

[sliv-1.livejournal.com]

Haunches. Scissors.