Word game (and other games)

...and a decidedly un-creepy Goya of a recumbent woman.

That's where even a short course in art would help. Goya's creepy, gory pictures are well known, but he also painted some highly mannered, stylish pictures. He painted two versions of that woman, one clothed and the other unclothed; the latter is usually referred to as "the naken Maja." Both paintings can be seen here.

There is also a Goya painting of an elegant woman standing on a beach or dune; she looks out at the viewer, one arm extended downward, finger pointing. The artist's signature, "Goya," is traced in the sand. Who is the woman? The Duchess of Alba.

I was proud of my having donated 1000 grains of rice via the French vocabulary, since I studied the language so many years ago, but now you all tell me it was too easy. Darn!

Edited by NorthAmerican to add the links.

Has anyone been able to get beyond level 54 on the original vocab game?

Ahem.

I knew "rozzer" from Mad magazine in my youth, which used to point out in the margins from time to time that it was crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

it was crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

And in English, that was?

Nobody would ever say it, but it's a dictionary version of cockney thieves' cant: It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide = it's daft to give a copper the pay-off in counterfeit money.

Thanks. I used to read Mad Magazine but all I remember is an article called "Stupid Answers to Stupid Questions", e;g; is this the end of the line? No, we're all standing backwards
Is this elevator going up or down? We thought we'd go sideways for a change.

Bjd, there was a New York Times crossword a month or two ago that could be folded and read like the back cover of a Mad Magazine issue. That took me back.

Well, I may be crackers, because I've continued to slip that website the dropsy in minute quantities of rice, but [I'm updating this post a couple of days later to say that level 60 of the vocabulary test is there, and that I've reached it a couple of times today. I've also donated a kilo of rice.]

CK

Edited by: chriskean1