妙语横生

妙 = 女 + 少 : Marilyn Monroe (mi) painted a smiley (少) on the wall of the aorta's bathroom (ao4). As Bessy Coleman (女) notices the smiley she is totally flabbergasted and tells Marilyn how clever (妙) she must be to paint such a wonderful (妙) smiley (少).

妙 = 女 + 少 : Marilyn Monroe (mi) painted a smiley (少) on the wall of the aorta's bathroom (ao4). As Bessy Coleman (女) notices the smiley she is totally flabbergasted and tells Marilyn how clever (妙) she must be to paint such a wonderful (妙) smiley (少).

语 = 吾 + 讠 : Yu the Great is seeing some language advertisement on an advertising column in the space station. She decides to paint a big mandarin colored pentagram over the language ad.

横 = 木 + 黄 : Hamlet (h) climbed on the beam (横) of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and now he is too afraid to come down again. If the Yellow Emperor (黄) doesn't want to call the fire brigade, for better or worse he'll have to climb the Christmas Tree (木) to pick Hamlet up.

生 = 牛 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: a cradle.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) comforts a crying baby bull (牛) in a cradle (生) in front of the engine ((e)ng1) and plays him a tune on a flute (一).