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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: jandals on August 10, 2011, 08:47:39 AM
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Since the pictures are down for a day or two , I wondered if we could throw a word or two around .
Do you know any interesting words? Are you a cryptic crossword enthusiast who nutted out really clever clues to an ordinary word?
I guess I better give you a word to get started with and it is appropriate because I am a little bit cheeky ( but not well proportioned )
CALLIPYGOUS :)
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As you waddle along, I will view you from behind and make that judgement on your assets.
Think of a nine lettered word where you can remove the letters one at a time giving you a new word each time, right down to the single letter left at the end.
Paddy
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The only crossword clue that sticks in my mind is: "overworked postman".
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"polymorph pervers"
8) Hans
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Since the pictures are down for a day or two , I wondered if we could throw a word or two around .
Do you know any interesting words? Are you a cryptic crossword enthusiast who nutted out really clever clues to an ordinary word?
I guess I better give you a word to get started with and it is appropriate because I am a little bit cheeky ( but not well proportioned )
CALLIPYGOUS :)
Oh, callipygous !? I thought you said Galapagos and I was quite thrown for a minute, although since another name for those islands is the Archipiélago de Colón, there might have been some connection....... :-X
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As you waddle along, I will view you from behind and make that judgement on your assets.
Think of a nine lettered word where you can remove the letters one at a time giving you a new word each time, right down to the single letter left at the end.
Paddy
STARTLING - comes from playing with words as a printer for 25 years!
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Read through once - no cheating - how many F's:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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6 or 7 if you count the one not in the paragraph?
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On the ball, Alan F. Just the word:
STARTLING
STARLING
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I
There you go!
Paddy
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6 or 7 if you count the one not in the paragraph?
How many was it before you made the edit? ;D
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I had 6, then wondered if your first F's was supposed to count.
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Well done, Paddy!! ;D
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
I got 4 first time ;D
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
.... if you read it out using the rather dodgy diction that pertains these days.... you'd get 7 the first time..... " wif" ;D ;D
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Blasted "XX"s. I read it five or six times and didn't notice them. I won't give it away just in case someone is still reading through it.
Paddy
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Well done Anthony :) :) and Hans :) :) :) for coming up with clues . Hans receives an extra smiley face for using alliteration .
Paddy - Thanks for keeping my wife amused with your word puzzle :) :) and an extra :) for getting ass into the sentence .
Maggi , Maggi , Maggi .... what am I going to do with you !!! Galapagos ::) ... Mr Stevejandals ??? I fear that you are showing early signs of TDS . I will talk to Ian quietly and we may be able to get you an appointment at a Tangential Digression Syndrome clinic near you :D
Yet another Fiordland story
Fiordland story 384 :- The company wanted to issue us with baseball-style caps that recognised part of our work as avalanche rescuers . The big announcement was made at the work meeting that the caps would be arriving soon, proudly displaying that we were from the Fiordland Avalanche Rescue Team . One of the aforementined team immediately fell to the floor in hysterics . " Whats wrong with you " they asked me .
Any other interesting acronyms out there ?
PS Mandy came up with Seeing your nice behind, he calls you pig - confused? (11)
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I heard an interview with Richard Dawkins on the radio. He was talking about the youth of today and baseball caps and said if he saw someone wearing a baseball cap that person's IQ dropped by 20%; if it was on backwards, it dropped another 20%! I can see his point. :-\
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Maybe another 20% for wearers of hoodies, judging from the CCT footage of the UK riots.
The word of my day begins with B. The rubbish collection man didn't have the arm thingy properly positioned and it has dumped the contents of our bin on the road, leaving us (me) to clean it up. >:( >:( >:(
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI-
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
I got 4 first time ;D
A honest man :-) 4 is quite normal.
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I got 3 the first time! ::)
I love the Fiordland story. I picked up the acronym as I read through it and was already laughing before I got to the end. Most unfortunate. :o
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Hi all ,
I have heard today :
Malapropismus ;D ;D ;D
a very good word
Hans
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You don't need all those long words!
Here are two sentences in Norwegian. Two schoolboys met and the one said: "Æ e i A æ". The other answered: "Æ e i A æ å!". It's dialect, StephenB will understand ;)
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Google does not understand what you have written
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Blip
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1456082
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Google does not understand what you have written
You wouldn't say that google doesn't understand Norwegian dialects? It is very similar to English too ;)
"æ" = I, "e" = am, "i" = in, "A" = (class) A; "å" = too!
This was the first I learnt in school, I was in A too and had a teacher speaking this dialect ;D