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#196796 01/30/11 04:15 AM
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I was perusing AWADmail Issue 448. Sometimes I am quite slow. Could someone please explain this 'A THOUGHT FOR TODAY' to me?
What word has st in the middle, in the beginning, and the ending?
(Hint: It's an anagram for 'kind ants'.)


I found the word but still cannot make sense of it. Oh--wait. Never mind--I just got it. Geez! I'll go ahead and leave this here in case others may have interest.
I think I'll go have a little wine...

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I know what YOU mean Jackie...I had the same problem,I was thinking...there is no word that starts with 'st' and has 'st' in the middle and 'st' at the end...so I wrote the anagram on paper and of course there is only x1 'st' and I worked it out from there.

Good for the brain, wasn't it grin

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Yes, once it got over the headache from me slapping myself in the forehead!

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Inkstand? St in the middle "in" the beginning "and" the ending.
Thought for the day? Well it made you think, didn't it?
Eta: I let the answer out, because if I took so long over it everyone else must have got it by now.

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Not me, I am too slow, I was still working on it.
Glad I can stop now.


----please, draw me a sheep----
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>Eta: I let the answer out

I still think of eta as being short for etaoin, a.k.a. buffalo shrdlu - but you seem to be using it as an abbrev. for something else, which I can't fathom because of seeing it as etaoin!
please advise.

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Heh!

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>Eta: I let the answer out

I still think of eta as being short for etaoin, a.k.a. buffalo shrdlu - but you seem to be using it as an abbrev. for something else, which I can't fathom because of seeing it as etaoin!
please advise.


took me a few times, too!!


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Its either 'Edited to add' or 'Elvis Tribute Artist'
Depending on how you feel.

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I have been debating returning to my former moniker, but not sure if that wold only add to the confusion!


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