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#84564 10/23/02 10:35 PM
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choose one:

a) supper-loving

b) inclined to vomit; squeamish

c) having small hollow appendages

d) (usu. describing a word or term) generally understood; not restricted to a local dialect

e) a description of the face as having taken up a fishlike appearence in extreme old age

f) referring to the time just before sunrise

g) obviously anachronistic; antiquated

h) having an abundance of phlegm

i) pebbled or corny texture of tree bark or human epidermis

j) the effect of sunlight on the bottom of clouds near sunset

k) referring to rituals taken in preparation for the execution of a condemned prisoner, in particular allowing the prisoner to choose his last meal, the reading of the last rites, and other similar solemnities

l) an exclamation of mock incredibility aping ichthyologist T.Francis Hare who, when told of a live 65 million year old fossil Coelacanth being caught off the coast of Cape Town in 1938, replied "Ridiculous!"

m) of or relating to weaving

n) arising from the embryologic foregut

o) the feeling of exposure one gets walking into a banquet full of people seated

p) tending toward dyspepsia

q) a glutton for punishment

r) term applied to depictions of the Last Supper; so called because the supper took place in a coenaculum, the large room in which the latest meal was eaten


whew, eighteen(18!) entrants, including some of each of these: consuelo, Faldage, teD, ASp, tsuwm, Sparteye, dodyskin, musick(!), wofahulicodoc, shona, dxb, WO'N, Fiberbabe, Wordwind, troubador, Alex, milum, and a Really Big Dictionary -- sure hope that adds up..


#84565 10/24/02 01:00 AM
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tsuwm, could I prevail upon you to insert spaces between entries?

edit: Thanks, man.

I like F a lot.

#84566 10/24/02 01:27 AM
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I'll try K.


#84567 10/24/02 01:28 AM
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I'll go for i


#84568 10/24/02 10:42 AM
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I say n


#84569 10/24/02 02:19 PM
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I'll choose j) minus the phrase "of clouds near sunset"

This effect has been known to lead to i)


#84570 10/24/02 03:32 PM
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I agree with Alex - N



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#84571 10/24/02 04:20 PM
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Going with I...(because Faldage picked it, and it's the heart of nit. )


#84572 10/24/02 04:43 PM
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A, A , A, calm down, calm down


#84573 10/24/02 09:34 PM
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All far too good.

Severely tempted by c (applause to the creator) but I just have to go for E.


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