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Glad you found them - I hope! 
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Perhaps she [sic] spotted what the words had in common on Day 1, with only the word "dekko" to go by?
If that's the case, she'd [sic] no doubt excel at this maths puzzle, which has only one correct answer, of
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Q. Provide the next four numbers in the following series:
3 , _ , _ , _ , _Or maybe not. This one has me stumped.  I must admit I was only guessing. As Chief informs us, there is a .3% chance that a single word chosen at random (or as part of a different theme) will have its letters in alphabetical order, so I had at least 3 chances in 1000 of being wrong.  Personally, I'm most impressed by the guess "sounds like a number", which turned out to be true for the second word, too! Speaking of inferring too much from a single word, there's maybe a 5% chance (I'm guessing) that a person named "Tracy" won't be a "she" after all. In my case, I was named for my father, who was named for his father, who was named for his mother's maiden name in a day when "Tracy" was not such a common girl's name. No offence taken, though. We live each day by taking our best guess. 
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I work with a Tracy who is a systems engineer. place your bets...
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I work with a Tracy who is a systems engineer. place your bets...
hmmmm okay i'll bet female.
bridget=)
Ipsa scientia potestas est ~Bacon
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I have a male cousin named Tracy. Until I was 8 or so, I had never met or heard of a female Tracy, Tracie, Tracey, Traci, etc... My guess is that there's more than %5 of a male/female Tracy ratio.
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Following rapunzel's lead, i dug this one up b/c it was the first day that both Fiberbabe and i joined the board. rereading this made me smile for a couple of reasons: (1) i clearly was one of those folks who got so excited when i joined the board that i felt the need to spout off whatever stupid thing popped into my mind at every chance possible and i'll thank you all not to point out that not much has changed(2) i just thought the AsP would enjoy reminiscing about the good ol' days when the most annoying thing on the board was my stupid signature line ~~~~~~ oh, and this is wholly unrelated to the above discussion, but i just wanted to announce that i have created a thread in Animal Safari for non-word-related-discussion of urology gone awry, cophrophilia, clysterous chitchat and the like, for the oblectation and convenience of those of you who enjoy such delights. ~~~~~ now, does anyone know anything about the word 'antistoecon'?
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it was the first day that both Fiberbabe and i joined the board
Fiberbabe having joined the board just the once, it would be the *only day that you both joined.
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[weasel]i disagree. each day that either fiberbabe or i (or both of us) elect to add our gems to the general discussion, we are in effect joining the board. the day in question was the first such day.[/weasel]
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(1) ...and i'll thank you all not to point out that not much has changedOK, I won't. (2) i just thought the AsP would enjoy reminiscing about the good ol' days when the most annoying thing on the board was my stupid signature line You had to remind me.  And that's ASp to you, young lady
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" now, does anyone know anything about the word 'antistoecon'? "
I second the motion.
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