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#169681 08/24/07 10:54 AM
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Never mind

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heh


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pignuts

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So where's the animal? Is it an anagram? A humorous animal? I don't see a "V" for "VICK"...

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I still can't find it either, even after what I assume is a clue from tsuwm...

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tsuwm spelled it out and everything...

welcome to the Board, ncoig! as a new person, you'll find it!


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Is it a gnu word to you, Anna?


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aw, don't give it away....


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Rats. Should have recognized the Wildebeest, but I'm so used to seeing it in the context of software licensing these days...



Thanks for the welcome.

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I like the "new" clue. But I fail to see how "pignuts" help me get to it...

-N

EDIT: Not a literal clue. Doggone you word people!!!


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gnu, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo
a gnother gnu, you reely ought to k-now w-hoo's w-hoo
................................Flanders and Swann

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re: pignuts

well, not only is gnu reight it the midst of it, but there's yet another animal (YAA) out front.

-ron outfoxed

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I have to sheepishly admit I'm still totally in the dark. With some hope of elucidation I am dalehileman@verizon.net


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interreGNUm

Don't you read your A.W.A.D.s, daleh? *sigh*

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I have to sheepishly admit And now you are gnuly informed. Geez, sometimes I crack myself up! ;-)

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Jackie, I'm not. As a creaky old codger possibly on the threshold of Alzheimer's, I understand that this word contains "gnu," but still I don't understand most of the posts, including the first one

Perhaps there's nothing else to see


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Surprise, surprise! an interregnum is not a bird,is not either the subterranean stone-eater. When a king dies or is moved away, the no king period beween kingdoms is called interregnum (inter= between, regnum=kingdom). Nice day!

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never mind

>Perhaps there's nothing else to see

sometimes no more than a smidgen

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
never mind

>Perhaps there's nothing else to see

sometimes no more than a smidgen


wow. I didn't see that. I just assumed that Fald figured it out after he had made his post...


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well sure, maybe that too.

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm


sometimes no more than a smidgen


heh

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I just assumed that Fald figured it out after he had made his post... An apropos summing up.

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Bingo!

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Anybody gonna continue where I left off?

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Like with grammar correction to make a complete sentence?

"..., it was."

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Originally Posted By: Aramis
Like with grammar correction to make a complete sentence?

"..., it was."


Ha!

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Originally Posted By: Aramis
Like with grammar correction to make a complete sentence?

Like that's a complete sentence?

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When he completes Jackie's comment, it is.

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Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic
Originally Posted By: Aramis
Like with grammar correction to make a complete sentence?

"..., it was."


Ha!


what I wanna know is, wdf is he quoting?

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I think he meant that if I had added ", it was" to the end of An apropos summing up., it would have then been grammatically correct. But I have a sneaking suspicion (touché, A) that he and perhaps others overlooked something, since no one commented on it or followed up. C'mon, people, use your eyes!

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>perhaps others overlooked something, since no one commented on it or followed up.

or perhaps your self-aggrandizing pat on the back didn't warrant commenting upon.

-joe (I'm looking over a posted cover that I overlooked before) friday

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Hey--when you tell me you saw it the first time, completely on your own, then I'll let you get away with that. Otherwise...I think I'll try siccing Ted on you. (Oh, Te-ed, where are you, Dear One...?) Or maybe I'll dozens you; dunno; but I'll think of something.

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okay then: I saw it first time, completely on my own.

-joe (tpunspotting) friday

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[bow]

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Originally Posted By: Myridon
Originally Posted By: Aramis
Like with grammar correction to make a complete sentence?

Like that's a complete sentence?


Oh but is that one? The Kafkaesque 'out' is subject implied:

[Do you] [l]ike [,] with grammar correction [,] to make a complete sentence?

Nothing counts as assailable if Anna likes it, Snippy2.

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This sentence no finite verb.

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