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#36408 07/26/01 12:11 AM
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all those 4's

Captain Max, your boat is full! Will ye bring her into port this time? Sing, mates! "What can you do with a drunken sailor?...What can you do with a"......


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#36410 07/26/01 05:11 AM
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I choose number 4 - it's a tassel from this vassal (no hassle).


#36411 07/26/01 06:37 AM
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I seem to remember that this word has something to do with professors dressed in their silly ceremonial robes, therefore (and I am in great company with this guess!) 4.


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were sufficiently distinct from each other and the real answer seems to dismiss all the shipboard answers from the starting gun, does it not?

I have come across an expression liripiping (sp?) in connection with clothing, so will go with the herd on 4 - how many times has everyone LIU?!


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>were sufficiently distinct from each other and the real answer seems to dismiss all the
shipboard answers from the starting gun, does it not?

or maybe two shipboard answers are wrong and one is right... or perhaps we should dismiss tasseled answers... or possibly the poop decks are wrong and nincompoop is right! oooh, my head hurts.

[rod, no one promised you a rose garden ]


#36414 07/27/01 02:44 AM
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It's about time this board had a demonstration of true fourtitude!


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