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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic cre #68750 05/06/02 01:33 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Ventriloquism for Dummies. Oh, Ted! I love you!! That one deserves an award! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68751 05/06/02 05:02 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia D doc_comfort addict doc_comfort addict D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia >anything that falsly represents a sentient being. must-not-make-John-Howard-jokes must-not-make-New-Zealander-jokes And these might interest some of you... http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml http://wordways.com/undom.htm http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/sol.cgi/language/english/spelling/single.words http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html This will interest fewer of you... http://www.sciencenews.org/20000401/mathtrek.asp Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #68752 05/06/02 05:22 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68753 05/06/02 06:07 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia http://www.sciencenews.org/20000401/mathtrek.asp I take it the date of this issue of Science News is significant?!? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68754 05/06/02 12:31 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Hey, this thread has three doctors posting in it. Alex, where are you? Thanks for the links, doc_comfort; I bookmarked the first one. Cute hook, on that last one. I liked the quote from the "famed numerologist," April F. Day. Wofa, I'm surprised you didn't think of 'superstud'... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68755 05/06/02 05:38 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass just to veer a bit from the rstud path, but fearing this should really be posted in Loanwords from German, I offer bierstube. () Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68756 05/06/02 07:53 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,557 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel OP wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,557 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA The other one I thought of was gymnopedie (as in Eric Satie), which I had thought was French, but apparently it's AEnglish too. And according to doc_c's links above, these are the only two four-letter sequences in English words, and there aren't any words with longer ones. Seems hard to believe, somehow. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: easy as abc - maybe #68757 05/07/02 04:35 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia D doc_comfort addict doc_comfort addict D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia One who doesn't believe in fortune-telling. - palmnopist. 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